Elbert Gong ’15 earned a YoungArts Foundation Award.
Gong '15 Feted by Young Arts Elbert Gong ’15 is the recipient of a 2015 National YoungArts Foundation award in the instrumental music: keyboard/piano category. The award recognizes and supports America’s most talented 15- 18-year-olds in the visual, literary, and performing arts. Gong began studying piano at age 4 and is now continuing his education through the Juilliard College division Bachelor of Music program. Gong has won numerous competitions – most recently first prize in the 2015 Marian Garcia Piano Competition at Penn State University. In 2014, he was a finalist at the New York International Piano Competition. His other competition prizes include the 2013 AFAF International Concerto competition (first prize), 2013 Kaufman International Piano Competition (Jury Award for the Best Performance of Baroque Piece), and the 2013 LISMA International Music Competition (first prize). He appeared as a soloist on NPR’s From the Top in 2013.
Junie Xia’s ’15 award-winning work, The Gourmet
Xia ’15 Has a Brush with Success The Gourmet, a painting by Junie Xia ’15, earned a Silver award in the 2015 National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Of 300,000 works of art and writing submitted, only the top 1 percent were recognized at the national level. Xia, now a student at the University of California, Berkeley, earned six Gold Keys, one Silver Key, and three Honorable Mentions for other works at the regional competition held this year. The program is sponsored by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, which identifies teenagers with exceptional artistic and literary talent and brings their work to a national audience.
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