Kenric Tam,
age 16, made his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Concert
Hall last April. In January 2007, Kenric was named the first prize winner
of the Schimmel International Piano Competition. Kenric was the first prize
winner of the "Individualis" International Music Competition in Ukraine and
is invited to give a concert tour in Ukraine and Russia in May 2007. In summer
2006, he was awarded the second prize of the Eastman International Piano
Competition in New York. As the first prize winner of the 2005 Lennox
International Young Artists Competition, he performed with the Richardson
Symphony in Dallas, Texas. Kenric was the only pre-college winner of the
2006 Corpus Christi International Competition and was one of only two pre-college
students in the country invited to perform at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference
last November. Locally, he performed as soloist in ten concerts with six
bay area orchestras, including Fremont Symphony and Peninsula Symphony last
year. He gave a solo recital sponsored by the Steinway Society last September
and will be the featured soloist touring Eastern Europe with San Jose Youth
Symphony this summer.
In 2006, Kenric was awarded the first prize of the prestigious Bronislaw
Kaper Award.
He also received first prizes in the MTAC Concerto and Solo Competitions
in 2005 and
2006, and the CAPMT Concerto Competition. As first prize winner of the 2005
Palatino
Solo Piano Competition, Kenric was awarded a grand piano.
Kenric is a junior at Gunn High School in Palo Alto and studies piano with
Hans Boepple
Program
Bach: Prelude and fugue in E Major, WTC I, BWV 854
Szymanowski: Etude, Op. 4, No. 1
Chopin: Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52
Haydn: Sonata in E Major, Hob. XVI:31
Moderato
Allegretto
Presto
Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 36
Allegro Agitato
Lento
Allegro Molto
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