David Yoshiaki Ko



David Yoshiaki Ko, age 16, currently studies at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria with Professor Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. Until spring 2008, he was a scholarship student in the Preparatory Division of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, studying piano with Ms. Helen Wong and composition with Mr. Jonathan Russell.

David has won many prizes in both international and local competitions: 1st Prize at the 2008 Pacific Musical Society Competition, 1st Prize at the 2008 Marilyn Mindell Piano Competition, 1st Prize at the 2007 Young Pianists’ Beethoven Competition, and 1st Prize at the 2006 Schimmel USASU International Junior Piano Competition.

David received annual scholarships from the Chopin Foundation of the United States in 2007 and 2008, and has participated in numerous master classes with masters such as Mr. John Perry and Mr. Dan Zhao Yi. David gave his first public recital at age 11, and has been a frequent performer in concerts both local and overseas, performing with the Peninsula Symphony in February 2008 and also in Braunschweig, Germany in the Braunschweig Classix Festival in May 2007.