Lake Forest Park teen is finalist in International Piano Competition

Christopher Son Richardson

Christopher Son Richardson, 16, of Lake Forest Park, WA was among five finalists out of an initial field of more than fifty contestants that competed at the e-Piano Junior Competition held this week in Minneapolis. Richardson took fifth prize, winning $1,000. The top prize winner, Nathan Lee of Sammamish, WA, took home $8,000.

Christopher has performed in venues all over the United States, including competitions, music festivals, and TV/radio.

 

He was selected as one of the scholarship winners at the National Chopin Foundation of the US in 2013 and a winner at the National YoungArts Foundation. He performed with the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra as the winner of the Young Artists Concerto Competition and the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra as a guest artist. He won first prize 2011 at Seattle International Piano and at the International Russian Competitions (2012, 2013), and eight gold medals at the US Open Music Competition. He won third prize at the Lennox International Young Artists Concerto 2011, as well as third prize in the 2014 American Prize Competition.

He was the winner of Washington MTNA 2014 and also named a prizewinner in the Longer Works Division of the LA International Liszt Competition 2014, in which there was no age limit.