Ankur Mukhopadhyay, a sixteen-year-old is from Lake Elsinore, California. He studies in 11th grade in Elsinore High School. He loves music since his childhood days and wishes to major in piano performance. He started his music lesson at the age of seven years. Currently he is studying with Dr. Kevin Fitz-Gerald, professor at USC Thornton School of Music.
Honors/ Awards
2019
• First in CAPMT Contemporary Music Competition
• Second place in CAPMT Honors Competition
2018
• Participated in Summer Music Festival at Academie de Fourvierre, Lyon, France
during July-August, 2018
• Second place Southern California Junior Bach Festival
• Second place in CAPMT Honors Competition
• Third place in Quick Bowman Piano competition
2017
• First place CAPMT District 9 Romantic and Impressionistic Music competition
• GCCSERIES Artist of the Year
• GCCSERIES Music of 18th Century
• GCCSERIES Music of 20th Century
• GCCSERIES Best Haydn Performance
• Reached final round of International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival, Ft Collins,
CO
2016
• CAPMT State Honors Audition
• CAPMT State Concerto Competition
• Performed at Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall) as third prize winner of American
Protégé Concerto Competition
• Friends of William Grant Still (FOWGS) Young Artists Competition
• Southern California Junior Bach Festival (Complete Works Audition)
2015
• Southern California Junior Bach Festival (Complete Works Audition)
• CAPMT District IX Romantic Music Festival
• Stravinsky Bach Piano Competition, Champaign IL
• Friends of William Grant Still (FOWGS) Young Artists Competition
2014
• Southern California Junior Bach Festival (Complete Works Audition)
• MTAC Orange Coast Cities Contemporary Music Festival
• MTAC Orange Coast Cities Theme Festival
