Prize winners and guests at the Lee University piano competition are, from left, Dr. Phillip Thomas, event chairman; Wha Kyung Byun, guest artist and judge; Ning An, Lee faculty; winners Evelyn Mo, Allison To and Phoebe Pan; Tian Ying, guest artist and judge; and Dr. William Green, Dean of Lee’s School of Music.
Photo courtesy of Robin TireyEvelyn Mo wins Lee piano competition
Evelyn Mo took first place in Lee University’s annual piano competition held during its International Piano Festival on the Cleveland, Tenn., campus June 17-22. Second place went to Allison To, and Phoebe Pan received third.
Mo, 14, is a sophomore at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Oak Hill, Va. She has been studying piano with Thomas Mastroianni since 2009.
Her other first-place awards include the 2013 Leschetizky Foundation Gifted Young Pianist Concerto Competition, 2013 Friday Morning Music Club High School Piano Competition, 2013 WMTA Lichtenberg Competition and 2011 Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford, Conn.
To, 12, received silver medals at the 2011 Virginia Warning International Piano Competition and the International Russian Music Piano Competition. She was the youngest prize winner at the 2012 Gina Bachauer International Junior Piano Competition. She studies with Yi Dong and Ariel Yang at Opus119 Conservatory in Irvine, Calif.
Pan, 15, also studies at Opus 119 Conservatory in California.