The Las Vegas Chamber Music Institute (LVCMI) was created to explore artistic dialogues through a nurturing and immersive environment where both faculty and guest artists work intimately with the selected duos and string ensembles. 

Schedule

Sunday, Dec. 15

Arrival and orientation, faculty and participants meet-and-greet, campus tour.

Monday, Dec. 16

Coaching, rehearsals, technique workshop, opening concert in the evening.

Tuesday, Dec. 17

Coaching, rehearsals, guest artist masterclass, faculty showcase concert.

Wednesday, Dec. 18

Coaching, half-day trip to Red Rock.

Thursday, Dec. 19

Coaching, rehearsals, guest artist masterclass, participant concert.

Friday, Dec. 20

Coaching, rehearsals, guest artist masterclass, participant concert.

Saturday, Dec. 21

Chamber competition, guest artist masterclass, group photos, winners' concert and closing ceremony.

Sunday, Dec. 22

Departure

Competition Prize

• Recording contract with prestigious record label.
• Concert opportunities in Las Vegas and Europe, as well as opportunities to perform and compete in the Shanghai Conservatory International Chamber Music Festival for outstanding chamber groups under the age of 18.

Event Registration

Please complete the Participant Registration Form or the Observer Registration Form.

Directors and Founders

Wei-Wei Le

Wei-Wei Le, a native of Shanghai, began her violin studies at the age of 6 and quickly garnered international recognition. Legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin once praised her as “one of the most talented young musicians I have ever seen.” Over her illustrious career, Le has won numerous prestigious violin competitions, including the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition (England), the Kloster Schoental International Violin Competition (Germany), and the Starling International Violin Competition (USA). She was also honored with the “Distinguished Artist Award” by the Department of Culture in Chihuahua, Mexico.

Le studied under world-renowned violin pedagogues, including Yehudi Menuhin, Donald Weilerstein, Almita & Roland Vamos, Dorothy DeLay, Kurt Sassmanshaus, and Wenzhou Li. She earned her degrees at the Yehudi Menuhin School, New England Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, and Cincinnati University Conservatory of Music.

As a solo performer, Le has appeared on leading concert stages worldwide, including Carnegie Hall (New York, U.S.A.), the Barbican Center (London, U.K.), Wigmore Hall (London, U.K.), Royal Festival Hall (London, U.K.), and Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco, U.S.A.). She has been invited to perform in Korea, Taiwan, Israel, England, Switzerland, France, Japan, Germany, China, USA, Canada, Spain, Italy, Australia, Puerto Rico, and more. She has also performed with esteemed orchestras such as Hong Kong Philharmonic (Hong Kong), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (London), Queensland Symphony (Australia), State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra (Mexico), Marquette Symphony Orchestra (USA), World Youth Orchestra (Italy), Bermuda Symphony (Bermuda), Tianjin Symphony Orchestra (China), and WuHan Symphony Orchestra (China). Notably, she has performed multiple times as a soloist for Queen Elizabeth II of England and her royal family in Buckingham Palace. Le soloed with Royal Philharmonic (London) under Lord Menuhin’s baton at the “50th Anniversary of United Nations Celebration Concert,” where she was congratulated by the President of Poland, the Secretary of the United Nations, and Princess Margaret of England. Her achievements have been featured in publications such as The Strad, Evening Standard (England), String Magazine, and Shanghai Evening Daily.

In Yehudi Menuhin’s autobiography “Unfinished Journey,” he dedicated several paragraphs to Le's musicianship, noting that “she played in a way that enables each note to be a ‘happening,’ with a continuity that was equally caressed, nurtured and respected.” Violin pedagogue Donald Weilerstein praised her playing as “a very fiery player – and she's very virtuosic also. She moves around the instrument really very, very well and at the same time she can play with a lot of expression depth. She has a lot of flair and intensity in her playing, and she has a real musical personality.”

As a dedicated chamber musician, Le has collaborated with top artists such as Richard Stoltzman, William Preucil, Christopher O'Riley, Sara Chang, Eliot Fisk, the Ying Quartet, and the St. Petersburg Quartet. She also performed extensively in North America, Mexico, Europe, and Asia. From 2006 to 2008, she was the first violin of Vega Quartet, Quartet-in-Residence at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. During the 2006 to 2007 season, the quartet undertook the "Bach and Bartok" project, performing the complete six string quartets by Bela Bartok alongside the six solo violin Sonatas and Partitas and six cello Suites by J.S.Bach. The quartet also performed at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2007 and made their Zankel Hall debut with Richard Stoltzman.

Le currently resides in Las Vegas, NV, where she is a Professor of Violin at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. As a passionate educator, she enjoys teaching private lessons and coaching chamber music. Her students have won top prizes in national and international competitions. Vegas Seven Magazine names her “Best Classical Musician” in their “Best of City” issue.

In her spare time, Le is an active supporter of the Red Cross and World Food Program, reflecting her commitment to social volunteering.

Yin Zheng

Concert pianist Yin Zheng, former piano professor and director of the keyboard studies at the Virginia Commonwealth University, enjoys a vibrant career of performing and teaching across Europe, the United Sates, and Asia. She has been featured on leading music stages such as Carnegie Hall and Steinway Hall in New York City and, in worldwide reputable music festivals in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Spain, Portugal, China and Canada. She has worked with eminent pianists such as Paul-Badura Skoda, Alicia de Larrocha, and Aldo Ciccolini, and she is highly appraised by the legendary British-Chinese pianist Fou Tsong as a unique interpreter of the music of Mozart.

Natively from Shanghai, China, she earned degrees from both Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the Eastman School of Music in the U.S. She is first-prize winners in national and international competitions held in New York; she was invited as the first pianist from the North America to perform at the Kirovohrad Spring Music Festival in Ukraine. Zheng regularly appears as guest performer and teacher throughout both U.S. and international higher institutions including: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Shanghai Normal University, Kasetsart and Mahidol University College of Music in Bangkok, University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to name a few.

Critically acclaimed, her newly-released CD-set Complete Sonatas for Piano and Violin by W.A. Mozart (Vermeer/Naxos) was recorded at the University Mozarteum Salzburg upon extensive research at the International Mozart Foundation. She made her solo and chamber music debut concert tour in Colombia, China and Taiwan in 2015-17, and presented concerts, workshops, and masterclasses in Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Iran. During the summer, she is faculty-in-residence at the Lancaster International Piano Academy in Pennsylvania, Vianden International Music Festival in Luxembourg, as well as both Semper Music and InterHarmony International Music Festivals in Italy.

Zheng is an avid explorer for innovative art forms and creative cross-disciplinary collaborations: She has ventured into the third-stream by performing with jazz violinist supreme Regina Carter; She worked with acclaimed French-Canadian painter/filmmaker Jean Detheux in collaborations that have been featured in both international film festivals and at the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music. She is a frequent adjudicator for American MTNA Competitions and international competitions in Mexico and Eastern Europe. She is also the founder and Artistic Director of the Global Summer Institute of Music @ VCU, an international summer music festival based in Richmond.

Distinguished Artists and Faculty

 Distinguished Artist, Violist Martha Strongin Katz

Violist Martha Strongin Katz was a founding member of the Cleveland Quartet, performing to worldwide audiences from 1969 to 1980. During those years she performed in the world’s major concert halls as well as at the White House, the Grammy Awards, and NBC’s “Today” show. Ms. Strongin Katz’s solo appearances include a Carnegie Hall performance of Berlioz’s Harold in Italy with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas as well as countless recital and concerto appearances in major cities. Ms. Katz is currently on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music and has also taught at Rice University, the Eastman School of Music, and Interlochen Arts Academy.

 

Distinguished Artist, Almita Vamos

Almita Vamos is a graduate of the Juilliard School where she studied with Mischa Mischakoff and Louis Persinger. Almita Vamos has won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching six times, the ASTA Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, and has been featured on “Sunday Morning” CBS and in the New York Times best-selling book, Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mom by Amy Chua.

Vamos has served on the violin faculty of the Western Illinois University, University of Minnesota, Oberlin Conservatory, Northwestern University, and currently she is an artist teacher at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts. Additionally, she has been teaching at the Music Institute of Chicago for over 35 years and spends summers teaching at the Chautauqua Music Festival. She has also taught at many other programs including Aspen, Bowdoin, Musicorda, Meadowmount, and was co-founder of the Weathersfield Music Festival.

Vamos’ students have won top prizes in many national competitions including the Klein, Stulberg, Johannssen, Sphinx, Leopold Mozart Competition, Corpus Christi, and Kingsville; and international competitions including the Tchaikovsky, Carl Flesch, Menuhin, Bach, (Leipzig), Szigeti, Kreisler, Neilsen, Paganini, Beijing, and Montreal (among many other others). Her former students are members of orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Boston, St. Louis, San Francisco, Los Angeles, National, Minnesota, Hong Kong, Oslo, Chicago Symphony, and have served as concertmaster of the Orchestra de Paris, the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Cleveland Symphony.

Former students include Rachel Barton Pine, Ben Beilman (Avery Fischer award winner), Simin Ganatra (Pacifica Quartet two Grammy Awards), Ryan Meehan (Calidore quartet), and other students have international solo and quartet careers.

Vamos was a member of the Lydian Trio and the Antioch Quartet, and has recorded under Coronet and Rizzoli labels. She has concertized throughout North, Central and South America, Europe and Asia. Her recitals in New York won praise from the New York Times and Herald Tribune. She won the Concert Artist Guild Award, among many other prizes, and has performed recitals at the 92nd Street Y, Town Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall. She continues to perform as a soloist and chamber musician in America and abroad.

Vamos and her husband Roland have commissioned and recorded works for violin and viola by living composers in Chicago. As a team they have taught students together and performed as a violin/viola duo for many years.

 Distinguished Artist, Angela Cheng

Consistently praised for her brilliant technique, tonal beauty, and superb musicianship, Canadian pianist Angela Cheng is one of her country’s national treasures. In addition to regular guest appearances with virtually every orchestra in Canada, she has performed with the symphonies of Saint Louis, Houston, Indianapolis, Colorado, Utah, San Diego and Jacksonville, as well as the philharmonic orchestras of Buffalo, Louisiana, London, Israel and Minas Gerais in Brazil.

Recent performances include a debut with the Fort Worth Symphony, performing Rachmaninoff’s “Variations on a Theme of Paganini,” under the baton of Robert Spano, and a return to the Vancouver Symphony, performing Ravel’s Concerto in G with Otto Tausk.

Angela Cheng has performed at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center/Washington, D.C., the 92nd Street Y/New York and Wigmore Hall in London. She appears regularly on recital series throughout the United States and Canada and has collaborated with numerous chamber ensembles including the Takács, Colorado, and Vogler quartets. North American festival performances include Banff, Chautauqua, Colorado, Great Lakes Chamber Music, Vancouver, Toronto and the Festival International de Lanaudière in Quebec.

Ms. Cheng has made recordings for CBC, including discs of Mozart and Shostakovich concerti and a CD of four Spanish concerti with Hans Graf and the Calgary Philharmonic. In addition, an allChopin recital CD has been released by Universal Music Canada.

Angela Cheng has been Gold Medalist of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition, as well as the first Canadian to win the prestigious Montreal International Piano Competition. Other awards include the Canada Council’s coveted Career Development Grant and the Medal of Excellence for outstanding interpretations of Mozart from the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

Ms. Cheng studied extensively with Menahem Pressler at Indiana University and with Sascha Gorodnitzki at The Juilliard School. She is currently on the artist faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Yu-Fang Chen

A native of Taiwan, Yu-Fang Chen is currently serving as Associate Professor of Violin at Ball State University. She received her Doctoral of Musical Arts degrees on both violin and viola performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2013, under the tutelage of Benny Kim and Scott Lee. As a sought-after performer and pedagogue, Chen has been invited to teach and perform at various music institutions and festivals, including the Sunflower Music Festival and the Heartland Chamber Music Festival in U.S.A, the InterHarmony International Music Festival in Italy, and Thailand International Composition Festival in Salaya, Thailand.

Chen has won many awards and competitions and her career as a performing artist is extensive. Her international performing career has taken her to more than fifteen countries on five continents, and she continues to perform as a guest musician internationally with various concert artists, chamber ensembles, and orchestras.

Chen served as an Assistant Professor of Violin and Viola at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas from 2015-2017. She was a member of the Indianapolis Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra and the Academy of Taiwan Strings.

As an enthusiastic performer of contemporary music, Chen has commissioned, premiered, and recorded many compositions by living composers. Her recordings can be found in Albany Records, Ablaze Records, RMA Classical, Navora Records, New Focus Recordings, and Parma Recordings.

Christopher Harding

Pianist Christopher Harding maintains an active international career, generating acclaim and impressing audiences and critics alike with his substantive interpretations and pianistic mastery. He has given frequent solo, concerto, and chamber music performances in venues as far flung as the Kennedy Center and Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the IBK and Recital Halls of the Seoul Art Center, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the National Theater Concert Hall in Taipei, the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary, and halls and festival appearances in Newfoundland, Israel, Italy, Romania, Russia, and China. His concerto performances have included concerts with the National Symphony and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestras, the San Angelo and Santa Barbara Symphonies, and the Tokyo City Philharmonic, working with such conductors as Andrew Sewell, Eric Zhou, Taijiro Iimori, Gisele Ben-Dor, Fabio Machetti, Randall Craig Fleisher, John DeMain, Ron Spiegelman, Daniel Alcott, and Darryl One, among others.

Mr. Harding’s chamber music and duo collaborations have included internationally renowned artists such as clarinetist Karl Leister, flautist Andras Adorjan, and members of the St. Lawrence and Ying String Quartets, in addition to frequent projects with his distinguished faculty colleagues at the University of Michigan. He has recorded solo and chamber music CDs for the Equilibrium and Brevard Classics labels. He has additionally edited and published critical editions and recordings of works by Claude Debussy (Children's Corner, Suite Bergamasque, the Arabesques and shorter works) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Viennese Sonatinas) for the Schirmer Performance Editions published by Hal Leonard.

Professor Harding has presented master classes and lecture recitals in universities across the United States and Asia, as well as in Israel and Canada. He is a permanent guest professor at the Sichuan Conservatory in Chengdu, China, where he holds the privilege of presenting yearly masterclasses; he has additionally served as a Fulbright senior specialist at the both the Sichuan Conservatory (2008) and Seoul National University (2011). While teaching at SNU, he simultaneously held a special chair in piano at Ewha Womans' University. He has taught masterclasses and performed lecture recitals at all the major universities and schools of music in South Korea.

In addition to serving as chair of piano and teaching undergraduate and graduate piano performance and chamber music at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Mr. Harding also serves on the faculty of the Indiana University Summer Piano Academy and is a frequent guest artist and teacher at the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival in Tampa, Florida. He is a founding faculty member of the White Nights International Piano Festival in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Harding was born of American parents in Munich, Germany and raised in Northern Virginia. His collegiate studies were with Menahem Pressler and Nelita True. Prior to college, he worked for 10 years with Milton Kidd at the American University Department of Performing Arts Preparatory Division, where he was trained in the traditions of Tobias Matthay. He has taken 25 first prizes in national and international competitions and in 1999 was awarded the special "Mozart Prize" at the Cleveland International Piano Competition, given for the best performance of a composition by Mozart.

Elisa D'Auria

Early talent, curious, and sensitive musician, Elisa D'Auria, after her studies at the Conservatory of Milan, the Fiesole Music School and the Haute École de Musique de Genève, undertook an intense concert activity which enabled her to perform in some of the most prestigious European, Asian and American venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Musikverein in Wien, Palais des Congrès in Montecarlo, Shanghai Oriental Art Center in China, Polish Baltic Philharmonic Hall in Gdansk, Seiji Ozawa Hall in Tanglewood, Teatro Colón in A Coruña, St.Martin-in-the-fields in London, Teatro Grande in Brescia, and Sala Verdi in Milan. A recipient of an impressive number of prizes in national and international competitions, she studied with world-renowned pianists such as Maria Tipo, Maria João Pires, Arie Vardi, Konstantin Bogino, Jerome Lowenthal and Garrick Ohlsson, who deeply influenced her artistic growth.

Elisa was invited in 2014 at the MAW Festival in Santa Barbara and in 2015 at the Tanglewood Music Festival in the United States, where she was granted the Bernstein Fellowship and had the opportunity to collaborate with Michael Tilson Thomas and Andris Nelsons. She has also been artist-in-residence and is a regular guest of the Fondazione La Società dei Concerti in Milan and the Fundaciòn Groba in Spain. A keen chamber musician, she has played with Fanny Clamagirand, Erica Piccotti, Miranda Liu, Leonora Armellini, Faust-Quartett and Quartetto Adorno. Her diverse repertoire ranges from Frescobaldi to contemporary music which she plays with great enthusiasm. Her concerts have been broadcast by RAI Tre, RAI Radio Tre, Radio Classica, Radio Vaticana, RSI Lugano and Radio Suisse Romande. She has recorded for the labels Limenmusic and Velut Luna.

Elisa is piano professor at the “A. Boito” Conservatory of Music in Parma and Artistic Director of Spazio Classica in Milan.

Young Hyun Cho

Young Hyun Cho's artistry has been showcased on the world stage, from the Great Hall (Golden Hall) of the Vienna Musikverein to the Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall, Smetana Hall in Prague, Solti Hall of the Liszt Academy in Budapest, and Seoul Arts Center in Korea. As a featured soloist, she has performed with esteemed orchestras such as the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Euro Sinfonietta Wien, Filarmonica della Calabria of Italy, North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Teplice, Budapest Symphony Chamber Orchestra M.A.V., Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra, Korean Broadcasting System Symphony Orchestra, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Seoul National Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Symphony Orchestra, and others. Her solo recording, "Last Three Beethoven Piano Sonatas," released under the Sony label in 2021, is a testament to her artistic prowess and has been celebrated by audiences worldwide. 

Young Hyun Cho has shared her expertise at various institutes and universities as a guest faculty artist. From the International Piano Festival in Poland to the International Music Festival Armonie della sera in Italy, and from Piano Texas International Academy to Southern Methodist U., Baylor U., Texas Christian U., Henderson State U., West Texas A&M U., Levine School of Music, Virginia Commonwealth U., California State U. at Long Beach and C.S.U. at North Ridge, Humboldt State U., Louisiana State U. at Baton Rouge, Missouri State U., Bowling Green State U., Auburn U., North Carolina State U., South Carolina State U., U. of Central Oklahoma, Oklahoma City University, Northwestern College, Morning College, and Briar Cliff U; Seoul National U., Yonsei U., Busan U., Sookmyung Womens U., Kookmin U., Chonnam U., Mokwon U., Chosun U., Sunchon U., Honam Theological Seminary, Seoul Arts High School and Daejeon Arts High School in Korea; University-College Sedaya International in Malaysia; Goethe Institute in Thailand; China Conservatory of Beijing, Xinghai Conservatory of Guangzou, Hanshan Normal U., Jiaying U., Guangzhou Open U., and Shantou U. in China. 

Young Hyun Cho's academic journey is a testament to her dedication to music education and professional development. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music, her Master of Music and Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory and her Bachelor of Music from Seoul National University. Under the guidance of her primary teachers, Nelita True, Boris Slutsky, and Mikyung Kim, she honed her skills and knowledge. She serves as an associate professor of piano at the Michigan State University College of Music, following her tenure as an associate professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Henning Vauth

German pianist Henning Vauth serves in the School of Music at Marshall University (USA) as professor of piano, coordinator of keyboard studies, coordinator of graduate studies, and co-director of the Center for Wellness in the Arts. He is a past president of the West Virginia Music Teachers Association and was named WVMTA Distinguished Leader 2023 and Teacher of the Year 2017.

A laureate at international competitions in Italy and Norway (“Ibla” and “Concours Grieg”), Henning Vauth has performed in the Americas, Europe, and Asia at venues such as the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan; the Konzerthaus Berlin, in Germany; and Alice Tully Hall in New York City. The Chicago Tribune entitled a review of his solo recital: “Pianist delights audience with playing, charm and wit.”
Vauth’s articles on musicians’ wellness and medicine are published in Piano Magazine, Medical Problems of Performing Artists, Experimental Brain Research, Human Movement Science, and Movement Disorders.

Henning Vauth holds a D.M.A. in Piano Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music in the United States after pursuing previous studies in Hannover, Germany (Musikhochschule), Paris, France (Ecole Normale de Musique) and Michigan (WMU). His teachers include Nelita True, Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, and Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri (piano), and William Porter (harpsichord). He received further inspiration in master classes from Philippe Entremont and Jörg Demus.

Lin He

Interviewed by the Louisiana Public Broadcasting, violinist Lin He made his Carnegie Hall solo debut in November 2014, after a performance there earlier that year with principal players from the Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, and Philadelphia Orchestra in orchestral setting. Over the past seasons, he performed the Bruch Scottish Fantasy with the Sonoma County Philharmonic, Korngold Concerto and Vivaldi/Piazzola Four Seasons with the Rapides Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Shippensburg Symphony, and the Sibelius Concerto with the Lake Charles Symphony.
Inspired by the Complete Sonatas by Beethoven, Brahms, Faure, Mozart and Schubert for Violin and Piano in the past several seasons, 2024-25 season of concerts include the US premiere of the unpublished Giuseppe Verdi String Quartet, Ernst Chausson Poeme with the Rapides Symphony Orchestra and multiple solo and chamber music projects.

He has presented recitals at universities across the United States and China. Recently, he toured Poland with series of concert as the principal second violin of the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra; shared stage with Shanghai String Quartet and violinists Charles Castleman and Richard Lin; performed solo recitals; and gave master classes at Arizona State University, Florida State University, Longy School of Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, University of Houston, University of Las Vegas, University of North Texas, and University Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

As an orchestral player, Mr. He has performed with the Shanghai Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic and New World Symphony. He is a regular addition to the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.

Summer festival appearances have taken Mr. He to venues such as the Music Academy of the West, the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Aspen Music Festival. Lin He has been a laureate of the Padesta Solo Competition and the ASTA competition.

Mr. He is now serving as the associate professor of violin at the Louisiana State University School of Music and the associate concertmaster of the Baton Rouge Symphony. During the summer, he teaches at the Summit Music Festival and Institute, Sewanee Music Center, InterHarmony International Summer Music Festival, Montecito International Music Festival and BayView Music Festival.

Born in Shanghai, China, Mr. He began his musical training at the age of five. Mr. He received his doctorate from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied under the tutelage of Zvi Zeitlin. Other major influences include Steven Staryk, Sylvia Rosenberg, Kyung Sun Lee and Paul Kantor.

His CD release from Centaur Records of French Sonatas for Violin and Piano with pianist Gregory Sioles and Piano Trios by Piston, Saint-Saens and Zemlinsky with the Caladium Trio received favorable reviews.

Accommodations

Faculty and students are staying at the Hyatt Place. Hyatt Place is a 10-minute walk from UNLV, and is conveniently located on Paradise Road, with many restaurants and convenient stores nearby. It is a contemporary hotel with a sophisticated ambiance situated just a short distance away from the renowned Las Vegas Strip. Hyatt Place provides conference rooms, an outdoor pool, smoke-free areas, and tranquil pet-friendly accommodations. Hot breakfast is included during the stay. Shuttle buses will be running between LVCMI and the hotel.