On Deck with Claudio Chung

11/13/22 • 9 min

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Claudio Chung is a 17-year-old pianist at Lakeridge high school. He is a student of Linda Barker and a recent winner of Cognizart's Young Artist Debut Competition. You can hear him along with the five other winners of the competition on November 18, 2022 at The Reser in Beaverton. At the tender age of five, Claudio embarked on his musical journey. On top of playing the piano, he also studied the violin for seven years with Ruth Sadilek. After high school, Claudio has dreams to attend Oberlin Conservatory of Music studying piano and hopes to become a professor of piano one day.

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