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Students
The Cialde Piano Quintet presented two successful concerts
this past January. The first concert was a sold-out performance
at the Grand Theatre in Frankfort, Kentucky on January 8, and
the second concert was held at the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory
of Music on January 16. The performers in the quintet were
Molly Rogers and Patrick Yim (violin students of David
Updegraff), violist Tim Mauthe (composition student of Keith
Fitch), Hannah Thomas-Hollands (cello student of Richard
Weiss) and Claire Black (piano student of Margarita Shevchenko.)
Freshman Matthew Allen, cello student of Melissa Kraut, was
the first prize winner of The Gaspar Cassado International Competition
in Japan. He competed against 60 cellists from around
the world. As one of four finalists, along with competitors from
Israel, France and Japan, he performed a solo with the Tokyo
Philharmonic in December before winning the overall event.
Kraut joined him in Japan, saying “I can’t even begin to describe
how amazing it was seeing him up there!” Matthew also won
the Audience Award. He was awarded a cash prize, will go
on a concert tour of Japan, St. Petersburg and Amsterdam this
summer and received a recording contract. The Gaspar Cassado
International Competition is named after one of the greatest
cellists in the 20th century, Gaspar Cassado (1897-1966). With
the mission to find and feature excellent young musicians, the
first competition was originally founded in 1969 by the late
Chieko Hara (1914-2001), Cassado’s wife and also a Japanese
pianist, with the cooperation of the Florence (Italy) government
after Cassado’s death. The competition went on hiatus in 1990,
resuming in 2006 with CIM alumnus David Requiro (BM ‘07,
student of Richard Aaron) as one of the top prize winners. Since
his win, Matthew has been featured on channels 3, 5 and Fox
8, as well as interviewed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Matt is
a wonderful student, who possesses not only technical prowess
on the cello, but an artistic sensibility and voice that gives him
the ability to reach people with his playing,” Kraut says. “He is
pleasure to work with!”
Tegen Davidge, viola student of
Jeffrey Irvine, recently competed
in the Corpus Christi International
Competition. She was one
of six string semi-finalists, and
was awarded the Wayne Crouse
Memorial Award for Viola
Performance. She is from
Medicine Hat, Alberta.
Cialde Piano Quintet
Members of FiveOne, Cleveland’s premier new music ensemble,
performed at the Sculpture Center in November for an evening
of informal music that interacted with the art of Yasuhisa
Kohyama and Elissa Cox. The event included works by Jeremy
Allen and Michael Bratt (DMA ’09, students of Keith Fitch and
Margaret Brouwer) and John Thompson (MM ’08, student of
Margaret Brouwer.) The final piece of the evening included the
full ensemble, freely improvised and ruled by chance. The Cleveland
Plain Dealer called FiveOne “a new-music ensemble that
bursts with inventive, energetic spirit.”
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Friedlander
Chelsea Rose Friedlander,
soprano student of Mary
Schiller, won second place in the
2010 Barry Alexander International
Vocal Competition. The
winner’s recital is scheduled for
fall 2010 in New York City. For
more information go to www.
baivc.com
Some members of the FiveOne