148 Dani Dvorkin graduated from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance Conservatory under Svetlana Grinstein. She is currently studying for a Bachelor of Music degree at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, with Dr. Ron Regev. She previously studied with Prof. Asaf Zohar at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music. Dani is a prizewinner of the Piano Forever Competition, The Voice of Music Young Artists Competition, the Ester and Haim Kalmi Piano Competition, and the Sharon Tavor-Pintz Piano Concerto Competition. Dvorkin is a recipient Tetiana Donets (Ukraine) is a student of Prof. Oxana Yablonskaya at the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, where she is now studying for a Master's degree in chamber music, after completing her Bachelor's degree. Before that, she studied at the Kiev Special Music School with professor Nataliia Gridneva and Andrii Lunow. Donets participated in competitions and festivals such as the Puigcerdà Music Festival, Spain and the Duxbury Music Festival, USA, in both of which she won the piano competition. She recently played a recital at the first Jerusalem Old City Festival. She is a member of the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Program of Excellence in Chamber Music. She won the Rachmaninov Concerto Competition at the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, the Grand Prix at the third international music competition in Israel, and the second prize at the 8th Pnina Salzman Competition, Kfar Saba. Tetiana has performed at the Liszt Academy and the National Radio of Budapest and played many times with the Cherkassy Symphony and Chernihiv Philharmonic Orchestras, Ukraine. She has also performed with the Haifa Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Vivian Chen (Canada) is currently based in Tel Aviv, Israel where she is pursuing an artist diploma under Prof. Arie Vardi. She obtained her Master's degree in piano performance from the University of Michigan, where she studied with Christopher Harding, and her Bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto, where she studied with Lydia Wong. Vivian was awarded the First Prize and Audience Prize in the Washington International Piano Competition in 2021 which culminated in her solo recital debut at the Kennedy Center and a performance of Beethoven’s 2nd Piano Concerto with Pablo Saelzer and the Avanti Orchestra. She won the First Prize in the Ottawa Chamberfest 2021 Rising Stars Competition, Second Prize in the Orchestra 914 Concerto Competition, (with whom she performed the Ravel Concerto in G Major) and Third Prize in the 2022 Prix Ravel in France. Chen performed her debut recital in the Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall in 2017 and played with the University of Toronto’s Symphony Orchestra as a winner of the Concerto Competition, with the York Symphony Orchestra and the Georgian Bay Orchestra. Vivian was awarded first prize at the nationallevel Canadian Music Competition (2016), second prize in the Mississauga Symphony Concerto Competition (2015), and the third prize in the Vancouver International Music Competition (2017). Junior Jury
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