P I A N O
Dr. Clement Acevedo
Clement Acevedo is a pianist who is equally at home performing solo recitals, concertos with orchestra, chamber music, and collaborative works—and he’s also deeply involved in teaching and arts leadership. Originally from Roxas City, Capiz, he has performed in venues like Merkin Hall in New York City, the Taichung National Theater in Taiwan, and the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
As a soloist, Clement has appeared with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, the University of the Philippines Symphony Orchestra, University of Santo Tomas Symphony Orchestra, Metro Manila Concert Orchestra, and the James Madison Symphony Orchestra. He’s also an avid chamber musician, having performed with artists such as Mary Boodell (principal flutist of Richmond Symphony), Charles Ullery (principal bassoonist of Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra), Andrew Tyson, Gila Goldstein, Heini Kärkkäinen, Moritz Eggert, and Carsten Schmidt, among others. In the Philippines, he has collaborated with celebrated soprano Camille Lopez Molina and concert pianist Raul Sunico. He performed Schubert’s Winterreise in Iloilo City with Grammy-winning baritone Kevin McMillan.
Clement was the first prize winner in the 2004 National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA) – Piano Category C, and participated as a semi-finalist in the 2009 Heida Hermanns International Piano Competition. He has also won several concerto competitions in the Philippines and the U.S., and is a recipient of the Amati Award and the Steinway & Sons Award.
He holds music degrees from the University of the Philippines, Temple University, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, and James Madison University, where he completed his DMA in Piano Performance, Pedagogy, and Literature. He studied with renowned teachers including Harvey Wedeen, Gabriel Dobner, Igor Resnianski, Ariel Dechosa, Augusto Espino, Carl Cranmer, and Felicitas Bautista Roldan. He also took part in masterclasses with Malcolm Bilson, Dorothy Taubman, Jose Maceda, and others.
Beyond performance, Clement is passionate about education and cultural advocacy. He directed the Jovita Fuentes and Jose Contreras Music Institute in Iloilo and led the Hiligaynon Art Song Workshop, which produced twelve new art songs in regional language. He served in leadership roles in various institutions, including a term as president-elect of the Harrisonburg Music Teachers’ Association in Virginia. Currently, he is on the Board of the Piano Teachers’ Guild of the Philippines Foundation, Inc. and serves as the Artistic and Program Director of NAMCYA, where he works to champion young musical talent across the country. He is also the coordinator of the UP College of Music Extension Program (Music X).
He has taught at Eastern Mennonite University (Virginia) and the University of San Agustin (Iloilo), and is now an assistant professor at the University of the Philippines College of Music, where he teaches piano and music history.
Dr. Yu-Jung Feng
Yu-Jung Feng is a pianist acclaimed for her refined artistry, compelling musical insight, and versatility across solo and collaborative repertoire. She has appeared in major venues throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, including performances at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and the Mozarteumin Salzburg. Feng has presented solo recitals featuring a wide range of repertoire and has collaborated with distinguished vocalists and instrumentalists in more than fifty performances. Her artistic development has been enriched through masterclasses with renowned artists such as Leon Fleisher, Dang Thai Son, Boris Berman, Konstantin Lifschitz, and Natalia Trull. Her performances have been described as deeply moving and remarkably connected to the audience.
Feng is also the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Longford Keyboard Fellowship, the Frida Haller Jones Memorial Award, the Sarlo Scholarship, and prizes in the Taiwan Taipei International Piano Competition and the Illinois Piano Institute Concerto Competition.
Feng holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Timothy Ehlen and Yoshikazu Nagai.
Yusuke Komura began his studies of piano at the age of 6, and from that time forward he continued to show his remarkable talent as a pianist. He relocated to New Zealand in 2001 where he started his studies under Dr. Thomas Hecht, he also took the time to learn the harpsichord. Graduating from Paraparaumu college with first class honors in Music, he pursued his career as a classical pianist. He was the first Japanese pianist to graduate from Yong Siew Toh Conservatory with a Bachelor’s degree (Honors) at National University of Singapore. After spending 2 years at College of Charleston for his Artist’s Diploma, he moved to Chicago to complete his Master’s degree from Roosevelt University in Chicago. In 2016 Yusuke received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from University of Wisconsin- Madison under the tutelage of Christopher Taylor.
As an in-school competition winner, he toured greater Chicago area to perform solo works in 2010. In 2013, he won a concerto competition at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and performed Piano Concerto in A minor by Grieg which was broadcasted on Wisconsin- radio along with an interview. He was selected to participate in Midwest International Piano competition.
Yusuke also has performed internationally as a collaborative pianist. Throughout his studies he has worked as a chamber musician under the guidance of Dr. Thomas Hecht, Enrique Graf, Meng-Chieh Liu, and Martha Fischer. In 2009 he won a piano assistantship at Roosevelt university whose duty included collaborating with various instrumentalists, as well as accompanying diction class for vocalists, opera production, and vocal recitals under supervision of Dr. Dana Brown.
While creating arrangements for piano as well as other instruments have been his interest since his early age, it is only in recent years that he started creating arrangements of folk songs and popular songs regularly. He has organized annual concerts dedicated to his arrangements for solo, solo instruments with piano, and other chamber settings.
Yusuke has performed many master classes presented by international concert artists such as Marian Hahn, Peter Takás, Hugues Leclère, Gilbert Kalish, and Martin Katz.
Between 2017-2024, he served as a Chief Piano Instructor at the head quarter of Siam Music Yamaha Thailand, overseeing the quality of the teachers as well all collaborating with numerous institutions/artists/organization for projects such as performances, competitions, examinations, and so on. His students have won numerous prizes at both domestic and international competitions, performing at world class venues such as Carnegie Hall.
Currently he is enjoying a career of performing, and appearing in masterclasses, and serving as a jury member in competitions internationally.
He is a committee member of Bangkok Chopin Society, and one of founding members of Thailand International Piano Festival.
Dr. Yusuke Komura
Nazareno Ferruggio
Nazareno Ferruggio is an Italian pianist whose international career has taken him to concert stages on every continent, including extensive tours of South Africa and Indonesia. He has won eighteen first prizes in national and international competitions, including the IBLA International Grand Prize in 2005 for his interpretations of works by Claude Debussy. In 2007, he received the Liszt Special Prize at the 8th Grieg International Piano Competition in Oslo, Norway.
Ferruggio made his solo debut with the Bari Symphony Orchestra, performing Beethoven’s Fantasy for Piano, Choir, and Orchestra under the direction of Nicola Scardicchio. He made his American debut at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2006, with additional performances in Little Rock, Arkansas. His international engagements have included recitals and masterclasses in Jakarta and Surabaya, Indonesia, as well as performances at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria, and Rotary Scholarship events at the Pianale Academy in Fulda, Germany.
In 2009, he won first prize at the Premio Valentino International Piano Competition. The following year, he was a semifinalist at the 15th Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Ferruggio graduated from the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory in Bari, Italy, where he studied with Pierluigi Camicia. He pursued postgraduate studies with Ragna Schirmer at the Musikhochschule Mannheim in Germany and continued his training with Rada Petkova at the Musikhochschule Bern in Switzerland. He also participated in masterclasses with distinguished pianists and pedagogues, including J. Achucarro, K. Hämmerling, Jerome Lowenthal, J. Soriano, and O. Yablonskaya.
S T R I N G S
Dr. William Herzog
Part violinist, part pedagogue and part investigator, Dr. William Herzog has devoted his career to exploring the intersection between the communicative power of music and the science of learning. His emotive, narrative-based approach to performance, described as “powerful and expressive” [The Music Times] and “technically dazzling” [All About the Arts], is one component in a multifaceted career devoted to contextualizing music in the greater picture of human potential and interconnectedness.
As Associate Professor of Violin at Northern Kentucky University, Dr. Herzog exercises an ever-evolving, exploratory approach to teaching, using tools from different musical subdisciplines to create a broad and nuanced approach to musical learning. Applied music classes are enriched by gamification, mental practice, and projects customized from class input, while private lesson students benefit from creative rhythm and aural skills exercises, custom-composed etudes, and a focus on fostering independence.
Beyond expanding the contents of his pedagogical toolbox, Dr. Herzog is also committed to making teaching techniques and resources accessible to a wider audience. His dedication to spreading knowledge has led to publications and presentations in a wide variety of journals and professional conferences, including Strad Magazine, American Music Teacher, American String Teacher, the Kentucky Music Educators Association conference, and the American String Teachers’ Association national conference. Dr. Herzog has a particular interest in elucidating the process of musical memorization. His YouTube and Instagram videos as the “Music Memory Professor” have accumulated tens of thousands of views, and his guest lectures and workshops on musical memory have met with enthusiasm at universities across the United States and Canada.
Evva Mizerska
Evva Mizerska is an award-winning cellist known for her versatility as a recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist. Hailed as a “rising star” by The Strad, she has performed widely in the UK at venues including the Royal Festival Hall, the Purcell Room, St George’s Bristol, Conway Hall, and Fairfield Halls, as well as internationally in Austria, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Germany, Italy, and Poland. Her solo engagements include concertos by Elgar, Schumann, and Saint-Saëns, and she has broadcast for BBC Radio 3 and Polish Radio.
A committed chamber musician, Evva is a founding member of the Veles Ensemble and the Zemlinsky Trio. She frequently programmes contemporary and underrepresented composers, and her forthcoming SOMM release with the Zemlinsky Trio — supported by Arts Council England — focuses on British chamber music. Her recordings on Toccata Classics, Naxos, and DUX have received wide acclaim; her recent Veles Ensemble album was selected as a “Pick of the Week” by The Guardian and praised for its “exceptional sensitivity” by BBC Music Magazine.
Based in London, Evva teaches at St Paul’s School and the North London Conservatoire. Her teaching philosophy centres on fostering a supportive, inquisitive environment where a secure technical foundation enables genuine artistic expression. She is dedicated to helping young musicians develop their own musical voice through thoughtful interpretation and musical imagination.
Born in Poland, Evva earned her Master of Music degree from the Frédéric Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw under Professors Andrzej Zielinski and Piotr Hausenplas. After moving to London, she completed postgraduate studies and a further Master of Music at Trinity College of Music with Richard Markson. Her awards include First Prize at the Seventh International Leoš Janáček Competition in Brno, the Vivian Joseph Cello Prize, and the Leonard Smith Duo Prize in London.
Dr. Nathan Groot
Dr. Nathan Groot is a music instructor at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts, where he directs the string ensemble and teaches applied strings, music theory, music history, and other courses. He holds degrees from Tennessee Tech University, Miami University, and the University of Georgia. Nathan has experience as an orchestral, chamber, and solo performer. As a soloist, he has performed in the United States, Bulgaria, and Austria, and has also performed and recorded multiple world premieres.
He has also won multiple awards and competitions as a chamber musician including the national American Viola Society Ensemble Invitational Competition in 2021. As an orchestral violist, he frequently performs with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and Conway Symphony Orchestra. Previously, he performed in both principal and section roles with the Bryan Symphony Orchestra, the Rome Symphony Orchestra, and the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra.
He has also recorded television soundtracks in Nashville, TN (History Channel’s Vikings) and for a documentary with songwriter/ performer Kishi Bashi.
Harry Broom
A graduate of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag in the Netherlands, RNCM and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire receiving the highest marks for performance, cellist Harry Broom BMus Hons, MMus, PgDip (1997) is currently pursuing a busy and diverse career both as a performer and a teacher.
Harry has performed in concert halls such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Royal Albert Hall London for BBC Proms, The Bridgewater Hall Manchester, The Glasshouse Newcastle, Tivoli Vredenburg Utrecht and Symphony Hall Birmingham. Harry currently freelances with orchestras such as BBC Philharmonic (No.2, No.3 & No.4), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra No.4 (also in conjunction with Dutch National Opera at the Nationale Opera and Ballet Amsterdam), The Hallé (No.2), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Welsh National Opera, Residentie Orkest Den Haag and the English Symphony Orchestra and has been broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3 and Dutch Radio NPO 4.
In chamber music, Harry is a member of the Tulchinskaya Quartet based between Manchester and Glasgow performing concerts around the UK. He also plays regularly as a guest in concerts with ensembles (Talland Quartet, Pelargos Quartet and Aestus Quartet) around the UK and the Netherlands.
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