Sora Corro
Young Artist Competition Winner
Sora Corro is a sophomore in the Center of Creative Arts program at Irvington High School in Fremont, California. She began piano at the age of 2, and has been studying with Professor Sandra Shen since 2023. Most recently, Sora was selected as one of four finalists in the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition and performed the Grieg Concerto in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She was also chosen as a finalist in the 2026 Seattle International Piano Competition.
Sora has won numerous awards including first place in the Pacific Music Society Competition, East Bay Music Foundation Competition, Berkeley Etude Club Music Competition, Marilyn Mindell Piano Competition, Gavilan College Youth Piano Competition, United States Open Music Competition, CAPMT State Honors competition, and Ross Mckee Piano Competition, where she gave a solo recital and was featured in the Independent Coast Observe (ICO) article. She has also received top prizes in the Reno-Tahoe, San Francisco International, and Chicago International Piano Competitions and was named a recipient of the National Chopin Foundation Scholarship for 2025-2026.
In 2023, Sora performed her Kabalevsky piano concerto with the Urbana-Pop Orchestra in Champaign, Illinois. As the first place winner of the South Valley Symphony, California Youth Symphony, and the Santa Clarita Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competitions, Sora will perform all three movements of Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor throughout 2026. She has participated in masterclasses with many accomplished pianists including Yoshikazu Nagai, Steven Spooner, Armen Babakhanian, John Perry, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Boris Slutsky, and Jean David Coen. She has attended Piano Texas, Music@Menlo, Southeastern Piano Festival, Piano Cleveland, and Juilliard’s Summer Music Program.
In addition to her solo performances, she is an active chamber musician, sharing her music at community centers and senior homes. In her free time, she enjoys playing soccer on her school’s varsity team and was selected to attend a Talent ID Camp at UCSF. She is fluent in Spanish and Japanese and has started learning American Sign Language.
