In addition to PAUL SCHENLY, the Faculty Artists include:

ANTONIO POMPA-BALDI emerged from the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition with a coveted silver medal as well as the Phyllis Jones Tilley Memorial Award for the Best Performance of a New Work. First-prize winner at the 1999 Cleveland Competition and a top prize winner at the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition, Mr. Pompa-Baldi has toured extensively in the United States and Europe. Mr. Pompa-Baldi appears in concerts and recitals throughout the world. In Summer 2002, Mr. Pompa-Baldi appeared with the Boston Pops at Boston's Symphony Hall and was on the Faculty of TCU-Cliburn Institute. He also served as a juror for the Van Cliburn Third International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs. He is currently on the Faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and teaches frequent master classes around the world.

DANIEL SHAPIRO received a Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in piano performance from the Peabody Conservatory. Teachers have included Leon Fleisher, John Perry, Joanna Graudan, and Reginald Stewart. Dr. Shapiro continues to gain recognition as a leading interpreter of Schubert, Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven, whose thirty-two sonata cycle he has twice performed. He has given critically acclaimed recitals and concerto appearances across the U.S., in Brazil, Britain, Ireland, Spain and France, and at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Dr. Shapiro has performed with orchestras including the National Symphony, the Sâo Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of London, the Colorado National Repertory Orchestra, the Knoxville Symphony and the Los Angeles Debut Orchestra. He received the top prize at the 1992 William Kapell International Piano Competition, and also won the American Pianists' Association Beethoven Fellowship Award. As a chamber musician, he has performed regularly with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Chicago and Cleveland Orchestras, and has also performed with the Cavani and Miró Quartets. He has participated at the Marlboro and Ravinia Festivals and the Fellowship Program at Tanglewood. As a conductor, Dr. Shapiro studied with Daniel Lewis, Victor Yampolsky, Fritz Zweig, and Gustav Meier. A native of Southern California, Dr. Shapiro began the study of piano at the age of six. He was previously on the piano faculty of the University of Iowa, and was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1997.

A native of Tennessee, pianist MELVIN CHEN is recognized as an important young artist, having received acclaim for performances throughout the United States and abroad. As a soloist and chamber musician Mr. Chen has performed at major venues in the United States, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Weill Recital Hall, the Frick Collection, Kennedy Center, and Boston's Jordan Hall, in addition to other appearances throughout the United States, Canada, and Asia. In recent seasons Mr. Chen's concerts have included two solo recitals at Weill Recital Hall, concerto performances with the American Symphony Orchestra, Marin Symphony, Springfield Symphony, and the Paducah Symphony, along with numerous solo and chamber music appearances internationally and in the United States. He was the pianist in Ricky Ian Gordon's Orpheus and Euridice, which was presented by Lincoln Center in 2005 and which received a special citation from the Obie awards.

Mr. Chen's performances have been featured on radio and television stations around the globe, including KBS television and radio in Korea, NHK television in Japan, and NPR in the United States.  Solo recordings include Beethoven's Diabelli Variations on the Bridge label, praised as “a classic” by the American Record Guide, and a recording of Joan Tower's piano music on the Naxos label. Recordings of the Shostakovich piano sonatas and Gordon's Orpheus and Euridice were released in 2007.

An enthusiastic chamber musician, Mr. Chen has collaborated with such artists as Ida Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom, David Shifrin, Steven Isserlis, Pamela Frank, and Peter Wiley; with the Shanghai, Tokyo, Miami, Penderecki, Borromeo, and Miro quartets; and in contemporary music collaborations with the Da Capo Chamber Players and The St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. Mr. Chen is an alumnus of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Chamber Music Society Two, where he appeared with members of the Chamber Music Society in performance and educational programs for two seasons.  A performer in numerous music festivals, he has performed at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, Music Mountain, Chautauqua, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Bard Music Festival, and Music from Angel Fire, among others.

Mr. Chen completed a doctorate in chemistry from Harvard University, and also holds a double master's degree from The Juilliard School in piano and violin, where he studied with Seymour Lipkin and Glenn Dicterow, respectively. At Juilliard, he was the recipient of the U.S. Department of Education Jacob Javits Fellowship, as well as the William Petschek Piano Scholarship and the Ruth D. Rosenman Memorial Scholarship. Previously, he attended Yale University, receiving a bachelor of science degree in chemistry and physics. Upon graduation he was awarded the New Prize by the fellows of Jonathan Edwards College. During his tenure at Yale he studied with Boris Berman, Paul Kantor, and Ida Kavafian.

Mr. Chen is on the piano faculty of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, where he is associate director, and has previously served on the piano faculty at the Yale School of Music. He is also the artistic director of the chamber music program at the Hotchkiss Summer Portals.