Winners of PianoArts competition announced.Pianist Michelle Naughton, age 17, from Madison, Wisconsin, was named the first-prize winner of the PianoArts 2006 Biennial National Piano Concerto and Solo Competition. Naughton performed in the final round with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is an orchestra based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The symphony performs at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. The MSO presents more than 150 Classics, Classical Connections, Pops, and family concerts annually for more than 200,000 people under the baton of PianoArts Music Director Andrews Sill. Presenting her with the $5,000 award was Elizabeth Joy Roe, PianoArts 1999 first-prize winner. Naughton also won the Wisconsin Contestant Prize of $350. Naughton is a student of Christopher Taylor, professor of piano at the University of Wisconsin-Madison “University of Wisconsin” redirects here. For other uses, see University of Wisconsin (disambiguation). A public, land-grant institution, UW-Madison offers a wide spectrum of liberal arts studies, professional programs, and student activities. School of Music. The second prize of $3,000 was awarded to Pallavi Mahidhara, age 18, from Bethesda, Maryland. Mahidhara previously has won the MTNA MTNA Music Teachers National Association MTNA Middle Tennessee Nursery Association (McMinnville, Tennessee) Junior and Senior Piano Competitions. The third prize of $1,500 went to Monica We, age 17, from Fairfax, Virginia. By special request of the jury, a fourth-place prize was awarded to Konrad Binienda, age 17, from Akron, Ohio. All finalists performed Beethoven's Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Opus 37, Allegro con brio, with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Winning the Audience Communication Award of $300 was Douglas Kanner, age 16, from Plymouth, Massachusetts. Also awarded were two scholarships to the International Keyboard Institute and Festival at Mannes College of Music Mannes College The New School For Music is a music conservatory located in New York City, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Mannes is considered one of the leading music conservatories internationally, unique in its small size and rigorous musicianship training. in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to Kara Kara (kär`ə), river, c.140 mi (230 km) long, NE European and NW Siberian Russia. It flows N from the N Urals into the Kara Sea, forming part of the traditional border between European and Asian Russia. It is navigable in its lower course. Huber, age 18, from Oakland, Illinois, and Tyler Wottrich, age 18, from Roseville, Minnesota. For more information, visit www.pianoarts.org. |
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