Bethel United Church of Christ, 315 E. St. Charles Rd. in Elmhurst, will host 13 year old pianist Victoria Young in performance this Saturday, June 22 at 4 pm featuring works of J.S. Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Albeniz and Aaron Travers. Young has appeared in performance at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Lincoln Center, and in 2011 she was awarded a $10,000 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award in conjunction with her performance on NPR’s From the Top. A free will offering will be collected to help further Young’s education.
For more information please call 630-279-4040.
In March 2013, Young was selected as one of four prize winners in the 8th J.S. Bach International Piano Competition in Würzburg, Germany, competing against pianists 36 years old and under. Young was the youngest and the second American prizewinner in the history of the competition. In January 2013 she was awarded grand prize in the 40th Midland-Odessa Symphony National Young Artists Competition. Past honors include 1st place in the Partitas and Suites category in the Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Piano Competition, Gold Medalist in the AADGT International Young Musicians Festival Competition, and 1st prize in the Stony Brook International Piano Festival Competition.
A resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, Young made her orchestral debut when she was six with the Nevada Chamber Symphony and has been featured soloist with the Henderson Symphony Orchestra and the Las Vegas Youth Camerata Orchestra. The mayor of the City of Las Vegas proclaimed June 22, 2011 as “Victoria Frances Young Day”.
Young made her international debut when she was 10, at the Eduardo Brito National Theater of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She has also been selected by Classical Pianists of the Future to perform solo concert in Binghamton, New York, in March 2014. Young is currently studying at the New Music School in Chicago with Mary Sauer, principal pianist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New Music School piano department chair. New Music School recently invited Young to participate in their highly selective Fellows Program.