The Young Artist Competition last Saturday was very
successful. Audience members, staff, and judges alike were privileged listen to the music made by seventeen young artists. There were seven competitors in the Junior Division and ten
competitors in the Senior Division.
Junior Division
Rob Lorch, French
Horn
Accompanist: Liz Seidel
Horn Concerto
No. 3 in E Flat Major K. 447, Wolfgang Mozart
1st
movement
Edward Shou, piano
Accompanist: Sophia Kim Tetel
Concerto in G
minor, Op. 25, F. Mendelssohn
Molto allegro
con fuoco
Rowan Squire-Willey, Piano
Accompanist: Olga Lukantsov
Concerto in
D Major, Haydn - Hob XVIII #11
1st
movement
Zhixi (Jessy) Tang, Flute
Accompanist:
Andante in
C Major, Mozart
Christina Yang, Piano
Accompanist: Jami Scott
Concerto in
F minor, S. 1056, J. S. Bach
Phillip Shou, piano
Accompanist: Sophia Kim Tetel
Concerto
No. 23, A major, K488, Mozart
Presto
Lydia Rhea, cello
Accompanist: Matthew Rhea
Concerto No. 1
in A minor Op. 33, C. Saint-Saens
Allegro
The Ladonna Dingledine Junior Divison was won by Rowan Squire-Willey,
piano. She performed the 1st movement
of Concerto in D Major, by Haydn - Hob XVIII #11. The level of musicianship was very high this
year. Three Junior Division competitors’
outstanding performances were acknowledged during the awards ceremony.
Senior Divison
Adrian Kothman, flute
Accompanist: Philip Blane
Poem for
Flute and Orchestra, Charles Griffes
Cameron Keenan, bassoon
Accompanist: Adrea Hughes
Concerto in
F Major Op. 75, Carl Maria von Weber
1st movement
Ari Brown, Piano
Accompanist: Haruka Ostojic
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C maj. Op. 15,
Beethoven
1st
movement
Clara Abel, Cello
Accompanist: Kathleen Strutz
Concerto in
D Minor, Edouard Lalo
Lento Allegro
maestoso
Isabella Hu, Piano
Accompanist: Haruka Ostojic
Concerto no. 1 in E minor op. 11, Frederic Chopin
1st movement
Carolyn Ronning, Cello
Accompanist: Anna Briscoe
Concerto in D minor, op. 33, Lalo
1st
movement
Jiayi (Joey) Wu, piano
Accompanist: Haruka Ostojic
Concerto
No. III in C minor Op. 37, Beethoven
1st movement
Oliver Shou, piano
Accompanist: Sophia Kim Tetel
Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin
Austin Huntington, cello
Accompanist: Daniel Schlosberg
Sinfonia
Concertante in E minor, op. 125, Sergei
Prokofiev
Andante con moto
Benjamin Abel, violin
Accompanist: Kathleen Strutz
Concerto in e minor, op. 64, Mendelssohn
3rd
movement
Austin Huntington, cello,
won The Steve Dingledine Senior Division with his extrordinary performance of the Andante con moto of Sinfonia Concertante in E minor, op. 125 by Sergei
Prokofiev. Austin's bio is below.
Prism Video recorded all the performances and soon will deliver DVDs of each competitor’s performance for the Muncie Symphony to send to each individual. The public performance of each winner is not yet scheduled. I will make every effort to post the dates and times. I have no doubt you will be pleased to hear both talented young musicians!
AUSTIN HUNTINGTON, student
of Richard Hirschl, made his solo orchestral debut at age 10 and has
performed as guest soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony, South Bend Symphony,
Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and LaPorte Symphony to name a few. Austin recently
made his Orchestra Hall debut with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra
performing the Sinfonia Concertante by Prokofiev. He will make his solo debut
with the Kalamazoo Symphony, the Northwest Symphony (Chicago), and the Muncie
Symphony Orchestra this season. He has performed in Italy, France, Germany,
throughout the United States, and celebrated his New York debut at Carnegie
Hall in 2009. He has been awarded numerous Grand and First Prize awards on the
National and International level. Austin has been selected to compete in the
2012 Johansen International String Competition, to be held this March in
Washington, D.C.
Austin was awarded the 2011
Stulberg International String Competition Burdick-Thorne Gold Medal, and
Bach Award for the best performance of a Bach solo work. He was declared
the 2009 National First Place Winner of the Music Teachers National
Association Solo String Performance Competition held in Atlanta, Georgia.
Austin was selected as one of six cellists representing the United States
invited to compete in the 2009 Rostropovich International Cello Competition
held in Paris, France. Austin has performed in Masterclass for numerous master
clinicians, and has collaborated with such highly esteemed concert artists as
Misha Amory, James Dunham, and Itzhak Perlman.
Austin has appeared on NPR's From
the Top on their 2011-2012 National Tour taped live at the Music Pier in
Ocean City, New Jersey, on stage for a large audience, and was broadcast
nationally November 2011. He is the Principal Cellist of the award-winning
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra and Encore, CYSO's premiere performing
ensemble. During the summer Austin studies cello at the prestigious Perlman
Music Program on Shelter Island, New York, and during the winter at the Perlman
Music Program winter residency in Sarasota, Florida. He plays a cello made by
Francesco Ruggeri of Cremona, ca. 1690, and a fine cello bow made by Eugene
Sartory, ca. 1930. Austin is seventeen years old and a senior with High
Honors at Saint Joseph's High School in South Bend, Indiana.
The event was made possible by the generous contributions of
701 W. McGalliard Rd.
Muncie, IN
