"Shanice is a classical pianist in Los Angeles who graduated at University of California Los Angeles with a Bachelors Arts Degree in Piano. She has won many piano competitions in the CAPMT Concerto Competition California State Winner, Bellflower Symphony Concerto Competition Winner, 2nd place at the The American Protégé International Competition making her debut at Carnegie Hall, finalist at Chicago International Piano Competition, and won 1st place at the American Protégé Concerto Piano Competition 2020 making her 2nd debut at Carnegie Hall. She also got invited to be a soloist playing a concerto with the City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles Orchestra with conductor Charles Dickerson featuring composer Lukas Richman’s Concerto work, “In Truth” at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Not only solo, but she also has excelled as a chamber musician. Her participation for the past years in chamber music led to her to being selected for a concert tour at the Mozarteum Conservatory Salzburg, Austria. With her chamber group, she performed many venues such as Santa Monica College Emeritus College, UCLA Schoenberg Hall, Colburn School of Music, and LACMA Live Sunday Broadcast. Also, she participated in many different summer music festivals including Pianofest in the Hamptons, Bowdoin Music Festival, and at the Hawaii Chamber Festival in Hawaii in August 2019 performing at the Hawaii University playing the Brahms Piano Trio. Shanice is currently a graduate music student pursing classical piano at Columbia University. She was a TA under her music professor in her music education class in Fall semester 2024 and was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Besides performing Shanice loves to teach all ages and been teaching for more than 5 years piano. Even though she is a classical pianist she can teach any genre (except jazz) whatever the student desires to learn. She will help the student exceed in note reading, sight reading, sight singing, and theory." less...