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tra, the Four Seasons Orchestra, and the Phoenix Youth Symphony, among others.
In 2009 and 2010 she performed with the Colburn Honors Quartet on the Sundays
Live! radio broadcast recorded at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. An
alumna of From the Top and the New York String Orchestra Seminar, Ms. Laity
was also named a finalist in the 2010 Blount-Slawson Competition and Grand Prize
winner in the National Debut Competition. A former student of Arkady Fomin,
Borivoj Martinic-Jercic, and Nokuthula Ngwenyama, she currently studies with
Grigory Kalinovsky at the Manhattan School of Music. Ms. Laity will be making
her international debut in the 2012-2013 season, performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto
with the Balearic Islands Symphony in Spain.
Yaegy Park was born on Dec. 8th 1997 in Houston, Texas. At age 4 (2001), she
passed the Houston Young Artist Concert (HYAC) Audition as the youngest winner.
She participated in the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado as the youngest student
of Kyung Sun Lee, and played at the student concert several times in the summer of
2006. Yaegy used a half size Testore violin made in the year 1724, supported from
Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation. Yaegy participated in the Green Mountain
Music Festival at Burlington, Vermont, and played several times at master classes.
She performed at the Emerging Artist Series two times. In November 2007, at the
age of nine, Yaegy won 3rd prize at the 5th Louis Spohr International Young Violin
Competition in Weimar, Germany. Yaegy performed with pianist Christopher
O’Riley at the NPR’s “From the Top” live show at San Antonio, and she was selected
for the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award ($10,000 Music Scholarship money).
In March 2009, she won 1st prize of the American Protégé International Piano and
Strings Competition 2009 and as a winner, she performed at Carnegie Weill Hall
(April 12th). Also, she won 1st prize at the International Russian Rotary Children’s
Music Competition in Moscow Russia, and played with the Moscow Symphony in
2009. Yaegy participated in the Great Mountain Music festival in 2010 summer.
Yaegy won Grand Prize Winner in the 2012 International Virtuoso Competition
and performed at the Merkin In 2012 summer, she took part in Hawum Chamber
Music Festival in Korea, and she performed at the opening concert, and played
in a master class with Ms. Kyung Sun Lee. Yaegy was the first prize winner in the
Hawum chamber competition, and she will perform with Hawum Chamber Orchestra
this year (2013). Yaegy Park has studied with Ms. Catherine Cho at the
Juilliard Pre-College School since 2010.
Molly DeLorenzo is a junior at Montclair High School and has been playing the
cello for 11 years. She was the principal cellist for the Essex County Youth Orchestra
and is presently a member of the New Jersey Youth Symphony. Her summer
studies include Interlochen Center for the Arts and Brevard Music Center. Molly’s
former teachers include Christine Sweet, Arts High School, Newark and Nick
Tzaras of the Shanghai Quartet. She currently studies with Madeleine Golz of the
pre-college Manhattan School of Music and Thurnauer School in New Jersey.
Mike Sha was born on January 30th, 1996 in Xian, China, arriving in the US in
2001. Mike has studied violin since he was 5 years old, and currently studies with
Helen Kwalwasser. Mike receives the Advanced Study Scholarship from Settlement
Music School and the Starling Scholarship from Temple Music Prep. He is a member
of the Ann Newman String Quartet at Settlement, and is principal 2nd for Temple
Prep’s Youth Chamber Orchestra. Mike has been a 1st violin of the Philadelphia
Youth Orchestra since 2010, and is now associate concertmaster. He is a substitute
player for Symphony in C.
Allegra Whiting, 15 years old, from West Caldwell, NJ, began studying cello
with Marnie Kaller at the age of five. In the fall of 2011 she was admitted to the
Pre College Division of the Juilliard School where she studies with Clara Kim. In
2010, Allegra was the featured soloist with the NJ Intergenerational Orchestra. As
a two-time winner of the National Young Musicians Showcase Competition she
performed solos at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. She was also a winner of
the Florence Boughton Competition for Young Artists, the Frank and Lydia Bergen
Scholarship Concerto Auditions and the New York Music Competition. She has
played in Master Classes for Lynn Harrell, Steven Isserlis, Andre Emelianoff, Carter
Brey and Eric Bartlett. She also participated in a workshop and performance of the
Bach Goldberg Variations with Matt Haimovitz. In the summer of 2012, she studied
at Meadowmount Music School as a student of Hans Jørgen Jensen. In previous
summers, she attended Kinhaven Music Camp in Vermont and NJ Youth Orchestra
Chamber Music Camp. In her free time Allegra enjoys swimming, tennis, skiing,
and traveling.
Elizabeth Hendy, musician and singer, is 14 years old and attends the Manhattan
School of Music Pre-College under the tutelage of Ms Elizabeth Faidley, and
Mr. Stephen Clapp of the Juillard School of music. She began piano lessons at age
5, violin lessons at age 8 and singing at age 10. She recently won first place in the
Wharton Music Center Young Artists and is a finalist in the Crescent Concert competition
in Plainfield, New Jersey. Past violin, piano and singing competitions include
the Golden Key Festival, YPMP(NJ), APTA, and the Apollo Theater Amateur
Night. She has performed in the Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Hall and Dimenna
Hall from 2009–2012. She aspires to travel around the world to promote humanity
through classical music.
Leonardo Ko, 14, is a cellist who currently studies under Caroline Stinson at the
Juilliard Pre-College Program. He has also studied with Francis Rowell, Ann Alton,
and Chungsun Kim. In addition, he has had master classes with Jonathan Spitz
(2008 JCC, Tenafly, NJ) and Emanuel Gruber (2012 Summit Music Festival, NY).
In 2011 and 2012, Leonardo won the Korea Radio Broadcast (KRB) and Crescendo
International Competitions and as a result, performed solo at the Weill Recital Hall
four times from 2012 to 2013. Also a winner of Union City Symphony Competition,
he performed solo at Symphony Space, NYC (December 2012). His hobby