Friends of Music Concerto & Aria Competition

The Friends of Music Concerto & Aria Competition is open to students of Washington University in St. Louis. The winner will perform with the Washington University Symphony Orchestra in the 24-25 season and will receive a Friends of Music $500 merit award. 

Panelists:
Jennifer Judd, East Central College
Nathan Lowry, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Tzuying Huang, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Bethany Worrell, University of Missouri - St. Louis

Competitors:
4:00pm Paige Quiñones, mezzo-soprano - Ici-Bas! by Gabriel Fauré and Widmung by Robert Schumann 
4:07pm Priya Ramotar, flute - Fantaisie by Georges Hue
4:17pm Josie Kopff, soprano - "Deh vieni, non tardar" from Le nozze di Figaro by W.A. Mozart and "Laurie's Song" from The Tender Land by Aaron Copland
4:26pm Sean Wang, trombone - Trombone Concertino, Op. 4 by Ferdinand David
4:31pm Cynthia Yan, flute - Ballade by Frank Martin
4:41pm Jimin Lee, flute - Concerto for Flute and Orchestra,  Allegro Moderato by Carl Nielsen
BREAK 
5:01pm Olivia Lee, flute - Ballade by Carl Reinecke 
5:11pm Xiaoyu Luo, violin - Violin Concerto in D major by PI Tchaikovsky 
5:21pm Charles McGrath, violin - Violin Concerto No. 1, Movement 4 (Burlesque) by Dmitry Shostakovich
5:28 pm Jenny Lin, piano - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11, Movement 1 by F. Chopin
5:38pm Noah Kennedy, violin - Violin Concerto 5, Allegro non troppo by H. Vieuxtemps
5:48pm Henry Kessler, viola - Viola Concerto in G minor, Movement I by Cecil Forsyth
5:58pm Thomas McGrath, French horn - Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 417, Allegro Maestoso by W.A. Mozart

Collaborative Pianists:
Jonathan Heaney
Sandra Geary
Matthew Mazzoni
Young Whun Kim