Internationally acclaimed pianist, Susan Merdinger, is a First Prize Winner of the 2012 Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition, and a winner of the Artists International Young Musicians Competition, the Artists International Alumni Winners Prize, the Dewar's Young Artists Award in Music, the 2011 IBLA Grand Prize Competition "Special Liszt Award", and the 2009 Masterplayers International Music Competition. Merdinger performs as a soloist with orchestras and as a collaborative pianist with principal members of the New York Philharmonic, the New Jersey Symphony, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared live on WQXR, WFMT, Connecticut Public Radio, Belgian National Radio, BBC Television and in major concert halls such as Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Diligentia Hall in