Fischoff Chamber Competition winners announced. (Items of Interest).The Fischoff National Chamber Music Association named Quintet Attacca At`tac´ca 1. (Mus.) Attack at once; - a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause. of Chicago the Grand Prize winner of the 2002 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, held May 10-12, 2002, at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend. As Grand Prize winners, Quintet Attacca will be featured on the Joseph E. Fischoff Memorial Winner's Tour, which includes concerts and community programming in Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota. An additional $5,000 cash prize will be awarded at that time. The ensemble also won the Senior Wind Division Gold Medal and a $3,000 cash prize. Fischoff will send the quintet to the Emilia Romagna Festival in Italy for several concert appearances. The Senior Wind Silver Medal, worth $2,000, was awarded to Syrinx syrinx: see panpipes. Syrinx transformed into reeds which pursuing Pan made into pipe. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 232; Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses] See : Music Syrinx Saxophone Quartet from Northwestern University, and the $1,000 Senior Wind Bronze Medal was awarded to A Few Good Reeds saxophone quartet from Indiana University of Pennsylvania History IUP was founded in 1875 as a normal school by investors in Indiana County. It followed the mold of the French Ecole Normale. When it opened its doors it enrolled just 225 students. . The Senior String Gold Medal and $3,000 prize went to The Chiara String Quartet of Grand Forks, North Dakota  “Grand Forks” redirects here. For other uses, see Grand Forks (disambiguation). Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the U.S. ; the Senior String Silver Medal was awarded to Xanadu Trio, a piano trio form The Juilliard School; and the Senior String Bronze Medal was awarded to Jung Trio, a piano trio from the Yale School of Music The Yale School of Music is one of the twelve Professional Schools at Yale University. In November 2005, an anonymous donation of $100 million allowed students in the school of music to study for free.[1] References 1. . In the Junior Division, for ensembles ages 18 and under, the First Place Scholarship of $2,000 went to Orion Piano Trio from Midwest Young Artists Midwest Young Artists (MYA), the largest youth ensemble music program in the Midwest, was founded in 1993 in Chicago by Allan Dennis and consisted of a single orchestra. Since then, MYA has grown and now contains five youth symphony orchestras, big bands, and two choruses. in Fort Sheridan, Illinois Fort Sheridan, Illinois was a United States Army Post named after Civil War Cavalry General Philip Sheridan, to honor his many services to Chicago. Overview The Commercial Club of Chicago, concerned since 1877 with the need for a military garrison, was motivated by the ; the $1,500 Second Place Scholarship was awarded to Vidancia Trio of the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C.; and the Third Place Scholarship, worth $1,000, went to Ivory Winds, a piano/wind sextet from the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. The Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition is open to any wind, brass or string chamber music ensemble of three to six members and is divided into a junior and senior division. Groups must fulfill minimum repertoire requirements. For more information about the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition contact Executive Director Ann Divine at (574) 631-0984 or info@fischoff.org. |
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