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Young Artist String Competition Winner
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| Hannah Linz, 17, is a violinist from Okemos, Michigan where she studies with Sunny Cirlin.
Performing with the BBSO on May 10th, 2009
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Hannah Linz, 17, is a violinist from Okemos, Michigan where she studies with Sunny Cirlin. She is a
member of the Michigan Youth Symphony, and is concert mistress of her schools orchestra.
Recently, Hannah was the concert mistress of the All-State Orchestra at the 2009 Michigan Music Conference in Grand Rapids. This spring, Hannah will perform as a soloist with the Ypsilanti, Birmingham-Bloomfield, and Lansing Symphonies as the winner of their concerto competitions. An avid chamber musician, Ms. Linz is a member of the Presto Quartet which was selected out of the state of Michigan to perform Ravels String Quartet at the Michigan Youth Arts Festival in 2008.
She has attended many summer festivals including Rocky Mountain Summer Conservatory, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Summit Music Festival, and The Quartet Program.
Hannah plans to pursue a career in music performance and is currently auditioning for conservatories.
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Young Artist Piano Competition Winner
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| Yesse Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, and started piano lessons at the age of six.
Performing with the BBSO on May 10th, 2009
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Yesse Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, and started piano lessons at the age of six.
She was the prize winners of competitions, including 1st prize at Kukmin Ilbo National Competition, 2nd prize at Teenager National Piano Competition, 2nd prize at Music Education News Competition, and 1st prize at Asia Chopin International Piano Competition. At the age of nine, she was selected to perform for the Kumho Prodigy Series as the youngest and made her first orchestra debut with Daejeon Sangrok Orchestra.
Later, she performed with Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2004, she was invited to perform in Shenzhen, China for The China-Korea Exchange Concert of Piano Prodigies and Young Musicians Festival in Youngsan Art Hall. After moving to Michigan, she was state winner of MTNA, 1st prize winner of Schoolcraft College Piano Competition, and finalist and $1,250 scholarship recipient of New York Piano Competition. She now studies with Mary Siciliano and Logan Skelton.
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Young Artist Piano Competition Winner
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| J Jesse Bennett |
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| J Jesse Bennett, 15, began piano lessons at the age of five with Mrs. Irina Babina, a prominent member of the Ann Arbor Area Piano Teachers Guild.
Performing with the BBSO on May 4th, 2008
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| Js awards include being a three time winner of the AAAPTG scholarship prize and the 2004 and 2005 Ann Arbor Bach Festival and Sonata-Sonatina Festivals at Schoolcraft College. Js more recent awards include the Ann Arbor Society for Musical Arts Youth Music Competition 2nd place winner for 2006, Alternate Winner for the 2006 Dearborn Symphony Concerto Competition, 2006 Solo Division 1st Place Winner at Ithaca College Piano Competition, Ithaca, New York, Alternate Winner of the 2007 Music Teachers National Association piano competition, and most recently, the 1st place winner of the 2008 Michigan Music Teachers Association piano concerto competition. He performs a solo recital each June at the Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor and often performs at senior citizen manors. He also has had solo performances in Hill Auditorium as part of the fund raising efforts for Habitat for Humanity. J has performed with the Helios Piano Trio with violinist Benjamin Beilman (previous soloist with the BBSO and currently attending Curtis), and Cellist Eric Tinkerhess at the annual Phoenix Phest. J will be performing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Plymouth-Canton Community Band conducted by Carl Battishill on May 16th. J lives in Ann Arbor and currently studies with Professor Logan Skelton, Piano Department Chair, University of Michigan School of Music.
Js musical interests range from Gregorian Chant to Big Band Swing Jazz. Some of his favorite performers include Rubenstein, Richter, Horowitz, Perahia, Schiff, Judy Garland, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fritz Reiner, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. J often visits the Detroit Institute of Arts where he enjoys viewing the works of Church, Peale, Canaletto, Rivera, and van Gogh. His reading interests range from Shakespeare to Tolkien to Schonberg to biographies of performers and composers. Swimming at Grandpa and Grandma Bennetts pond, jogging, and throwing a Frisbee are some of Js favorite outdoor activities.
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Young Artist String Competition Winner
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| Nathaniel Pierce |
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| Nathaniel Pierce lives in Saline, Michigan, where he currently is a junior at Saline High School. Nathaniel has been playing the cello since he was six years old.
Performed with the BBSO at their Broadway and the Movies concert held on January 27, 2008
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He studied at the Cottbus and Peter Cornelius (Mainz) Conservatories in Germany before moving to the U.S. three years ago. He has taken part in many local and state competitions, plays with a string quartet and a piano trio. He has participated in the Michigan Youth Orchestra for four consecutive years. He has attended t he Green Mountain Chamber Music festival and the International Academy of Pilsen, Czech Republic. He has attended the Innsbrook Institute and the Indiana String Academy where he won 1st prize in the concerto competition and performed the first movement of Haydns cello concerto in C. His former teachers include Guenther Grossman, Anne Zinke, Marianne Jakobovitz, Ulrike Schaeffer, Erling Bloendal Bengtsson. Last year he performed Kol Nidrei with Toledo Symphony. He is currently studying with Richard Aaron.
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