At only 13 years of age, Alice Burla is quickly becoming internationally-recognized as a serious musician and a great pianist. Considered a prodigy since the age of 6, Ms. Burla has variously performed two piano concerti within the same evening, at ages of 8, 10 and 12, amid her already-considerable accomplishments.

In 2002, she was the youngest winner of the National Final of the Canadian Music Competitions. At the age of 6, Ms. Burla became one of the youngest students ever accepted to The Juilliard School's Pre-College Division. In 2008, she was the youngest student at the 13th Hamamatsu International Piano Academy in Japan and the finalist of the Academy competition. Later in 2008, after performing an acclaimed solo recital and a number of concerti with orchestra, Yamaha Corporation of America announced the addition of Ms. Burla, as the youngest performer ever, to its classical piano artist roster. In July of 2008, she performed an evening of solo piano music, including the complete Goldberg Variations, at the renowned Newport Music Festival.

Born in Toronto, Canada in 1996, Alice Burla began studying piano at the age of 4 with her mother and Larisa Niurenberg. She made her orchestral debut at the age of 5 and played her first solo recital at 6. Since 2003, she has studied with world-renowned pianist Oxana Yablonskaya at The Juilliard School and starting in 2008 at OYPI (Oxana Yablonskaya Piano Institute) in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, Italy.

In 2005, at age 8, Ms. Burla performed Mozart's Double Concerto with Professor Yablonskaya at Yamaha Artist Services in New York. After this milestone, she continued similar tandem performances in Mexico (2006) and in Germany (2009), realizing both of Rachmaninoff's Suites for Two Pianos.

Most recently, Ms. Burla appeared as a soloist with several orchestras, including the Rockland Symphony, Hawthorne Symphony, Adelphi Chamber Orchestra, New York Sinfonietta, Chamber Orchestra Amadeus (Mexico), and Manhattan Chamber Orchestra.

In 2007 and 2008, Alice Burla was featured on "From the Top", on both NPR and a national PBS telecast of "Live from Carnegie Hall".

Already suited with a wide repertoire, Ms. Burla, by age 11, had performed J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations and various virtuoso pieces by Rachmaninoff. Critic Harris Goldsmith writing for The Concert Review noted, "She hears polyphony impressively well [...] She has a fresh, clean and lively rhythmic sense; a wonderful gift for tonal color [...] her dexterity is already awesome [...]" and pointed out "her exquisite account of Var. 25 of Goldberg's."

Since the age of 10, Alice has successfully performed internationally. Three times she concertized in the San Pedro Auditorium of Monterrey, Mexico within the Parnassos concert series, recitals at Salle Cortot in Paris, and a sold-out solo recital at the Deutsch - American Institute, Heidelberg, Germany in 2008. The Rhein - Neckar - Zeitung (Germany) wrote that Burla "has a natural and disarming sense for music."

EL NORTE of Mexico exclaimed that Ms. Burla "demonstrated interpretative maturity that completely overwhelmed both the audience and her fellow musicians."

Through a cooperative effort between Yamaha Artist Services in New York and Yamaha Artists Services Europe In January 2009, Ms. Burla toured across Europe playing solo recitals in Germany (Heidelberg, Munich), Italy (Lucca), France (Paris), and Poland (Bydgoszcz, Poznan).

Ms. Burla has received many awards and scholarships at various music competitions in Canada and United States. In 2004, she won first place at the 8th New York Music Competition. The Yamaha Cares Outreach Program awarded Alice with a scholarship for music excellence to assist with two years Juilliard School tuition. In 2008, Ms. Burla was awarded the Young Artist Award from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and was selected as a Young Scholar.