April 3rd Friday Night Café musicians
FRIDAY NIGHT CAFÉ is going DIGITAL!
We encourage all of you to join in the fun! It's easy to do. Send us your YouTube video, a picture and short bio. Each week up to 7 students will be featured in our mailchimp blast. Get your work out there and share the music! If you are interested in participating or receiving our weekly Friday evening mailchimp blasts, please send your picture, bio and recording to musicforyouthct@gmail.com. If you have any questions call 203-254-0123.
We encourage all of you to join in the fun! It's easy to do. Send us your YouTube video, a picture and short bio. Each week up to 7 students will be featured in our mailchimp blast. Get your work out there and share the music! If you are interested in participating or receiving our weekly Friday evening mailchimp blasts, please send your picture, bio and recording to musicforyouthct@gmail.com. If you have any questions call 203-254-0123.
March 27th Friday Night Digital Café Musicians
Lina Elwood, piano; Andrei Orasanu, guitar; Szofia Seres, flute; Cedar Newman, violin
April 3rd Friday Night Digital Cafe Musicians - 1st, 2nd, 3rd place winners of the Marianne Liberatore Instrumental Competition
Wujin Kim, cello; Gerald Kim, violin; Avery Duer, piano, Joshua Peiffer, flute (to see videos scroll down)
Lina Elwood, piano; Andrei Orasanu, guitar; Szofia Seres, flute; Cedar Newman, violin
April 3rd Friday Night Digital Cafe Musicians - 1st, 2nd, 3rd place winners of the Marianne Liberatore Instrumental Competition
Wujin Kim, cello; Gerald Kim, violin; Avery Duer, piano, Joshua Peiffer, flute (to see videos scroll down)
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Lina Elwood (10) piano
Lina, age 10, started playing the piano when she was 5 years old under the guidance of Kumiko Imamura. She has since won many top prizes in both local and international competitions, including Second Prize at Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford, CT, First Place at the Connecticut Bach Festival Competition, First Prize for both the Best Debussy Performance and the Best Bach Performance of the Great Composers Competition, First Prize in the French Category of the Schubert Club Awards Competition, First Prize at Glory International Baroque Music Competition, Second Prize at Future Stars International Piano Competition and Gold Award at the Golden Key Music Festival which she performed at the Carnegie Hall. Andrei Orasanu (11) guitar Andrei was born in 2008 in Stamford CT and began playing classical guitar at the age of five using the Suzuki method for the first year. During the years he has studied with many teachers including Daniel Hartington, Meredith Connie, James Kerr, Daniel Corr, Scott Hill and for the last two years with Tudor Niculescu-Mizil. Andrei has participated in many prestigious national and international competitions like Boston Guitar Fest, Mid Maryland Guitar Festival, Suzanne Culley Strings Competition, Sinaia International Guitar Festival and Eduard Pamfil International Guitar Competition where he took first prizes in his age group as well as in higher age categories. He performs regularly in many of the Music for Youth events around Fairfield County under the kind and enthusiastic guidance of Misty Beyer. Szofia Seres (12) flute Szofia started to play the flute 2 years ago. She is a member of Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestra, the Young Artist Philharmonic, and a flute choir in Old Greenwich. She volunteers with the Orange Music Band, coaching and mentoring young flute players and has also volunteered as a guest artist with the MFY preconcert Meet the Orchestra program. Cedar – Rose Newman (16) violin Cedar studies with Lucie Robert at the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College, she was the recipient of the Kate Bamberger Scholarship for violin (2018), holds the Jocelyn Gertel Scholarship for strings (2019) and won the Philharmonic String Concerto Competition in October 2019/20. Cedar began violin with Sarah Hindson in Wollongong, Australia and attended the local conservatorium, before moving to work with Albert Markov in the US in 2016. She has worked with her pianist Akiko Chiba, since 2017. Cedar completed her AMEB Associate Diploma piano, studying with Gian-Franco Ricci. An active participant in Music for Youth Connecticut, her involvement includes; performance, accompanying young violinists on the piano, performing recitals and hosting concerts. In 2019 Cedar committed to raising funds for “A Musical Gift” a Rural Aid Australia program designed to help provide greater access to music for students in isolated rural communities. Cedar attended a Montessori School until 11 and is now an online student of Wolsey Hall Oxford, preparing her IGCSE’s, in her free time she enjoys cooking, bouldering and hiking in the Australian bush. Wujin Kim (18) cello First place winner 2019 Marianne Liberatore Instrumental Competition Wujin Kim, 18, currently studies cello under Clara Minhye Kim at the Juilliard School. He is currently a member of the New York Youth Symphony and served as the principal cellist of Principal Orchestra in the Norwalk Youth Symphony in 2017-18. In 2014 and 2015, Wujin was the winner of the Junior Competition and Senior Competition of the Young Artist Festival sponsored by the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with the American Chamber Orchestra after winning the Concerto Competition in 2016. In 2017, Wujin was selected as a winner of the Norwalk Youth Symphony Concerto Competition and served as the principal cellist of the CMEA All-State Orchestra in 2017 and 2019. He has also won the 2019 YWCA NY Music Competition and the 2019 Marianne Liberatore Instrumental Competition. Gerald Kim (17) violin Second place winner 2019 Marianne Liberatore Instrumental Competition Gerald Kim is 17 years old and a junior at Fairfield Ludlowe High School where he is concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra. He is also a member of the Tri-M music honor society. He started to play the violin at age 7 and is currently studying under Wendy Sharp at Yale School of Music. He was a winner of American Chamber Orchestra Concerto Competition in 2018 and Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition in 2019 and performed as a soloist with the orchestras. He was the 2nd place winner of the Wallingford Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition in 2019 and a finalist of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition in 2019. Avery Duer (18) piano 3rd place winner of the 2019 Marianne Liberatore Instrumental Competition BIO Pianist Avery Duer, 18, a senior at Greens Farms Academy and Vassar College bound, has been studying piano with Steinway Artist, Yoshie Akimoto for three years. This past January, she won the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition with the Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Concerto. In 2018, she won First Place in the Connecticut Bach Festival, Second Place in the Senior Chopin Award at the Schubert Club Competition of Fairfield County and Second Place at the Chappaqua Orchestra Concerto Competition. In 2017, she won “Most Outstanding Performance” at the Annual CSMTA Deborah Kahan Competition. That same year, she performed at the Vianden International Festival in Luxembourg. Joshua Peiffer (17) flute 3rd place winner 2018 Marianne Liberatore Instrumental Competition BIO Joshua Hyuk Peiffer is 17 years old and a junior at Fairfield College Preparatory School. He has been studying flute for 8 years. In the summer of 2018 he attended the Eastman School of Music Summer Classical Music Program (formerly Music Horizons Program). He placed third in the 2018 Marianne Liberatore Memorial Instrumental Competition which awarded him a one hour solo recital in September, 2019. During the 2018-2019 academic year he was Principal Flute in both the Principal and Chamber Orchestras of the Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras (GCTYO). He currently attends the Mannes School of Music Pre-College Program in New York and is Principal Flute in the Philharmonic Orchestra. In February of 2020 he was named a finalist in the Greater Bridgeport Symphony Young Instrumentalist Concerto Competition. He has been accepted into Brevard Music Center and Boston University Tanglewood Institute for the summer of 2020. |
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