Current Director of Two Bridges Music:
Born into a musical family, pianist Anran Qian started playing the piano at the age of four under the guidance of her parents. Selected amongst thousands of applicants to the Middle School Affiliated with Wuhan Conservatory in China, she received professional music training from the age of twelve. Possessed of an adventurous spirit even at this young age, she left home after being invited to attend the Middle School Affiliated with Shanghai Conservatory and later entered The Juilliard School in the United States. She has performed in Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Suzhou and Guangzhou in China, Kirishima in Japan, New York City and Seattle in America and Bergen in the Netherlands. She earned her Bachelor of music degree in 2018, and now is pursuing her Master degree at The Juilliard School under the guidance of Jerome Lowenthal and Joseph Kalichstein.
Anran began teaching at the age of ten, assisting her father, pianist Guorong Qian, serving as his private teaching assistant. During the past ten years, students she has helped have been accepted at conservatories such as Wuhan Conservatory of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, Conservatoire de Grenoble and many others.
As a young pianist, Anran is a prizewinner in many competitions; including Omille Piano Competition in China, Cooper Piano Festival Competition in the United States and Beijing International Music Festival and Academy Concerto Competition. Her career has brought her to perform and take masterclasses with many renowned musicians including Vladimir Feltsman, Pavel Gililov, Minoru Nojima and Boris Slutsky at many festivals, such as Beijing International Music Festival and Academy in China, Kirishima International Music Festival in Japan, Art of the Piano in America and The International Holland Music Sessions in the Netherlands.
Soprano Liana Guberman, a native New Yorker, is a Resident Artist with Bare Opera, a NYC based opera company, and recently sang in their 2016-2017 productions: Erste Dame in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Fannì in Rossini’s La Cambiale di Matrimonio. Liana attended the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien, Austria, where she studied the poetry and performance of Lieder. This experience made her passionate about singing in German and performing Lieder in concert. A winner of several major vocal competitions, Liana won the 2014 St. Louis district of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and grants from both the 2015 Lieder/Song and Opera General Divisions of the Gerda Lissner Foundation, was a finalist in the 2016 Jensen Foundation Competition, an encouragement grant winner of the 2017 Opera General Division of the Gerda Lissner Foundation, and the Fourth Prize winner in Florida Grand Opera/Young Patronesses of the Opera 2017 Vocal Competition. In May 2017, Liana was the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with Flint Symphony Orchestra.
Jennifer Gersten is a violinist pursuing a DMA at Stony Brook University, from which she also received her master’s, as a student of Arnaud Sussmann, Jennifer Frautschi, Hagai Shaham, and Phil Setzer. She has participated in chamber music intensives with Gil Kalish and Tina Dahl and has performed in solo and chamber masterclasses for Darrett Adkins, Joseph Kalichstein, Almita Vamos, and members of the Emerson String Quartet, among others. Her summer experiences include full-scholarship fellowships at Kneisel Hall, Bowdoin, and Colorado College Music festivals; Aspen; and Eastern Music Festival, where she was a winner of the annual concerto competition. She is fifty percent of Double Standard, a new music duo with pianist Laura Davey. Jennifer is also a writer whose recent accolades include the 2018 Rubin Institute Prize in Music Criticism, a $10,000 award given by the nation’s top music critics for “outstanding promise” in the field. Jennifer received her B.A. in English from Yale University and won the senior Wrexham Prize in Music upon graduation.
Jenny Tsang is a pianist currently based in New York. She began her study on the piano at the age of four. She attended the LaGuardia H.S of Music and Art for Piano, and while attending LaGuardia, she studied with professor Daniel Cataneo from The Juilliard School. Jenny obtained her Bachelor of Music degree from SUNY Purchase college, conservatory of music, studying with professor Stephanie Brown. While attending college, she participated in music festivals such as the NYU summer piano intensive, and had the pleasure to coach with Eduardus Halim, pupil of Vladimir Horowitz, and Gila Goldstein, piano department chair of Boston University. She was also coached by award-winning classical pianist Yoonjung Han in master class. She is an active performer in both NY and in GuangZhou, China.
Jenny began teaching in 2012, giving students private piano lessons. She soon also started teaching music theory and music history in private or small groups setting. She is currently a piano instructor in the Two Bridges Music Program and Music to Your Home.
As an experienced vocal and piano instructor, Ms.Maria teaches all music genres include classical, folk, pop, jazz, rock and R&B. She believes that music is capable of changing lives, teaches discipline, and gives light to the life of any person that experiences it. She believes in bringing out the best in each student, and that every student is different and needs a personalized musical education.
Keru Zhang is a pianist currently pursuing her Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School studying with Jerome Lowenthal. Keru has won top prizes at many competitions including the Bachauer Scholarship Competition of Juilliard, the National Piano Competition, Asian Music Competition, TOYAMA Asian Youth Music Competition, Weisbaden International Piano Competition, Bonn Beethoven Music Festival Invitation Competition, Chinese Composition Performing Competition, and Union City Young Artist Competition. During her study at the Pre- College Division of the Juilliard School, she gave several solo recitals at Lincoln Center. Keru was also invited as the guest artist for the opening concert of the Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra in 2010, and guest pianist of the Rising Stars Piano Series at the South Hampton Cultural Center. She has participated in numerous music festivals and performed in recitals around Asia, Europe and USA, including the Beethoven Music Festival in Bonn, Pianofest in the Hamptons, Orford Musique, and the Gilmore Keyboard Festival. When Keru was in eighth grade at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, she released recordings of Moszkowski Etudes, Carl Czerny Etudes Op. 740, the Art of Finger Dexterity, and Chopin Etudes Op.10. As a passionate chamber musician, Keru has participated in the Advanced Piano Trio Program and Intensive Duo Program in Cleveland Institute of Music, worked with Rohan De Silva, members of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, Cavani Quartet, and members of the Juilliard String Quartet in master classes, and has collaborated with renowned cellist Lynn Harrell in concert.
Keru was born in Sichuan, China, in 1995. She enrolled at Sichuan Conservatory of Music at the age of 11, and later enrolled at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing at the age of 13. In 2010 she moved to the United States and began studying with Victoria Mushkatkol in the Pre-College Division of Juilliard. From 2014 to 2018, Keru completed her Bachelor degree studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music under the guidance of Paul Schenly and Daniel Shapiro.