5 in A minor, 1st MovementInsieme Piano Trio – Overall and Open Strings WinnerInfini Quartet – Honorable Mention (Open Strings Category)The competition is open to chamber ensembles in 12th grade and younger and consists of two divisions (Open and MYAC).Contestants compete for over $5,000 in cash prizes and scholarships and the winner of each category in each division will perform in a Winners Recital (date TBA).Esme, an Academy student of Almita Vamos, will receive $10,000, a number of solo concerto engagements plus a nationally-broadcast radio appearance on ‘From The Top‘. All winners become part of a professional network of over 20,000 alumni artists and are eligible to participate in YoungArts’ regional programs, including Honorable Mention and Merit winners have the opportunity to participate in the New York Regional Program in the spring, where students spend a week fully immersed in their art form and participate in interdisciplinary and genre-specific master classes.Preliminary Round: Saturday, October 26 Semi-Final Round: Monday, November 18 The Bolz Young Artist Competition is a highly-regarded statewide competition in which Wisconsin’s young musicians compete for scholarships and the opportunity to perform as soloists with the MSO. The 2020 jury comprised: Beverly Kane Baker, Lena Fankhauser, Pamela Frank, Bella Hristova, Charlotte Lee, Melissa Kraut and Tito Muñoz.The competition took place Sunday, January 26 at North Park College. 2019: Isabella Brown, violin 2018: Tessa Vermeulen, flute 2017: Claire Arisa-Kim, violin 2014: Eric Friel, cello. Born in Yilan, Taiwan, Lee received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, and his Doctor of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University. The winner of the competition will receive a cash prize of $250 and be invited to perform their selected concerto with the Lakeview Orchestra. Find Sidney Sharp credit information on AllMusic AllMusic. The Swan Project features Chiu, Cheng, and an international roster of 22 other young cellists who take turns performing excerpts from the penultimate movement of Saint-Saëns’ e past four months. Two young area cellists, 18-year-old cellist Cameron Chiu of Palatine and 17-year-old Brandon Cheng of Chicago, both students of the Academy of the Music Institute of Chicago, have risen to the challenge. This year's soloists are: Bonnie Liu (piano), Erik Lin (piano), Sophie van der Sloot (cello), Emma Reader-Lee (violin), Kate Moran (violin), Rebecca Bracewell (accordion) and Leslie Opatril (composer). The three of them were members of The Bone Rangers is the senior trombone quartet of the The quartet has appeared previously on WFMT with some of the same membership: WFMT Beach Party LIVE | The Bone Rangers from the Merit School of Music perform live from Theater on the Lake!
After a thorough review process, the judges will reduce that number to six (semi-final round), and then three medalists for the final round. 1 in D Major, Op. Selected for their caliber of artistic achievement, award winners are chosen by esteemed discipline-specific panels of artists through a rigorous blind adjudication process. YoungArts is proud to announce the 2020 YoungArts award winners—686 of the nation’s most accomplished young artists from 40 states in the visual, literary and performing arts. She studies violin with I-Hao Lee at the Music Institute of Chicago and won Best Korean Music Interpretation in the 2018 Sejong Music Competition. I am happy to report the following groups have advanced to the next virtual round.