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The Winners and Grinners – 2017 International Prize Winners [CONGRATS]
As the 2017 competition year winds to an end, we take a look back at the year's major international competition prize winners and stipendium recipients
As the 2017 competition year winds to an end, we take a look back at the year's major international competition prize winners and stipendium recipients - including VC Artists Kian Soltani, Sarah Christian, Zlatomir Fung, María Dueñas, Anna Luisa Kramb, Lara Boschkor, Sirena Huang, Paul Huang, Nathan Meltzer, Ioana Cristina Goicea, Luke Hsu, Rennosuke Fukuda, Nakyung Kang, Eunbin Lee, Eugene Kawai, Yo Kitamura and Ji Won Song - and the Calidore and Notos Quartets.
27 year old VC Young Artist Sarah Christian from Germany and 23 year old Andrea Obiso from Italy were awarded joint-2nd prize at the 2017 ARD International Violin Competition – in Munich, Germany. [PICTURED]
27 year old Kristine Balanas from Latvia was awarded 3rd p
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For the composer born with this name, see Isidore de Lara Isidore Cohen (December 16, 1922, Brooklyn, New York – June 23, 2005, Bronx, New York) was a renowned chamber musician and violinist, as well as a former member of the Juilliard String Quartet and Beaux Arts Trio. Cohen began studying violin at age six, and graduated from the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, although his intention was to become a doctor. His pre-med studies at Brooklyn College were interrupted by a serving in Europe with the U.S. Army during World War II. From there on, his career focus changed as he decided he'd rather touch people's lives through music.Upon returning to civilian life, he became a lärjunge of Ivan Galamian at Juilliard. Galamian had misgivings about accepting a 24-year-old student, but wanted to help a war veteran. From there, his life as a musician started to blomma, even drawing the attention of Igor Stravinsky with his performance of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat. He became
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Colburn School graduate reaches the finals of the International Tchaikovsky Competition
Nigel Armstrong, a 21-year-old recent graduate of L.A.’s Colburn School, has made the violin finals in classical music’s equivalent of the Olympics — the quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Competition in Russia that’s best known stateside for Van Cliburn’s triumph during the inaugural running in 1958.
Americans celebrated it as a victory over the Soviets on their own turf during those Cold War days, and Cliburn, a pianist from Texas, returned to a ticker tape parade on Manhattan’s Broadway and lionization on the cover of Time magazine.
The competition is for pianists, cellists and violinists ages 16 to 30 and singers ages 19 to 32.
FOR THE RECORD:
An earlier version of this story said Nigel Armstrong is a 22-year-old senior at the Colburn School. He is a 21-year-old who graduated in May. Also, the conversions from euros to dollars in reporting prize money were incorrect. The winners