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Parness Concerto Competition
2019 The Competition is Friday,
November 22, 2019 Sponsored by SoCal Symphony Society and
Culver City Symphony Orchestra P. O Box 4846, Culver City, CA 90231 www.culvercitysymphony.org info@culvercitysymphony.org Murphy Recital Hall, Loyola Marymount University/LMU, One LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045 - WINNERS AND HONROABLE MENTIONS
JUDGES: •Frank Fetta: Principal Conductor and Music Director/Culver City Symphony Orchestra and Marina del Rey Symphony •Chika Inoue: Saxophone, Touring Concert Artist, Professor-Cal State Dominguez Hills •Brad Keimach: Conductor, Stage Director, Educator •Wojciech Kocyan: Piano, Professor-Loyola Marymount University •Marina Manukian: Violin, Touring Concert Artist, Studio Musician, Artistic Director: Enlightenment Music Series We are pleased to announce the Winners and Honorable Mentions for the Parnes Concerto Competition, 2019. WINNERS Yirou Zhang, Violin, Age 15 Edward Lalo: “Symphonie Espagnol” Kevin Cho, Piano, Age 16 Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto, No. 1, bflat minor Abriana Church, Piano, Age 20 Serge Prokofiev: Piano Concerto, No. 2, g minor HONORABLE MENTIONS Timotée Allouch, Piano, Age 13 Felix Mendelssohn: Capriccio Brillante, b minor Shawn Xie, Piano, Age 16 Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto, No. 1, bflat minor Dallas Noble, violin, Age 19 Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto Congratulations. Our great thanks to all of the contestants whose talents, musicality and dedication to music and their instrument always make the decisions of judges a very thoughtful and difficult process. We wish the Best to all contestants as they continue with their studies. We give big thanks to the contestants’ parents and guardians who shepherd these young musicians around the SoCal sprawl. Our tremendous thanks for the music teachers who continue the great traditions of Classical Music and explore the new. The competition is sponsored by Culver City Symphony Orchestra, whose Board of Directors along with our appreciated volunteers produce and run the Parness Concerto Competition. Terry Pincus-CoChair Matthew Hetz-CoChair Regards. Matthew Hetz, President/Executive Director Culver City Symphony Orchestra Marina del Rey Symphony SoCal Symphony Society D I R E C T I O N S
Enter the campus at Lincoln Boulevard and LMU Drive. Drive to the kiosk and state you are going to the Parness Concerto Competition, Murphy Hall. Drive up the hill, and at the top is Drollinger Parking Plaza. Enter, park, and pay. Make sure to follow directions. Exit the parking structure the same way you drove in. At the street turn right and at the end of the street turn right again. Walk to Hogan Hall and enter the double doors. Go through the building lobby to the other double doors and exit the building. You will be in a courtyard, turn left and walk towards a courtyard exit. The side entrance to Murphy Recital Hall will be on your right. Terry Pincus, Co-Chair
Matthew Hetz, Co-Chair Judges, Parness Competition, 2019 Frank Fetta is now in his 41st year as Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Culver City Symphony Orchestra and its summer configuration as the Marina del Rey Symphony. Mr. Fetta is the director of symphonic activities at Redlands Bowl and Music Director Emeritus of the San Bernardino Symphony, the Torrance Symphony and Opera A La Carte. Mr. Fetta’s Guest Conducting include the Pasadena Symphony, the Oakland.Symphony. the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the United Chinese Musicians Orchestra, the Riverside Symphon, the Fresno Philharmonic, the State Street Ballet, the Fresno Opera and Ballet, the Inland Dance Theatre and the Loren Zachary Society and the Glendale Phiharmonic. Marina Manukian, violin, joined the Radio and Television Violin Ensemble of Armenia at age eleven, becoming the youngest professional musician in the former Soviet Union. She received her musical training from Georgi Ajemian, Alice Schoenfeld, Yehudi Menuhin, Sandor Vegh, Edward Schmieder, and Sidney Weiss. Marina has studied at the prestigious Mozarteum School of Music in Salzburg, Austria and is also a USC graduate with Highest Honors. She is the winner of numerous music awards and prizes including the 1st prize for National Young Artist Competition, in former U.S.S.R., Aspen International Music Festival and Herb Alpert Music Award from A & M Records. The Los Angeles Times identifies Marina Manukian as "a violinist extraordinaire…whose virtuosity is exceeded only by her calmness and confidence..”. From 2006 Marina has been the Artistic Director of The Enlightenment Music Series which presents concerts performed by the selection of expert chamber musicians, soloists and recording artists from around the world. In addition, Marina has recorded for over 700 television and motion picture scores. Chika Inoue is a much sought after solo saxophonist, chamber musician, clinician and master teacher. A native of Osaka, Japan, Chika has performed in festivals and concerts throughout North America, Italy, Germany, USA, China and Japan. She appears as a saxophonist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Chika has won first prize laureate such as at the Japan International League of Artists Music Competition, La Jolla Symphony & Chorus Artists Competition, and Beverly Hills National Auditions. A graduate of the USC Thornton School (DMA), California State University, Fresno (MA), and UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music (BA), she is currently on music faculty at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Chika is an endorsed artist for Selmer Paris Saxophones and Vandoren. www.chikainoue.com Wojciech Kocyan was praised for his “highly distinctive performances (…) superb, intelligent artistry (…)” (.Classics Today.com) and “incisive temperament, impeccable technique and sumptuous tone” (Le Monde de la Musique.) He studied with two of the world’s most esteemed piano pedagogues: Andrzej Jasinski in Poland, where he received his Masters Degree and with John Perry at the University of Southern California, where he received a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree. He is a laureate of several international piano competitions, including F.Busoni, Wideman and Viotti, as well as a special prizes winner of the XI International Chopin Competition and a First Prize winner of the Paderewski Piano Competition. He performed in Europe, America, Mexico, Australia and Japan, participating in music festivals such as Musica Antiqua Europae Orientalis, Capri Festival, Bydgoszcz International Music Festival, H.M.Gorecki Festival, Beethovenfest, Paderewski Festival, Liszt Festival in Vienna, San Francisco Liszt Festival, Cervantino International Music Festival, Morelia International Music Festival and the Chopin Festival in Paris. He has recorded for television, radio and film and his performances were broadcast in Europe, United States and Australia. His solo and chamber music recordings can also be found on DUX, Naxos and Spotify. In 2007 the Gramophone magazine, published in London and considered the world’s most prestigious classical music journal, chose Mr. Kocyan’s recording of Prokofiev, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff as one of 50 best classical recordings ever made, alongside recordings of such luminaries as Leonard Bernstein, Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau, Nicolaus Harnoncourt and Arthur Rubinstein. His latest CD, of works of Robert Schumann, was released on DUX label in 2012. Dr. Kocyan serves as the Artistic Director and President of the Paderewski Music Society in Los Angeles and the Director of the American International Paderewski Piano Competition in Los Angeles. He is also the President of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers, Santa Monica/South Bay Chapter and serves on the boards of several other cultural organizations. Dr. Kocyan is a Clinical Professor of Piano and Artist-in-Residence at Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles. |
The competition, and the orchestra, rely upon your generosity. Will you consider a donation to help promote young musicians? "I played with that orchestra in 1992. It was my first full concerto performance...an important moment in my life, and an exciting one." Robert Thies, Pianist, on performing with the orchestra as a winner of the Parness Competition. Mr. Thies later went on to be awarded First Prize in the Prokofiev Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia. The only American pianist awarded First Prize in a Russian Competition in four decades. He is active with concerts and recordings of concertos, chamber music and solo performances. Parness Concerto Competition Culver City Symphony Orchestra SoCal Symphony Society www.culvercitysymphony.org info@culvercitysymphony.org P.O Box 4846 Culver City, CA 90231 Judges, Parness Competition, 2019
Brad Keimach made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1986 leading the Westfield Symphony Orchestra in a concert performance of FIDELIO that theNew York Times said "was marked by an organic continuum that was quite exciting." He and the WSO returned to Carnegie Hall in 1987 with a program featuring the Mahler Fourth Symphony and led that ensemble in critically acclaimed performances of TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, OTELLO, LA TRAVIATA, AIDA, RIGOLETTO, TOSCA, LA BOHEME, DON GIOVANNI, ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO, and a new concert version of Bernstein's ON THE TOWN, the Resurrection Symphony of Mahler, a concert of music from Gershwin's PORGY AND BESS, and an All- American concert featuring pianist Earl Wild playing the Gershwin Concerto in F. As a director, Brad Keimach staged productions of Moliere/Strauss's "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme," and Stravinsky's "Soldier's Tale," as well as "The Orchestra That Lost the Beat," a theater/concert work for children. A graduate of New York's prestigious Juilliard School, Brad Keimach studied at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein, and holds an MFA Degree from the Purchase Conservatory of SUNY. He has served as Music Director of the Westfield Symphony, the Metropolitan Orchestra, the Musica Viva Chamber Symphony, the West Orange Collegiate Orchestra, and was Associate Conductor of the Cathedral Symphony. He has appeared as a guest conductor with the Shreveport Opera, the Cosmopolitan Orchestra in New York's Town Hall, the Long Island Symphony, the Purchase Symphony Orchestra, the Kean Chamber Symphony, the Music Project, the Merrick Symphony, and the Eglevsky Ballet Company. He also led an acclaimed series of NUTCRACKER performances at the SUNY Performing Arts Center in 1996. Mr. Keimach served for four years as a Teaching Artist for the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education, training teachers and their students in developing perceptual skills in the arts. He has also served on the faculties of Kean College, and Purchase Conservatory of SUNY, and has maintained a private studio for advanced conducting students since 1980. He has served on the faculty of California State University at Northridge and Antioch University. In Southern California, he is known for his 19 year tenure as conductor of the Glendale Youth Orchestra. Matthew Hetz-Timer/Alternate Judge President/Executive Director- Culver City Symphony Orchestra Professor/Emeritus, Santa Monica College |