Piano Institute

The Young Artist Program is designed for musicians pursuing piano as a career or primary academic focus. Experience intensive training and performance opportunities at the highest level.

• Experience exceptional and intense learning opportunities
• Enjoy individual lessons with renowned Artist Faculty
• Daily Master Classes
• Special lectures and workshops
• All recitals are performed at historical performance venues:
  • Béla Bartók Music Institute, Miskolc
  • National Theatre, Miskolc
  • Greek Orthodox Cathedral and Museum, Miskolc

Recording Requirement

All applicants must submit unedited, single camera video recordings of two contrasting pieces or movements. Multiple movements of the same piece are acceptable.

Application and Tuition Fee

• Application fee: $95 USD
• Late Application fee: $140 USD (for applications submitted after March 21st, 2026)
• Tuition: $3,200 USD (includes Room and Board)
• Single Room (Limited Availability): +$300 USD
• Application fees are non-refundable

Eligibility

• Open to musicians pursuing music as a full-time career or academic focus.
• Ideal for conservatory students, university music majors, and emerging professional pianists.
• Participants under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Room and Board coverage are paid by parents attending the festival with a child.

Piano Faculty

Learn from world-renowned piano faculty who bring decades of performance and teaching experience to the Chroma International Music Festival.

Dr. Shuai Wang

Artistic Director

Dr. Wang is recognized as an accomplished soloist, recitalist and chamber musician and has performed extensively in major venues such as Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, and Symphony Space in New York, the Kennedy Center and Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, and the Gardner Museum in Boston. She has toured regularly throughout China and Europe, and has been regularly featured in radio broadcasts throughout the country.

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Dr. Robert Saterlee

Piano Faculty · Composition Ensemble

Pianist Robert Satterlee has developed a reputation as an accomplished and versatile solo recitalist and chamber musician. He plays regularly throughout the United States, delighting audiences with his incisive and imaginative performances. He has appeared on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, San Francisco’s Old First Concert Series, the Schubert Club in St. Paul, Minnesota, the Music Teachers National Association national conferences, the Quad Cities Mozart Festival and many colleges and universities.

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Dr. Kate Boyd

Piano Faculty

An active soloist and chamber musician, American pianist Kate Boyd has performed solo recitals at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Schubert’s birth house in Vienna, the National Concert Hall in Dublin, the Musikhalle Hamburg, in addition to many places throughout the US, Europe and Canada. As a faculty member at Butler University, she has appeared as a soloist with each of the University’s large ensembles in performances ranging from Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

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Hsin-Ni Liu

Piano Faculty

Hsin-Ni Liu, is an active concert pianist, teacher, and recording artist. Hsin-Ni Liu has recorded 2 CDs under Naxos Records, 1 CD under Fidelio, collaborated with Russian Philharmonic Orchestra and Hungarian Szeged Symphony Orchestra.

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Dr. Catherine Kautsky

Piano Faculty

Catherine Kautsky, Chair of Keyboard at Lawrence University, has been lauded by the New York Times as “a pianist who can play Mozart and Schubert as though their sentiments and habits of speech coincided exactly with hers … The music spoke directly to the listener, with neither obfuscation nor pretense.” She was the 2016 winner of the Lawrence Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2013 winner of the university’s Faculty Convocation Award, and in 2017 she was honored with the George and Marjorie Olsen Chandler Chair in Music. Her recording of the Debussy Preludes, released by Centaur in September 2014, was said to “bring out all the power, majesty, and mystery of Debussy’s conception,” and a recording of the complete Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano was released in 2019 to top reviews.

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Dr. Geoffrey Burleson

Piano Faculty · Composition Ensemble

GEOFFREY BURLESON has performed to wide acclaim throughout Europe and North America, and is equally active as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician and jazz performer. The New York Times has hailed his solo performances as “vibrant” and “compelling”, and has praised his “command, projection of rhapsodic qualities without loss of rhythmic vigor, and appropriate sense of spontaneity and fetching colors”. And the Boston Globe refers to Mr. Burleson as a “remarkable pianist” and “a first-class instrumental presence” whose performances are “outright thrilling.” His numerous acclaimed solo appearances include prominent venues in Paris (at the Église St-Merri), New York, Rome (American Academy), Helsinki (Sibelius Academy), Athens (Mitropoulos Hall), Mexico City (National Museum of Art), Rotterdam (De Doelen), Chicago (Dame Myra Hess Memorial Series), Boston, Washington, Switzerland, England, Spain, and elsewhere. He has also appeared as soloist in many international festivals, including the Mostly Modern Festival, Bard Music Festival, Monadnock Music Festival, Other Minds Festival, Mänttä Music Festival (Finland), Santander Festival (Spain), the Talloires International Festival(France), the International Keyboard Institute & Festival (New York), and the Interharmony International Music Festival (Italy).

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Dr. Yerin Kim

Piano Faculty · Composition Ensemble

Praised by the International Piano Magazine as “pianist of beautiful finesse and golden tone”, pianist Yerin Kim is a recitalist, chamber musician, and educator. She has given concerts in various festivals and recitals in major venues internationally, including The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Carnegie Hall in New York, Place Flagey in Brussels and Rolston Hall at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada.

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