Young-Ah Tak (Y.A.Tak), Piano

Biography

Since making her New York
debut at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall with the Juilliard Symphony, Young-Ah Tak has performed as a
recitalist, a soloist, and a chamber musician in the United States, Canada,
Austria, Germany, Italy, Korea and Japan. Her performances have been broadcast
on WQXR (Classical Music Station of The New York Times), KPAC (Texas), WCLV
(Cleveland) and KBS (Korea).

Ms. Tak is the Silver Medal
winner at the San Antonio International Piano Competition, where she also received
the award for Best Performance of a Classical Work.  She is also the winner of the International Corpus Christi Young
Artists' Competition, and top prize winner in numerous other competitions
including the Fulbright Concerto Competition, Valsesia-Musica International
Piano Competition in Italy, the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, and
the Ettlingen International Piano Competition in Germany.

Ms. Tak's orchestral
appearances include: the Filharmonia Pomorska (Poland), the Greater Lansing Symphony
Orchestra, the Oltenia Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania), the Korean Symphony
Orchestra, the Ulsan Philharmonic and the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra in her
native Korea.  She performs regularly at
Alice Tully Hall, The Kennedy Center, the Steans Institute at Ravinia Festival,
Yamaha Piano Salon (New York, Seoul) and Jordan Hall in Boston, and has also
appeared at the Music@Menlo festival, Aspen Music Festival, the Banff Centre
for the Arts, Tongyeong International Music Festival in Korea, St. Paul Chapel
at Columbia University and the Sequenza 21 concert series in New York.

Ms. Tak received her
Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School and her Master's degree with
high distinction from the New England Conservatory. She earned her Graduate Diploma
from the New England Conservatory with Russell Sherman and Wha Kyung Byun as a
Presidential Scholar.  Ms. Tak is
currently pursuing her Doctorate of Musical Arts at Peabody Institute of the
Johns Hopkins University as a student of Leon Fleisher.  She also serves as a member of the piano
faculty at the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Institute. 

The
debut recording of Judith Zaimont's "Wizards (2003)" by Ms. Tak was released by Albany Records to great critical acclaim in
November 2005. For more information about Ms. Tak, please visit www.youngahtak.com.