Vian Wagatsuma '23

Vian Wagatsuma has been playing the piano for 14 years. Her musical journey took off when she enrolled in Special Music School, where she studied with Natela Mchedlishvili. She was also a student at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division where she studied with Hung-Kuan Chen and Helen Huang. Throughout her musical career, she has attended music festivals in Cremona, Italy and Aspen, Colorado, and has participated in masterclasses with renowned artists including Inon Barnatan, Yoheved Kaplinsky, and Robert Levin. She also received prizes in the Kaufman Center International Youth Piano Competition and Cremona International Piano Competition, in addition to placing in Aspen Music Festival and Juilliard Pre-College concerto competitions. She was chosen to appear on the radio show, From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley, and was named Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist in the summer of 2016.