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The 4th Annual Piano Concerto Competition 2003 Winners' Bios |
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Junior Division Las Vegas Music Teacher Association (LVMTA) Award First Place |
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Amanda Brooksbank resides in Reno, Nevada, with her parents, two brothers and three sisters. She is a 10 year-old, fourth grade student attending Huffaker Elementary School. A 4.0 student member of the Huffaker School Honor Choir and member of the fourth grade basketball team, Amanda studies the harp and the piano. She has performed extensively and received numerous awards and accolades in festivals and talent competitions in the greater Reno area.
Amanda has been studying the piano since age 3 and is currently under the direction of Ann Lenhard. This will be her debut as a soloist with an orchestra. |
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| Second Place | |||
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Jason Gee is a fifth grader at Marc Kahre Elementary School. His favorite subjects are music, math, science, and PE. He has been taking piano lessons with Jie Bu since age 5, and has participated in a number of piano recitals and competitions.
In addition to piano, Jason is also studying the violin. He has been playing violin since age 8 and is a student of Mary Staub. |
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Winsey Lam is nine and a fourth grader at John Y. Beatty Elementary School in advanced academics. She excels in math and thoroughly enjoys reading. She has been playing piano for three years under the guidance of pianist and pedagogue, Damaris Alvarez. Winsey has won and received honorable mention in previous CSN Piano Concerto Competitions and gained numerous awards including a scholarship award in the Dean's Honor Recital 2002 at the Nevada School of Arts.
In addition to her piano studies, she is also actively engaged in tap and jazz as well as gymnastics. She aspires to become a third grade teacher |
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Intermediate Division
Southern Nevada Music Award First Place |
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Christina Hummel was born in Boston, MA, sixteen years ago. She began her piano studies with Janet Ty at age 10. At the Interlochen Arts Camp, she studied with Anne Morton during the summers of 2000 and 2001, and with Dr. Gustavo Cardinal in 2002. For the past year she has been a student of pianist Dr. Victor Hugo Alvarez.
Christina also studies viola and is an active member of the Las Vegas Youth Symphony as well as the CSN Symphony Orchestra. She is a sophomore at Meadows High School where her academic successes include receiving Nevada's top score on the American Mathematics Competition Exam, and qualifying for the American Invitational Mathematics Exam. |
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Anthony Liu was born in California in 1989. He attends Greenspun Junior High School. A straight "A" honor student in every subject, he is also a concert master of the school orchestra after studying the violin for a little more than three years.
Anthony started to play the piano when he was seven. He won his first competition in 2001 at the Silver State Competition. He studies with Jie Bu. Anthony loves music and was twice recommended to play piano at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mandalay Bay for the Clark County Education Honor Dinner; he donated his paycheck to his school. |
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Dominique Jackson, seventh grade student at Helen Cannon Junior High School, has been a piano student of Martha Sparks at the Nevada School of the Arts since 1997. She is a Merit Scholarship recipient for piano study from the school. She performed at the Dean's Honors Performance Recitals and received the Dean's Honors Performance Scholarship in the Middle School category.
Dominique received honorable mention at the CSN First Annual Piano Concerto Competition in March 2000. At this year's competition she placed second in the intermediate division. Also a cello student of Moonlight Tran at the Nevada School of the Arts, she plays First Cello for the Helen Cannon Junior High School Advanced Orchestra and plays Fourth Cello for the Sinfonia Orchestra of the Las Vegas Youth Orchestras. Dominique's favorite pastimes are reading and drawing. |
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Jack Yang is a freshman at Clark High School's AMSAT. He has been playing piano for eight years under the guidance of Jie Bu. Over the years, Jack has won many piano competitions: first place in this year's 13-14 Bolognini Scholarship Competitions; and in previous years, first place in age groups 9-10 and 11-12. He has also participated and won numerous first place awards in the Silver State Competition, Search for Talent, the Baldwin Junior High State Competition and the MTNA Competition. In January 2003, Jack represented Nevada for the 2002-2003 MTNA Southwest Division Competition in Tucson, Arizona, and received Honorable Mention in the Junior High category. Jack also plays violin in the school orchestra.
His interests include playing table tennis, track, basketball, and hanging out with his friends. He would like to become and entrepreneur and major in business. |
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Senior Division
Mr. & Mrs Ed Hohman Award First Place |
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Victor Ngo began his classical piano studies at age 6, and with Carol Stivers at UNLV. He has won many honors and awards locally as well as nationally, including the state title in the MTNA Piano Competition three times, and honorable mention twice in the Southwest Regional level. He was the first place winner of the Bolognini Competition for many years, plus the CSN Concerto Competition, the Las Vegas Youth Phiharmonic Concerto Competition and the Search for Talent Contest. He was also one of only 40 national honorable mentions to qualify for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts scholarship. Victor has performed in master classes for Navah Perlman and professors from UNR, Northwestern, and Yale University.
At Clark High School, Victor is the senior class president, as well as principal cellist in the school's Symphony and the Chamber Orchestras. He studies cello with Richard Straub, and participates in the Youth, CSN, Honor, and All-State orchestras. He was chosen to perform the Saint Saens No. 1 concerto with the Henderson Civic Orchestra. In the summer of 2002, Victor attended a summer program in economics at Columbia University in New York, Boys State 2002, and the Las Vegas Music Festival. In his spare time, he enjoys watching movies, hanging out with weirdos, attempting to get into shape, and dreaming about the love of his life. He doesn't really know what he wants to do in the years to come, but hopes to continue to do what he loves... hopefully somewhere where there are subways, tall buildings, and rumors about overly-large rats. |
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Tony Anaya, born in Zamora Michoacan Mexico, began his piano studies at age 12, then at age 15 moved to Las Vegas and graduated from Eldorado High School.
Since 2000, Tony has studied with Dr. Victor Hugo Alvarez at CSN. He plans to enroll in the Associate Degree in Music program in the fall. |
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Honorable Mentions
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Corbin Beisner Yuna Kim
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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: 2008 Competition Entry Form |
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