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Announcing the 2016 Fischoff Competition Winners

 
Out of 49 competing ensembles from across the nation and around the world, the Ulysses Quartet has won the coveted Grand Prize of the 2016 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition ($7,500) and the Gold Medal ($3,500) in the Senior String Division. WindSync captured the Gold Medal ($3,500.00) in the Senior Wind Division. In addition to prize money, both ensembles will participate in a Winner’s Tour of the Midwestern United States this fall, and the Ulysses Quartet will perform several concerts in the Emilia Romagna Festival in Italy in 2017. Ulysses Quartet members include Christina Bouey (violin), Rhiannon Banerdt (violin), Colin Brookes (viola), and Grace Mei-En Ho (cello) are from New York, New York. WindSync of Houston, Texas. Members include Garrett Hudson (flute), Emily Tsai (oboe & English horn), Jack Marquardt (clarinet), Tracy Jacobson (bassoon), and Anni Hochhalter (French horn).
 

In the Senior Wind Division, the Silver Medal ($3,000) was awarded to QuinTexas of Austin, Texas. Members include Charlotte Daniel (flute), Freddie Blood (oboe), Nicholas Councilor (clarinet), Laura McIntyre (bassoon), and Rose Valby (horn). The Senior Wind Division Bronze Medal ($2,000) was awarded to Lineage Percussion of Athens, Georgia. Members include Trevor Barroero (percussion), Lauren Floyd (percussion), and Wesley Sumpter (percussion).
 
The Senior String Division Silver Medal ($3,000) went to Trio Zadig, Resident at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium, based in Paris, France. Members include Boris Borgolotto (violin), Marc Girard Garcia (cello), and Ian Barber (piano). The Senior String Division Barbara Shields Byrum Bronze Medal ($2,000) went to the Callisto Piano Trio of Pasadena Conservatory of Music/University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Members include Geneva Lewis (violin), Annie Jacobs-Perkins (cello), and Katelyn Vahala (piano). 
 
 
In the Junior Division (for musicians eighteen and under), the Gold Medal ($2,300) was won by Quartet Diamant of Midwest Young Artists Conservatory, Highwood, Illinois. Members include Masha Lakisova (violin), Rebecca Moy (violin), Natalie Clarke (viola), Adam Lee (cello). The Silver Medal ($1,800) was won by Noctis Quartet of New York, New York. Members include Kevin Zhu (violin), Andrew Kim (violin), Jacob van der Sloot (viola), and Chase Park (cello). The Bronze Medal ($1,300) went to Vibrante String Quartet of The Academy of the Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston, Illinois. Members include Zachary Brandon (violin), Hannah White (violin), Freya Irani (viola), and Leevy Williams (cello). The Junior Division Wind Prize ($500) was won by KGT of Merit School of Music, Chicago, Illinois. Members include Maddy Deanne (flute), Amer Hasan (clarinet), and Quincey Trojanowski (bassoon). Sponsored by the American Brass Quintet, this award honors the most outstanding wind ensemble in the Junior Division.

Announcing the 2016 Junior Division Semifinalists

Congrats to the Junior Division semifinalists of the 2016 Fischoff Competition!

 

J1 Trio Iris

J6 Bellissimo Trio

J8 Liedergeld Quartet

J9 Quartet Degas

J11 Olive Trio

J14 Vibrante Quartet

J16 Noctis Quartet

J17 Quartet Diamant

J18 Calliope Trio

J19 Meraki Quartet

J24 KTG

J25 Archon Piano Quartet

Announcing BOTH the 2016 Senior Wind and Senior String Division Semifinalists

Congrats to the Senior Wind Semifinalists of the 2016 Fischoff Competition!

 

S1 – Olympus Piano Trio

S2 – Callisto Piano Trio

S3 – Ulysses Quartet

S5 – Trio Zadig

S6 – Milton String Quartet

S9 – Larchmere String Quartet

 

W2 – WindSync

W6 – Videnia Quintet

W7 – Lineage Percussion

W8 – The Resurgam Saxophone Quartet

W9 – Quin Texas

W12 – Novacane Quartet

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Jasper String Quartet Wins 2016 Educator Award

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Fischoff is delighted to announce that Jasper String Quartet has been selected as winner of the 2016 Fischoff Educator Award. This national award recognizes the educational outreach work of Fischoff Competition alumni who have demonstrated outstanding and imaginative programming for children and youth in the United States. It honors musicians who have established professional careers in chamber music, and have proven their ability to successfully build a career in both chamber music performance and outreach education.

As winner of the Fischoff Educator Award, Jasper String Quartet will receive a coveted endorsement from Fischoff, a cash award, and a week of community outreach programs in the South Bend region October 24-27, 2016 as part of Fischoff’s award-winning Arts-in-Education Residency.

In 2008, the Jaspers swept through the competition circuit, winning the Grand Prize and the Audience Prize in the Plowman Chamber Music Competition, the Grand Prize at the Coleman Competition, First Prize at Chamber Music Yellow Springs, and the Silver Medal at the 2008 and 2009 Fischoff Competitions. They were also the first ensemble honored with Yale School of Music’s Horatio Parker Memorial Prize, an award established in 1945 and selected by faculty for “best fulfilling…lofty musical ideals.”

The Jaspers have been hailed as “sonically delightful and expressively compelling” (The Strad) and “powerful” (New York Times). “The Jaspers…match their sounds perfectly, as if each swelling chord were coming out of a single, impossibly well-tuned organ, instead of four distinct instruments.” (New Haven Advocate)

Fischoff’s Educator Award Residency is sponsored by Wells Fargo

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Fischoff’s Winter Gala: Black, White & Red Hot Jazz

Save the date! January 23, 2016

Join us for wine & a gourmet bistro dinner featuring Jua Coates, jazz pianist, and get ready for a clever game of chance with Doug Osthimer.

Visit the limited silent auction including a painting gifted to Fischoff by artist Bill Sandusky, furniture from C Kramer Interiors, a trip to Italy to see Fischoff’s 2015 Grand Prize Winner, dinners, golf outing, and more.

Enjoy a smokin’ hot jazz performance by Kenari Saxophone Quartet, 2015 Silver Medalist of the Fischoff Competition, Jacobs School of Music, IU

Tickets: Individual Guests $150 or Patron Guests (listing in program) $200

Black, white or red hot apparel encouraged. Jazz it up!

 

R.S.V.P. Please

For inquiries, contact  574.631.2903 or  fischoff@fischoff.org

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From the Top Backstage at Fischoff to Air Week of June 15

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Fischoff has enjoyed a long relationship with the hit NPR show From the Top with host Christopher O’Riley. And through an exciting collaboration, a new show called From the Top Backstage at Fischoff will air next week! The show is an hour-long program featuring the 2015 Fischoff Competition’s Junior Division. With interviews, performances and competition rounds, you will get a sneak peek into the essence of the Junior Division.

From the Top Backstage at Fischoff will air nationally starting Monday, June 15. To check your local NPR station’s program schedule, click here. The show will also be available via From the Top’s podcast and website. In the Michiana area, WVPE 88.1 will air the program on Friday, June 19 at 7:00 pm.

Be sure to tune in and be part of this unprecendented opportunity showcasing the best junior chamber musicians in the nation!

Announcing the Winners of the 2015 Fischoff Competition

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NOTRE DAME, IN (May 10, 2015) – Out of 49 competing ensembles from across the nation and around the world, the Zorá String Quartet has won the coveted Grand Prize of the 2015 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition ($7,500.00) and the Gold Medal ($3,500.00) in the Senior String Division. Mirasol Quartet captured the Gold Medal ($3,500.00) in the Senior Wind Division. In addition to prize money, both ensembles will participate in a Winner’s Tour of the Midwestern United States this fall, and the Zorá String Quartet will perform several concerts in the Emilia Romagna Festival in Italy in 2016. Zorá members Dechopol Kowintaweewat (violin), Seula Lee (violin), Pablo Muñoz Salido (viola) and Zizai Ning (cello) are from Bloomington, Indiana. Mirasol Quartet members James Barger (soprano saxophone), Andrew Reinhart (alto saxophone), Benjamin Still (tenor saxophone), and Ben Donnell (baritone saxophone), are from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
 
In the Senior Wind Division, the Silver Medal ($3,000) was awarded to Kenari Quartet of Indiana Unviersity, Bloomington, Indiana. Members include Bob Eason (soprano saxophone), Kyle Baldwin (alto saxophone), Corey Dundee (tenor saxophone) and Steven Banks (baritone saxophone). The Senior Wind Division Bronze Medal ($2,000) was awarded to Prismatics Woodwind Quintet, from Rice University, Houston, Texas. Ensemble members include James Blanchard (flute), Tamer Edlebi (oboe), Nicholas Davies (clarinet), Markus Osterlund (horn), and Isaac Schultz (bassoon).

The Senior String Division Silver Medal ($3,000) went to the Calla Quartet, whose members Michaela Wellems (violin), Amelia Dietrich (violin), Aiden Kane (viola) and Karissa Zadinsky (cello) study at The Colburn School, Los Angeles, California. The Senior String Division Barbara Shields Byrum Bronze Medal ($2,000) went to the Autana Trio of Cleveland, Ohio. Members include Yuri Noh (piano), Ruben Rengel (violin), and Anna Bowman (cello).

In the Junior Division (for musicians eighteen and under), the First Place Medal and Scholarship of $2,300 was won by the Incendium Quartet of The Colburn School and Pasadena Conservatory, Los Angeles, California. Geneva Lewis (violin), Mei Zhan (violin), Emma Wernig (viola) and Atticus Mellor-Goldman (cello). The Second Place Medal and Scholarship of $1,800 was won by the Trio Adonais of the New England Conservatory Prep School Boston, Massachusetts. Members include Sammy Andonian (violin), Mari Nagahara (cello) and John Gibson (piano). The Third Place Medal and Scholarship ($1,300) went to the Alegrar Quartet of Barratt Due Institute of Music, Oslo, Norway. Members include Inga Vaga Gåustad (violin), Oda Holt Günther (violin), Michael Andreas Grolid (viola) and Brage Botn Seim (cello). Honorable Mentions went to the Isolde Quartet of New England Conservatory Prep, Boston, Massachusetts and Atara String Quartet of the Music Institute of Chicago.

The Junior Division Wind Prize and scholarship of $500 was won by Yumpadump Brass Trio of Merit School of Music, Chicago, Illinois. Members include Ricardo Zapata (trumpet), David Sweeney (horn), and Adriel Garcia (trombone). Sponsored by the American Brass Quintet, this award honors the most outstanding wind ensemble in the Junior Division.

Announcing the 2015 Fischoff Competition Finalists

Join us in congratulating the finalists in the Senior Wind, Senior String & Junior Divisions! The following ensembles will vie for gold tomorrow, May 10:

Senior Wind Division:

  • Prismatics Woodwind Quintet
  • Mirasol Quartet
  • Kenari Quartet

Senior String Division:

  • The Calla Quartet
  • Zora String Quartet
  • Autana Trio

Junior Division:

  • Incendium Quartet
  • Alegrar Quartet
  • Trio Adonais

And the recipient of the Junior Division Wind Prize is Yumpadump Brass Trio.

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