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Enjoy a lovely chat about the upcoming New Orleans International Piano Competition, Keyboard Festival and Piano Institute with WWNO's Diane Mack and MASNO Executive Director Cara McCool Woolf on this week's edition of Inside the Arts!

Click here to watch Nancy Parker's interview with MASNO's Executive Director Cara McCool Woolf on Fox 8 Live about the 27th N.O. Int'l Piano Competition and N.O. Piano Institute!

Thanks to Dean Shapiro and The New Orleans Advocate for their feature of the New Orleans International Piano Competition, Keyboard Festival and Piano Institute! Read the full article here! 

27th New Orleans International Piano Competition Semifinalists Announced!

After receiving over 150 stellar applications from around the world for the recorded Preliminary Round, our distinguished jury members had the difficult task of choosing the 12 Semifinalists who would be invited to New Orleans to compete in the 27th New Orleans International Piano Competition this coming July 22-29.

We look forward to welcoming these 12 Semifinalists to New Orleans!

Sung Chang, South Korea

Yixiang Hou, China

Jaeweon David Huh, South Korea

Andreas Ioannides, United Kingdom

Robert Levinger, United States

Scott MacIsaac, Canada

Arisa Onoda, Japan

Misuzu Tanaka, Japan

Alessandro Tosi, Italy

Lin Ye, China

Hyun Ji You, South Korea

Ziang Xu, China

For more information about the NOIPC, Click Here. 

TICKETS AVAILABLE JUNE 1

Applications are currently being accepted for the 2018 New Orleans Piano Institute (NOPI), July 21-29, held at Loyola University. The deadline to apply is May 1, and space is limited. Visit our NOPI page for more details!

There are some wonderful chamber music programs coming up in New Orleans! Enjoy this story in the New Orleans Advocate by Dean Shapiro which features French pianist Philippe Bianconi and The Golden Age of French Music, Saturday, April 7. Event Information + Tickets HERE.  

Looking forward to welcoming Philippe Bianconi to New Orleans this weekend for The Golden Age of French Music! Info + Tickets.

The application deadline for the 27th New Orleans International Piano Competition has been extended until Sunday, March 25, 2018. Wishing all of our applicants the very best! For more details on the 2018 NOIPC, CLICK HERE.

We have extended the deadline for applications to the 2018 New Orleans International Piano Competition to Wednesday, March 21, 2018. Best of luck to all of our competitors! Details here. 

Looking forward to welcoming Philippe Bianconi back to New Orleans in just a few weeks for The Golden Age of French Music! CLICK HERE for more details, to order tickets and to download the official PRESS RELEASE.