“American pianists Daniel Hsu and Michah McLaurin have been named the winners of the 2016 Gilmore Young Artist Award,” writes Linda S. Mah in Tuesday’s (8/18) Kalamazoo Gazette (Michigan). “Daniel R. Gustin, director of the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, announced their selection today. Hsu and McLaurin will each receive $15,000 … and performance engagements at the 2016 Gilmore Festival…. Each artist will commission a new work for piano to which he will have exclusive performance rights for one year. The Gilmore Young Artist Awards are given every two years…. McLaurin, 19, is a native of Charleston, South Carolina. He studies at the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia [and] has performed as a soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra … the Charleston Symphony Orchestra … and the Virginia Symphony. Seventeen-year-old Daniel Hsu is a San Francisco Bay area native. He studies at the Curtis Institute. Hsu has won numerous competitions, including the International Russian Piano Competition; the Pacific Musical Society Piano Competition … and the CAPMT Bartok and Contemporary Music Competition…. Hsu’s older brother Andrew performed at last year’s Gilmore Keyboard Festival as one of 2014’s Gilmore Young Artists.”
Posted August 20, 2015
