Brazilian-born, Silvanio Reis has performed in concert halls throughout the United States and Brazil. Currently based in Philadelphia, Reis maintains a non-stop schedule that includes music research, lectures, solo and chamber music. Besides modern piano, Reis enjoys performing and researching early music and performance practice as well as historical keyboard repertoire (harpsichord, fortepiano, and chamber organ).

As a pedagogue, Reis teaches piano at Temple University as well as at Temple University - Preparatory Division, in Philadelphia. He has presented on the pedagogy and literature of keyboard instruments, group instruction, piano pedagogy for children and the piano oeuvre of Latin America and Iberian composers. He also serves as board member of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America (HKSNA) and he is a faculty member of the Dorothy Taubman Piano Seminar. In addition, he has appeared at international music festivals in Brazil and performed at the Boston Early Music Festival, The Academy of Music, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and at the Historic Wren Chapel in Colonial Williamsburg, as well as streamed performances on WABE FM 90.1.

Hailed by Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam as "The future giant among the piano soloists", Chinese pianist Xu Guo has appeared in concerts in major cities of China, USA, Netherland, Thailand, Croatia, Poland, Latvia, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, etc., including performances at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Weil Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York, Jordan Hall in Boston, Prince Mahidol Hall in Bangkok, Concert Hall of the Katowice Miasto Ogrodów, Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, etc. Current season will take her to the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Xinghai Concert Hall, Bay Opera in Shenzhen, National Center for Performing Art in Beijing, Jiangsu Grand Theater, and concerto tour "Echos of Bach" with China National Center for Performing Art Orchestra.

Distinguished Young Musician | International Artist | International Music Competition Jury Member

Nina Yang Zhang is a world-class distinguished musician and international artist actively performing on major stages worldwide. She has achieved outstanding success in both classical and contemporary music. Demonstrating extraordinary musical talent from an early age, she has won over 30 international piano competition awards, earning widespread recognition in the international music community for her profound artistic depth and highly mature musical expression.

At the age of 11, Nina was simultaneously admitted with full scholarships to two of the world's most prestigious and influential music institutions—the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. She ultimately chose to study piano at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she graduated at the age of 18. Her principal teachers included Eleanor Sokoloff, Gary Graffman, Jonathan Biss, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, and Pengjie Sun, under whom she received the most rigorous and systematic world-class classical piano training.