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Joanna Betz
2001 Young
Artist
Competition Winner |
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Born in Great Falls, Montana,
Joanna Betz began studying violin at age three using the Suzuki method.
From age eight to eleven, she studied baroque violin at Colonial
Williamsburg with Kevin Bushee where she also played in a variety of
ensembles. A former member of the Peninsula Youth Orchestra and the Bay
Youth Symphony, she served as concertmaster of the Christopher Newport
University Chamber Orchestra from 1997 to 2001. In 1995 she won second
place in the regional Bland Scholarship Competition, in 1999 performed in
the Virginia Symphony’s Masterclass with Rachel Barton, and in 2001 won
the Young Artists Performance Competition sponsored by the Norfolk Chamber
Consort. She was a winner of the CNU Concerto Competition in both 1999
and 2000 and has been a recipient of numerous Friends of Music
Scholarships including a travel scholarship to Texas in the 2001 where she
conducted research on her thesis topic: the life and hymns of Alfred P.
Gibbs. In the summer of 2000 she participated in California Summer Music
in Pebble Beach, California and was from 2000 to 2001 the first violinist
of the CNU string quartet. Upon earning her bachelor of music degree in
violin performance and music history and literature from CNU in December
of 2001, she was honored to have received the President’s Award for
Academic Excellence. She is currently enrolled in a two-year advanced
Bible studies program in California while, on her breaks, enjoys playing
violin at Colonial Williamsburg and continues taking lessons with her
teacher Kirsty Barnett Green. Her former teachers include Karen Stowe and
Leslie Stewart. In addition to music, Ms. Betz enjoys reading, drawing,
gardening, and playing tennis. |
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Veronica Barger
2002
Young Artist
Competition Winner
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Kathleen Winters
2003 Young Artist
Competition Winner |
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Kathleen Winters is a junior
honor student in the Woodside High School Magnet School for the Performing
Arts in Newport News, VA. During the 2001-2002 school year, she was
awarded first place in several competitions including Virginia Music
Teachers Association Woodwind Competition, Hampton First Presbyterian
Young Performing Artist, Peninsula Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition,
and Williamsburg Wednesday Morning Music Club. Just this month she was the
winner of the Norfolk Chamber Consort's Young Artists Competition.
Kathleen has been a member of the Peninsula Youth Orchestra since 1999 and
has served as principal flute for the past two years. As a freshman,
sophomore and junior she won high chairs in the All-City and All-District
Symphonic Wind Ensembles and has twice been principal flute of the
All-Regional Orchestra. She was a member of the All Virginia Symphonic
Wind Ensemble during her freshman and sophomore years and will once again
represent District 8 at the All Virginia audition weekend. Last year
Kathleen was a participant in the prestigious Governor's School for Visual
and Performing Arts and was also invited to Hambledon, England to perform
as a soloist in a memorial concert for the September 11th victims. In the
spring of 2002 Kathleen was selected by the faculty of Virginia
Commonwealth University to perform in a masterclass for the
internationally renowned flutist, Eugenia Zuckermann. Her flute teachers
have been Carolina Cale and, currently, Francile Bilyeu, head of the flute
department of Virginia Commonwealth University. Kathleen lives in Newport
News with her parents, Glenn and Ruth Winters. |
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