Local Piano Students Perform at Carnegie Hall

The piano students of teacher and composer Danette C. Whelan of Warren performed at a winners recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall NYC, on Sunday, May 24 at 6:30 PM, as a result of winning the Piano Teachers Society of America’s state piano competitions this past spring.

Front row from left to right: Cherlin Zhu of Warren, Olivia Escousse of Far Hills, Catherine Metcalfe, Rhea Kapur and Nicole Cirra of Basking Ridge, Danette C. Whelan of Warren, Sonia Parmar, Valerie Chen, Christine Wu and Leah Levy of Basking Ridge.

Back row from left to right: Jennifer Zhang of Bridgewater, Kathie Guo of Basking Ridge, Edward Cai of Watchung, Stuart Ki ( cello) and Karen Chi of Warren, Anne Wang ( violin) of Bridgewater.

Missing from the picture are Julia Cohen of Basking Ridge and Vinayak Kannan of Tokyo and Basking Ridge.