Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner

Widely acclaimed pianist Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner was selected first prize winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition.

Named a Gilmore Young Artist, an honor awarded to the most promising American pianists of the new generation, his multi-faceted artistry has been featured in the New York Times, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN International, Mexico News Daily, the Wall Street Journal, and WDR-Arte.

Sánchez-Werner performed at the White House and Kennedy Center for Presidents Obama and Biden, and he received the Atlantic Council Young Global Citizen Award in recognition of his social action through music in Rwanda, Iraq, France, Canada, and the U.S. Recent international performances include the Royal Concertgebouw in the Netherlands, the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, and the Louvre and Grenoble Museums in France.

Sánchez-Werner holds multiple degrees from Juilliard and Yale and is an adjunct professor and Steinhardt Ph. D. Fellow at New York University. Principal teachers have included Ilya Itin, Eduardus Halim, Boris Berman, Robert Durso, Yoheved Kaplinsky, improvisation with Noam Sivan, and composition with Lowell Liebermann.