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RESULTS 2010                PIANOFORTE    Sunday 9 May 2O1O

Carmel College Hall, 114 Shakespeare Rd, Milford   

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Convenors: Mrs Maureen Webley and Mr Ian Knight

Adjudicator: Ms Susan Smith

The three finalists, Sarah Qian, Edward Giffney and Jenny Wong have the rare opportunity of playing with an orchestra for the Final event and to provide this orchestral accompaniment we have the 

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PROGRAMME

AOTEA YOUTH SYMPHONY

Overture to "The Thieving Magpie" by Rossini 

first performed in Milan in 1817

  

PIANO CONCERTO FINAL

Concerto No. 1 in C Major    Beethoven

First Movement and Cadenza 

  

THE FINALISTS ARE, IN ORDER OF PERFORMING:

  

                              SARA QIAN

  

                                                                              

  

  

  

  

  

  

                                                      

                                                       EDWARD GIFFNEY

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

                                                                               

                                            JENNY WONG

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

    SARAH QIAN  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

                                             

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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Results Speech & Drama   6/4     7/4  

Results Junior Vocal   8/4     9/4     10/4    11/4     

Results Pianoforte   12/4    13/4    14/4    15/4    Piano Accordion   9/5                                  

Results Dance    13/4    14/4     15/4

Results Senior Vocal     1/5     2/5     3/5    4/5    5/5     6/5      7/5     8/5     9/5      
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The Aotea Youth Symphony (AYS or Aotea for short) is a community based  orchestra for young musicians (ages 13 to 25),  under the Music Directorship of Paul Harrop, ONZM. It enjoys the Patronage of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and was formed in 1986  with the objective of providing a further dimension of performance for young musicians beyond that provided by school orchestras.

Sarah  was born in Auckland and is currently attending Diocesan School for Girls.  She has been studying Piano with Mr Qu Yong for over 6 years.  Sarah has won a number of first prizes during recent years.  Last year, she was the youngest participant in the Ronish Auckland Secondary Schools Piano Competition, in which she was awarded third prize.

Edward is a first year student at The University of Auckland studying for a BMus.  A Pupil of Rae de Lisle, he is majoring in performance piano with piano accordion as his second instrument study.  Edward has been a prize winner in many classes at the North Shore Competitions in the past few years.  He regularly accompanies singers and other instrumentalists as well as enjoying playing in stage bands and chamber music groups.

Jenny is in year 12 at Lynfield College.  She began studying Piano at age 5 in Hong Kong and when she moved to New Zealand at age 7, continued her studies in Auckland.  Jenny is currently working for her ATCL Diploma with Humberto Almeida at Able Music Studio.  She has won prizes at West Auckland and North Shore Competitions.

After the three performances and before Adjudicator Susan Smith gave the results, we were treated to a CONCERT featuring selected performers from the 56th Festival 2010.  It was wonderful entertainment and you can click here for photo coverage.

3rd EDWARD GIFFNEY 

2nd JENNY WONG 

A special thank you to the Music Director of Aotea Youth Symphony, Paul Harrop, who in turn thanks convenor Maureen Webley for another successful Concerto Final

  

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