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08/15/2026

🥳 Final Day of the inaugural Ocean Music Summer Academy! In the afternoon, our wonderful participants of the Concerto Program performed their concerto movements with the Ocean Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Maestro Tianhui Ng Tianhui Ng . After the group dinner, we concluded our ten-day journey in the evening with the Closing Ceremony Concert followed by the presentation of certificates, featuring student performances and Lavignac’s Galop-marche for piano eight-hands performed by Prof. Ifat Zaidel, Yun Wei Yun Wei , Jiayan Sun Jiayan Sun and Yang Liu Yang Liu ｜刘洋 ! 💐

🎉🎉🎉 We made it! See you in 2027! 💗🎶🎊

08/13/2026

👍 Second-to-last day of the inaugural Ocean Music Summer Academy! We started the day with the legendary Jerome Lowenthal, the 94-year-old master and longtime Juilliard professor, giving a masterclass, including the 7-year-old Olivia Li Olivia Li who was recently admitted to the Curtis Institute; in the afternoon, Maestro Tianhui Ng Tianhui Ng led the Ocean Music Festival Orchestra in “The Young Pianist’s Guide to the Orchestra” followed by open rehearsal of piano concertos performed by participants in the Concerto Program; we also had our last two Student Concerts in the gorgeous Greenfield Hall of MSM. 👏

📣 Join us for the final day of the Summer Academy on August 13, with the Concerto Concert at 3 PM and the Closing Ceremony Concert at 7 PM in MSM! 🥰

08/12/2026

🎵 Eighth Day of the inaugural Ocean Music Summer Academy! In the morning, Maestro Tianhui Ng Tianhui Ng led a workshop on orchestral score reading and concerto performance issues from a conductor’s angle, followed by “conductor’s sessions” where the concerto soloists rehearsed their concertos with Maestro Ng, Concertmaster Samuel Vargas Samuel Vargas and piano accompanist; a group of faculty members and students toured the famous Steinway factory Steinway & Sons in Queens; Prof. Ursula Oppens gave a masterclass in the afternoon, followed by our third Student Concert. We concluded the day with a Faculty Concert given by Prof. Ignacy Gaydamovich Ignacy Gaydamovich , Kyung Kim Kyung Ran Kim , Yang Liu Yang Liu ｜刘洋 , Jiayan Sun Jiayan Sun , Samuel Vargas, Yinfei Wang Yinfei Wang , and Ifat Zaidel, followed by a celebratory faculty dinner! 🫶

08/11/2026

7️⃣ Seventh Day of the inaugural Ocean Music Summer Academy! We started the day with Prof. Michael Kim and Kyung Kim giving an interactive workshop on collaborative musicianship for pianists; Prof. Ernest Barretta gave a masterclass in the afternoon, followed by our second Student Concert. In the evening, Prof. Ignacy Gaydamovich, Kyung Kim, Michael Kim, Jiayan Sun, Jun Sun, and Yun Wei gave an amazing Faculty Concert featuring works of solo piano, two pianos, and a cello/piano sonata! 🎻

08/10/2026

💝 Sixth Day of the inaugural Ocean Music Summer Academy! Prof. Sondra Tammam gave a lecture & workshop on the Taubman approach in the morning, as well as an interactive technique workshop in the afternoon; Prof. Melvin Chen gave a masterclass in the afternoon; Prof. Lisa Yui gave a recital in the evening featuring Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata and some lesser-known works from different times and cultures! 🌍

08/09/2026

🙌 Fifth Day marks the midway point of the inaugural Ocean Music Summer Academy! In the morning we had two Performance Classes conducted by our esteemed faculty members Kyung Kim, Tianyang Wang, Evan Wong, and Ifat Zaidel; in the afternoon Prof. Michael Lewin gave a masterclass; then we had our first Student Concert in the evening, with 13 pianists performing music by the Viennese masters to a piece composed by one of our own talented participants! 👏

08/08/2026

🎹 Fourth Day of the inaugural Ocean Music Summer Academy! We started the morning with two performance classes conducted by our esteemed faculty members Carmel Lowenthal, Jun Sun, Sondra Tammam, and Yun Wei; in the afternoon we welcomed Dr. Lisa Yui for a special lecture on decoding Beethoven, followed by a masterclass focusing on the Viennese Masters; the evening finished on the high note with Prof. Michael Lewin’s solo recital on the theme of Death and Love! 💗

08/07/2026

🎻 Third Day of the inaugural Ocean Music Summer Academy! We had an stimulating panel discussion in the morning, went to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art for an immersive tour of the new exhibition “Musical Bodies” and the musical instrument collection in the afternoon, a powerful “Beethoven night” with 4 sonatas in a recital performed by Prof. Richard Raymond, and end the day with our first Faculty Dinner! 🥘

08/06/2026

☀️Second Day of the inaugural Ocean Music Summer Academy starts with a special field trip to The Juilliard School and Lincoln Center, followed by a Masterclass with Olga Kern, and the Faculty Concert “Masters Arranging Masters” given by our Director Yang Liu and our Artistic Advisor Jiayan Sun! 💐

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