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2008 Young Artists |
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Amanda Galick |
Arianna Schickel |
| Amanda Galick, a National Honors
Society member, is a rising senior at Boyertown Area Senior High
School. She has been a flute student of Robin Kani, a graduate
of the Juilliard School and principal flute of the Allentown
Symphony, Pennsylvania Sinfonia, and Bach Festival Orchestra,
for the past six years. She has had opportunities to study in
master classes with the renowned composer and flautist, Gary
Schocker, and David Cramer and Kazuo Tokito, of the Philadelphia
Orchestra. She attended the summer Performing Arts Institute in
2006, where she studied flute for four weeks with Chris Vanneman,
a graduate of Eastman and Yale, and in 2007, was selected to
participate in Northwestern University’s High School five-week
Summer Music Institute, traveling to Chicago to study with
Walfrid Kujala of the Chicago Symphony. This summer, Amanda will
work with renowned flautist Amy Porter, graduate of the
Juilliard School, at University of Michigan’s Mpulse Ann Arbor
Flute Institute.
This fall, Amanda will be a featured soloist with the
Warminster Symphony Orchestra and the Reading Symphony
Orchestra, as the senior first prize winner 2008 of the
Warminster Young Artist Competition and the 2007-2008 first
prize winner of the Reading Symphony Orchestra’s Concerto
Competition. In the senior instrumental division of the Reading
Musical Foundation Scholarship Competition, she was the first
place winner of the David Bilger Woodwind Award. She has also
obtained numerous scholarships from the Foundation for continued
summer study. Amanda currently plays with the Delaware County
Youth Orchestra and the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, and was a
member of the Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra for two years.
She often plays for church services and community organizations,
such as the Historical Society of Reading and the Rotary Club.
She has been an active participant in the PMEA district and
regional festivals for band and orchestra annually. She is a
member of her school choir, orchestra, pit orchestra, marching,
jazz, and concert band. For the past two years, she has expanded
from her classical roots, performing regularly with the high
school jazz band, winning awards from The University of the
Arts, Temple University and the Oley Jazz Fest for her creative
solo improvisations. Amanda has also studied piano, composes,
and was a winner of the Classical Symphony of Philadelphia’s
Young Composer’s Competition in 2005. She is the daughter of
Edward and Jeannie Galick of Pennsburg.
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Arianna began studying the violin
at Temple Music Prep with Julian Meyer at age four. At age
eight, Arianna won first prize in the Primary Division of the
Korean Musicians Association of Philadelphia Competition. At age
nine, Arianna had her debut in the Weill Recital Hall, at
Carnegie Hall, as a winner of the New York Music Competition.
Arianna has performed as a guest soloist at Emmanuel Church in
Philadelphia in 2005, 2006 and 2007. In 2007 as a Menges
Scholarship winner, Arianna performed as a soloist with the
Ambler Symphony. In 2008 Arianna was chosen the first place
winner of the Warminster Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist
Competition -- children’s division. Arianna is currently a
student of Yayoi Numazawa, first violinist of the Philadelphia
Orchestra. She has also studied with Yumi Ninomiya Scott.
Arianna loves to play piano, sing and is fluent in English and
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2007 Young Artists
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Beatrice Hsieh |
Michael Casimir |
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Beatrice Hsieh is an 11-year-old 5th
grader at Montgomery Elementary in North Wales, PA.
Beatrice started playing the piano at age 5 and the violin
at age 6. Previously a piano student of Rieko Aizawa, winner
of the Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition,
Beatrice currently studies piano with David Brown. She has
studied the violin with Julian Meyer; Choong Jin Chang,
Principal Violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra; Carrie
Dennis, Principal Violist of the Berlin Philharmonic; and is
currently studying with Sylvia Ahramjian. She has performed
on both piano and violin in a myriad of retirement homes,
churches and master classes. As violinist, Beatrice is the
first place winner of the North Penn Symphony Orchestra
Young Artist Concerto Competition in 2006 and the Warminster
Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Concerto Competition in
2007. As pianist, Beatrice won first place in the age 9~12
division of the 2007 West Chester Annual Piano Competition.
She also was a scholarship recipient at Temple Music Prep
from 2002-2004. Currently, She is a scholarship award
recipient for the piano at the Darlington Fine Arts Center.
Beatrice is also very active in school. The anchor for “Star
News”, her school’s TV news show, she is also a
participating student in the Reading Olympics. Last year,
Beatrice was a representative in her school’s Student
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Michael Casimir began playing the violin at
the age of two and a half years old with his father,
Magloire, and his uncle, Richard. Since 1999 Michael has
been a student of Lee Snyder at the Settlement Music School.
Michael’s musical achievements include performances as
winner of the Ambler Symphony Orchestra’s Student
Competition, the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra’s Young
Artists Competition, and he is the local, state and regional
winner of the Psi Phi Omega 2007 Talent Search Competition.
Michael has performed as a soloist with members of the
Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras at the 2005 Haitian
Benefit Concert, as well as three solo engagements with the
Ocean City Pops Orchestra, and has been a featured soloist
at concerts in Cape Town, Soweto and Johannesburg, South
Africa; Rio De Janeiro and the Manaus Opera House in Brazil;
and Tokyo, Hiroshima & Nagasaki in Japan.
Michael is currently in the 11th grade at the William Penn
Charter School, where he enjoys participating in the string
ensemble, band, jazz band, and choir, as well as the soccer
and baseball teams. He is a founding member of the Keystone
State Boychoir, with which he has performed extensively
throughout the United States and Canada.
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