2026 Annual Piano Recital, Minna Fu
Free Admission
Reception to Follow
1:00 PM | Seating Opens 12:30 PM
Performing works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Prokofiev
Donations Welcome to Non-Profit Organization Music for Minors II
Minna Fu, now 18, is a pianist from Pleasanton, California. At the age of 10, Minna earned her first performance diploma, the Associate of the Royal Schools of Music, with distinction. By 12, she had obtained a diploma from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, and in 2022, she earned the Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music with distinction. In June 2024, she obtained the Fellowship of the Royal Schools of Music (FRSM) with Merit, the highest diploma from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
Minna has won first prize in numerous competitions, including the Sergei Rachmaninoff International Youth Piano Competition in Houston, Northern California Young Talents, the United States Open Music Competition, the Glissando International Youth Piano Competition, and the Russian Souvenir Piano Competition. She has also received top prizes in the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, the Pacific International Piano Competition, the United States International Music Competition, the San Francisco International Piano Competition, the Thomas F. Hulbert International Piano Competition, the Future Stars International Piano Competition, the Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford, the Lancaster International Piano Competition, and others.
As a winner of the Livermore-Amador Symphony Orchestra Competition for Young Musicians, Minna performed as a soloist with the orchestra in 2023 at the Bankhead Theater in Livermore. As the first prize winner of the Diablo Symphony Orchestra Yen Liang Young Artists Competition, she performed as the soloist with the Diablo Symphony Orchestra at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek. Additionally, this year, as a winner, Minna performed the third movement of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 as a soloist with the Golden State Symphony Orchestra at the Cañada College Theatre in Woodside.
Since the age of nine, Minna has given annual piano recitals. Her sixth and seventh annual recitals, held in 2023 and 2024, were fundraisers for the nonprofit Music for Minors II, where she had been volunteering to give weekly music lessons to elementary school students for four years, beginning in 2022.
Minna has also performed at music festivals, graduations, church fundraisers, and senior centers. She has been a collaborative pianist and accompanist for school choirs and church services. She posts performances on her own YouTube channel, which currently has over 17k subscribers. Minna received The Don Lewis “Say Yes to Music” Grants for two consecutive years, offered by the Rotary Club of Pleasanton in partnership with the Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council.
Minna currently studies with Ory Shihor.
