June 4, 2023 Season Finale Concert

“A concerto extravaganza”

Featuring
2023 Young Artist Concerto Competition Winners
William Ge, Age 16, Piano
Matthew Ho, Age 14, Cello
Madison Lee, Age 14, Violin
Jinan Laurentia Woo, Age 15, Violin

Program
Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Beethoven Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky Rococo Variation for Cello and Orchestra
Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paginini Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No. 5

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William Ge, a sixteen-year-old pianist, is a student at Phillips Academy Andover and the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. He currently studies piano with Ya-Fei Chuang and John Perry. William debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra in October 2022 after winning their concerto Competition. The Philadelphia Inquirer described his performance of the Mozart Concerto as “notably fluid while gilding the music with spots of interpretive individualization.” A Second Place and Chopin Award winner of the 2023 MTNA National Senior Piano Competition and atwo-year recipient of the Chopin Foundation’s Chopin Scholarship, William is a top prize winner of many competitions. His most recent achievements include winning the Grand Prize of the 2023 Fidelity Investments Young Artists Competition of the Boston Pops and winning the 2023 NEC Prep Concerto Competition. William has also performed as a soloist with the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra and the Warminster Symphony Orchestra.

Matthew Ho is a student of Clara Kim at the Juilliard Pre-College. Matthew has won top prizes in many competitions such as the VIVO International Music Competition, the International Grande Music Competition, the NLPA International Young Artists Competition, the Camerata Artists International Competition, and the Adelphi Young Artist Competition. He has performed in Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, the Merkin Hall, and the Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory. Matthew made his solo orchestral debut with the New Jersey Camerata Orchestra as a First-Place winner of their Concerto Competition. In addition, Matthew was a national finalist of the 2022-23 MTNA National Competition, after winning the New Jersey State as well as the Eastern Division of the three-tiered competition, and he received Merit Award in the national competition. Matthew attended the Morningside Music Bridge summer program on a full scholarship last summer, where he studied with renowned cellists such as Laurence Lesser, Paul Katz, John Kadz, Zvi Plesser, and Andres Diaz. He will be joining the Perlman Music Program this summer.

Madison Lee is a fourteen-year-old violinist from New York, studying with Lucie Robert at the Manhattan School of Music Pre-college program while attending Hunter College High School. She made her orchestral debut at 12-years old with the Sejong Chamber Ensemble in Seoul, Korea. Madison has won numerous prizes in prestigious competitions, including1stprize winner at the U.S. National Artist Competition, New York Young Virtuoso Competition, and grand prize at the International New Artist Competition in Korea. Madison has performed at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center. Madison will perform with the Seoul Philharmonic in Korea this summer.

Fifteen-year-old Violinist Jinan Laurentia Woo was recognized by “The Strad” magazine as a violinist with “.....the single most memorable performance of the entire competition.....simplicity and wisdom beyond her years.” Jinan is a sophomore at Columbia Preparatory School and studies with Li Lin at the Pre-College division of the Juilliard School. She has studied with Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho as scholarship recipient. Laurentia made her solo concert debut at ten years old at a prodigy series concertin Hong Kong. She made her orchestral debut with the Salzburg Chamber Soloists and was subsequently invited to perform with numerous orchestras in Asia, Europe, and North America such as the National Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Pannon Philharmonic, and Incheon Philharmonic. She was accepted into the Perlman Music Summer Program as itsyoungest student. She has been invited to perform with acclaimed violinists such as Hilary Hahn, Gil Shaham, Kyoko Takezawa, and Cho-Liang Lin. In 2019, Laurentiawon 1st Prize at the prestigious Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians and in March 2022 was awarded the 1st Prize and Best Performance of the Commissioned Work Prize from the Johansen International Competition as the youngest winner in its history. Recently, she was awarded Gold Prize anda finalist in the 2023 YoungArts Foundation National Arts Competition.