2023

FEATURED GUEST SOLOISTS: Antonio Pompa-Baldi (Van Cliburn Silver Medalist and Distinguished Professor of Piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music), Tetiana Shafran (Gold Medalist of the 2019 Olga Kern International Piano Competition), Natalia Trull (Professor of Piano, Moscow Special School, Moscow State Conservatory), Elisey Mysin (Prodigy and Protégé), Aleksandra "Sasha" Kasman Laude (Raeburn Finalist 2022 Honens International Piano Competition), Mikhail "Misha" Berestnev, Yakov Kasman (Silver Medalist in the tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition), Roberto Plano (First Prize in the Cleveland International Piano Competition), Konstantin Soukhovetski (Juilliard), and Natasha Paremski

JUDGES AND GUEST ARTISTS: Tatiana Kasman, Ben Laude (Tonebase), Paola Del Negro Plano (Rivers Conservatory, Boston), Timothy Burns (IKOF Official Staff Accompanist), Bryan Wallick (Colorado State University, Winner of the Vladimir Horowitz Competition in Kyiv), Devin Patrick Hughes (Conductor, Boulder Symphony and Arapahoe Philharmonic); Michael Repper (Music Director, Mid-Atlantic Symphony, Ashland Symphony, Northern Neck Orchestra of Virginia, and 2023 Grammy-nominated New York Youth Symphony); and Vyacheslav Gryaznov (Concert Pianist, Arranger, and Composer)

2022

FEATURED GUEST SOLOISTS:  Yunchan Lim, Zlata Chochieva, Eva Gevorgyan, Ju-eun Lee, Haochen Zhang, Kemal Gekic, Valery Kuleshov, Bryan Wallick, and Natalia Trull

JUDGES AND GUEST ARTISTS: Konstantin Soukhovetski, Paola Del Negro Plano, André Michel Schub, Daria Kiseleva, Hsing-ay Hsu, Tim Burns, Mikhail "Misha" Berestnev, Devin Patrick Hughes, and Charles Latshaw

2020

FEATURED GUEST SOLOISTS:  Antonio Pampa-Baldi, Valery Kuleshov, Eva Gevorgyan, Tetiana Shafran, Zlata Chocieva, and Kemal Gekic

JUDGES AND GUEST ARTISTS: Bryan Wallick, Brett Mitchell, Chuifun Poon, Daria Kiseleva, Devin Patrick Hughes, Gyohong Chen, Hsing-ay Hsu, Heysoo Juan, Jue-eun Lee, Michael Chertock, Natalia Troull, Rick Holcomb, Roberts Plano, Paola Del Negro Plano, and Timothy Burns

2019

FEATURED GUEST SOLOISTS:  Vadym Kholodenko, Anderson & Roe (Greg Anderson & Elizabeth Joy Roe), Zlata Chochieva, Bryan Wallick, and Kemal Gekic

JUDGES AND GUEST ARTISTS:  Timothy Burns, Devin Patrick Hughes, Hsing-ay Hsu, Daria Kiseleva, Shanlin Lin, Jiatianze Lydia Liu, Oscar Macchioni, Pamela Mia Paul, Bohuslav Rattay, Dzmitry Ulasiuk, Chi-Chen Wu, Iris Zhang, and Richard Zimdars

2018

FEATURED GUEST SOLOISTS:  Vadym Kholodenko, Ju-eun Lee, Olga Kern, Frederic Chiu, and Kemal Gekic

JUDGES AND GUEST ARTISTS:  Theresa Bogard, Hsing-ay Hsu, Devin Patrick Hughes, Daria Kiseleva, Jiatianze Lydia Liu, Oscar Macchioni, Pamela Mia Paul, Scott O'Neill, Bohuslav Rattay, and Dzmitry Ulasiuk

2017

FEATURED GUEST ARTISTS:  Kenneth Broberg, Eduardo Ponce and Sophia Hase, Kemal Gekic, Chen Guang, and Vadym Kholodenko

JUDGES AND GUEST ARTISTS:  Devin Patrick Hughes, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Wes Kenny, Vadym Kholodenko, Daria Kiseleva, Janet Landreth, George Sebastian Lopez, Oscar Macchioni, Bohuslav Rattay, and Dzmitry Ulasiuk

2016

FEATURED GUEST ARTISTS:  Valery Kuleshov, Hsing-ay Hsu, Eduardo Ponce and Sophia Hase, Vladislav Kern, and Olga Kern

JUDGES AND GUEST ARTISTS:  Inoyatova Gulcheckhra, Sophia Hase, Xixing Cecilia Huang, Devin Patrick Hughes, Svetozar Ivanov, Wes Kenney, Janet Landreth, George Sebastian Lopez, Oscar Macchioni, Bohuslav Rattay, Minsun Yoon, and Dzmitry Ulasiuk

2015

FEATURED GUEST ARTISTS:  Valery Kuleshov, Takako Tokuda, Hsing-ay-Hsu, Johnandrew Slominski, Olga Kern, and Vladik Kern

JUDGES AND GUEST ARTISTS:  Joel Bacon, Christopher Hatton, Devin Patrick Hughes, Svetozar Ivanov, Wes Kenney, Jeong Hee Kim, Justin Krawitz, Janet Landreth, Grzegorz Nowak, Oscar Macchioni, Youngwook You, and Willem Van Schalkwyk

2014

FEATURED GUSTS ARTISTS:  Olga Kern, Valery Kuleshov, Julia and Irina Elkina, and Joon-Woon Shin

JUDGES AND GUEST ARTISTS:  Joel Bacon, Inoyatova Gulcheckhra, Michael Griffith, Hsing-ay Hsu, Xiying Cecilia Huang, Christopher Hatton, West Kenney, Janet Landreth, Scott O'Neil, Silvana Santinell, and Lingyun Yang

2013

FEATURED GUESTS ARTISTS:  Valery Kuleshov, Aleksandr "Sasha" Voinov, Jose Raul Lopez, Caleb Harris, and Heather Conner

JUDGES AND GUEST ARTISTS:  Theresa Bogard, Lawrence Golan, Hsing-ay Hsu, Xiying Cecilia Huang, Wes Kenney, Janet Landreth, Scott O'Neil, and Lingyun Yang

2012

FEATURED GUEST SOLOISTS:  Yakov Kasman and Aleksandra Kasman, and Valery Kuleshov

TEACHERS AND PERFORMERS:  Hey-Yeung Cho, Lei Weng, Jung-Woon Shin, Theresa Bogard, Dong-Seom Lee, Hsing-Ay Hsu, Therese Fahy, Bonnie Jacobi, Jeremy Dittus.