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2011 Young Artists |
Janet Wu |
Bihn Park |
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Pianist Janet Wu, 12 years
old, started piano performing at the age of 5. She has
been studying with Professor Igor Resnianski for the last 4
years. Janet has been the first place winner of
competitions including the Pennsylvania MTNA Junior Piano
Performance Competition, the Children's Division of the West
Chester University Piano Competition, and the Junior Division of
the Tri-County Youth Festival Competition. In June of 2011
gave her one and a half hour of "All Chopin Music"
recital at the Madeline Wing Alder Theater of West Chester
University. In 2008, at age 9, Janet learned all 12 pieces
from Tchaikovsky's "The Seasons" in only 9 months and
performed them in solo concerts . In March 2011, Janet
performed as the Young Artist Spectacular" Concert with the
Old York Road Symphony. In December 2010 she performed
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor Op. 11 with the New
Orleans Civic Orchestra in two concerts. In March 2010 she
performed in concerts with the Kennett Square Symphony.
Every year Janet also performs in many charity, community (many
local senior centers), and fund raising events. |
Fourteen
years old cellist Bihn (Sangbin) Park has performed
with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Bucks County Symphony, the Ambler
Symphony, Temple Music Prep Youth Chamber
Orchestra, Temple Music Prep Baroque Orchestra, the
Ocean City Pops Orchestra and the Lower Merion High School
Symphony. He has made many First places of Young
Artist Competitions including the Warminster Symphony, Pottstown
Symphony, Wagner College, Tri-County music festival, NPR’s
From the Top and PADE ASTA. He currently studies with Lynn
Harrell, Thomas Kraines and Metta Watts. In the past, he
studied with the legendary master Orlando Cole, the
principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Hai-Ye Ni
and Hans Jensen. |
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2010 Young Artists |
Alex Wu |
Lillian Lee |
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Alex Wu, age 10, is a fourth
grader at Belmont Hills Elementary School. At age 6 he
started playing the cello and currently studies with Jie Jin and
Ana Ruth Bermudez.
At age 9, he played at Carnegie
Hall as a gold prize winner in the Golden Key Music
Festival. He was also a finalist in the NBS Classical
Music Institute Young Classical Music Idol Competition
2010. Alex is a member of the Young Classical String group
at Temple Music Prep, and he is also a three year scholarship
recipient at the Nelly Bermen Music School. In addition to
playing the cello, Alex is a member of the Philadelphia Boys
Choir Advanced Cadet group.
At school, Alex plays the trumpet
and serves as the principal cello in the school band and
orchestra. He is also an active member in the student
council, where he has helped collect canned food for the less
fortunate. Alex is an avid sports fan, holding an interest
in baseball and soccer. He also enjoys playing chess and
reading in his spare time. |
Lillian
Lee came to the United States with her sister in 2004 in order
to receive a better musical education. She is currently fifteen
years old, and studies the violin with Ellen dePasquale through
Temple Prep. Formerly, she studied with Professor Alice
Schoenfeld (USC and Colburn School), Professor Paul Biss (at the
New England Conservatory preparatory division) and Linda Rose
(California State University at Long Beach). Recently she was a
semifinalist at the 2010 California International Violin
Competition. Lillian is also an avid chamber musician, and was
part of a piano trio that receives regular coaching from Shih
Lan Liu and Jeffrey Lavner, piano professor and chair at the
Colburn Conservatory. Her quartet at the NEC prep division last
year (in which she is the first violinist) was showcased in a
concert at NEC’s Jordan Hall. She was also one of the youngest
members of NEC pre-college division’s orchestra—the Youth
Philharmonic Orchestra, playing in the first violin section. In
2005, at the age of 9, Lillian advanced to the finals of the
prestigious Bronislaw Kaper Awards held by the Los Angeles
Philharmonic as the youngest competitor. Lillian was the winner
of the 2010 Warminster Symphony Orchestra Young Artist
Competition, Youth Division. Lillian also participated in the
2006 Summit Music Festival, where she was heard by Eric Shumsky,
playing Tchaikovsky’s Waltz Scherzo, and highly praised for
her playing. For the summers of 2008 and 2009, Lillian was a
merit scholarship recipient at the Meadow Mount School of Music,
studying under Charles Avsharian. Lillian is currently a
freshman at Montgomery High School in Skillman, NJ. |
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2009 Young Artists |
Mary Loftus |
David Kim |
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Mary Loftus, 15, has been studying violin for eleven years. She
currently studies with Philadelphia Orchestra members Yumi
Ninomiya-Scott and Yayoi Numazawa. Former teachers have included
Kimberly Fisher and Chizu Kataoka. Over the summer, Mary has
attended the Strings International Music Festival (2005),
Meadowmount School of Music (2006 and 2008), and ENCORE School
for Strings (2007). She has studied through these summer
programs with Ann Setzer, David Cerone, and Charles Avsharian.
In 2007, she was a finalist in the Children’s Division of the
Philadelphia Orchestra’s Greenfield Competition. She has been a
two-time semi-finalist in the national Sphinx Competition, and
in 2008 was the recipient of their Junior Division Achievement
Award. She has also been the winner of the Ambler Symphony’s
Young Artist Competition and the Old York Road Symphony Society
Competition, and was awarded Honorable Mention at the 2009
Lansdowne Symphony Youth Competition. She is a member of Temple
University’s Youth Chamber Orchestra and recipient of their
Starling Scholarship, in addition to being a scholarship student
in the Settlement School’s Advanced Study Program. This summer,
Mary will attend Meadowmount School of Music again as a student
of Charles Avsharian. |
David Kim is currently 12 years old, and has been
studying the clarinet since the age of nine. He is the concertmaster for the band in his school.
He auditioned for the Olympic Junior’s Conference Band
and was given the title of concertmaster for two years, 2008 and
2009. He has
performed in many recitals.
Recently, David received honorable mention by the
Lansdale Symphony Orchestra. He was a winner of the Ambler Symphony Orchestra’s Menges
Scholarship Award in 2008.
David is a representative in the New Jersey MTNA, and was
a winner in the Eastern Division of MTNA.
In March, David won third place in the National MTNA
Competition. David
is a current winner in the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Albert M.
Greenfield Competition, 2009. Not only does David play the
clarinet, he plays piano and enjoys reading in his spare time. |
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2008 Young Artists |
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Amanda Galick |
Arianna Schickel |
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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
French. |
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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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