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Publication Date

1-20-2006

Year of Release

2006

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Judges

Jeanie Lee, Morehead, KY

Amelia Chan, Charleston, WV

Randall Reid-Smith, Charleston, WV

Yuri McCoy, Yulia Kozlova, Yeşim Dikener, Alanna Cushing, Pamela Johnson, Michelle Hontz, Mark Smith, piano

Emrjili Öztűrk, clarinet

Özge Ileri, cello

Justin Near, french horn

Danielle (Nikki) Winter, saxophone

Joshua Richardson, trumpet

Dilek Engin, viola

Angela Moore, Kristin Pino, soprano

Judges

Dr. Jeanie Lee is Assistant Professor of Trombone at Morehead State University, and a clinician for Edwards Instrument Co. Lee's, previous positions include Principal Trombone of Midland-Odessa Symphony and Big Spring Symphony in Texas as well as Principal Trombone of Anchorage Symphony Orchestra in Alaska.

She also has performed as a member of Lone Star Brass Quintet, Anchorage Symphony Brass Quintet and was a founding member of the Borealis Brass. As a free-lancer, Lee has performed with groups such as After Six Orchestra (Anchorage, AK), the Broadway touring production of Chorus Line, Natalie Cole, Moody Blues, and Manhattan Transfer.

Lee now performs as a regular member of the Horizon Brass Quintet and free-lances throughout Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia. She has performed recently with the Lexington Philharmonic, Huntington Symphony Orchestra, West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra, and the DiMartino/Osland Jazz Orchestra.

Amelia Chan currently holds the position of Concertmaster with· the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and is first violinist of the orchestra's ensemble-in-residence, the Montclaire String Quartet.

An avid chamber musician, she has collaborated with performers such as Lara St. John, Ed Aaron, Kyung· Sun Lee, Peter Bruns, Erica Raum, the Whitman Quartet, members of the Vienna and New York Philharmonic, and the Jupiter Chamber Players (NY); appearing at the Costa Rica Music Festival, the Guatemala Music Festival, the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival (NY), and the New Jersey Chamber Music Society, among others. She also has appeared in concert series at venues such as St. Peter's Church, the Nicholas Roerich Museum; and the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City.

As a soloist, she has appeared with the International Virtuosi Orchestra on tour in Central America, the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra (NY), the Brooklyn Symphony (NY), and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Orchestra on tour in Europe. Next season she will appear as soloist in Ravel's Tzigane and Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra.

Amelia has been heard on WQXR, New York; WQED, Pittsburgh; West Virginia-Public Radio, Charleston, WV; the Scottish Radio, Scotland; and Radio 4, Hong Kong. Other festival performances include the. Pan Pacific Music Festival (Australia), the Luxembourg Strings Festival, the Pacific Music Festival (Japan), the Lyric Mountain Festival (PA), and the Aberdeen International Youth Festival (Scotland).

As Concertmaster, Amelia has worked with eminent conductors such as Kurt Masur, Zednek Macal, Julius Rudel, Jorge Mester, Michael Tilson Thomas, Anton Coppola, Gunther Schuller, George Manahan, and Sergiu Commissiona. While residing in New York, she also regularly performed as a tutti extra with the New York Philharmonic.

Amelia received her Master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music Orchestral Program as a Whitaker Scholar, and her Bachelor's degree from the Mannes College of Music in New York.

Born and-raised in Hong Kong, Amelia moved to New York City in 1992 and lived there until relocating to Charleston, West Virginia, in 2004.

Randall Reid-Smith (tenor) has enjoyed a thriving international career in opera and as concert soloist and recitalist. For more than two decades Mr. Reid- Smith has performed leading roles throughout Europe at the German state theatres in Aachen, Augsburg, Berlin Metropol, Braunschweig, Dessau, Dortmund, Dresden and Osnabrück. In Belgium he has performed at the famed Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp and Gent. In Spain he has been heard at Bilbao's Teatro Arriaga. In the summer of 1909 he toured the southern part of Italy and Sicily singing Alfredo in Verdi's La traviata, and in the summer of 2000 Mr. Reid-Smith toured ten cities along the French Riviera singing a series of Opera Concerts.

Prior to his work abroad, Mr. Reid-Smith fulfilled apprenticeships with the Santa Fe-opera, Michigan Opera Theatre and the Dayton Opera Association after having received several honors, among those four Metropolitan Opera Auditions at the district and regional levels. He holds the Bachelor of Music from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music and the Master of Music from The School of Music at Indiana University. He has dazzled European concert-goers in Amsterdam at the· Konzertgebouw, Berklin at the Konzerthaus and the Philharmonie, Bremen Die Glocke, Cologne Gürzenich, Düsseldorf Tonhalle, Essen Sallbau, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Hamburg Musikhalle, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Luzerene Konzerthalle, Munich at the Gasteig, Herkules Salle and the Prinzregeten Theater, Stuttgart Liederhalle, and the Tonhalle in Zurich.

In April 1999, upon his return to the United States after more than a decade living abroad, Mr. Reid-Smith earned rave reviews for his Kennedy Center debut singing the tenor solos in the Mozart Requiem with the National Choral Society of Washington, D.C:, In August 1999 Mr. Reid-Smith added the title Professor to his resume when he accepted an appointment to the University of Michigan School of Music. During his tenure at Michigan, Mr. Reid-Smith maintained a very active international performing schedule. In 2001 Reid-Smith performed Verdi's Messa di Requiem in Hannover, Germany; Detroit, Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and in Zurich Switzerland. In the fall of 2001 a 14 city tour of Japan with performances of Strauss's Salome and Wagner's Die Fliegende Hollӓnde culminated with performances of the same productions in early 2002 in Wintertur, Switzerland and Dessau, Germany. In the Spring of 2002 Randall Reid-Smith sang a series of recitals in his home State of West Virginia, culminating in his being named a "Distinguished West Virginian."

Beginning in fall 2002 Randall Reid-Smith began a three season collaboration with The Toledo Opera Association working in Arts Administration as Director of Education & Outreach, Production Manager, Special Events Coordinator and Coordinator of the Toledo Opera Young Artist program. While in Toledo he sang Beadle in Sondheim's SWEENY TODD, Normanna in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia and King Kaspar in Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitor's, a role he repeated in December 2004 and 2005 with the Motor City Lyric Opera of Detroit

At the completion of the 2004-2005 Toledo Opera Season, Randall Reid-Smith fulfilled a lifelong pursuit of returning to his beloved home state of West Virginia to work in arts and cultural advocacy with an appointment to the West Virginia Division of Cultural and History by Governor Joe Manchin III.

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Arts and Humanities | Fine Arts | Music | Music Performance

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