20 Fellows Win $50,000 in Prizes as Music Academy of West Summer Program Concludes | Arts & Entertainment

2021 Marilyn Horne Tune Competitors Winners vocal piano fellow Alexander Soloway and tenor fellow Shawn Roth. (Phil Channing)

Dedicated to providing career-launching pathways for all of its Summer time Faculty and Music Competition fellows, the Music Academy of the West this yr awarded some $50,000 in prizes for auditions and competitions to twenty fellows on the conclusion of the pageant.

Instrumental fellows might audition to take part within the 2022 Keston MAX Trade with the London Symphony Orchestra. Every of the 12 winners obtained a money award of $1,500. 5 principal London Symphony Orchestra  (LSO) musicians, Edward Vanderspar, Colin Paris, Daniel Jemison, Paul Milner,and Neil Percy, gave greater than 30 non-public classes remotely to Music Academy fellows.

They had been joined by LSO colleagues Carmine Lauri, David Alberman, Rebecca Gilliver, Gareth Thomas, Juliana Koch, Chi-Yu Mo, Tim Jones, Neall Keatley, Ben Thomson, Nigel Thomas and Sam Walton to offer audition teaching and adjudicate the ultimate audition spherical.

2021 Digital Problem Winner, horn fellow Gabrielle Pho, taking part in in her video submission Essay on Craft. (Phil Channing)

The 2022 Keston MAX winners are Rodion Belousov, oboe; Aaron Blick, bass; Keoni Bolding, viola; Elissa Brown, flute; Cristina Cutts Dougherty, tuba; Carlos Jiménez Fernández, trombone; Sean Juhl, viola; Kipras Mazeika, bassoon; Emma Lee, cello; Ka Lengthy Lee, cello; Javier Morales-Martinez, clarinet; and Jonathan Wisner, percussion.

Lead sponsors of the London Symphony Orchestra partnership are Linda and Michael Keston and Mary Lynn and Warren Staley. Extra help has been offered in remembrance of Léni Fé Bland.

Instrumentalists and singers additionally might decide to participate in as much as three of 4 competitions: Solo Piano, Duo, Marilyn Horne Tune, and Digital Problem. Every of the six winners obtained a $5,000 money award. Winners of the Solo Piano, Duo, and Marilyn Horne Tune Competitions may even have a piece from a composer commissioned on their behalf.

For 2021, these commissioned artists are Tyshawn Sorey, Conrad Tao and Carlos Simon, respectively. The winners will premiere the commissions in recital within the Music Academy’s Hahn Corridor within the spring. They might additionally use as much as $1,000 as a further award to supply and current their recitals in new methods, together with the usage of know-how for sound, lighting, streaming or recording.

9 finalists shared concepts for brand spanking new ventures within the Quick Pitch Awards, of which three had been awarded $1,500 to encourage their innovation and creativity. They’ll obtain extra coaching once they attend Music Academy’s 2022 Innovation Residential.

2021 Competitors Winners

Solo Piano Competitors: Hsin-Hao Yang

Duo Competitors: Keoni Bolding,viola; Melivia Raharjo, piano

Marilyn Horne Tune Competitors: Shawn Roth, tenor;
Alexander Soloway, piano

Digital Problem: Gabrielle Pho, horn

Quick Pitch Awards: Anush Avetisyan, soprano; Rachel Martin, double bass; Byron J. Mayes, baritone

2021 Competitors Jurors

Solo Piano Competitors: John Churchwell, Gloria Cheng,
Andrew von Oeyen

Duo Competitors: Richard Beene, Nadia Sirota, Conrad Tao

Marilyn Horne Tune Competitors: Marilyn Horne, Carlos Simon,
Conor Hanick, Karen Slack

Digital Problem: Joyce Kwon, Clara Lyon, Pamela Strobel

Quick Pitch Awards: Clive Chang, Kelly Corridor-Tompkins, Brenda Patterson

This yr’s Competition befell from June 28-Aug. 7 for 110 full scholarship fellows with 77 public occasions for 1000’s of viewers members on its Miraflores Campus and on the Lobero and Granada theatres in Santa Barbara, with greater than 13,000 tickets offered. The 2022 Summer time Competition is deliberate for June 13-Aug. 6.