Hochstein Convocation II Honors Students, Staff, and Faculty
Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 4:00 pm

The Hochstein School recognizes and celebrates the achievements of its students, staff, and faculty at Honors Convocation II on Saturday, May 3 at 4:00 pm. This annual event features performances by Merit Scholarship winners, grades 5-12, and graduates of the prestigious Honors Certificate Program. Due to a high number of awardees, the 21 Scholarship winners and three Honors Certificate graduates were divided into two separate Convocations. Honors Convocation I was on April 6 where faculty and staff were recognized for years of service and ten Merit Scholarship winners performed.

A special addition to the musical performers at Honors Convocation II will be the recipient of the Dance Merit Scholarship, Katherine Marino. Among the faculty and staff recognized that afternoon a special honor will go to Dean of Students and Piano Department Co-Chair Gary Palmer, for his outstanding accomplishments on behalf of his students. He will receive the Hochstein 2008 Faculty Service Award. A reception follows the ceremony.

This event is free and open to the public and will be held in the Hochstein Performance Hall located at 50 N. Plymouth Avenue in Downtown Rochester.

Hochstein Announces Merit Scholarship Winners for Grades 5-8

Rochester, NY; The Hochstein School announces its 2008 Merit Scholarship Winners for grades 5-8. On March 7 (grades 5-6) and March 28 (grades 7-8) the awards were given for students who demonstrate musicianship and achievement in their instrument and display excellence in performance and artistic accomplishment:

Grades 5-6 Scholarship Awards:
Nathan Ip, violin student of Katie Worley, Grade 6 at Johanna Perrin Middle School
Oksana Miller, guitar student of Tim Shannon, Grade 5 at French Road Elementary School
 Martine Thomas, violin student of Katie Worley, Grade 6 at The Children’s School
Andrew Wang, cello student of Kathy Kemp, Grade 6 at Barker Road Middle School
 
Honorable Mention:
Annie Jacobs-Perkins, cello student of Kathy Kemp, Grade 5 at Park Road Elementary School
Yifan Kong, flute student of Diane Smith, Grade 6 at Plank Road South Elementary School

Grades 7-8 Scholarship Awards:
Laura Arreaza, flute student of Diane Smith, Grade 8 at Barker Road Middle School
Karla Bradley, violin student of Angel OuYang, Grade 8 at Oliver Middle School
Torrey Cobb, percussion student of Jillian Pritchard, Grade 8 at Wheatland-Chili Middle School
Dylan Kennedy, piano student of Daniela Mineva, Grade 8 at Penn Yan Middle School
Mollie Lipp, voice student of Jennifer Sisbarro, home-schooled
Rachel Mills, cello student of Kathy Kemp, Grade 8 at Webster Spry Middle School
Brooke Nance, french horn student of Stephanie Zimmerman, Grade 6 at Charles Finney School

Honorable Mention:
Laura Arreaza, piano student of Joe Werner, Grade 8 at Barker Road Middle School
Joseph Snell, guitar student of John Wiesenthal, home-schooled eighth grader

Hochstein Announces Merit Scholarship Winners for Grades 9-12

Rochester, NY; The Hochstein School announces its 2008 Merit Scholarship Winners for grades 9-12. The awards were given for students who demonstrate musicianship and achievement in their instrument and display excellence in performance and artistic accomplishment:

Grades 9-10 Awards from February 29 Auditions:
Katrina King, flute student of Kathryn Scarbrough, home-schooled sophomore
Christian Palmer, voice student of Derrick Smith, sophomore at Penfield High School
Kiran Rajamani, violin student of Ruth Marie Ballance, sophomore at McQuaid HS

Honorable Mention:
Katherine Cook, violin student of Katie Worley, sophomore Pittsford Mendon HS Katrina King, piano student of Gary Palmer, home-schooled sophomore

Grades 11-12 Awards from February 1 Auditions:
Marissa King, piano student of Gary Palmer, home-schooled senior
Julia Natoli, voice student of Sandra Boysen, senior at Penfield High School
Margaret Rhoda, baritone sax student of Nancy Boone, senior at Gates Chili HS

Julia, Marissa, and Margaret, as full scholarship recipients, have been invited to perform at the May 14th “Live from Hochstein” Concert and Broadcast. The free concert is at 12:10 pm in the Hochstein Performance Hall. It will be broadcast on WXXI.

Jean Gan, piano student of Gary Palmer, senior at Pittsford Sutherland High School
Emily Mackey, flute student of Diane Smith, home-schooled senior
Rachel Mantelli, piano student of Joseph Werner, home-schooled senior

Honorable Mention:
D’arcy Placilla, cello student of Kathleen Kemp, senior at Canandaigua Academy
Vanessa Barrata, flute student of Glennda Dove-Pellito, senior at Webster Thomas HS

Dance Award from April 11 Auditions:
Katherine Marino, student of Diane Lewis and Christopher Morrison, home-schooled senior

Hochstein Recital Competition
Winners in Concert

Thursday, April 10 at 7:30 pm

The 2008 David Hochstein Recital Competition Winners Concert will take place on Thursday, April 10 at 7:30 pm in the Hochstein Performance Hall. Benjamin Hopkins, piano, will play Beethoven’s Sonata in D major, Op. 10 No. 3; Chopin’s Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38; and Gargoyle, Op. 29 No. 4 by Lowell Liebermann. Alexander Styk, violin, will perform Prokofiev’s Sonata Opus 115 for Violin, Movements 1 & 2 and Lalo Symphonie Espagnole Opus 21, Movement 1. Oleksandra Yurchenko will accompany him. Youri Spindler, clarinet will perform Fantasy Pieces, Opus 73 by Robert Schumann, accompanied by Nobuko Spindler; Hommage a M. de Falla by Kovacs, and
Duo Concertant by Milhaud, accompanied by Howard Spindler.

Featured performers are:

Benjamin Hopkins, piano is a senior at School of the Arts. He studies privately with Brian Preston; at SOTA, he works with John Gabriele and the piano department. Following three days of competition last September, Benjamin won the 2007 Thousand Islands International Piano Competition. Most recently he was named one of 27 high school pianists from around the world who will compete as semi-finalists in the Daniel Piano Competition at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina this spring.  At the 2008 Rochester Philharmonic League Young Artist Auditions he won the Ness Award for pianists, Aldridge-Tinker Scholarship for instrumentalists, and the League’s Special Award, which provides him with the opportunity to perform with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra at a future date.  He has also been honored by the Rochester Piano Teachers’ Guild as a recipient of the Howard Hanson Award.

Clarinetist Youri Spindler is currently a senior at the Allendale Columbia School. He is also a diploma student at Eastman Community Music School, where he is the recipient of the school's Anthony Bruno Scholarship for clarinetists. He studies clarinet with Kenneth Grant; his former teachers include Philip Macone, Julianne Kirk and Brian
Wahrlich. Youri is the principal clarinetist of the Hochstein Youth Symphony Orchestra and he sings with the Allendale-Columbia High School Chorus. His academic interests center around English, history, drama and creative writing. Youri lives with his family in
the Upper Monroe neighborhood of the city; he attended Pinnacle School 35 and Monroe Middle School. He also enjoys martial arts, and has earned a black belt in karate.

Alexander Styk is a violin student of Patricia Sunwoo and a sophomore at Pittsford Mendon High School. Alexander has been studying violin since the age of four and this year has been selected for numerous musical awards and achievements including: 1st place in the Geneseo Young Artist Competition and 1st place in the String Division (Albright Award) for the Rochester Philharmonic League Young Artist Auditions. He won 2nd Place in the 2007 NYS Music Teacher’s Association Instrumental Competition. He has received a NYSSMA evaluation of 100% for May 2006 -07 and January 2008 and has participated in the NYSSMA All County Orchestra for all three years. He performs with his high school orchestra and is a member of a scholarship quartet group at Hochstein. Alexander also studies piano with Elinor Freer. In addition to music, Alexander is a Life Boy Scout, enjoys traveling, swimming and skiing.

The David Hochstein Recital Competition was held at the Hochstein School on February 10. It annually recognizes the outstanding musicianship and performance skills of advanced student musicians in grades 10-12 who reside in a nine county region surrounding Greater Rochester. Winners of the competition are selected from one of three categories: piano, strings, and woodwinds/brass/percussion/harp/guitar. The recital is being recorded for a later broadcast by WXXI-FM Classical 91.5/90.3 and HD.
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March 2008 Congratulations to Hochstein Youth SIngers, Hochstein Singers, and Chorale director Maryellen Giese for her recognition by the RPO! Read all about it at the link: http://www.rpo.org/n_203/Area_Music_Educators_to_Receive_Awards_by_RPO_Musicians/ HOCHSTEIN IN THE NEWS: Read the article from Brenda Tremblay at CITY Newspaper about our performances in March (including the Hochstein Singers and Little SIngers at Strong Museum)!     Photo by Joe Bell http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/music/articles/CLASSICAL%3A+Music+in+Our+Schools+Month/ Photo by of Frank Cost The Compass Quartet, a Hochstein scholarship ensemble, coached by RPO violinist Patricia Sunwoo, is comprised of high school seniors: William Cho, 18, a violinist from Rochester Kieran Hanlon, 17, a violinist from Canandaigua Michael Sabatka, 18, a violist from North Chili Stephen Ryck, 18, a cellist from Penfield Way to go Kieran, Will, Michael, and Stephen!! Democrat and Chronicle article: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200803150300/LIVING/803150306 Honor and Airs: An International Journey Finger Lakes Concert Band Saturday, March 30, 2008 3:00 pm On March 30, Saturday at 3:00 pm the Finger Lakes Concert Band in Canandaigua will present Honor and Airs: An International Journey with conductor Brian Story. American and foreign works include John Philip Sousa's "Comrades of the Legion March," written after WWI; Netherlands composer Jacob deHaan's "Kraftwerk," a large moving work using the "power" metaphor in experience and identity; Armenian Dances by Alfred Reed; "Hebrides Suite" by Clare Grudman; "Linden Lea" by Ralph Vaughan Williams; conductor Brian Story's "Lift High the Cross" a tribute to wind band composer Claude T. Smith; and Ralph Ford's Sea to Sky Suite, referring to Highway 99 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The concert will be held at the Smith Opera House in Geneva. Tickets, available at the door, are $5 general admission, students free. The Finger Lakes Concert Band is a part of the Hochstein at Canandaigua program, an extension of the Hochstein School, which is based at the Canandaigua Academy. Its mission is to offer high quality, affordable music and dance instruction to students of all ages and levels from throughout the Finger Lakes region. For more information about this and other Hochstein programs call 585-396-3778 or visit www.hochstein.org. Hochstein Youth Symphony Orchestra FInal Concert, Auditions, and 2009 Concert Tour Announced The orchestra will conclude its current season with a 7:00 pm Mother’s Day performance Sunday, May 11 in the Hochstein Performance Hall, conducted by Nancy Strelau. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams with the HYSO Strings and the Pines of Rome by Ottorino Resphigi. The concert will feature 2007-2008 HYSO Concerto Competition Winners John Kluge, cello, playing Antonin Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B minor and Nora Prener, oboe performing Eric Ewazen's Down a River of Time. Mark your calendar:    Auditions for the upcoming 2008-09 orchestra season will be held from May 15 – May 22 Students selected for HYSO will be invited to tour and perform throughout Switzerland and Italy in April 2009. Applications available at the Hochstein office.   For more information, please contact Hochstein at (585) 454-4596.

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