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This event features a ‘prelude’ performance at 6:45 pm by three winners of the FGCU/Steinway Society Young Artists Competition:  Miles Brown, age 8, 3rd grade, Early Elementary; Elise Brown, age 12, 6th grade, Late Elementary; and Daniel Holmes, age 13, 8th grade, Junior Division.

The feature performance starts at 7:00 pm.

Chansik Youn is a 19-year-old junior pianist from Seoul, South Korea currently studying with Dr. Michael Baron in the Bower School of Music and the Arts at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers.  He previously studied with Professor Daehyun Kim in Seoul.  He has won first prizes at the Seoul International Festival Competition and the Yejin Competition.  He has also performed as soloist with the Shobi Japanese Orchestra and was a featured performer at the Siena, Italy International Music Festival. Since coming to the United States in August of 2014 he has won the Grieg Competition of Florida in Orlando, the Senior Instrumental Category of the Young Artists Awards of the Alliance for the Arts, and the Senior and Young Artist Solo Division and Piano Duet Division of the Florida MTNA Competition. As the current winner of the MTNA competition for the state of Florida he will complete against the winner of nine other states in January. He is the current recipient of the Steinway Society of Southwest Florida Scholarship at FGCU.

Jason Marcell Gómez – born in the United States, from Salvadoran parents – began his musical studies at the age of 13, but it was not until the late age of 15 that he formalized his technical studies with maestro Mario Morales (El Salvador), resulting in various successful recitals in El Salvador. Jason currently studies with Dr. Michael Baron, as a senior at the Bower School of Music at Florida Gulf Coast University. He was the 2013 winner of the Gray Perry Young Collegiate Piano Competition honoring the finest freshman or sophomore in the state of Florida, and in 2014 performed Liszt’s Totentanz with the Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra of Fort Lauderdale as a winner of their competition. He is the current recipient of the Myra and Van Williams Scholarship at FGCU.