Chetan Tierra

Chetan Tierra performed for GCPI before but did not attend the course. In 2004 Chetan was a GCPI participant. His repertoire for study at 2004 GCPI was Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 111 and Brahms Paganini Variations. Book I.

Chetan Tierra, age 20, was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California. His first lessons came from his father at age 4. His teachers include Antonio Pompa-Baldi, with whom he currently studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Hans Boepple of Santa Clara University (age 12 through 18). He also has studied with Pawel Skrzypek (at the Warsaw Piano Workshop, Poland, and the Gold Country Piano Institute), Alvin Chow (at the Oberlin Conservatory, Ohio), Bruce Murray (at the Summer Music Festival at Brevard, North Carolina), Peter Serkin, Barbara Wilkins, and Junghee Spicer, and attended the Aspen Music Festival. He has won many competitions including: Winner--MTAC Solo Piano Competition, Winner--Brevard International Music Festival Concerto Competition, Winner--San Francisco Young Pianists Competition, 2nd Prize--Brevard International Music Festival Piano Competition, 2nd Prize--State of California Bartok Piano Competition, and was the only freshmen finalist in the Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition. He gave his first recital at age eight followed by many more in the U.S., and was presented in a recital in Warsaw, Poland. He has performed with the Santa Cruz Symphony, the Transylvania Symphony Orchestra, and has scheduled several future orchestral engagements. Mr. Tierra is currently a second-year student at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

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