Musical Arts International, Inc.

International Young Artist Piano Competition (IYAPC)

Promoting Music from the East and the West

IYAPC Celebrating 40th Anniversary for Pianists Age 6 to 32

2025 IYAPC Brochure  !!! NEW !!!

Committee Greeting

IYAPC has brought its season to a resounding close with its final winner’s concert on July 27 and 28th, 2024, presented by the Washington International Piano Festival at Catholic University of America.

As we look forward to our 40th Anniversary Season in 2024-2025, we are thrilled to celebrate with you with more classical favorites, esteemed contemporary works, distinguished juries as well as new and returning pianists. 

This year we have permission to feature “Burlesque “from Six Piano Pieces by Professor Chih Yuan Kao, who was known as the “Father of Modern Taiwanese Folk Music”. In this piece, many contemporary composing and folk elements were used to form an exciting toccata piece. The talented Yi Wei Liu from China, has brought his fun experience of bus ride to you. As a wonderful pedagogist, he has incorporated wrist staccato, rotation, syncopation to make a more descriptive ride. Don’t miss a moment of the music. Of course, we couldn’t be more grateful to our generous sponsors and supporters, like YOU!

Thank you to everyone who attended our 2024 IYAPC competitions! As always, seeing all of you (online) and spending that time in preliminaries and Finals together brought us such joy. We want to thank all the teachers and parents for gathering detailed information, including the video links, and for making and submitting the recordings in a timely fashion allowing us to meet all the deadlines. IYAPC has been delighting the music world with diversified, inclusive and equity repertoire from the East and the West. You need to be there to hear those heartwarming performances by young pianists of all ages of all nationalities.

The Competition Finals in person will be held on June 27-29, 2025 at Catholic University of America with more new compositions and awards. Please check IYAPC’s 2024-2025 brochure and YouTube 2024 winner’s playlist, as well as Guideline for video YouTube recording for preliminaries. March 15, 2025 is the deadline for all registrations that are sent by teachers. IYAPC looks forward to continuing our collaborative work with you and your teachers and advancing this special event for the future.

-- Li-Ly Chang and IYAPC committee 2024-2025

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For Preliminaries 2025 only - Guideline for video YouTube recording:

2 separate links, one for each piece. Wear recital attire including shoes. Make sure there are no other noises during the recording. Position your recording device so the entire performer will be visible, including feet and the pedals. No need to send music scores. Use general names for YouTube. No personal information, performers’ names, people comments, awards listing and prizes on the video. Videos should only include music, composer and details of the pieces with opus, keys, numbers, and movements 🎶. And sent to the teachers in due time. Please check with your teachers about video dates.

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I.Y.A.P.C. CELEBRATING 40th ANNIVERSARY

We are very happy to have you here on our beautiful campus. Allow yourself to take in all that there is to learn from this experience. The people you will meet, the helpful comments you will receive, and the joy that I hope you will feel when you are playing are all part of this incredible opportunity that you have been given. So, enjoy it! -- Dean Dr. Jacqueline Leary-Warsaw, Catholic University of America

The recital was unfolding splendidly with all students playing so well, and most importantly an atmosphere of support and love for their achievements. Congratulations! -- Dr. Stewart Gordon, University of Southern California

It was a joy to hear all these students perform! It was an impressively high level of playing and dedication. It's inspiring to see the next generations' excellent achievements in classical piano playing—the future is bright! And I very much appreciated the pedagogical appropriateness, playfulness, and beauty of these new pieces. This competition is a wonderful way to encourage these students to explore the piano music of Chinese composers! -- Dr. Elizabeth Yao, University of Indiana

Bravo to all the performers and teachers! I had a great week listening to and watching your performances. Congratulations to you and your teachers for your hard work. It's not easy to perform and interpret a required piece in a short time, but you all did exceptionally well. I was very inspired by many of your performances and interpretations. I hope you all had a great experience learning and performing these pieces, especially the great works by contemporary composers. I wish all of you continued enjoyment on your piano journey—keep having fun and making music! -- Dr. Pei-Chen Chen, University of Toronto

It was a pleasure to listen to such wonderful pianists. -- Dr. Leah Claiborne, University of District of Columbia

It was an honor and a pleasure, and I am still hearing your music play back in my head after hearing so many fine young musicians perform it! -- Dr. John Paul Healey, George Mason University

It was a pleasure to be with such wonderfully astute colleagues, and the whole event was run smoothly and efficiently. Of course, the icing on the cake was the actual level of the performers which is a testament of the kind of competition you have been running for decades where making the decision about prizes is always so very difficult. -- Dr. Thomas Hecht, Peabody Institute

Thank you for hosting this great event. My students have enjoyed playing the new pieces! -- a teacher



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IYAPC Highlights

33rd IYAPC 2018 Winners Concert, Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage, August 20th, 2018 (video)