Pianist Kevin Kwan Loucks has performed in The Kennedy Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, La Maison Française Embassy of France in Washington D.C., and in Aspen’s Harris Concert Hall where he was featured on NPR’s Performance Today. Recent New York appearances include Juilliard’s Evening of Chamber Music and Wednesdays at One in Alice Tully Hall, Music at the Grazhda, and Bargemusic in Brooklyn. Mr. Loucks has also been featured in Martinu Hall at Lichtenstein Palace, Prague, as soloist with the Bratislava Chamber Orchestra in Austria, and in Italy’s Prösels Castle as grand-prize winner of the 2004 Schlern International Competition.

As a chamber musician, Mr. Loucks has performed with Yoko Matsuda, Mike Marshall, Edgar Meyer, and with principal members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony, and the New York Philharmonic. Active in numerous chamber ensembles, he is a founding member of the Virelai Piano Trio, performed with Trio Soleil at the Calaway Recital Series in Colorado, and won the grand prize at the 2005 International Chamber Ensemble Competition in Boston. An avid performer of contemporary and newly commissioned works, Mr. Loucks was an artist in-residence at the Young Composers Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music and has performed with new music ensembles that include the Juilliard Pierrot Players, the East Coast Composers Ensemble, Ne(x)tworks, and the Gotham Contemporary Ensemble.

Mr. Loucks has attended ChamberFest at The Juilliard School, the Aspen Music Festival, Music@Menlo, the Piano Master Classes at The Banff Centre, and the Laguna Beach Chamber Music Festival. A recent graduate of The Juilliard School, Mr. Loucks earned his Master of Music degree as a student of Julian Martin. He received his Bachelor of Music degree studying with Nina Scolnik at the University of California, Irvine where he was the recipient of the Dean’s Excellence Award. He is currently a candidate of the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at SUNY Stony Brook where he is working with Christina Dahl.