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Pianist Aileen Gozali has dazzled audiences world-wide, performing in Japan, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, China, Italy, Hungary, Germany, and the United States. She made her Carnegie Hall solo debut recital in September 2017 at Weill Recital Hall, supported by the Adam Gyorgy Foundation. Praised for her “poetic and electric” playing, Aileen is a laureate of numerous international competitions. Aside from her solo repertoire, Aileen is also passionate about chamber music and her groups have been coached by Sharon Robinson, Jamie Laredo, Joseph Kalichstein, and Leon Fleisher, among others. Born in Los Angeles to Indonesian-Chinese parents, Aileen began learning the piano at age 5 after moving to Gulangyu (“Piano Island”) in Fujian, China, and has since then studied with Fang Guo, Runyu Hou, Xiaoqi Li, Benjamin Loh, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, and Robert McDonald. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a master’s degree from The Juilliard School. A lover of learning, she graduated from the post-baccalaureate premedical program at Columbia University in 2019 and is currently studying to become a medical doctor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine.
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Artist Statement
I feel fortunate to have found music as a medium for expression. “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent”. — Victor Hugo. Music - our yearning and love for it, and our ability to create it - allows us to celebrate and embrace what makes us human. What brings me the utmost joy on my musical journey is the chance to dedicate countless hours in honing a specific skill set (playing the piano), and the profound ability to forge connections with people, be it an audience of one or a gathering of thousands. The latter especially rings truer now that I have embarked on a journey to be trained as a medical doctor. I could not have said it better than Karl Paulnack, pianist and director of music division at Boston Conservatory, in a speech he made one year welcoming the parents of the freshman class at Boston Conservatory, so I will leave you with this: “If we were a medical school, and you were here as a med student practicing appendectomies, you'd take your work very seriously because you would imagine that some night at two AM someone is going to waltz into your emergency room and you're going to have to save their life. Well, my friends, someday at 8 PM someone is going to walk into your concert hall and bring you a mind that is confused, a heart that is overwhelmed, a soul that is weary. Whether they go out whole again will depend partly on how well you do your craft.”