Solomon Ge

Country – United States
Age – 17

Solomon Ge is a pianist and composer from San Jose, California. He currently studies piano with Professor Yoshikazu Nagai at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In 2019, Solomon won fourth prize in the prestigious 2019 International e-Piano Junior Competition and top prizes in the Arthur Fraser International Piano Competition (South Carolina), and the Los Angeles International Piano Competition. He is the winner of numerous local and state competitions, including the Marilyn Mindell Piano Competition, Palo Alto Philharmonic Concerto Competition, California Association of Professional Music Teachers Honors State Competition, California Youth Symphony Concerto Competition, Mondavi Young Artists Competition, Ross McKee Competition and Golden State Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition, among others. He has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, Peninsula Symphony, Palo Alto Philharmonic, Round Rock Symphony, California Youth Symphony, and Golden State Youth Orchestra. He has also participated in the Amalfi Coast Music and Arts Festival in Italy and the International Maestro Piano Festival in Taipei, playing in master classes for Dang Thai Son, Boris Slutsky, John Perry, Ilana Vared, Boris Berman and Jerome Lowenthal.

As a composer, he has won awards in numerous competitions, including the 2018 NextNotes Composer Awards, 2018 National Young Composers Challenge, and ASCAP Young Composers Competition, and attended the Young Artists Composition Program at Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute in 2016 and 2017. He premiered his own work, Astral Mirage, at the 2019 International e-Piano Junior Competition.

REPERTOIRE

ROUND I     Monday 1:30 pm

Bach – French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816
Schubert – Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat major, Op. 90
Chopin – Scherzo No. 2 in B- flat minor, Op. 31

ROUND II    Wednesday 12:30 pm

Haydn – Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, HOBXVI: 46
Ge – Astral Mirage
Scriabin – Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor, Op. 19

Round III

Prokofiev – Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26