At the age of 12, California born pianist Grace Han, made her orchestral debut at Colburn’s Zipper Hall performing the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor with the Torrance Symphony Orchestra. Among her awards are top prizes with the Korea Times Piano Competition, Southern California Bach Competition, Music Teacher’s Association of California Piano Solo and Concerto Competition, and recently, the Rondo Young Artist Piano Competition in New York City.
She has held solo performances in various venues in New York such as Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, National Sawdust, and Rockwood Music Hall. Grace has been soloist, among many others, with the Torrance Symphony, New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, and Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra under Philippe Entremont. Most recently, she performed Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Symphony Space with the New Amsterdam Orchestra.
She is equally active as a chamber musician and has coached and performed with Daniel Avshalomov, Alan Kay, and David Krakauer, as well as participated in chamber music programs such as Lincoln Center Stage and YMF Chamber Music Series.
She currently tours with the genre-bending trio Take3 and female-driven pop vocal trio, Divas3, and has previously toured North America with the chamber music theater group, Core Ensemble.
For the past 6 years, Ms. Han has been a music theater pianist for Manhattan School of Music and has performed in Into The Woods, Legally Blonde, Matilda, Fiddler on the Roof, among others, as well as playing on Broadway’s Book of Mormon.
Working with the Bridge Arts Ensemble for the past 7 years, Ms. Han has taught workshops and masterclasses as a teaching artist in over 50 public schools in Upstate New York and has held her own private studio across both California, New Jersey, and New York.
Ms. Han holds a Bachelors and Master of Music Degree in the Classical Piano Performance Program with scholarships from the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music. She has studied previously with Solomon Mikowsky, Louise Lepley, and Alexandre Moutouzkine and additional studies and masterclasses with Sergei Babayan and John Perry.