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NOCTURNE is the Annual Gala and Fundraiser of the Musical Arts Society of New Orleans. Held at the Ritz-Carlton in downtown New Orleans, this beautiful event has become one of the most anticipated evenings of the year. The evening includes a champagne reception, salon recital by piano duo Anderson & Roe, and a fabulous dinner. For more information about NOCTURNE and to purchase tickets, visit MASNO's "Events" page. 

MASNO and the New Orleans Museum of Art invite you to join us in two weeks on Wednesday, November 7, for Baroque and Beyond: Les Arts Musicaux - a concert celebrating NOMA's Tricentennial Exhibit The Orléans Collection. The concert featuring trumpeter Vance Woolf and pianists Cara McCool Woolf and Dustin Gledhill is inspired by the musical and visual arts of the 17th and 18th centuries and includes works by such composers as Mouret, Rameau, Loeillet, Soler, Fauré, Debussy and Enescu. Tickets and more information here!

The Musical Arts Society of New Orleans is pleased to announce our 2018 NOIPC Medalists! 

Gold Medal: Ziang Xu, China

Silver Medal: Sung Chang, South Korea

Bronze Medal: David Jae-Weon Huh, South Korea

On behalf of MASNO, congratulations to all the Medalists and Semifinalists in the 27th NOIPC! 

2018 New Orleans International Piano Competition Finalists Announced! 

The three advancing Semifinalists are:

Sung Chang, South Korea

David Jae-Weon Huh, South Korea

Ziang Xu, China

The 2018 NOIPC Finals will take place at 2:00 PM on Sunday, July 29 in Loyola's Roussel Hall. Each finalist will play a memorized recital not exceeding 50 minutes. 

The performance order for the Final Round is: 

2:00 PM: David Jae-Weon Huh

3:00 PM: Ziang Xu

4:00 PM: Sung Chang

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS

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.