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Welcome to the Competition!
Do you remember what you were doing 40 years ago in March of 1975? I remember being so excited to hear that Kalamazoo was to host a string competition in honor of Ju-lius Stulberg. In the ensuing years, hundreds of young artists and prominent judges have traveled to Kalamazoo for this annual event. The level of talent has risen steadily, but the mission that Esther Stulberg and the
founding members envisioned has remained the same: promote excellence in string instrument performance by gifted young artists under the age of twenty.
There are so many to thank for this success: present and previous board members, our executive director and those that served before, our musical partners, our grant funders, our donors, our competition hosts, our esteemed judges and pianists, Western Michigan University and the School of Music, and the Stulberg family. With such support, it is not surprising that the Stulberg Competition is consistently ranked among the best competitions in the world.
Thank you for sharing in our 40th anniversary celebration. The best is yet to come!
Sincerely,
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PRESENTATIONS 4:30 pm• Bach Award• Announcement of Finalists
FINALS CONCERT 8 pm
AWARDS CEREMONY 10 pm• Burdick-Thorne Gold Medal • Silver Medal• Pinehurst Bronze MedalThe Stulberg Family invites you to meet the musicians at a reception in the lobby following the Awards Ceremony
Sunday, May 17, 2015Violin, Viola and Cello Master Classes 12:30-3:30 pm• Classes run concurrently on the half hour• Free & Open to the Public
All events are held at the Dalton Center on the campus of Western Michigan University
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President’s Welcome 5
Competition Schedule 7
History 11
Board of Directors and Staff 13
Stulberg Artist Series 2015-2016 13
2015 Competition Statistics 14
Medalist History 15
Judge History 17
Judge Biographies 18 & 19
Semifinalist Biographies 20-26
Collaborative Pianist Biographies 27
Semifinal Performance Schedule 28 & 29
Finals Concert Insert
Supporters 33 – 37
Special Thanks 38
Index of Advertisers 62
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Julius & Esther Stulberg
In 1920, Julius Stulberg was brought to Montreal when his parents emigrated from Kieselien, Poland. The family eventually settled in Marshall, Michigan. Julius received degrees from and taught at Michigan State University, where he also met his future wife, Esther Leiberman. The Stulberg bond with Kalamazoo was forged in 1943 when he accepted the post of conductor of the newly established Junior Symphony.
In 1945, the Stulberg family moved to Kalamazoo when Julius joined the faculty of Western Michigan University. Throughout his life, his wife Esther was his support and helpmate. Following Julius’ death at the age of 61 in 1974, she was the driving force behind the establishment of the Competition, which memorializes his life’s passions. After Esther’s death in 2001, a dedicated Board of Directors, corps of volunteers and the Stulberg family assumed the mantle of responsibility for the competition.
Today, the Stulberg is one of the longest-standing string competitions in the country and is unique among music competitions due to its focus on young string musicians, strong reputation, and high caliber of judges. Over the years, more than 2,500 musicians have participated in the Stulberg, and more than one hundred have been awarded a medal. Many have gone on to illustrious careers in the fields of music performance and education. Throughout its history, the Stulberg has attracted world-renowned musicians to Kalamazoo to serve as Competition judges and Master Class instructors. Through its Master Classes and Education Outreach, the Stulberg extends its impact by providing free learning opportunities for local musicians and audiences.
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STULBERG BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEPresident Grace Field
President–Elect Chris Shook
Past President Joy Light
Secretary Josie Boucher
Treasurer Greg Seiler
BOARD MEMBERSBarbara Brose
Bob Davis
Linda Depta
David Doan
Art Feinberg
Ken Fisher
Nan Harrison
David Johnson
Renata Artman Knific
Josh Koets
Audrey Lipsey
Linda Mah
Colleen McBride
Monica Nahm
Jane Rooks Ross
Charles Wattles
Executive Director Margaret Hamilton
Cover Photo: John Lacko Photography
The mission of the Julius & Esther Stulberg International String
Competition is to promote excellence in string instrument performance by gifted
young artists under the age of twenty.
STULBERG ARTIST SERIES 2015-2016July 16, 2015Midsummer Night’s Interlude: Ruby JubileeGull Lake Country Club
October 11, 2015Stulberg Silver Medalist with Western Michigan University Symphony Orchestra
November 6, 2015Stulberg Gold Medalist with Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra
February 19, 2016Stulberg Gold Medalist with Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
February 21, 2016Stulberg Bronze Medalist with Kalamazoo Junior Symphony Orchestra
May 21, 201641st Stulberg International String Competition
May 22, 2016Stulberg Master Classes
May 29, 20162014 Gold Medalist Zlatomir Fung with Baltimore Chamber Orchestra
THE STULBERG INTERNATIONAL STRING COMPETITIONThe Epic Center 359 S. Kalamazoo Mall, Suite 14 Kalamazoo, MI 49007
The Stulberg International String Competition is an equal opportunity employer and provides programs, activities, and services to all without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, disability, gender identity or sexual orientation.
Building emergencies will be indicated by spoken announcement within the seating area. In any emergency, walk – do not run – to the nearest exit.
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2015 Applicant StatisticsINSTRUMENTS GENDER AGESViolin 70 Female applicants 71 11-19Viola 17 Male applicants 69Cello 51Double bass 2
COUNTRIES REPRESENTED Armenia, Australia, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States.
SCHOOLS REPRESENTEDAcademy of the Music Institute of Chicago, Chicago College for the Performing Arts, Cleveland Institute of Music, Colburn School and Young Artists Academy, Columbia University, Curtis Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Juilliard School and Pre-College, Manhattan School of Music and Pre-College, New England Conservatory and Preparatory School, New Trier High School, Northwestern University, Oberlin Conservatory, Phillips Academy Andover, Rice University, University of Southern California, Yale School of Music and many others.
2014 Stulberg Judges and Medalists--Left to right: Bronze Medalist Charles Seo, Judge Donald Weilerstein, Silver Medalist Emma Meinrenken, Judge John Sant’Ambrogio, Judge Karen Dreyfus, Gold Medalist Zlatomir Fung.
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Stulberg Medalists
Year Gold Silver Bronze2014 Zlatomir Fung, cello Emma Meinrenken, violin Charles Seo, cello2013 Youjin Lee, violin Ariel Horowitz, violin Laura Park, violin2012 Matthew Lipman, viola Brannon Cho, cello Vincent Meklis, violin2011 Austin Huntington, cello Mayumi Kanagawa, violin Christine Lim, violin2010 Richard Narroway, cello Benedicte Lauziere, violin Allan Steele, cello2009 Nicholas Schwartz, double bass Ran Cheng, violin Tony Rymer, cello2008 Matthew Allen, cello Ji-Won Song, violin Rebecca Anderson, violin2007 Benjamin Beilman, violin Christel Lee, violin Yina Tong, cello2006 Susan Jang, violin Shannon Lee, violin Hiro Matsuo, cello2005 Jinjoo Cho, violin Nikolaus Leopold, cello Bryan Lee, violin2004 Amaury Coeytaux, violin Anna Burden, cello Miran Kim, violin2003 Tien-Hsin Wu, violin Robin Scott, violin D. Joshua Roman, cello2002 Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin Kathryn Eberle, violin Rachel Harding, violin2001 Yuri Namkung, violin Nicole Kim Hanson, cello Karina Canellakis, violin2000 Deanna Talens, cello Dylana Leung, violin Rachel Kim, violin1999 Austin Hartman, violin Christine Kim, cello Misha Ovrutsky, violin1998 Nicholas Crosa, violin Caroline Campbell, violin Zachary DePue, violin1997 Madeline Adkins, violin Nicholas Crosa, violin Duke Lee, viola1996 Corinne Chapelle, violin Sharon Roffman, violin Joel Noyes, cello1995 Catherine Basrak, viola Soovin Kim, violin Ani Aznavoorian, cello1994 Esther Noh, violin Ani Aznavoorian, cello Soovin Kim, violin1993 Merrie Arnold, violin Catherine Basrak, violin Mona Knock, violin1992 Jennifer Koh, violin Wei-Pin Kuo, violin Marjorie Bagley, violin1991 Kirsten Johnson, viola Mona Knock, violin Brent Samuel, cello1990 Wendy Warner, cello Jennifer Hyun-Jou Koh, violin Rachel Barton, violin1989 Elizabeth (Lisa) Kim, violin Lisa Kim, violin Wendy Warner, cello1988 Sang Mee Lee, violin Karen Lee, violin Joan Kwon, violin1987 Sheryl Staples, violin Jennifer Clare Wion, violin Elizabeth Ann Larson, violin1986 Elisa Barston, violin Rachel Barton, violin Sheryl Staples, violin1985 Ivan Chan, violin David Perry, violin Desiree Ruhstart, violin1984 Stephanie Arado, violin Lynne Richburg, viola Eunice Roh, violin1983 Sarah Plum, violin Greg Sauer, cello Eunice Roh, violin1982 Eunice Lee, violin Adela Pena, violin David Ying, cello1981 Joshua Bell, violin Se Yon Sandy Kim, violin Eric Kim, cello1980 Hae-Young Ham, violin Se Yon Sandy Kim, violin Joshua Bell, violin1979 Anthony Ross, cello Hal Grossman, violin Susan Synnestvedt, violin1978 Benny Kim, violin Susan Synnestvedt, violin Scott Woolweaver, viola1977 Kari-Lise Ravnan, cello Cheryl House, cello Hee-Soo Kim, violin1976 Lucia Lin, violin Cheryl House, cello Margaret Lang, viola
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Stulberg Judges
2014 Karen Dreyfus, viola John Sant’Ambrogio, cello Donald Weilerstein, violin2013 Richard Aaron, cello Victoria Chiang, viola Soovin Kim, violin2012 Matt Haimovitz, cello Rachel Barton Pine, violin Roland Vamos, violin/viola2011 Raymond Harvey, conductor Paul Katz, cello Joseph Silverstein, violin2010 Ronald Copes, violin Nick Eanet, violin Joel Krosnick, cello Samuel Rhodes, viola (all members of the Juilliard String Quartet) 2009 Miriam Fried, violin Ronald Leonard, cello Richard Young, viola2008 Bayla Keyes, Violin Tom Knific, double bass Rhonda Rider, cello2007 Timothy Eddy, cello Daniel Phillips, violin Todd Phillips, violin Steven Tenenbom, viola (all members of the Orion String Quartet) 2006 David Cerone, violin Linda Cerone, violin Steven Doane, cello2005 Anner Bylsma, cello Ani Kavafian, violin Ida Kavafian, violin/viola2004 James O. Buswell IV, violin Michael Kugel, viola Marc Johnson, cello2003 Ivan Chan, violin Chauncy Patterson, viola Cathy Meng Robinson,violin Keith Robinson, cello (all members of the Miami String Quartet) 2002 Benedict Goodfriend, violin Hans Jorgen, cello Almita Vamos, violin2001 Emilio Colon, cello Gerald Fischbach, violin Marcus Thompson, viola2000 Benny Kim, violin Wendy Warner, cello Max Wilcox, record producer1999 Owen Carman, cello Igor Fedotov, viola Hal Grossman, violin1998 Karen Buranskas, cello Myron Kartman, violin Max Wilcox, record producer1997 Heidi Castleman, viola Anthony Elliott, cello Cyrus Forough, violin1996 Heidi Castleman, viola Ross Harbaugh, cello David Updegraff, violin1995 Joshua Bell, violin Lucia Lin, violin Anthony Ross, cello1994 Robert Culver, viola Bernard Greenhouse, cello Yoshimi Takeda, conductor1993 Bernard Greenhouse, cello Stephen Shipps, violin Marcus Thompson, viola1992 Nathaniel Rosen, cello Sergiu Schwartz, violin Karen Tuttle, viola1991 Csaba Erdelyi, viola Winifred Mayes, cello Edward Shmider, violin 1990 Catherine Comet, conductor Csaba Erdelyi, viola Yehudi Menuhin, violin1989 Paul Doktor, viola Alan Harris, cello Marilyn McDonald, violin1988 Alan Harris, cello William Preucil, viola Edward Shmider, violin1987 Yitschak Schotten, viola Neil Stulberg, conductor David Vanderkooi, cello1986 Norman Paulu, violin William Preucil, viola David Vanderkooi, cello1985 Josef Gingold, violin Richard Kaposcinski, cello Max Wilcox, record producer1984 David Cerone, violin David Holland, viola Richard Kaposcinski, cello1983 Raya Garbousova, cello David Holland, viola Leonard Sorkin, violin1982 Richard Blum, viola David Cerone, violin Michael Press Haber, cello1981 Richard Blum, viola Michael P. Haber, cello Jacob Krachmalnick, violin1980 Alan Harris, cello Jacob Krachmalnick, violin Abraham Skernick, viola 1979 James O. Buswell IV, violin Alan Harris, cello Abraham Skernick, viola1978 Urico Rossi, violin Andor Toth, Jr., cello Francis Tursi, violin1977 James O. Buswell IV, violin Fritz Magg, cello Yosef Yankelev, violin1976 Orlando Cole, cello Nathan Gordon, viola Paul Rolland, violin
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HEIDI CASTLEMAN, Professor of Viola at the Juilliard School of Music, has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Eastman School of Music, New England Conservatory, SUNY Purchase, Rice University and Philadelphia Musical Academy. Ms. Castleman performed as a member of the former New York String Sextet and as a guest artist with ensembles including the Cleveland, Audubon, Lydian and Cavani Quartets. Master classes and lecture-demonstrations include those given in Vienna, Salzburg, Lubeck, Shanghai, South Korea, as well as in Montreal, Chicago, Dallas, Interlochen and Boulder. During past summers, Ms. Castleman has taught and performed at the Aspen
Sarasota, Banff, Eastern and Blossom Music Festivals, as well as at the Perlman Music Program. Ms. Castleman now participates annually in the Heifetz Institute and Sejong International Music Festival. A founding trustee of Chamber Music America (and its President from 1983-87), Ms. Castleman also served on the Boards of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA), the Aspen Music Festival and the Perlman Music Program. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Fischoff Competition. Ms. Castleman has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including “Teacher of the Year” awards from the American String Teacher Association (1994 and 2004), the Chamber Music America “Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award” (2001), the American Viola Society “Maurice W. Riley Viola Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Viola” (2004), and in 2006 an Honorary Doctorate degree from the University of Montreal.
SARAH CHANG is recognized as one of the foremost violinists of our time, having performed with the most esteemed orchestras, conductors, and accompanists in an international career spanning more than two decades. Since her debut with the New York Philharmonic at the age of eight, Ms. Chang has dazzled audiences with her technical virtuosity and emotional depth. Ms. Chang’s most recent recording for EMI Classics - her 20th for the label - featured the Brahms and Bruch violin concertos with Kurt Masur and the Dresdner Philharmonie, and was received to excellent critical and popular acclaim. Her 2007 recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons attracted
international commendation, with BBC Music Magazine stating: “She has never made a finer recording.” She has also recorded Prokofiev Violin Concerto No.1 and Shostakovich Violin Concerto No.1 live with the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle; Fire and Ice, an album of popular shorter works for violin and orchestra with Placido Domingo conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker; the Dvorák Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis; as well as several chamber music and sonata discs with artists including pianists Leif Ove Andsnes and Lars Vogt. She is the recipient of numerous international awards, including the Avery Fisher Career Grant and Gramophone’s “Young Artist of the Year” award. In 2011, Ms. Chang was named an official Artistic Ambassador by the United States Embassy.
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ERIC KIM, Eric Kim, professor of cello at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, has a diverse career performing throughout the world as recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist. He served as principal cello of the Cincinnati Symphony from 1989 to 2009 and has also held principal positions with the San Diego and Denver symphonies. Having made his solo debut at age 15 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Kim was a featured soloist with the Juilliard Orchestra on its critically acclaimed tour of the Far East, also appearing as soloist with the orchestras of Cincinnati,
Denver, and San Diego. He has collaborated as soloist with such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Sergiu Comissiona, Lawrence Foster, Alan Gilbert, Paavo Jarvi, Gianandrea Noseda, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. Active as a chamber musician, he has performed with such artists as Emmanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Yefim Bronfman, Susan Graham, Lynn Harrell, Stephen Hough, Jaime Laredo, Menahem Pressler, and Gil Shaham, as well as collaborating with members of the Emerson, Guarneri, and Orion string quartets. At the invitation of violinist Pinchas Zukerman, he performed with Zukerman at the festivals of Athens (Greece), Mostly Mozart (NY), Schleswig-Holstein (Germany), and Verbier (Switzerland). He has participated in several international tours as a member of the Pinchas Zukerman and Friends chamber ensemble. Kim can regularly be heard at the festivals of Angel Fire (NM), Aspen, La Jolla, Orcas Island (WA), Sangat (India), Santa Fe, and Savannah. He has made several recordings for the RCA, EMI, Telarc, and Koch labels.
Master ClassesSunday, May 17, 2015, 12:30-3:30 pmConcurrently on the Half Hour | Free & Open to the Public | Dalton Center
A master class is a music lesson conducted in public. The Stulberg Master Class program offers a unique opportunity for local musicians to study with Heidi Castleman, Sarah Chang and Eric Kim. Participants are selected through a live audition process. Each student also conducts performance demonstrations over the summer as part of the Stulberg Education Outreach program with partner organizations such as Kalamazoo Kids in Tune, Friendship Village, Heritage Community and the Kalamazoo Public School System.
Please join us. Master classes provide an interesting and valuable learning experience for musicians, teachers and audience alike.
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Max BobbyFourteen year-old Max Bobby studies cello at the Juilliard Pre-College Division with Richard Aaron and Sieun Lin. He began lessons with Maxine Neuman at the age of five and has been described as “unusually gifted with an extraordinary degree of musical maturity”. At age 12, Max made his solo debut at the Siletz Bay Music Festival in Oregon. He is the winner of the 2015 Juilliard Herbert Concerto Competition. In 2013 he was invited as a soloist with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, for the
Interfaith Concert of Remembrance at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in NYC. Max successfully raised funds for this noble cause. His aspiration, sharing the joy he feels when playing music, results in a wide range of collaborations, including fundraisers, live ballet performances, schools and nursing homes. In 2011, Max won a gold medal from AADGT International Competition and performed at Carnegie Hall. He received a full scholarship to the Vianden International Music Festival in Luxembourg, where he performed solo and with chamber groups. He was also a winner in the OCA-WHV Rising Stars competition. Max is a scholarship recipient to the Morningside Music Program for the summer of 2015. He has spent the past two summers at the Meadowmount School of Music and at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where he was the winner of the concerto competition. He a freshman at Mamaroneck High School, where he enjoys all things science, works on perfecting his pratfall, and is a connoisseur of cringe comedies and merguez sausages.
Erika GrayNineteen-year old violist Erika Gray has been engaging audiences for over a decade with her charismatic and energetic playing in both chamber music and soloistic settings. At six, Erika began her studies with Desiree Ruhstrat on the violin, and when she was 16, decided to broaden her musical expression by adding serious study of the viola. Erika currently studies at the Curtis Institute of Music with Roberto Diaz and Hsin-Yun Huang, where she holds the Gerry and Marguerite
Lenfest Followship. Erika was a 2015 National Young Arts finalist and was honored to receive the Silver Award. In February, she performed at the Kennedy Center as part of Curtis on Tour. Erika has performed in venues such as the Sydney Opera House, the Royal Albert Hall, the Great Hall at the Moscow Conservatory, the Mariinsky II theatre, Suntory Hall, the Kennedy Center, Chicago’s Symphony Center and has performed extensively in the US, as well as in several foreign countries. The youngest participant in the Pacific Music Festival 2014, she received a full scholarship to travel to Japan and work with conductor
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Osmo Vänskä. During the summer of 2013, Erika toured as associate principal violist of the inaugural National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America with the distinguished conductor Valery Gergiev and soloist Joshua Bell. Following that, she was invited to perform in Carnegie Hall with the New York String Seminar. This summer, Erika will be attending the Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland.
Alexis HatchAlexis Hatch, 19, began studying the violin at the age of three with her father, American violist Peter Hatch. As a citizen of both the United States and Spain, she has performed in concerts in both countries. She made her orchestral debut with the Alicante Symphony as featured soloist at the age of ten, appeared in recitals in such Spanish cities as Ciudad Real, Toledo, Alicante and El Campello as well as on Spanish National Television (RTVE) in numerous video performances
that are still seen and heard throughout Spain on weekends on the program Jovenes Solistas. She was a founding artist at the International Festival of Classical Music in Villanueva de los Infantes, where she has performed as soloist with orchestras and in chamber music with many leading international musicians. Alexis has been the winner of many awards and prizes, including the Antelope Valley Symphony’s Young Artist Competition (2012 and 2013), Pacific Palisades Symphony’s Young Artist Competition (2013), the Young Musician’s Foundation Scholarship Competition (2012 & 2013), the ASCAP Foundation’s Leiber and Stoller Scholarship Competition (2013), and the Toronto Sinfonietta’s Concerto Competition. In February 2015, she won the Glenn Gould School concerto competition. She will perform the Elgar Concerto this fall in such locations as Toronto and Montreal with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra. Presently, Alexis studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Glenn Gould School in Toronto, where she is a student of Paul Kantor and Barry Shiffman.
Oliver HerbertOliver Herbert is a 17 year-old cellist from San Francisco. He began his cello studies at age seven and currently studies with Clive Greensmith at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. Since his concerto debut in 2013, Oliver has enjoyed solo and recital appearances around the United States. With a great interest in cello repertoire, Oliver aspires to bring challenging, diverse, and relevant programs to the audience. His upcoming engagements include an appearance with the Las Vegas Philharmonic. In summer 2014, Oliver was
Principal Cellist with the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America. As
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part of the ensemble, Oliver performed in concert venues including Carnegie Hall, Seiji Ozawa Hall, and Walt Disney Hall. Oliver has also served as Principal Cellist with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Colburn Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. Oliver has attended numerous music festivals including the Yellow Barn Young Artists Program and IMS Prussia Cove. In the summer of 2015, Oliver will be a fellow at the Ravinia Steans Music Institute. Oliver is the grand prize winner of the Felix Khuner Young Artist Competition, the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition, the Philadelphia International Music Festival Concerto Competition, the Nova Vista Symphony Concerto Competition, the Colburn Academy Concerto Competition, and the Spotlight Competition. He is also a 2015 National YoungArts Foundation Finalist and a 2015 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts nominee. Before starting his studies at Colburn, Oliver was a student at the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts. His past teachers include Iris Pingel and Peter Wyrick.
Felicity JamesSince her solo orchestral debut at the age of eleven, violinist Felicity James has appeared with many prominent orchestras of the Pacific Northwest, including the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene Symphonies and the Seattle Symphony under the direction of Ludovic Morlot. Previously a prizewinner of the Stradivarius International Violin Competition and winner of the Aspen Music Festival’s Mozart violin competition, Felicity has performed at Carnegie Hall as part of the New York String
Orchestra Seminar and was also featured on NPR’s From the Top with pianist Christopher O’Riley. An avid chamber musician, she has played in various ensembles at the Aspen, Sarasota and Methow Valley Music Festivals and performs regularly with her quartet at the Colburn School, where her coaches are Clive Greensmith, Martin Beaver, and Arnold Steinhardt. Felicity is currently a Bachelor of Music candidate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where she studies with Robert Lipsett.
Daniel KalerPraised by critics and listeners alike for his warm, luminous sound, expressive phrasing and effortless technique, 17-year-old Daniel Kaler is a fifth generation musician. Currently a cello student of Professor Hans Jensen, Daniel has many prestigious awards to his credit. He appeared as a soloist with the Midwest Young Artists Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Allan Dennis, the New Trier high School Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Peter Rosheger,
the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Grant Cooper, University
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of Illinois Symphony Orchestra of Chicago under the direction of Daniel Black, Northport Symphony Orchestra in Florida under the direction of Sasha von Dassow, the Oistrakh Symphony Orchestra of Chicago under the direction of Mina Zikri and with the Music Institute of Chicago Academy Orchestra in Ravinia, IL, presenting works by Dvorak, Saint Saens, Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Kabalevsky, Popper and Faure. Kaler performed at many of the concert series and festivals around the country, such as The Heifetz Institute, The Bowdoin International Music Festival, The Player’s Theatre of Sarasota, Stars of Tomorrow, Northbrook Chamber Music Festival, Music In The Loft, Young Steinway, The Chicago Cultural Center, Harris Theatre and Millennium Park.
Do Hyung KimNineteen-year old violinist Do Hyung Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea and started playing the violin at the age of three. In Korea, she won multiple competitions including the grand prize for the Korean Times Competition at the age of six. At the age of seven, Do Hyung moved to New York because she was accepted to the Juilliard School of Music’s Pre-College as a student of professors Hyo Kang and I Hao Lee. She attended summer festivals such as Great Mountains Music Festival
(Korea), C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival (New York), and Casalmaggiore Music Festival (Italy). In 2010, she received a Tilles Scholar Award and performed with the orchestra by winning first place in the concerto competition of the C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival. After graduating from high school and pre-college in 2013, she has been attending the Yale School of Music for the Certificate Degree under Hyo Kang.
Hae Sue LeeFifteen-year-old Hae Sue Lee started the viola at the age of eight. She is currently a student at the Curtis Institute of Music. At age nine, she entered the Juilliard Pre-College Program with Toby Appel as her mentor. While at Juilliard, she placed first in the New York International Music Competition as well as the Alex & Buono International String Competition to play at the Weill Hall of Carnegie Hall. Hae Sue also performed with New York Ensemble 212 with YoonJae Lee, conductor. Hae Sue relocated to Seoul, South Korea in 2010
and continued her viola studies with SoonWha Oh at the Korea National University of the Arts. While in South Korea, Hae Sue won first place in numerous competitions. In 2011, Hae Sue was part of a trio invited to the Korean President’s “Blue House” to perform for the visiting Malaysian King. In return, she was invited to the Malaysian International Children Arts Festival. Hae Sue was invited to perform at the Dubai Emirates International Peace
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Music Festival for Young Virtuosos, as well. In 2013, Hae Sue performed the Concerto Competition Winner’s Performance at the GMMFS in South Korea. After GMMFS, Hae Sue was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music, where she currently studies with Roberto Diaz and HsinYun Huang. In 2014, Hae Sue won the Greenfield Music Competition in 2014, resulting in a performance of the Walton Viola Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra in April, 2015. In March of 2015, Hae Sue won first place (viola) in the Johansen International Competition sponsored by the Friday Morning Music Club in Washington, DC.
Sydney J. LeeCellist Sydney J. Lee is 18 years old, a senior at Ramapo High School in New Jersey. At age 14, Sydney made her orchestral debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. As the first place winner of the Juilliard Pre-College Cello Concerto Competition in 2011, she was featured as a soloist with the Juilliard Pre-College Symphony. Sydney appeared on NPR’s From the Top national radio broadcast as a soloist in 2012. She also won second place in the 2014 Lennox International
Young Artists Competition. As the grand prize winner of the Monmouth Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Concerto Competition, she was featured as a soloist with the Monmouth Symphony Orchestra in March of 2014. In October of 2014, Sydney won first place in the 10th International Cello Competition ‘Antonio Janigro” in Proeč, Croatia and subsequently will perform with the Zagreb Chamber Orchestra in Croatia next season. Sydney is a 2015 National YoungArts finalist, having participated in the National YoungArts Week in January, 2015 in Miami, Florida. She has participated in the Music Alp Festival at the Academie Internationale de Courchevel, France; the Meadowmount School of Music; the Morningside Music Bridge Program in Calgary, Alberta; and the Sejong International Music Festival. Sydney is currently the lead cellist of the Heartstrings Cello Ensemble, a group dedicated to community service and supporting local and global missions. For the past nine years, Sydney has been enrolled at the Juilliard School, Precollege Division, where she currently studies with Richard Aaron.
Derek LouieDerek Louie is a 16 year-old cellist in his sixth year at The Juilliard School Pre-College, where he studies with Minhye Clara Kim. Derek has given numerous performances including appearances on NPR’s From The Top and The Rising Stars Concert Series at the Great Mountains Music Festival in South Korea. Derek has been a prize winner in several competitions including the 2015 Schmidbauer Young Artist Competition, the Ensemble 212 Young Artist Competition
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and the Ensemble du Monde Concerto competition. Derek soloed with the Ensemble 212 Orchestra at Merkin Hall in May of 2014 as well as the Ensemble du Monde Orchestra in December of 2014. He was a semi-finalist in the 8th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in Moscow. He won grand prize in the 2013 International Virtuoso Competition. He also won the New York Chamber Players 3rd Music Competition and soloed with their orchestra in October of 2013. Derek was a finalist in the 2013 Mondavi Young Artist Competition and a semi-finalist in the 7th International Tchaikovsky Music Competition for Young Musicians in Montreux, Switzerland. He soloed with the American Symphonia Orchestra in 2011. In 2013 Derek attended the Heifetz Institute on a merit scholarship. He has studied with Myuang-Wha Chung, Frans Helmerson, Ralph Kirshbaum and Jian Wang and has performed with Joan Kwuon. He has also been a member of several chamber groups and has performed at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, Alpensia Concert Hall in South Korea, Merkin Hall and several times at Paul Hall, Lincoln Center. Derek attends the Professional Children’s School in New York City.
Yaegy ParkViolinist Yaegy Park was born in 1997 in Houston, Texas. She began violin studies at age three, and had her first concert at age four as a Houston Young Artist. In 2008, Yaegy was named a Jack Kent Cooke Artist and performed on the NPR show From the Top. Over the next few years, she won top prizes in competitions such as the American Protégé International Competition, the International Russian Rotary Children’s Music Competition, the International Virtuoso Competition, the YWCA New York Music Competition, LISMA International
Competition, the NY Chamber Players Competition, and the Blount-Slawson Young Artist Competition. Yaegy is also an avid chamber musician, having won competitions in the chamber division at the KRB NY International Music Competition and the Crescendo International Music Competition. She was recently named a Young Arts Winner of 2015. Currently, Yaegy attends Juilliard Precollege studying with Catherine Cho. She is a member of the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture.
Albert SeoCanadian cellist Albert Seo, age 16, attends Southridge Senior School in British Columbia. He has been described as a “charismatic messenger of music”. Albert started studying the cello at age 7, and currently studies with Ariel Barnes at the Vancouver Academy of Music. In 2013, he won prizes in the Canadian Music Competition, receiving first-place in his age division. He has soloed with youth orchestras such
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as the Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra and the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra, placing first in their respective concerto competitions. Nominated at the Seattle Youth Music Festival Concerto Play-Offs, he performed with the Seattle Philharmonia Orchestra. He competed in the 22nd Annual Bjorn & Lori Hareid Senior Seconday receiving the “Loyal Protestant Association Scholarship”. In addition to his solo work, he also plays in a chamber group placing first in such competitions as the Friends of Chamber Scholarship Competition and the 2014 Kiwanis Nationals held in Kelowna, British Columbia. Last summer, Albert attended the Domaine-Forget Academy in Quebec, participating in masterclasses with Phillipe Muller, Raphael Wallfisch and Paul Watkins. He plans to pursue music as extensively as he possibly can in North America. At the Morgan Crossing Senior House, he volunteers by playing cello to the elderly in the lounges. Albert finds music a source of deep expression. He hopes that by performing he can promote music to a level more valued in society.
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Collaborative Artists
ANDREA SWAN is a Chicago-area chamber musician, collaborative pianist, orchestral player, soloist and teacher. She is the principal keyboard player with the Grant Park Music Festival and plays regularly in the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra. She also accompanies instrumentalists in their final auditions for positions in the Chicago Symphony and Lyric Opera Orchestras and has served as the official accompanist for numerous music festivals and competitions around the United States, including the Stulberg International String
Competition. Ms. Swan performs regularly with two piano trios, the Evanston Chamber Ensemble (now in its 36th season) and the Pressenda Trio. She appears frequently on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s chamber music series and performs annually at Northwestern University’s Winter Chamber Music Festival. As a collaborative pianist, she has performed with many artists locally, throughout the United States and on tours to the Far East. In addition, she premiered many new solo and chamber music compositions while she was the pianist for the University of Chicago’s Contemporary Chamber Players and the Fulcrum Point New Music Project. She maintains a large private class of adult piano students.
Ms. Swan holds degrees from Oberlin College and Indiana University. Her mentors include Jack Radunsky, Gyorgy Sebok, Menahem Pressler, Josef Gingold and Janos Starker.
ELIZABETH DEMIO is a well-known collaborative pianist, recitalist and soloist in the Cleveland area. Besides appearing in over 100 concerts annually with local aspiring musicians, she has appeared frequently with soloists such as David Riquiro, Massimo La Rosa, Randolph Kelly, John Mack, John Clouser, Umberto Clerici, the Cavani Quartet and has appeared in tours and given master classes in several cities in the U.S., Korea and Mexico.
On 2008 she was the pianist for two finalists in the Naumberg International Cello Competition, resulting in her Carnegie Hall debut
and subsequent U. S. tour with first place winner David Requiro. She performs often as a soloist with the Trinty Cathedreal Chamber Orchestra, having performed twenty Mozart concerti and the five Beethoven concerti as well as Schumann, Mendelssohm, Ravel and others. She has also appeared as soloist for the Orquesta Sinfonica de Veracruz and the Orquesta de la UNAM in Mexico.
As a recording artist she can be heard on the Crystal, Yaffe and Azica labels, most recently with the debut album with David Requiro, a CD with works by Bernard Garfield with John Clouser as soloist, and with trombonist Massimo La Rosa on the CD entitled Cantando. DeMio is on the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music in the collaborative piano department, as well as the staff of the Encore School for Strings, the Stulberg International String Competition, and the John Mack Oboe Camp. She holds degrees from CIM and the University of Michigan. Her teachers have included Vitya Vronsky and Theodore Lettvin.
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Semifinal Performance Schedule
9:00 a.m. Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major J.S. Bach Prelude Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 30 Victor Herbert I. Allegro impetuoso II. Andante Tranquillo III. Allegro Max Bobby, cello Elizabeth DeMio, piano
9:30 a.m. Sonata No. 2 in A minor J.S. Bach Grave Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46 Max Bruch II. Allegro III. Andante Sostenuto Do Hyung Kim, violin Andrea Swan, piano
10:00 a.m. Suite No. 6 in D Major J.S. Bach Prelude Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Derek Louie, cello Elizabeth DeMio, piano
10:30 a.m. Suite No. 3 in C Major J.S. Bach Prelude Viola Concerto Sz. 120, BB 128 Bela Bartók I. Moderato Erika Gray, viola Andrea Swan, piano
11:00 a.m. Suite No. 6 in D Major J.S. Bach Prelude Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 Antonin Dvořák I. Allegro Sydney J. Lee, cello Elizabeth DeMio, piano
11:30 a.m. Sonata No. 1 in G minor J.S. Bach Fuga Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63 Sergei Prokofiev I. Allegro Moderato Yaegy Park, violin Andrea Swan, piano
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1:00 p.m. Suite No. 3 in C Major J.S. Bach Prelude Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 Edward Elgar I. Adagio-Moderato II. Lento-Allegro molto Albert Seo, cello Elizabeth DeMio, piano
1:30 p.m. Partita No. 2 in D minor J.S. Bach Sarabanda and Giga Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61 Camille Saint-Saëns I. Allegro non troppo Felicity James, violin Andrea Swan, piano
2:00 p.m. Suite No. 3 in C Major J.S. Bach Prelude Concerto in A minor, Op. 129 Robert Schumann I. Nicht zu schnell Oliver Herbert, cello Elizabeth DeMio, piano
2:30 p.m. Suite No. 2 in D minor J.S. Bach Prelude Concerto for Viola William Walton I. Andante comodo Hae Sue Lee, viola Andrea Swan, piano
3:00 p.m. Sonata No. 1 in G minor J.S. Bach Fuga Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 Edward Elgar I. Allegro Alexis Hatch, violin Elizabeth DeMio, piano
3:30 p.m. Suite No. 3 in C Major J.S. Bach Prelude Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 Antonin Dvořák I. Allegro Daniel Kaler, cello Andrea Swan, piano
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PATRONSJohn and Rosemary BrownDavid and Susan DoanBarbro and Norman JungJohn R. LightDiane RobertsonDr. and Mrs. David StulbergDr. and Mrs. Joseph B. StulbergMary L. TylerHenry and Mary von SchreinerCharles WattlesMarian and Jack Wattles
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2014 Master Class: judge Karen Dreyfus and violist Colin Fenwick.
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2014 Master Class: judge Donald Weilerstein and violinist Anna Nordmoe.
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