Joshua Mhoon
CHICAGO, IL | AGE 19
REPERTOIRE
ROUND 1:
SCARLATTI: Sonata in D major, k 119
CHOPIN: Ballade no. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
ROUND 2:
PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata no. 3, in A minor, Op.28
PROKOFIEV: Prelude no. 7 in C major, Op.12
ROBERT NATHANIEL DETT: Cinnamon Grove (II. Adagio Cantabile)
SEMI-FINALS:
RACHMANINOFF: Piano sonata no. 2, in B-flat minor, Op. 36
FINALS:
ALBÉNIZ: Iberia, Book 1
LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, S.244 (arr. Horowitz)
ROBERT NATHANIEL DETT: Nepenthe and the Muse
CONCERTO:
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concert no. 2 in C minor, op. 18
Joshua Mhoon won first place in Illinois’ Grandquist Music Competition in 2011, 2012, and 2014. Mhoon has also won honors awards at the National Federation of Music’s Junior Music Festival, and first place in the Emilio del Rosario Comcetto competition, SAVLER Competition, and CAMTA Sonata Festival.
Mhoon has been covered in such publications as The Chicago Sun Times, Jet Magazine, The Daily Herald, and Musical America, and has appeared on PBS’s Chicago Tonight and CBS’s Someone You Should Know.
Joshua has studied jazz and spontaneous creation/composition with Willie Pickens and Steve Million, has been mentored by pianist Lang Lang and clarinetist Anthony McGill; and has studied chamber music the Lincoln Trio. He has played alongside Yo Yo-Ma, Lang Lang, Anthony McGill, and Gil Shaham at such venues as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Stern Hall at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Chicago Symphony Hall, New World Symphony Center, and the Musikverein.
Mhoon has studied with Dr. Harry Steckman; with Mio Isoda-Hagle at Chicago’s Merit School of Music; with Alexander Djordjevic and Brenda Huang at the Music Institute of Chicago; and with Dr. James Giles at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. He currently studies at Juilliard with Emmanuel Ax.
