Hiroshi Corro

Hiroshi Corro, an 8th grader at Walters Middle School in Fremont, CA, started learning piano when he was 3 years old with his mother, and is currently working with Ms. Sandra Shen. In 2024 and 2025, he won first place in many competitions such as Etude Club Music Competition in Berkeley, Avanti Steinway Piano Competition in Arizona State University, San Francisco International Piano Competition, CAPMT (California Association of Professional Music Teachers) Honors and Contemporary Competition, and the Golden State Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition.

This fall, Hiroshi performed his Mendelssohn piano concerto with GSYO (Golden State Youth Orchestra) in San Mateo, CA. In March, Hiroshi performed the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Santa Clarita Symphony Orchestra. He will also perform his Mendelsohn Concerto with the Southern California Philharmonic in May 2026. He was“firstalternate winner” of the Music Teachers Association of California Concerto Competition 2023 and MTNA Solo Competition in 2024. In 2023 Summer, Hiroshi participated in the John Perry Summer Academy and had master classes with John Perry, Mina Perry, Sasha Starcevich, Boris Slutsky, and Jean David Coen. He had a lesson with Dr. Steven Spooner during 2024. In Summer 2025, he participated in SouthEastern Piano Festival in South Carolina and Mannes Summer Music Festival in New York.

Besides playing solo works, he also enjoys playing piano trios with string players. Recently, he performed the Dumky Trio by Dvorak and Mendelssohn Piano Trio Op 49 in Berkeley, CA. He will perform the Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 by Shostakovich in April 2026. During his free time he enjoys playing video games, skateboarding and playing soccer with his siblings. He speaks Spanish and Japanese fluently.