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Congratulations to the SOM students who participated in the Schubert Club Scholarship Competition Finals (winners are listed below). Check out the complete list of winners, which includes the junior and high school winners of SOM faculty.

Hunter/Schubert Club Prize
Beth Bayley, soprano (John De Haan)

College/Graduate Brass and Woodwind
James Hodges, clarinet, first place (Alexander Fiterstein)
Kendra Wheeler, saxophone, second place (Eugene Rousseau)

Graduate Piano
Pei-Lei Lin, honorable mention (Lydia Artymiw)

Senior High Strings
Melissa Deal, violin, second place (PSEO student of Sally O'Reilly)

College/Graduate Strings
Angelika Strub, violin, first place, (Sally O'Reilly)

Intermediate Voice
Tim Murray, baritone, first place (Jean del Santo)
Shelley Mihm, soprano, second place (Phillip Zawisza)
Lauren Feider, soprano, honorable mention (Wendy Zaro-Mullins)

Advanced Voice
David Kent Morgan, tenor, first place (Jean del Santo)

Graduate Voice
Sidney Walker, mezzo soprano, honorable mention (Jean del Santo)

Posted by Jennifer Schmitt at 12:28 PM | Permalink

Congratulations to the SOM students who participated in the Thursday Musical Young Artist Scholarship Competition (winners listed below). Check out the complete list of winners, which includes the junior and high school winners of SOM faculty.

Piano (College Level)
Hyun Jin Cho, first place (Paul Shaw)
Pei-Lei Lin, second place (Lydia Artymiw)

Strings (College Level)
Angelika Strub, violin, honorable mention (Sally O'Reilly)

Advanced Voice (College Level)
Johna Miller, soprano, honorable mention (Lawrence Weller)

Intermediate Voice (College Level)
Lauren Feider, soprano, first place (Wendy Zaro-Mullins)
JoAnna Griffith, soprano, honorable mention (Barbara Kierig)
Benjamin Dutcher, baritone, honorable mention (John De Haan)

Winds (College Level)
Kristina Meanley, clarinet, first place (Alexander Fiterstein)
Anastasiya Nyzkodub, clarinet, second place (Alexander Fiterstein)
Jenifer Minor, flute, honorable mention (Immanuel Davis)

SOM Faculty Judges
Julia Bogorad
Jean del Santo

Posted by Jennifer Schmitt at 11:15 AM | Permalink

Congratulations to the SOM students who participated in the Schubert Club Scholarship Competition Preliminaries (winners are listed below). Check out the complete list of winners, which includes the junior and high school winners of SOM faculty.

Graduate Piano (ages 24-27)
Jing (Jenny) Dou - student of Alexander Braginsky
Pei-Lei Lin- student of Lydia Artymiw

College/Graduate Strings (freshman-age 24)
Emily McIntyre, violin - student of Sally O'Reilly
Angelika Strub, violin - student of Sally O'Reilly

College/Graduate Brass & Woodwind (freshman-age 24)
Spencer Brand, trumpet - student of David Baldwin
James Hodges, clarinet - student of Alexander Fiterstein
Ariel Pry, clarinet - student of Alexander Fiterstein
Kendra Wheeler, saxophone - student of Eugene Rousseau

Intermediate Voice (ages 17-20)
Isabella Dawis, soprano - student of Elizabeth Mannion
Lauren Feider, soprano - student of Wendy Zaro-Williams
Joanna Griffith, soprano - student of Barbara Kierig
Shelley Mihm, soprano - student of Philip Zawisza
Tim Murray, baritone - student of Jean del Santo

Advanced Voice (ages 21-24)
David Kent Morgan, tenor - student of Jean del Santo

Graduate Voice (ages 25-30)
Beth Bayley, soprano - student of John David De Haan
Cassandra Koob, soprano - student of John David De Haan
Sidney Walker, mezzo - student of Jean del Santo

SOM Faculty Preliminary Judges
Gary Bordner, trumpet
Immanuel Davis, flute
Rebecca Shockley, piano

Posted by Jennifer Schmitt at 9:44 AM | Permalink

School of Music vocal students recently distinguished themselves at the Minnesota NATS student auditions in Collegeville, MN. Semi-finalists included:

• Julia Ennen, student of Jean del Santo
• Renee Ullrich, student of Jean del Santo
• Tim Murray, student of Jean del Santo
• Laura Modglin, student of Adriana Zabala
• Seth Bovis, student of Philip Zawisza
• Kristin Elliott, student of Adriana Zabala

Finalists in their respective divisions included:

• Ben Dutcher, student of John De Haan
• Stephanie Broussard, student of Jean del Santo
• Shelby Joy Adams, student of Jean del Santo
• Shelly Mihm, student of Philip Zawisza
• David Morgan, student of Jean del Santo
• Brennan Blankenship, student of Adriana Zabala
• Robert Riordan, student of Philip Zawisza

Posted by Jennifer Schmitt at 3:32 PM | Permalink

Wei Zheng (D.M.A. candidate, voice, student of Jean del Santo) is the North Central Region winner of the biennial National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Award and will represent the U of M School of Music at the national NATS convention in Orlando this summer.

Posted by Jennifer Schmitt at 2:36 PM | Permalink

The U of M School of Music is pleased to announce the 2011 Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize, a national competition for new works for wind ensemble. The 2010 Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize for Mixed Chorus was awarded to Zvonimir Nagy for his work Cantus Jubilus. Guidelines and an application for the competition are available on the School of Music website. The deadline for submissions is Thursday, June 30, 2011. Read more.

Posted by School of Music Pubs and Public Rel at 2:53 PM | Permalink

Marvin O. Mechelke II Piano Award Competition

The Mechelke Scholarship Competition is for undergraduate piano majors, and is held at the Mechelke home every other year in the spring. The next competition will take place on Friday evening, April 29, 2011.

Eligibility
The competition is open to any talented full-time undergraduate student in the College of Liberal Arts majoring in piano performance, music education/therapy, or a Bachelor of Arts in Music, whose instrument is piano and who has not already won the award. All applicants must be in good academic standing, carrying at least 13 credits per semester and have a GPA of at least 3.0.

Repertoire
Contestants must choose at least two contrasting works with a total playing time of 10 to 20 minutes. A second piano will be available for duo or concerto repertoire. Selections should be complete works or movements, not excerpts. Cuts are not allowed, but repeats may be omitted. Contestants should be prepared to make some brief introductory remarks about their repertoire (as time permits).

Winner's Encore
After the judges have announced their decision, the winner shall perform, as an encore program, one or more additional selections from their repertoire totaling 10 to 15 minutes in length, again withbrief introductory remarks about the music.

Award
The winner will receive a cash prize of $1,500, to be used as needed to further their musical education at the University of Minnesota. At the discretion of the judges and with approval of the Mechelkes, an additional award of $500 may be awarded to the second-place winner. (Second-place winners may compete a second time, but those who have won two second-place awards are no longer eligible to compete.)

Judges
The jury shall consist of three individuals selected by the School of Music: an active School of Music faculty member not from the keyboard division, and two more individuals chosen from the local music community. The decision of the judges is final.

Application forms should be submitted to Rebecca Shockley by April 13, and repertoire information should be submitted by April 22.

mechelkeCompApplicationE.pdf

Posted by School of Music Pubs and Public Rel at 11:07 AM | Permalink