Our seventeen year old Beatrice (Bea) Grant has had a wonderful summer of artistic development. Since her impressive Peoples' Choice Award and brilliant performance at Minnesota Public Radio's (MPR) Minnesota Varsity 2019 Showcase Concert at Ted Mann Concert Hall in May, Bea was the winner of a Schubert Club Grant and was selected to attend three very competitive summer academies: Texas State International Piano Festival, San Marcos; Piano Texas International Festival and A

As many of you know from my past writings, our seventeen year old Nita Qiu has been enrolled for the past three years in the Chopin Foundation of the United States Scholarship Program. It is a very demanding and comprehensive four year program to help build one's Chopin repertoire in preparation for the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. In each of the past three years, Nita has been one of just ten students in the United States to win the full scholarship. For th