Residents Katerina Barbat and Aaron Barlow to perform in Carnegie Hall

NEW YORK, May 15th, 2025 - First Place Winners of Musical Life Competition will debut at Weill Recital Hall Carnegie Hall on Thursday, May 15th, at 7:30 p.m.

The concert at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall will feature Musical Life Competition winners in piano and strings, selected from applicants from throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Cuba. Works by Haydn, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Shostakovich, Albeniz, Saint-Saëns and more…

The Carnegie Hall program highlights will include pianist Katerina Borbat, Resident of Scarsdale and student at Rye Country Day School. Katerina is a piano pupil of Joan Bergman and will be performing Chopin in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on May 15th.

Pianist Aaron Barlis is from New Rochelle in Westchester New York and will be performing Rachmaninoff’s Etude-Tableaux in D Major. Aaron attends New Rochelle High School and is a pupil of Gena Raps at the Manhattan School of Music, precollege division.

Musical Life Competition is open to pianists and string players from all musical traditions and educational backgrounds from around the globe, 18 years of age and compete in one of 3 appropriate age categories. The top competitors are chosen as winners by the renowned jury and partake in world class level performances.

“Musical Life Competition gives a lot of personal attention to each participant in guiding their forming careers,” says Emilia Oskotsky, Founder and Executive Director. In the age of many music competitions, we believe that Carnegie Hall performances should remain sacred and be earned by hard work, talent and dedication. Our competition has maximum transparency - applicants know who the judges are and go through a thorough live or virtual audition process in which they are selected based on their technical proficiency, musicianship and artistic abilities. Each applicant receives detailed feedback from the jury, which helps them further grow and develop as young musicians.

https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2025/05/15/Musical-Life-Competition-First-Place-Winners-Concert-with-Composers-in-Residen-0730PM

Tickets for the May 15th, 2025 performance are available, for $55, at the Carnegie Hall Box Office (at the Southeast corner of West 57th Street and Seventh Avenue) and by telephone (212-247-7800).

For a full list of 2025 First Place Winners or complimentary press tickets, please contact Musical Life Foundation at info@musicallife.org. Please read more about Musical Life Foundation at www.musicallife.org.