16-year-old YCA Winner, pianist George Li possesses brilliant virtuosity and interpretive depth far beyond his years.  Rounding off last season playing for President Obama at the White House evening honoring Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, along with capturing a prestigious Gilmore Young Artist Award, George Li is well on the way to a flourishing career. 

His first New York appearance opens the 51^st Young Concert Artists Series in the Peter Marino Concert at Merkin Hall.  YCA also presents his debut in Washington DC at the Kennedy Center, sponsored by the Alexander Kasza-Kasser Prize.  At the Auditions, Mr. Li was awarded many special prizes:  The Paul A. Fish Memorial Award for Career Development, the Sander Buchman Award; The Ruth Laredo Award, the John Browning Prize, and the Slomovic Prize for a Concerto Engagement. 

Other 2011-2012 recitals include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, the Vancouver Recital Society, at Shriver Hall (MD) and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (in Germany), among others.  As soloist with orchestra, George Li performs with the Grand Rapids Symphony as part of the Gilmore Festival, the Akron Symphony, and has been re-engaged by the Spartanburg Philharmonic.  

As First Prize winner of the first Cooper Competition at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he appeared as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra.  He has also performed as soloist with orchestras including the Xiamen Philharmonic in China, the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra in Venezuela, the Spartanburg, Boston and Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestras, and with “I Solisti di Perugia” in Italy.

Mr. Li was chosen to appear at the opening ceremony of Boston’s new Institute of Contemporary Art and the inauguration of President Tony Woodcock at the New England Conservatory.  Mr. Li is a member of the New England Conservatory’s Vivace Trio, which was heard on “From the Top” on NPR and WNET, and performed for members of US Congress at the Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.

George Li gave his first public performance at Boston’s Steinway Hall at the age of ten. At ages six and seven, he won First Prize in the Massachusetts Music Teachers Association Competition.  He attends the Walnut Hill School for the Arts and studies piano at the New England Conservatory with Wha Kyung Byun. 

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