2006-12-18

Beatrice Long

A top-prize winner of several international competitions which include Cleveland International Piano Competition, she has played to critical acclaim in Central America, south east Asia, France, Belgium, Switzerland and in the United States. She has given recitals in Ravinia and Fontainebleau Festivals, and was invited as a guest soloist with the Baltimore Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Taipei City Symphony and Civic Orchestra, Jura Symphony Orchestra of France, Laredo Philharmonic, New Amsterdam Orchestra of New York, and the Concert Series at the Presidential Palace in Taiwan. The American Record Guide described her Scriabin Mazurkas disc on Naxos as ‘impressive on many levels’. She was under the tutelage of Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Leon Fleisher, Fou Ts’ong and Enrique Graf at the Curtis Institute and Peabody Conservatory, where she graduated with honors.