Senior Division Finalist
Final Round Program:
J.S. BACH – Toccata in G Minor, BWV 815
L.V. BEETHOVEN – Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp Major, Op. 78
W.G. STILL – Three Visions
II. Summerland
MANUEL DE FALLA-ZARIN MEHTA – Scenes from the Three-Cornered Hat (original transcription)
MAURICE RAVEL – “La Valse” (piano solo), C Major, A minor
Zarin Mehta is a 16-year-old student at the Francis Parker School in Chicago, IL. He has been studying piano for 12 years and currently is coached by Winston Choi and Jeff Panko of the New Music School. Zarin studies composition under Matthew Hagle of the Music Institute of Chicago. Zarin has also studied privately with Antonio Pompa-Baldi of the Cleveland Institute of Music and Steven Osborne of the Royal Academy of Music.
At age 11, Zarin debuted with the Chicago Arts Orchestra under maestro Vladimir Kulenovic performing Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor. Since then, he went on to perform twice with the SEEN Worldwide Orchestra under maestro Conner Gray Covington to play Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor. He has performed Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor with the Oistrakh Symphony under maestro Mina Zikri, and in Italy with the Todi Music Masters Festival Ensemble under maestro Francesco D’Ovidio. He also has appeared in performances with WFMT Classical Radio, the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Chicago’s Symphony Center and the Grant Park Music Festival. Most recently, Zarin was the featured young artist at Ravinia Festival in a pre-concert opener for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's widely attended Tchaikovsky Spectacular, delivering a program that included his original composition "Glimpses."
Zarin was the top prize winner at the Depaul Concerto Competition, Claudette Sorel Piano Competition, Rembrandt Young Artist Chamber Competition, and the Chicago National Chamber Music Competition. At the 2023 Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Zarin earned the Sascha Gorodnitzki Memorial Prize for a musician “with great promise.” At the 2023 MTNA conference in Reno, NV, he was the National First Place winner in the Senior Piano Division. Zarin is a two-time YoungArts Winner (2023, 2024).
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