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WIPF 2009

Testimonials:
I enjoyed last week in DC and the festival very much. The private lessons, master classes, lectures and the concerts were fantastic! The festival was very well organized. Thank you for all your work!
-Zhao Wang

I would like to thank you, and all of the other faculty and board members for providing us with such an amazing experience.
-Ilya Buniakin

Thank you very much for organizing the Washington International Piano Festival. It was a great experience for me, and we all loved it! I will let more friends know about this great festival!
-Xing Chen

My daughter Clara enjoyed the WIPF so much that she wants to come back. It was our best educational VACATION and we miss it..
-Sonny Nguyen

The lessons were stimulating and fun. The first WIPF was valuable and fruitful for me.
-Yuko Konada

WIPF 2009 Participants:
Miki Aoki (Japan), Alexander Beresovsky (MD, USA), Ilya Bunyakin (MD, USA), Alexander Cap (NJ, USA), Xing Chen (DL, USA), Junko Chikai (Japan), Richard Choung (MD, USA), Larissa Gordeuk (VA, USA), Yoshio Hamano (Japan), Edwina Hunter (MD, USA), Kelly Hwu (VA, USA), Mariko Ieki (Japan), Misaki Iida (Japan), Annie Jeng (MD, USA), Haikeem Johnson (MD, USA), Lois Jones (MD, USA), Mihono Kawamata (Japan), Eunbi Kim (Washington D.C., USA), Yuko Kobayashi (Japan), Yuko Konada (Japan), Esther Lee (Virginia, USA), Asuka Matsumoto (Japan), Tomoko Matsushita (Japan), Connor Mautner (FL, USA), Bao-Anh Nguyen (FL, USA), Clara Nguyen (FL, USA), Tu-Anh Nguyen (FL, USA), Natsuki Nonogaki (Japan), Miki Okuda (Japan), Hiromi Ono (Japan), Noi Otomasu (Japan), Valeriya Polunina (Russia), Kama Rasmussen (GA, USA), Sandra Segal (MD, USA), Shiori Sugaya (Japan), Aya Uesugi (Japan), Miku Uesugi (Japan), Zhao Wang (NY, USA), Jing Yang (Germany), Haruko Yoshida (Japan), Seho Young (MA, USA), Cheng Zhi (OH, USA)

WIPF 2009 Faculty:
Nelita True, Joseph Banowetz, Charles Timbrell, Yasumi Taki, Ivo Kaltchev, Jose Ramos Santana, Viktor Shklyar, Li-Ly Chang, Nikita Fitenko

WIPF 2009 Concert Series:
Milen Petroff and Ivo Kaltchev Piano Duo, Joseph Banowetz, Anderson & Roe Concert Piano Duo, Alessio Bax, WIPF Selected Participants' Concert at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage

WIPF 2009 Lecture Series:
David Dubal "Three Hundred Years of Piano"
James Litzelman Workshop for Piano Teachers: "Preparing Students to Play Romantic Period Repertoire"
Yasumi Taki "Japanese System of Music Education"
Joseph Banowetz "Stylistic Awareness and Problems in Piano Pedaling"
Charles Timbrell "French Pianists On and Off the Record, 1809-2009"
Robert Sherman "The Business of Music"