Westmoreland Symphony’s Young Artist Competition results

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The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra is proud to announce the 2013 Young Artists Competition Winners’ recital to take place on Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. at Seton Hill University’s Performing Arts Center, in downtown Greensburg.  The recital is free and open to the public.

 

On Sunday, February 10, twenty-three finalists competed for cash prizes and a chance to perform on the Winners’ Recital.  The winners include:

 

Level I – up to Grade 9

 

Piano:

1^st place – Fiona Stauffer (Franklin Regional MS 8^th grader) – student of Jeffry Harris

2^nd place – Lily Wang (Franklin Regional MS 7^th grader) – student of Tatyana Gelman

3^rd place – Kurlya Yan (Franklin Regional HS freshman) - student of Tatyana Gelman        

Honorable Mention - Anna Hu (Latrobe JH 8th^th grader) – student of Edward Kuhn

Honorable Mention – Max Wang (Newlonsburg Elementary 4^th grader) - student of Tatyana

      Gelman

 

Instrumental:

1^st place – Arthini Pulenthiran, violin (Franklin Regional HS freshman) – student of

      Ramona Coppage

2^nd place – Megan McKelvey, clarinet (Franklin Regional HS freshman) – student of

      Natalie Williams

Honorable Mention – Faith Dent, violin– (Harrold Middle School 8^th grader) student of Ramona

      Coppage (and the late Mary Volker)

Honorable Mention – Kevin Lee, violin (Penn Middle School) – student of Jennifer Dail

Honorable Mention – Rebecca Scimio, flute (Franklin Regional 8^th grader) – student of Dan

      Parasky         

               

Vocal:

1^st place – Megan Swift (Franklin Regional 6^th grader) – student of Amy McDaniel

2^nd place – Libby Krieger (Franklin Regional 7^th grader) – student of Jennifer Dail

 

 

Level II – Grades 10-12

 

Piano:

2^nd place – Miko Reyes (Latrobe SH junior) – student of Jacqueline Herbein

Honorable Mention – Taylor Cannon (Hempield Area SH senior) – student of Cheryl Hull

 

Instrumental:

Tie for1^st place – Stephen Simpson, alto sax (Franklin Regional HS sophomore) – student of Jim

      Sheppard

Tie for 1^st place – Benjamin Catalano, mallet percussion (Greensburg Central Catholic junior) –

      student of RJ Heid

 

Vocal:

1^st place – Anishaa Sivakumar (Franklin Regional HS freshman*) – student of Amy McDaniel

Tie for 2^nd place – Sabina Balsamo (PA Cyber Charter School senior) – student of Daniel Teadt

Tie for 2^nd place – Savannah McElhaney (Latrobe JH sophomore) – student of Nicole Wolfgang

 

All students listed will present a recital of pieces chosen by the judges from their audition programs.  Finals judges were: Kathleen Campbell (Seton Hill Music Dept. saxophonist/WW specialist), Dr. Maureen Miller (Seton Hill Community Music Program, former Ball State University Vocal Professor) and Paul Sisco (Chatham University Music Dept, and concert pianist)

                                                               

The Westmoreland Symphony’s Young Artist Competition has been in existence since the 1980s. In 2002, its format was changed from a concerto competition to a solo competition.  It is now open to students who reside or take their private music lessons in Westmoreland or Fayette Counties.

 

For more information contact the Westmoreland Symphony Office at 724-837-1850 or email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .