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P.O. Box 80214, Portland, OR 97280
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Welcome!

The Piano Santa Foundation (PSF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and enhancing music education for children in the Portland Metropolitan area. PSF offers a unique program including piano scholarships for students, piano placement grants for community organizations, group performance events, after school group keyboard classes and a music lending library.

Grand Scholarship Competition

Applications due: May 18, 2018

Auditions: June 16, 2018

The winner of the PSF Grand Scholarship Competition receives the use of a grand piano in his or her home for two years including moving costs, annual tuning and maintenance.

The competition is open to all students, ages 12-16, who have completed at least OMTA syllabus level 6 or equivalent. Applicants selected to play for the music jury will be asked to perform two pieces of a contrasting nature (e.g. baroque, classical, romantic, 20th century).

If you are interested in learning more about this scholarship, please download the application.

2018 Grand Scholarship Application

PSF Student Otso Barron Gives Back

Also included in this year's newsletter is a feature on how PSF Student, Otso Barron, uses music to give back to the community. You can check out the newsletter article here, and get a sample performance here.

Watch the PSF Video!

Check out this amazing video about PSF produced and edited by Dan Sadowsky of Storymind Productions!

Meet the 2015 Grand Scholarship Winner: Khoi Hoang

Khoi Hoang won the PSF Grand Scholarship in 2015. He is 15 years old and is currently a freshman at Sunset High School.

Khoi has been playing piano for ten years and has studied piano with Dr. Debra Sostrin since 2011. He has also participated in master classes with Dr. Alexander Tutunov and Susan Chan and has consistently received the "Winner" ranking at the OMTA Romantic and Ensemble Festivals.

Last summer, Khoi graduated from Highland Park Middle School with a 4.0 GPA, as well as an Outstanding Presidential Academic Excellence Award. Khoi also volunteers as church choir pianist for Vietnamese Catholic Churches in Beaverton and Portland. In his spare time, Khoi enjoys playing basketball, folding origami, solving puzzles and Rubik cubes, and hip-hop dancing.

To learn more about Khoi, check out our interview with him in the 2017 PSF Newsletter.

And, check out this recent video of Khoi perfroming "Autumn Winds" by Lisa Marsh.