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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