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PRE-COLLEGE CONSERVATORY 28 STUDENTS FROM 4 STATES IL - 19 IN – 2 MN - 1 WI - 6 22 ARTIST FACULTY 12+ MASTER CLASSES with distinguished faculty including: JUILLIARD SCHOOL Jerome Lowenthal, piano USC THORNTON SCHOOL OF MUSIC Lina Bahn, violin NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY Paul Katz, cello Donald Weilerstein, violin
7 SENIORS MATRICULATE TO TOP CONSERVATORIES Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University Colburn Conservatory of Music Curtis Institute of Music Oberlin College and Conservatory Royal College of Music (London, UK) University of Wisconsin, Mead Witter School of Music
Academy Musicians Shine Violinist Lily Sullivan placed third in the International LOUIS SPOHR Competition for Young Violinists. Sixty candidates from 20 countries worldwide performed in Weimar for the event. Students in the final round performed the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26, with the Orchestra of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar, with conductor Nicolás Pasquet. Lily travels to the Academy each week from Indianapolis, IN, and studies with Grigory Kalinovsky, violin faculty at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Pianist Noah Kim performed Mozart, Debussy, Kapustin, and Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes on a European tour in Paris and Hamburg this past April. Sponsored by the Paris Committee and Hamburg Committee of Chicago Sister Cities International (CSCI), this opportunity was the second in a series of six recitals Noah will perform around the world. Noah is a scholarship fellow at the Young Pianists Abroad Program, which was created in cooperation with CSCI and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Noah studies with MIC Artist-in-Residence and alumna, Marta Aznavoorian. Cellist Amelia Zitoun earned the prestigious Gold Medal at the Stulberg International String Competition in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She was awarded the Burdick-Thorne Gold Medal with a cash prize of $6,000 and a concerto performance with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra and/or the Grand Rapids Symphony, as well as a concerto performance with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. Amelia travels to the Academy from Shorewood, Wisconsin and studies with Hans Jensen.
