18-year-old Robert Wallace performs the Chopin Ballade in G Minor at Carnegie Hall as a winner of the 2014 Music-Fest Rising Talent Competition. He has been trained by Dr. Valerica Maican of Bethesda, Maryland, and is now commencing music studies as a first-year student at the University of Cape Town's South African College of Music.

Robert Wallace is a 19-year-old American music student who has lived and studied in Cape Town for most of the past decade. He was a 2014 Grand Prix winner of the Music-Fest Rising Talents Competition in the US, which earned him a performance at Carnegie Hall in March 2014. As a composer, he won the 2014 Composition Competition held the American College of Musicians, and was commissioned by the US-based Third Millennium Ensemble to compose a theme and variations for solo piano. He performs both of those winning compositions tonight. He has studied piano, theory and composition with Dr. Valerica Maican for more than a decade, and has studied jazz piano with South African Jason Reolon, and with Botswanan Bokani Macha. He graduated from the American International School of Cape Town in 2013, and then commenced studies at the South African College of Music at UCT.

Robert Wallace is an American high school student living in South Africa, studying piano via Skype with his US-based teacher, Dr. Valerica Maican. Video beautifully shot at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town, by Oryx Media, edited by Tonia Moller.

Robert Wallace is a 19-year-old American music student who has lived in South Africa for most of the past decade. He was a 2014 Grand Prix winner of the Music-Fest Rising Talents Competition in the US, which earned him a performance at Carnegie Hall in March 2014. As a composer, he won the 2014 Composition Competition held the American College of Musicians. He has studied piano, theory and composition with Dr. Valerica Maican for more than a decade, and has studied jazz piano with South African Jason Reolon, and with Botswanan Bokani Macha. Recorded in recital at Casa Labia, Cape Town, South Africa, February 1, 2015.

Robert Wallace is a 19-year-old American music student who has lived in South Africa for most of the past decade. He was a 2014 Grand Prix winner of the Music-Fest Rising Talents Competition in the US, which earned him a performance at Carnegie Hall in March 2014. As a composer, he won the 2014 Composition Competition held the American College of Musicians. He has studied piano, theory and composition with Dr. Valerica Maican for more than a decade, and has studied jazz piano with South African Jason Reolon, and with Botswanan Bokani Macha. Recorded in recital at Casa Labia, Cape Town, South Africa, February 1, 2015.

Robert Wallace is a 19-year-old American music student who has lived in South Africa for most of the past decade. He was a 2014 Grand Prix winner of the Music-Fest Rising Talents Competition in the US, which earned him a performance at Carnegie Hall in March 2014. As a composer, he won the 2014 Composition Competition held the American College of Musicians. He has studied piano, theory and composition with Dr. Valerica Maican for more than a decade, and has studied jazz piano with South African Jason Reolon, and with Botswanan Bokani Macha. Recorded in recital at Casa Labia, Cape Town, South Africa, February 1, 2015.

Robert Wallace, a 19-year-old American music student who has spent most of the past decade in South Africa, performs the composition which won him the 2014 Composition Competition held by the American College of Musicians. A student of piano, theory and composition under Dr. Valerica Maican, he performed at Carnegie Hall, New York, in March 2014, as Grand Prix winner of the Music-Fest Rising Talents Competition. Recorded in recital at Casa Labia, Cape Town, South Africa, February 1, 2015.