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Award-winning teen to debut with Cleveland POPS Orchestra

	Teen pianist Jerry Lang, II performs with Cleveland POPS

February 10, 2006—CLEVELAND, OH—16-year-old pianist Jerry Lang, II will perform with the Cleveland POPS Orchestra on March 10, 2006, at Severance Hall. The performance will take place during Cleveland POPS "Craig Schulman On Broadway" concert. The teenager will play works by George Gershwin.

Jerry Lang, II is no stranger to winning awards. The Brunswick, Ohio youth started Suzuki piano lessons at age 3 at Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. He won his first piano competition at age 5. At age 7, he declared his lifetime ambition to become a concert pianist and one day perform at Carnegie Hall before the age of 14. In 2002, Jerry achieved his goal when he placed first in The World Piano Competition. At this competition, Jerry made history. He became the first and only young artist in 46 years to be asked to open for the Artist Competition and Gala. This competition allowed him to perform at Carnegie Hall before the age of 14. Lang currently studies with Ella Karasik at The Cleveland Music School Settlement. In addition to his piano accomplishments, Jerry is an accomplished music composer and has been awarded several scholarships for his compositions.

Jerry Lang, II won his 28th piano contest in November, 2005, when he became the grand prize winner of the Cleveland POPS Orchestra's seventh annual Jean L. Petitt Memorial Music Scholarship Competition. The recent competition was the Fifth Annual for the Jean L. Petitt Memorial Music Scholarship. The scholarship program's mission is to find and encourage prodigiously talented performing artists between the ages of fourteen and eighteen who reside and study in Northeast Ohio.
  

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