Competition Finals
Sat April 22 2023 10:00 AM
National Opera Center
Juniors
Amie Shen (Violin)
Aurelia Faidley-Solars (Cello)
Ella Xu (Oboe)
Matthew Ho (Cello)
Natalie Oh (Violin)
Valentina Chen (Violin)
William Yeh (Violin)
Seniors
Aurora Miller (Violin)
Ella Eom (Violin)
Jisang Kymm (Viola)
Julie Kim (Violin)
Noah Chung Igelman (Cello)
Quincy Eby (Viola)
College
Bethany Bobbs (Cello)
Eliana Yang (Cello)
Esther Youjeong Yang (Violin)
Miray Ito (Violin)
Simon Hagopian-Rogers
Sofia Gilchenok (Viola)
Tien-Lin Yang (Violin)
William Suh (Cello)
Juniors
Valentine Chen (Violin)
Valentina (“Val”) Chen, age 13, currently studies the violin with Professor Sheryl Staples at the Pre-College division of the Juilliard School, and attends Princeton Day School in New Jersey. Her previous teachers and mentors include Stefan Jackiw, Khullip Jung and Ryu Goto. Born in Shanghai, China, to American expat parents of Chinese and Korean descent, Val started her violin study at the age of five. Since her family moved back to the US in 2018, Val has won top prizes in numerous competitions that include Camerata Artists International Competition, VIVO International Music Competition, Prima Volta Music Competition, Northeast Music Teachers Association Competition and PIMF Virtual Concerto Competition. She made an orchestra debut with Orchestra of Camerata of New Jersey at age 11. Val has performed in multiple winners’ concerts in venues such as the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, The Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center and Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center. She has participated in various summer music programs including the Heifetz Summer Institute and Philadelphia International Music Festival, and this summer she will study at the Perlman Music Program. In addition to playing violin, Val loves reading, writing and swimming.
Amie Shen (Violin)
Aurelia Faidley-Solars (Cello)
Matthew Ho (Cello)
Ella Xu (Oboe)
Natalie Oh (Violin)
William Yeh (Cello)
Seniors
Aurora Miller (Violin)
Ella Eom (Violin)
Jisang Kymm (Viola)
Bartok Viola Concerto First Movement
Jisang Kymm is a 16-year-old violist attending Horace Mann School in New York City. Currently a student of Yi-Fang Huang and Molly Carr at the Juilliard Pre-College, Jisang also studies under the tutelage of Itzhak Perlman, Carol Rodland, and Kirsten Docter at the Perlman Music Program.
Jisang is a first-prize winner in various music competitions including the Bellagrande International Music Competition, New York Young Virtuoso Competition, Prima Volta Music Competition, International Grande Music Competition, International Music Grand Prix, and Enkor International Music Competition, and the third-prize winner of the 12th Annual Lyra Music Youth Competition. He is a 2022 and 2023 National YoungArts winner in classical music.
Jisang enjoys playing for the HarMonia ensemble, which is comprised of Horace Mann School high school students. HarMonia performs in annual concerts to help fund the Summer on the Hill program, which provides academic enrichment for high-achieving, disadvantaged students from the Bronx, New York. Outside of music, Jisang is a New York Times mini crossword enthusiast and an avid listener of The 1975.
Julie Kim (Violin)
Noah Chung Igelman (Cello)
Quincy Eby (Viola)
Quincy Eby 16, commenced his musical journey at age 5 as a violinist under the guidance of Dorothy Kaplan Roffman the Executive Director of the Thurnauer School of Music. Quincy currently studies viola with Molly Carr and Yi-Fang Huang at Juilliard’s pre-college program. Quincy was a 2023 Sphinx Competition semi-finalist and is a finalist in the 2023 AO Young Artist Competition. Quincy was in 2022 the winner of the Kutztown International Music Festival’s concerto competition and will make his international debut in Greece in the Spring of 2023. Quincy is a founding member of the award-winning Thurnauer Quartet which is coached by Francesca Silos formerly of the Colorado Quartet. In 2021 the Quartet won a gold medal at the Young Maestro International Music Competition and in 2022 they were the recipients of the Grand Prize. The Thurnauer Quartet was selected to advance to the quarterfinals of the 2023 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Quincy has also received the New Jersey Governor’s Award in Arts Education and has received gold and silver medals in the classical instrument category and the bronze medal for vocal classical performance from the NAACP Act-So program. Quincy is always looking for ways to share his music with others and has received a gold medal for outstanding community service as part of the President’s National Youth Volunteer Service Recognition Program.
College
William Suh (Cello)
Cellist William Suh has been recognized as an emerging artist of engaging musicianship, sensitively colored playing and musical sincerity. The first prize winner of the New England Conservatory Concerto Competition and the Music Teachers National Association String Competition, William’s accolades include first prize at the Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Competition, a top prize at the New York International Artists Association Competition, finalist of the Stulberg International and Mondavi National Young Artist Founders' Division Competitions and recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award from National Public Radio’s From the Top. Recent performance highlights include Sergei Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante with the New England Conservatory Symphony and Maestro Hugh Wolff at Jordan Hall and a debut performance at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.
A dedicated chamber musician, William has worked with the Morgenstern and Weilerstein trios and members of the Cleveland, Emerson, Guarneri, Juilliard and Tokyo string quartets. Past festival appearances include the Chamber Music Workshop of the Perlman Music Program where he studied with the late Joseph Kalichstein and Roger Tapping, the Fellowship Program of the Bowdoin International Music Festival where he worked closely with David and Phillip Ying and the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival under Joel Krosnick and Laurie Smukler. William has also performed in select masterclasses for Truls Mørk, Marc Coppey and Laurence Lesser in addition to his studies with Astrid Schween, Clara Kim and Zvi Plesser through the Perlman Music Program and its Winter Residency in Sarasota.
William received his Bachelor of Music degree with Academic Honors from the New England Conservatory under Paul Katz and is currently pursuing his Master of Music degree at the Yale School of Music with Paul Watkins. He is also a full scholarship graduate of the Colburn Music Academy where he studied with Clive Greensmith. An advocate for the democratization of music education, William manages technical operations for CelloBello. A former grant recipient of the Virtu Foundation, he currently performs on a 1913 cello by Carl Becker Sr. provided by a generous loan from the Colburn Collection.
Bethany Bobbs (Cello)
Eliana Yang (Cello)
Esther Youjeong Yang (Violin)
Miray Ito (Violin)
Simon Hagopian-Rogers (Violin)
Sofia Gilchenok (Viola)
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Tien-Lin Yang (Violin)