The Salkind Junior Festival provides educational links between professional artists, composers and young musicians by creating rich opportunities for youth to discover and perform a wide range of repertoire for the piano duo genre. The Junior Festival is open to young piano duos in grades 6-12 and sfmf Alumni duos to study with the Salkind Festival international artists. Sfmf’s objective is to include emerging young duos (8-10-teams) as full participants in the Salkind International Piano Duo Festival and to broaden the Young Artists’ Program to provide opportunities for artistic cross-cultural exchange. Presented at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the 2-day educational program is scheduled for August 8 and 9, 2014 and will include performances, master classes, seminars, and private coaching sessions in which the selected young pianists will interact and study with the participating Festival artists. The Junior Festival will also present a concert, Salkind Young Performers Concert, which will feature emerging young duos on Saturday, August 9.
Repertoire can include works for one piano, 4 hands or 6 hands, or two pianos, 4 hands, 6 hands or 8 hands. As the theme for the 2014 Festival is A Baltic Voyage, we encourage interested duos to include works by composers from any of the 9 countries that border the Baltic Sea - Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany and Poland.
Bringing young musicians together with international artists will offer significant educational benefits by providing opportunities for them to discover other cultures as well as promoting an important artistic link between generations. No other international piano duo festival in the world presents this unique experience to young musicians.
5th Salkind Junior Festival
Friday & Saturday, August 8 & 9, 2014
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak Street, San Francisco
Salkind Young Performers Concert
1:30 p.m. Saturday, August 9, 2014
Caroline Hume Concert Hall - Free Admission
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak Street, San Francisco
4th SALKIND JUNIOR FESTIVAL
Friday & Saturday, July 6 & 7, 2012
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak Street, San Francisco
Salkind Young Performers Concert
2:00 p.m. Concert Hall, Saturday, July 7, 2012
SF Conservatory of Music
Alexandra Cong & Brandon Shih - "Vocalise" Katarina Lee & Kuni Migimatsu - Gavrilin "Sketches"
2010 SALKIND JUNIOR FESTIVAL
2010 Salkind Festival Young Performers Concert, Concert hall, SF Conservatory of Music
Wynnie Jung & Alan Yu Duo Raffi & Ruslan coach Shen-Ting Wang & Justin Chiang
RJ Pearce - masterclass with Anderson & Roe Edward & Ann Turgeon coaching
The Kepska Piano Duo (Kevin Goh & Edgar Woo) RJ Pearce & Toki Migimatsu Duo
The BACK Piano Quartet
Brandon Shih, Alexandra Cong, Clement Chiun & Kevin Chen
SALKIND JUNIOR FESTIVAL
Salkind Festival Outreach Concert for Kids - Festival artists & young artists, Concert Hall, SFCM
Rodolfo Alessandrini coaches Grant Singer & Madison Carbone Caroline Wu & Henry Smolen Duo
Nora Novik (Riga Duo) & Caroline Wu & Henry Smolen Edgar Woo, Wynnie & Wyatt Jung, Amy Wang & Kevin Goh
2007 SALKIND JUNIOR FESTIVAL
Salkind Young Performers Concert, Concert Hall, SF Conservatory of Music