Salida Aspen Concerts is delighted to present three exceptionally talented young pianists as a "Piano Palooza" in the third concert of its 50th Anniversary Summer Concert Series season on Saturday, July 25th, at the Salida High School Auditorium. Tickets at the door or at SalidaAspenConcerts.org

      15-year-old pianist, Bo-Wei Andrew Huang, will be performing Chopin's Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48, No. 1, and the first 12 of Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28.  Piano works by Brahms (Fantasien, Op. 116, Nos. 1 and 5-7) and by late 19th/early 20th century Catalan composer Enrique Granados (Goyescas, o Los majos enamorados, Op. 11, Nos. 1 and 4) will be played by 15-year-old pianist-composer, Taige Wang.  Linz Sicheng Guo, 20, will close the evening with "scènes mignonnes sur quatre notes" from Carnaval, Op. 9, and Three Movements from Stravinsky's Petrushka.  
              Huang, from Taiwan, and Wang, from Irvine, California, are both studying piano at the Juilliard School with Professor Yoheved Kaplinsky.  Huang has twice won the Taiwan National Students' Music Competition, as well First Prize at the Steinway South-East Asia Pacific Regional Finals, and has performed with the QingXing Ensemble. Wang is a Lang Lang Foundation scholar and the 2026 YoungArts Winner with Distinction, a prize winner at the Rosalyn Rueck International Bach and Thomas and Evon Cooper Competition, and a Cliburn Junior quarter finalist.  He is also a prize-winning composer and has performed at Carnegie Hall, American's National Opera Center, and the Lincoln Center, where he premiered some of his commissioned works.
               Guo is from Songyuan, China, and has been playing piano since the age of eight.  At 14 he performed Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, which Prokofiev himself described as "devilishly difficult." He has performed around the world (China, South Korea, Japan, UK, Spain), was awarded First Prize and the Best Outstanding Talent award in the Piano Group of the Second Toronto International Instrumental Music Competition, and placed second at the Chicago International Piano Competition and at the Lang Lang Futian International Piano Competition.  He is the recipient of the Yamaha Scholarship, and is currently studying with Professor Huang Ruoyu at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
               Salida Aspen Concerts, Inc., is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and its Summer Concert Series is a collaboration with the renowned Aspen Music School and Festival.  For more information go to www.salidaaspenconcerts.org
               Doors open at 5:45 p.m. for a pre-concert talk with the musicians at 6:15 p.m., and performances will begin at 7 p.m.
               This concert is generously sponsored by High Country Bank, for which Salida Aspen Concerts is most grateful.