WASMO Young Artist Competition announces winners.Andrew Staupe, a 21-year old pianist from St. Paul, Minnesota, was awarded first prize in the 50th Annual WASMO Young Artist Competition. Staupe is a senior at the University of Minnesota (body, education) University of Minnesota - The home of Gopher. http://umn.edu/. Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. , where he studies piano with Lydia Artymiw. He received the $5,000 WAMSO Young Artist Award; the $2,500 WAMSO Achievement Award; a performance with the Minnesota Orchestra, a taped performance on McGraw Hill's Young Artist Showcase, WQXR in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , and the Erma Strachauer First Place medal. In addition, he received the $500 Mary Winston Small Memorial Piano Award. He also won a solo performance opportunity with the St. Paul Civic Symphony. Second prize was awarded to 23-year old cellist Alisa Horn. Horn, a native of Memphis, Tennessee, is pursuing a master's degree in cello performance at Northwestern University, where she studies with Hans Jensen. The second prize includes a $2,500 award from WAMSO plus a taped performance on McGraw Hill's Young Artist Showcase, WQXR in New York City. Horn also won the $500 Vincent R. Bastien Memorial Cello Scholarship Award, and a scholarship to the Madeline Island Music Camp Madeline Island Music Camp, established in 1985, is one of many summer music camps in the United States for pre-college and college aged music students. As the name suggests, it is held on Madeline Island, the largest of Wisconsin's Apostle Islands, an island known for moody summer in La Pointe, Wisconsin La Pointe is a town in Ashland County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 246 at the 2000 census. Its name in the Anishinaabe language is Mooningwanekaaning, meaning "the place full of Yellow-shafted Flicker". According to William W. . The $1,000 third prize went to Anna Burden, 23-year old cellist from Lake Bluff, Illinois Lake Bluff is a village in Lake County, Illinois. It is the closest moderate-sized town near the Great Lakes Navy Base. The population is 6,056 according to the 2000 census. The town has a volunteer fire department, and police department. . Burden is a senior at Northwestern University, and studies cello with Hans Jensen. She was the winner of the 2004 MTNA MTNA Music Teachers National Association MTNA Middle Tennessee Nursery Association (McMinnville, Tennessee) Young Artist String Competition. Eileen Walsh, 24, a clarinetist was the recipient of a $5,000 scholarship to the Aspen Music School in Boulder, Colorado. Walsh, a native of British Columbia, is currently pursuing a performer diploma at Indiana University, where she studies with Eli Eban. Walsh also received the Mathilda Heck Woodwind Award of $1,000. Violinist Eunice Keem, 22, a native of North field, Illinois, a student at Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). , Pittsburgh, was awarded the Elaine Louise Lagerstrom Memorial Violin Award that carries a prize of $1,000. She also was awarded a performance opportunity with the Schubert Club. Kevin Gebo, 23, trumpeter, a native of Tallahassee, Florida, who holds a trumpet performance degree from the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. , was awarded the Twin Cities Musicians Union prize of $1,000. The Young Artist Competition is a collaborative effort between WAMSO-Minnesota Orchestra Volunteer Association and the Minnesota Orchestra. For more information, e-mail WAMSO@mnorch.org. |
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