WE WERE THRILLED TO RECEIVE MANY WONDERFUL ENTRIES FOR OUR 7TH ANNUAL SOLO COMPETITION!
Winners are determined through a blind adjudication process, meaning that the Elemental Music team pulls audio off of the video files so that the adjudicators can listen without any indication of who is playing.
Tereza Stanislav, our adjudicator, enjoyed hearing every student who submitted a recording and provided feedback to every participant.
WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE WINNERS BELOW.
HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION
1st Prize: Cassidy Walther, cello
student of Sarah Koo
2nd Prize: Connor McKeown, clarinet
student of Amanda Walker
3rd Prize: Molly Brady, violin
student of Emily Call
MIDDLE SCHOOL DIVISION
1st Prize: Avalon Purdy, flute
student of Cathy Larson
2nd Prize: Ryan Crawford, bassoon
student of John Campbell
3rd Prize: Grant Jensen, violin
student of Can Canbolat
Honorable Mention: Tenn Smith, cello
student of Stephen Reis
Prize winners will receive a cash prize. Congratulations to our winners, and thank you to ALL students who submitted recordings! We’re so impressed by your skill and dedication to music.
About our adjudicator:
An active and highly sought after chamber musician, Tereza Stanislav has appeared in venues including the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall and at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. She has performed in concert with many of the world’s leading artists including August Hadelich, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Jon Kimura Parker.
An advocate for new music, Tereza has worked with composers including Steve Reich, Gunther Schuller, Joan Tower, Toshio Hosokawa and Louis Andriessen. World premieres include Gunther Schuller’s Horn Quintet (2009) with Julie Landsman, Louis Andriessen’s The City of Dis (2007), Gernot Wolfgang’s Rolling Hills and Jagged Ridges (2009), James Matheson’s Violin Sonata (2007); West Coast premieres include Steve Reich’s Daniel Variations and Gernot Wolfgang’s Jazz and Cocktails. She is featured on recordings of Wolfgang’s Rolling Hills and Jagged Ridges on Albany Records, Reich’s Daniel Variations on Nonesuch, a self-released solo cd with Hung-Kuan Chen and the complete Pleyel string quartets with the Enso Quartet on Nonesuch.
Tereza was the featured soloist with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in the world premiere of the Violin Concerto by Benjamin Wallfisch about which the Los Angeles Times wrote, “she gave a magisterial rendition” and “held the audience rapt.”
Tereza is currently a member of the Calder Quartet, and New Hollywood Quartet, as well as the Assistant Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.