
The 17th annual Young Artist Piano Competition was held on Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27 at Florida Gulf Coast University’s Bower School of Music & the Arts.
The Awards Recital took place on Sunday, April 28 at 3pm at the Bower School of Music & the Arts.













Late Elementary (Ages 9-11)
Rachel Kastner……………………………………..Fantasie-Impromptu, Frederic Chopin
Mason Huffman…………………………………………… Village Festival, James H. Rogers
Miles Brown……………………………… Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Edvard Grieg
Juniors (Ages 12-14)
Frazer Henry………………………………………………………….. Nocturne, Frederic Chopin
Julia Daniyar…… Snow is Dancing and Golliwog’s Cakewalk, Claude Debussy
Seniors (Ages 15-18)
David Carlson……………………………………………… Dumka, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Paul Dinan………………………………………………………………… Scherzo, Frederic Chopin
Frank Sanders………………………………….. Desperate Measures, Robert Muczynski
Click here to see the 2018 Finalists