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The 3rd Annual Piano Concerto Competition 2002 Winners' Bios |
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Junior Division Mr. & Mrs Ed Hohman Award First Place |
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Tracy Bu is a 4th grader in Richard H. Bryan Elementary School. She has been playing piano for 6 years under the occasional guidance of Jie Bu. Tracy has performed solo and duet in many recitals, festivals and competitions over the years. She has been awarded firsts in Silver State and Jr. Piano Competitions. In addition to her piano talent, Tracy also plays violin. Most recently, she won second place in the 2002 Bolognini Scholarship Competition. In her spare time, Tracy likes to read and swim. She also enjoys traveling with her family and friends, especially overseas. | ||
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Jun Yamaguchi is a 4th grader in the Meadows School. He has been playing piano since he was 6 years old, under the great guidance of Jie Bu. Jun has won many times in competitions over the last several years. He was awarded first place in the Silver State Competition. Besides the piano Jun is also a winning chess player. In his spare time Jun likes to read, ski and play golf and tennis. He also enjoys school and playing with his friends. | ||
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Intermediate Division
Desert Arts of Nevada Award First Place |
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Bonnie Brooksbank 11 years old, began studying the piano at age three. A first place winner at the Silver State Competition from 1998 to 2001, she had received top marks and accolades in numerous festivals in the Reno area.
She was recently featured on a local CBS TV human interest story along with her sisters Cassie and Amanda. Bonnie is also a gifted violinist. She comes from a family of six children and is honor roll fifth grade student at Our Lady of the Snows parochial school. She is currently studying piano under the direction of Ann Lenhard. |
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Andrew Chang is a sophomore at Green Valley High School. Born 16 years ago today in Columbus, Ohio, he has also lived in Arizona and Hawaii. He has been playing the piano for six years and has studied the piano under Jie Bu for the past two years since he moved to Las Vegas from Hawaii. Andrew took first place in the 2000 Silver State Piano Competition. Andrew enjoys a wide variety of extra curricular activities. In addition to the piano, he has played the clarinet for several years. He is an avid debater on the school's Speech and Debate team and plays on the varsity tennis team. Andrew is currently a Life Scout in his Boy Scout troop. In his spare time, Andrew enjoys reading, listening to music, and tinkering with computers. Some day, he hopes to enter the medical field as a genetic engineer. |
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Senior Division
Southern Nevada Music Award First Place |
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Weston Arnold, age 17, is a native of Reno, Nevada. He has been studying piano for the last five years, three of them with his present teacher, Sonnet Johnson. His piano performances include the annual Reno Youth Music Festival, where he received the highest rating. He has performed in several master classes in Reno, with visiting artists/teachers. In June of 2000, he participated in an intense, week-long master class with pianist Daniel Pollack, in Washington. He was a finalist in the Albertson College Piano Competition, received second place in the Music Teachers' National Association Piano Performance Competition in Nevada, and received an honorable mention in the Festival for Creative Pianists.
Weston is a junior at Bishop Manogue High School, where he has a cumulative GPA of 3.8 in all honors and upper level courses. During his freshman year, Weston played football as a starting safety. He also enjoys wave-boarding, snow skiing, and playing basketball. In the future, Weston plans to attend college with a double major in piano performance and a field related to Physics/Engineering. Weston lives in Sparks with his parents, Elizabeth and Paul Arnold, and his younger sister, Tara. |
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Milan Jesic 17, was born in Yugoslavia. He began music lessons at the age of eight in accordion in his homeland. Milan continued his musical training in the accordion, solfege and theory in Prague, Czechoslovakia. At age ten, his family moved to America. In the city of Las Vegas Milan began to take his first piano lessons was with Diana Stevens, and soon after that in 1999, Milan became a piano student at the Nevada School of the Arts with pianist Damaris Alvarez. Under her guidance, Milan has won many awards and competitions including the First piano Concerto Competition in 2000. Currently, he is an honor student at the Las Vegas Academy in twelfth grade. This year he has been selected the LVA piano school representative.
Milan plays various types of music on the accordion, including: Yugoslavian, Spanish, Italian, French, American, and Classical. He currently works at the Paris Hotel playing accordion. He would especially like to thank his father for the support and dedication throughout his whole life. His dad is a big part of his life-"He has always been supportive and always pushing forward," says Milan. Next fall Milan will continue his musical training with Dr. Victor Hugo Alvarez at CSN. Milan's dream is to further his music studies in New York at the Manhattan School of Music. |
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Second Place (not awarded) |
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Honorable Mentions
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Katherine Cho Winsey Lam
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Piano Competition Winners
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For more information and entry forms contact: Dr. Victor Hugo Alvarez, piano coordinator, CSN Music Program Phone: (702) 651-4659 Email: victor.alvarez@csn.edu For a printable Competition Entry Form please see: Competition Entry Form |
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