Trenton Takaki, age 16, is a student of Sueanne Metz. 

He was awarded first place in the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition, DePauw University Young Artists Piano Competition, Cardinal Stritch University Piano Festival , Young Artist Piano Competition at Hope College, ISMTA Piano Competition, and the Chopin Youth Piano Competition.  He represented the United States as a semifinalist in the 2011 New Orleans International Piano Competition and was awarded third place in the 2011 Aloha International Piano Competition.  He competed as one of seven National Finalists in the 2010 MTNA Junior Performance Competition in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after having won the MTNA State and East-Central Division Competitions.

Trenton  has performed in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall and was a finalist in the Lang Lang auditions at Symphony Center.  Trenton was a featured artist in the Young Steinway Concert Series at the Skokie Library ,and performed in the IIYM Summer Academy Honors Recital at the University of Kansas. 

When not playing the piano, Trenton plays soccer for New Trier High School and is an avid Cubs fan. 

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A native of Korea, Eun Young Lee graduated from Ewha Women’s University with undergraduate and graduate degrees in Music Theory. After teaching music in universities across Korea, she moved to the United States in 1999, where she did graduate studies with David Noon at the Manhattan School of Music.

Currently Ms. Lee is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago, where she is a recipient of the Lowell C. Wadmond Award, Doolittle Harrison Fellowship and Humanities Grant. Her current teachers include Shulamit Ran, Marta Ptaszynska, Jan Radzynski, Bernard Rands, Howard Sandroff, and Kotoka Suzuki.