Since 2013 the Spokane Piano Competition is an event that offers students and teachers a unique opportunity to perform, compete, learn and improve.
The SPC provides a platform for piano students to practice, perform and receive feedback about their overall musical ability.
The SPC scorecards provide immediate feedback. Scores are received within minutes of the performance and can be utilized for prompt evaluation goal-setting and advancement.
A written score explanation is included with all entries and provides a clarification of the score received.
Providing a platform for pianists to advance their musical study and achieve artistic growth.
Superior
Excellent
Good
Fair
Poor
Entry Deadline: Sunday, September 25
Students Compete within these age categories:
Senior Division Judge
Russian-born pianist Oksana Ezhokina is Chair of the Piano Faculty and Associate Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University. Ezhokina holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from Stony Brook University.
A sought-after teacher, she has given piano and chamber music masterclasses in colleges and universities across the US and is in demand as an adjudicator.
Youth & Junior Division Judge
Arsen Gulua holds degrees from The Juilliard School (BM), Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (MM) and the University of Oregon (DMA).
He began studying piano at the Kharkiv Music School in his native Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 1991 he studied music composition at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem. Gulua has performed throughout the United States, including at the Alice Tully Hall and Merkin Concert Hall in New York, as well as throughout Israel and Ukraine.
