Young Soloists Concerto Competition 2011 - 2012
A talented group of student musicians competed in Suburban Symphony Orchestra's annual Young Soloists Concerto Competition, which took place January 7 and 8. Three finalists won the opportunity to play their audition concertos in a symphonic setting with the orchestra on Sunday, March 25, 2012.
Congratulations to our Young Soloists Concerto Competition winners:
Mary O'Keefe, Vanessa Haynes and Ann Yu.
Please join us for their performances on March 25, 2012
at 3:30pm at Conway Hall, University School Lower Campus.
Mary O'Keefe, Vanessa Haynes and Ann Yu.
Please join us for their performances on March 25, 2012
at 3:30pm at Conway Hall, University School Lower Campus.
Eugene Goossens: Oboe Concerto in One Movement
Mary O'Keefe, oboe
Camille Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2, 1st movement
Vanessa Haynes, piano
Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2, 1st movement
Ann Yu, violin
Vanessa Haynes
Camille Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto #2 in G Minor, 1st movement
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Vanessa Meiling Haynes, age 14, born in Houston, Texas, is attending the Junior Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She is studying piano under the guidance of Professor Antonio Pompa-Baldi. At age six, Miss Haynes followed her parents to Beijing, China, where she began her piano studies. At age nine, she was the first American piano student accepted into the pre-college division of the Central Music Conservatory of China. Vanessa Meiling Haynes has won significant prizes at Young Artists competitions worldwide. In the USA, she received First Prize at the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition and Gold Prize at AADGT’s Passion for Music International Piano Competition, Second Prize at the 2011 Arthur Fraser International Concerto Competition, Third Prize at the Seattle International Piano Competition, and a special Jurors' Award for the best performance of a work by Frederic Chopin. In Spain, she received second prize at the Burgos International Music Festival. In China, she won "Outstanding Performance Award" at the Second Kawai China National Piano Competition and Second Place from China International Hope Cup piano competition. Vanessa Meiling has performed with many orchestras and solo concerts in venues across the world. In Italy, she performed with the Bella Bartok Orchestra and Muenster Orchestra of Germany at the music halls in Perugia, Abano, Naples, Val-Tidone, and Voles Am Schlern. In Spain she performed at the Burgos music hall. In the United States, she performed with South Carolina Philharmonic at the Koger Center for Art, the prestigious Carnegie’s Weil Recital Hall, and the Merkin Hall in New York. In China, she was invited as a guest performer performing in numerous venues around Beijing, which included the Forbidden City Music Hall and the Beijing Concert Hall. Vanessa Meiling is multitalented and has successfully blended her piano with an active childhood including children’s clothing modeling, participating in ballet, nd fencing events, and she has appeared as a guest on several television shows for children on China National TV. She was accepted into the famed China National Girls' Chorus which led to a solo singing performance in the internationally televised 2008 Special Olympic Concert on the Great Wall of China.
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Mary O'Keefe
Eugene Goossens: Oboe Concerto in One Movement
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Mary O’Keefe’s study of music began at age seven via neighborhood piano lessons with Dorothy Montville. At age ten, she became interested in participating in the school district’s music program and studied oboe under Jane Thomas for two years. For the past five years, she has continued to hone her skills with her present teacher, Danna Sundet. Now a 16-year old junior at Cleveland Heights High’s Renaissance School, Mary is an honors student where she enjoys challenging herself academically, especially in math. She is a member of the National Honor Society and Tri-M Music Honor Society. Her school music participation includes principal oboe in Symphonic Winds and the Heights High Symphony and performing in pit orchestras for school musicals, including productions of “The King and I,” “Beauty and the Beast,” and “The Sound of Music.” She also plays in the school’s chamber ensemble program and contributes to the marching band by playing trumpet. She has represented her school in the Ohio Music Educators Association’s Greater Cleveland Area Solo and Ensemble contest for the past four years, achieving the highest possible ratings. In her freshman year, Mary was awarded the instrumental music department’s Outstanding Music Achievement Award. She has participated in the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony (2009), Contemporary Youth Orchestra (2010), and has been the rotating principal oboist and solo English Horn player with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra for the past two seasons. Mary was also selected as this year’s winner of the Solon Center for the Arts’ Young Artists Concerto Competition. She has attended the John Mack Oboe Camp and Interlochen Arts Camp and is hoping to attend college to pursue a degree in oboe performance.
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Ann Yu
Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2, 1st movement
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Ann Yu currently is a student at the Preparatory Division of the Cleveland Institute of Music and studies with David Updegraff. She is also a member of first violin section in Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. As a sophomore, Ann is a recipient of the E.E. Ford Foundation Endowed Scholarship Fund at Western Reserve Academy.
Ann started her music training with her father at the piano when she was four. Her first violin lesson was with her mother at age of seven. In the same year she won her first piano Gold Cup at the OFMC Junior Music Festival and since then, she has won thirteen Gold Cups for piano and ten violin Gold Cups.
Miss Yu has won many competitions and awards. To name a few, she won the Buckeye State Strings Competition in both the Elementary Division (2009) and Junior Division (2011) in Bowling Green, the W. Alfred Gray Competition in Westerville (2011), and the CPEA Strings Competition in Cleveland (2011). In past years, she won the Akron Symphony Youth Symphony Concerto Competition, and performed the third movement of Bruch Violin Concerto with the orchestra under Christopher Lees conducting (2009). During the Middle East District Buckeye Music Audition, Ann won both the piano competition and violin competition (2009). Ann performed piano solo at the OFMC State Convention in Dayton and was awarded Outstanding Junior Award (2008). The scholarships Ann won including the OFMC, Credo Chamber Music Camp and the CIM.
For two years, Ann attended the Credo Chamber Music Camp and studied with Stephen Clapp, and Marilyn McDonald. Her other teachers including Ping Yu, Si-Hong Ma, Ke-Qiang Li, David Russell and Wei-Fang Gu.
Ann Yu is a member of Brahms Allegro Junior Music Club and commits herself to serve community musically. She continues to share her music in churches, nursing homes, private homes, and charitable events. For many times, Ann was invited to perform for the members and friends of the Tuesday Music Club and The Friends of Music.
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