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Publication Date

2-12-2006

Year of Release

2006

Note(s)

Kenneth Booth, guitar

Patrick Billups, trombone

Alanna Cushing, Mark Smith, Michelle Hontz, Mila Markun, Jay Flippin, piano

Kristen Pino, Angela Moore, soprano

Dilek Engin, viola

Justin Gore, clarinet

KaCee Booth, horn

Judges:

Hannah Burbery

Steven Huang

Roma Prindle

About the Judges

Violinist Hannah Burbery received the Bachelor's degree in violin performance from Oberlin College and the Master of Music degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where her principal teachers were Joyce Robbins and Mitchell Stem. In her senior year at Oberlin, she was a winner of the annual Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition and had the opportunity to perform as soloist with the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra. While living in New York, she was active as both a performer and teacher. An avid chamber musician, she was the violinist of the Stony Brook Graduate Piano Trio and a member of the Long Island Chamber Players. She also was on the teaching faculty of the SUNY Stony Brook Pre-College Music Program and the Kinhaven School of Music in Weston, Vermont. She has participated in various music festivals throughout the country, including the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, where she served as assistant concertmaster of the Festival Orchestra.

Locally, Ms. Burbery has performed with the West Virginia Symphony, the Ohio Valley Symphony, and the Seneca Chamber Orchestra, and maintains a small private studio of violin students.

Steven Huang, Director of Ohio University Orchestras, has conducted orchestras and operas across the country and throughout the world. At the age of twenty-one, he served as Music Director of the Bach Society Orchestra of Harvard University, where he received his undergraduate degree. While at Harvard, Mr. Huang also directed the Lowell House Opera (the oldest continuously running opera company in New England), in a critically acclaimed production of Kurt Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.

Huang has worked with young musicians in the nationally recognized Irvine Youth Symphony and the Four Seasons Orchestra in Southern California. He has served as Music Director for the University of Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Central Illinois Youth Symphony, the Gilbert and Sullivan Players of Chicago, and the Bradley University Orchestra. He founded the Peoria Young Players, an elite ensemble of young musicians, and was a conductor for the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras. Abroad, he has led the New Symphony Orchestra of Bulgaria; the Attergau Kultursommer Orchestra,in Austria; the Jeunesses Musicales Festival Orchestra in Romania; and L' Orchestre Philharmonique de Sainte Trinité Haiti.

Huang earned the Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Michigan, where he was the recipient of the Marian W. and Ernest A. Jones Conducting Scholarship. Huang twice received the Herbert von Karajan Fellowship for Young Conductors for study at the Salzburg Festival, and the Fulbright Fellowship for study at the National University of Music in Bucharest, where he received an Artist's Diploma.

Drawing upon her diverse background in opera, on the concert stage, in traditional music and most recently, jazz, soprano Roma Prindle brings a vitality and fidelity to the art of vocal performance, whatever the genre. In all of her singing, she endeavors to coordinate solid vocal technique, integrity in music style, with personal, intimate communication of the material.

Prindle has performed with several American opera companies, including the Minnesota Opera, Connecticut Opera, Goodspeed Opera, Connecticut Concert Opera, Opera Roanoke and Connecticut Opera Express. Prindle created the title role in the world premiere performance of Victoria Fullam's Mermaid, based on the classic tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Through various concert tours in thirty states, Austria, Germany, Italy, England, Wales, Ireland, and Taiwan, Prindle has devoted the major part of her career to the classical song repertoire.

A native of Kentucky, Prindle received the Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Music from Transylvania University. She holds the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Vocal Performance from the Hartt School of Music, Hartford, CT, where she was a student of tenor Jerome Pruett. Additional studies include private voice study in Salzburg, Austria with American soprano Cornelia Prestel, and in Minneapolis, MN with tenor Clifton Ware and stage director Vern Sutton. She was accepted by audition for master classes with Elly Ameling, Claudine Carlson, Marlena Malas, Paul Sperry, Gerard Souzay and Dalton Baldwin.

Roma Prindle is the current Mid-South Region Governor for the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

The recipient of the Belle & Lynum Jackson prize will receive a cash award and present the winner's recital on Sunday, April 9 at 3:00 p.m. in Smith Recital Hall. The recipient of the Paul A. Balshaw prize will receive a cash award.

Note

Smith Recital Hall

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Fine Arts | Music | Music Performance

Marshall University Music Department Presents the 2006 Competition, for the, Belle and Lynum Jackson, and, Paul A. Balshaw Awards

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