Daniel Glover

Pianist Daniel Glover has performed in 42 states and 25 countries throughout Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and the Caribbean.

He holds a master’s degree from New York’s Juilliard School, where he attended as a scholarship student. Among his numerous competition awards is first prize in the prestigious LiederkranzCompetition in 1990. Mr. Glover has trained with such luminaries as Eugene List, Abbey Simon, Jerome Lowenthal, Nancy Bachus and Thomas LaRatta.

The San Francisco Classical Voice remarked, “Brilliant, tender, whimsical, sparkling…Glover brought everything together into a well-balanced, evenly measured medium.”  “The elegance and civility of Glover’s approach were musically unimpeachable.”   “Dazzling…golly can he play!  I kept expecting smoke to emerge from the interior of the instrument…a flawless sense of Lisztian style incorporating its emotional depth.”

Mr. Glover has recorded eight CDs on the DG2 label, including Franz Liszt, The Profound and the Profane (2008), Spanish Impressions (2006), Romantic Russian Encores (2005), and a recording of live performances of works for piano and orchestra by Mozart, Strauss, and Prokofiev (2005). Previous recordings include the complete solo piano music by Ravel (2003), the Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano with New York violinist Matthew Reichert (2001), Russian Romantics (2000), and an all-Chopin concert recorded live in 1999.

He currently resides in San Francisco.

Rachel Naomi Kudo

Rachel Naomi Kudo is the First Prize winner of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, celebrated for her “heartfelt, courageous, and flawless playing” (Lübecker Nachrichten). Praised as a “thrilling” artist of “exceptional artistic merit and meticulous precision,” she combines profound musical insight, poetic sensitivity, and commanding artistry on stage.

Since her debut with the Chicago and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras, Rachel has performed at major venues worldwide, including Bachfest Leipzig, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Salle Cortot in Paris, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Denmark’s Tivoli Festival, Norway’s Bergen International Festival, and in the United States at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, David Geffen Hall, and Alice Tully Hall.

A Gilmore Young Artist and Davidson Fellow Laureate, Rachel has earned the Salon de Virtuosi Grant and scholarships from the National YoungArts Foundation and the Rohm Music Foundation. She was a top prizewinner in the U.S. National Chopin Competition and a finalist at the 15th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw.

Born in Washington, D.C. to Japanese-Korean parents, Rachel began piano studies at age four and continued her training at The Juilliard School, Mannes College, Stony Brook University, and the Peabody Institute, studying with distinguished teachers including Yoheved Kaplinsky, Joseph Kalichstein, Richard Goode, Gilbert Kalish, and Leon Fleisher.

A passionate advocate for music’s transformative power, Rachel has served as livestream host for the 18th and 19th International Chopin Competitions (2021, 2025) and has hosted the Cliburn Junior and U.S. National Piano Competitions. In 2021, she premiered Marc-André Hamelin’s Suite à l’ancienne, commissioned by the Gilmore Piano Festival, and in 2025 served on the jury of the 11th National Chopin Piano Competition of the United States.

Mack McCray

Mack McCray received his B.M. and M.S. from The Juilliard School, where he studied under Irwin Freundlich.

He won the Silver medal in the International George Enesco Competition, first prize in the Charleston Symphony and San Francisco Young Artists competitions, Juilliard’s Edward Steuermann Memorial Prize, and a grant from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation all in one season (19691970). He has been invited guest artist at the Festival d’Automne in Paris, Seville’s Great Interpreters Cycle, the UNESCO Festival of International Artists at Monte Carlo, the Bucharest Philharmonic’s Bach/Beethoven/Brahms Festival, and the Hong Kong City Hall Series. He has performed under such conductors as Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart, Josef Krips, Leon Fleisher, and Arthur Fiedler. In 1991, he performed the U.S. premiere of John Adams’s Eros Piano. Recently he has performed with the Japan Philharmonic in Suntory Hall, Tokyo, at the Shanghai International Beethoven Festival and on the Trinity Church Concert Series in Manhattan. Mack McCray is Artistic Director of Zephyr International Chamber Music Festival, held annually in Courmayeur, Italy, and from 1971 to 2015 he served on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.