Support for ABF Artists
Please support our artists!
The Alexander & Buono Foundation is pleased to announce the list of artists currently receiving our ongoing support. We believe careers are built with consistent effort applied over time, so we select laureates from our competitions demonstrating the desire, talent, and promise needed to ensure they are capable of sustaining professional careers.
We ask that you contribute generously and often to our work on their behalf.
As a 2020 First Prize Winner of the Alexander & Buono International String Competition, Pei-Wen Liao continues her career with performances around the world. She is a faculty member at the Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School, the Alexander & Buono International Academy, and the New York Conservatory of Music, as well as a doctoral candidate at the Manhattan School of Music. As a 2020 First Prize Winner of the Alexander & Buono International String Competition, Pei-Wen Liao continues her career with performances around the world. She is a faculty member at the Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School, the Alexander & Buono International Academy, and the New York Conservatory of Music, as well as a doctoral candidate at the Manhattan School of Music.
Nana Miyoshi
Since winning the Bradshaw & Buono Piano Competition in 2019, Nana Miyoshi has studied with Cosmo Buono exclusively, leading to concerts both in the United States and Europe. ABF presented her in her New York recital debut in June of this year at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, in a program of works by Debussy, Chopin, Gershwin, and Liszt. She continues her studies by learning more orchestral and solo repertoire prior to plans for concerts in Vienna, as well as her first recording.
Anna Shelest &
the Shelest Piano Duo
Having been a member of the Alexander & Buono family since 2009 when she won the Bradshaw & Buono Piano Competition, Ms. Shelest continues to perform on some of the world’s most prestigious stages. By partnering with The Sorel Charitable Organization we have been able to provide her with her Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall debuts with orchestra, as well as five CDs under the Sorel Classics label.
We continue to support Ms. Shelest, and her collaborations with husband Dmitri as part of the Shelest Piano Duo. Their performances of four-hand repertoire continue to put them at the forefront of world’s most prominent artists, and created three CDs for Sorel Classics.
A laureate of the 2012 Alexander & Buono International Vocal Competition, Ms. Siciliano has performed solo concerts on some of the world’s most prestigious stages, among them Carnegie Hall and the Liederkranz Foundation in New York. Following her competition win she sang the title roles in Tosca and Norma for the Landestheater in Coburg, Germany and the Staatstheater in Kassel. She will also be appearing as part of a lecture and discussion given later this year with Barry Alexander entitled “The Art of the Voice” and featuring Stewart Pearce, who has served as the speech and voice coach for Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher.
Clara Belle Wrolstad
Studying currently with Cosmo Buono, as a three-time laureate of the Bradshaw & Buono Piano Competition, Clara Belle is continuing to demonstrate exceptional talent as both a solo artist and chamber performer. Her group, the Rivendell Trio, was selected as Featured Artist in Classical Minnesota Public Radio’s 2020 Minnesota Varsity; awarded the top prize in the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Youth Chamber Music Competition; and was a quarter-finalist at the 45th Annual Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. She continues her studies in the hope of becoming a professional concert artist.