Elijah Kao is a senior at Lynbrook High School in California, and he has been playing piano for 12 years and playing trumpet for 6 years. He likes to play music with friends. He regularly serves in a youth worship team at church and plays and competes in the marching band since freshman in high school. In his free time, he enjoys playing video games and listening to music, and he also likes to play romantic music and video game music. He started seriously pursuing music in 2023 by entering several national competitions and received multiple awards. Last year, he started to compose music scores and decided to major in music technology or video game scoring in college. He enjoys performing on stage and sharing his love for music to people.
You can find Elijah’s 2023 Contemporary Music Competition piano performance here.
Watch Elijah Kao perform Elegie (Op.3, No.1) by S. Rachmaninoff on the piano for the 2025 Classical Music Competition as part of the Charleston International Music Competition.