Andrew Rosenkilde, a gold medal winner at the 2016 Golden Key Music Festival and Competition is scheduled to perform Chopin’s Aeolian Harp Etude in Ab Major, Opus 25 #1, at the Winners Recital at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, April 30, 2016, at 3:30 pm.
Rosenkilde, 15, is a Morristown High School freshman and resident of Morristown. He began studying classical piano when he was 11, with his teacher, the pianist and composer Paul Zeigler of New York City.
The student is a gold medal winner in both the 2015 and the recent 2016 Golden Key Classical Piano Competition and also performed in the winners recitals at Carnegie Hall in June 2015.
In March 2016, he performed as a Rising Star at the Morristown United Methodist Church Abendmusik series, opening the concert for professional Ukrainian pianist Alina Kiryayeva.
Rosenkilde also enjoys playing jazz piano in Morristown High’s Spectrum Jazz Band, a competition jazz band that has been selected as a finalist in the 2016 NJAJE State Jazz Finals in Princeton.
The Golden Key Music Festival is dedicated to encouraging and inspiring young musicians. Since its inception in 2002, the Golden Key Music Festival of the United States has established itself as a major cultural event that attracts young instrumentalists and vocalists from across the United States and other countries.
Its mission is to give young musicians the opportunity to display their talents on some of the most prestigious concert stages in the United States, to open a door into the magic world of art.
Now held annually in New York and Vienna and sporadically in locations such as Barcelona, Paris and Jakarta, the festivals and associated competitions provide opportunities to meet and hear other dedicated young musicians, to see and experience the music capitals of the world, and, together with world-renowned guest artists, perform on some of the most prestigious international stages.
