Fourteen-year-old Benjamin Luo, an eighth grader who hails from Apex, North Carolina, began his piano study with Florence Ko at age five. Since then, he has competed in various piano competitions and has garnered over forty first-prize awards in a myriad of piano competitions, including eighteen wins above the state level and several scholarships from the NC Federation of Music Clubs, which consist of The Josephine Bunch Sande Award, The Maxine Taylor Fountain Award, The Norma Alexander Award and The Royalty State Scholarship Awards. Additionally, Benjamin was awarded first prize in the Winston-Salem Symphony Peter Perret Youth Talent Search Concerto Competition, Franz Liszt Center International Piano Competition, Chopin Avenue International Piano Competition, East Carolina University Young Artist Piano Competition, Southwestern Youth Music Festival Piano Competition, American Youth Talent and Art Contests Piano Competition, RPTA Scholarship Competition, Young Artist Auditions, and Bullard Competition. Benjamin has also been the first place winner in the Music Teacher National Association (MTNA) Junior Piano Competition in the state round for four consecutive years, beginning in 2019. In addition, he was a 2019-2020 and 2021-2022 MTNA National Finalist as well as the alternate in the 2020-2021 MTNA Southern Division. After receiving the Judges' Distinction Award along with first prize in the American Protégé International Music Talent Competition at the age of seven, Benjamin made an appearance at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. He has since returned twice, after winning first prize at the American Protégé Concerto Competition and the American Fine Arts Festival Concerto Competition. Recently, Benjamin won the 2022 ECPF Competition as part of the East Carolina Piano Festival Young Artist Program. Being awarded the concerto prize, he will be featured as a guest artist with the Long Bay Symphony of South Carolina in their masterworks concert series during the 2022/2023 season and will be performing the complete movements of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2.

Aside from competitions, Benjamin has been invited multiple times to present solo concerts across North Carolina, including by Arts Society at Governor’s Club in Chapel Hill and by the Fourth Friday Concert Series at Bösendorfer Hall in Raleigh.

Outside of his successful piano career, Benjamin is a frequent performer at retirement centers around his community. Apart from music, Benjamin enjoys building with LEGOs and playing video games.