Sora Corro is a rising junior and a student 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. She has won numerous awards including first place in the Pacific Music Society Competition, East Bay Music Foundation Competition, Berkeley Etude Club Music Competition, Ross Mckee Piano Competition - where she was also featured in the Independent Coast Observe (ICO) article as a laureate, Marilyn Mindell Piano Competition, Gavilan College Youth Piano Competition, U.S. New Star Piano Competition, United States Open Music Competition, and CAMPT (California Professional Music Teachers) State Honors competition. In addition, she has received top prizes in the Reno-Tahoe Piano Competition, San Francisco International Piano Competition, and Chicago International Piano Competition and has been named a recipient of the National Chopin Foundation Scholarship for 2025-2026. As the first place winner of the South Valley Symphony, California Youth Symphony, and the Santa Clarita Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, Sora will perform all 3 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, Sasha Starcevich, Boris Slutsky, and Jean David Coen. She has attended the John Perry Summer Program, Piano Texas, Music@Menlo, Southeastern Piano Festival and Juilliard’s Summer Music Program. In addition to her solo performances, she is an active chamber musician, sharing her music in community centers and senior homes with her string duo and quintet. Sora involves her passion for teaching piano with nursing, studying the effect music has on the brain, and how gentle sounds, can soothe human minds in critical conditions. When she has 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.