2025 MIMA Young Artist Competition Winner's Showcase
Welcome to the 2025 MIMA Young Artist Competition Winner's Showcase & Award! Join us at Zipper Concert Hall on July 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM (Pacific Time) to celebrate the incredible talent of our young artists. Get ready to be amazed by the next generation of rising talents as they showcase their award-winning performances.
This is a FREE event. Don't miss your chance to witness world-class music at the heart of Los Angeles premier performance venue!
Performers lineup as follows:
Jeong Bin Ann, cellist
Tim Yan, pianist
Liam Thomaz, violinist
Mia Safdie, pianist
Abby Hanna, cellist
Xinyuan Bi, pianist
Sophie Ji Yae Choe, pianist
Xialong Liu, pianist
Cayla Kim, violinist
Special guest performance from pianist Hong Xu and violinist Iryna Krechkovsky.
Hailed by the New York Times as "technically brilliant, insightful musician and seemingly limitless potential", Hong Xu is one of China's most accomplished pianists of his generation.He has played with world renowned conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenzy, Mikhail Pletnev, Yannick Nezét- Seguin, Sir Mark Elder, Yan Pascal Totelier, Hans Graf, Markus Stenz and Robert Spano. Graduated from the Eastman School of Music and The Juilliard School,he won prizes at the Bachauer, Hilton Head and Honens International Piano Competitions. He is currently an associate professor at the Chinese Universitybof Hong Kong (Shenzhen), School of Music.
Hailed as "lively and sensational” by Montreal’s Arts and Opinion, and “flawless” by New York Concert Review, prize-winning violinist Iryna Krechkovsky enjoys an international career as soloist, chamber music collaborator, educator, and arts executive. She has appeared on Classical KUSC, KABC-TV Los Angeles, the Korean Broadcasting System, National Public Radio, the Public Broadcasting Service, and as a speaker/performer at TEDxChapmanU. Born in Ukraine, Iryna Krechkovsky attended the Cleveland Institute of Music and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University in New York where she was awarded the distinguished 40 Under Forty Alumni Award. She is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Chamber Music | OC where she curates the nationally recognized Pre-College Program, and is a founding member of the award-winning ensemble Trio Céleste with cellist Ross Gasworth and pianist Kevin Kwan Loucks
Program features works by Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Piazzolla, Zou Long, Scriabin, Gershwin
