William Ge, from Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, is a student of Ya-Fei Chuang and John Perry. He attends Phillips Academy Andover. His previous teachers include Natalie Zhu and the late Joy Kiszely.

William made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in October 2022 after winning the Albert M. Greenfield Concerto Competition in 2019. The Philadelphia Inquirer described his rendition of Mozart’s Concerto No. 23 as “notably fluid while gilding the music with spots of interpretive individualization.” William’s recent achievements include being named a winner of the 2023 National YoungArts Competition, receiving the US Chopin Foundation Scholarship in 2022 and 2021, and winning the MTNA Pennsylvania State Competition for the past three years (2020-2022) in both the junior and senior divisions. Most recently, he took first prize in MTNA’s Eastern Division( Senior) Competition and will be competing at the national competition in 2023.

Since 2018, William has given community concerts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. In 2020-2021, he received the Settlement Music School’s Advanced Study Ensemble Scholarship. Since then, he has performed with numerous chamber groups and is heavily involved in Andover’s chamber music society. William has performed in Verizon Hall, the Perelman Theater, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, and NEC’s Jordan Hall. He has also performed with the Warminster and Lansdowne Symphony Orchestras. William has been awarded scholarships to renowned international music festivals, including Morningside Music Bridge, Orford Musique, Bowdoin Music Festival, and the Frost Chopin Festival. He has studied and performed in master classes with Wha Kyung Byun, Robert Levin, Meng-Chieh Liu, Julian Martin, Jon Nakamatsu, HaeSun Paik, Orli Shaham, and Boris Slutsky.

Besides music, William enjoys physics, running track, and writing for Andover’s weekly publication, The Phillipian. He is one of 28 Caroline D. Bradley Scholars (class of 2025) in the United States.

REPERTOIRE

Round I

Bach                                  Prelude and Fugue No. 6 in D minor, BWV 875/WTC II

Rands                                12 Preludes: No. 6, Toccata

Chopin                              Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54

Liszt                                   Transcendental Etude No. 8 in C minor, Wilde Jagd, S. 139

Round II

Chopin                              Etude in C Major, Op. 10, No. 1

Beethoven                        Sonata No. 26 in E-flat Major, Les Adieux, Op. 81a

Chopin                              Nocturne in F-sharp minor, Op. 48, No. 2

Debussy                           L’Isle joyeuse, L. 106

Round III

Tchaikovsky                      Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23