Kingsville winners announced.Yuqing Meng, a 16-year-old pianist from Madison, New Jersey Madison is a borough in Morris County, New Jersey, in the United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the population was 16,530. It also is known as, "The Rose City. , won first place at the 2007 Kingsville International Isabel Scionti Piano Competition. Meng received a total of $8,500 cash and will audition with the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra, the Victoria, Texas, Symphony Orchestra, and the Festival de San Miguel del Allende, Mexico, for performance engagements. Meng studies with Yoheved Kaplinsky in the Juilliard Preparatory program. Tim Zhang, 13, from Vancouver, British Columbia, won second prize, taking home $3,700. He studies with Sasha Starcevich. Third place went to Amir Khosrowpour, 25, who studies with Phillip Kawin at the Manhattan School of Music Founded in 1917, the school is located on Claremont Avenue in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City, adjacent to the campus of Columbia University, where it has been since 1969. Many of the students live in the school's residence hall, Andersen Hall. and was winner of the 2002 MTNA MTNA Music Teachers National Association MTNA Middle Tennessee Nursery Association (McMinnville, Tennessee) Collegiate Artist Piano Competition. Tian Tian or T'ien (Chinese; “Heaven”) In indigenous Chinese religion, the supreme power reigning over humans and lesser gods. The term refers to a deity, to impersonal nature, or to both. Lu, 22, who studies with Monique Duphil at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, located in Oberlin, Ohio, was founded in 1865 and is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. Students of Oberlin Conservatory enter a very broad network within the music world, as the school's alumni can be found in , also received third place. Winners in the Isabel Scionti Piano Solo Competitions, held in conjunction with the concerto competitions, were: Damon Meng, who won the junior division, and Aram Arakelyan, who won the senior division. The 26th annual competition awarded more than $22,000 in prizes to young pianists under 26 years old. There were more than 100 entries in four different contests. For more information, contact the Kingsville International Piano Competition. |
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