Winners of the Preliminary Competitions – November 2023

The winners of the three Preliminary Competitions have been selected. These are the students who will proceed to the 2024 Concerto Competition, which will take place on Saturday, 3 February 2024. They are listed by division, in alphabetical order by last name.

Keyboards
Spencer Cha                                       piano                                                Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor
Siddharth Pant                                  piano                                                  Liszt – Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major
Alex Tordjman                                  piano                                                  Saint-Saens – Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, “Egyptian”
Justin Wahby                                    piano                                                  Tchaikovsky ­– Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor

Strings
Sean Mori                                          violin                                                  Bruch – Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor
Kevin Song                                        violoncello                                          Haydn — Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major
Aoden Teo                                         violoncello                                        Dvorak – Cello Concerto in B minor
Eric Wang                                         classical guitar                                  Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez

Winds/Percussion/Voice
Crystal Chen                                      flute                                                  Liebermann ­– Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
Ireh Kim & Andrew Chen               marimba/vibraphone duo            Psathas – The All-Seeing Sky
Anthony Qin                                      alto saxophone                                Yoshimatsu – Cyberbird Concerto
Julia Yu                                              soprano                                            Britten – Les Illuminations

Many thanks to all of the 40 student participants and to the members of the Performance Faculty who organized the Preliminary Competitions, and to the outstanding judges in each division.