Announcing our 8th Annual NCVS Young Violists Competition,
Final Round Concert Video Release: Coming soon!
2023 Violist Adjudicators: Eleanor Angel, Ethan Filner, Jodi Levitz, & Dr. Thomas Tatton
2023 winners: Jennifer Kang, 1st place, Best Bach & Best New Piece Awards; Colin Breshears and Jenna Kim, 2nd place tie; Katherine Yang, 3rd place
Our 2023 Finalists:
From San Jose, Bomin Kim, from Cupertino, Michelle Choi, from Saratoga, David Kim, from Mountain View, Jennifer Kang, from Los Gatos, Jenna Kim, from San Mateo, Katherine Yang, and from San Pablo, Colin Breshears.
2023 Application / Preliminary round information
Deadline: video materials submitted by January 8, 2023, 11:59pm Pacific time. Please consider filing your application form at any time from 8/22/22 on - and submitting your recordings and payment when ready.
1. Any single movement from a Cello Suite by J.S. Bach
2. One movement from a viola sonata or a showpiece
3. One movement of a viola concerto
For Final Round: all finalists will play their preliminary repertoire plus a new work for unaccompanied viola, Cantilena for solo viola by Dr. Andersen Viana (the winner of the NCVS composer competition 2022-23)
to NCVS@NORCALVIOLA.ORG
Sunday March 13, 2022, 2:00pm
Congratulations to Northern California Viola Society's 2022 Young Violists Competition Winners:
Andrew Ahn, 16, from Atherton
Andrew Hwang, 14, from Palo Alto
Chanhee Park, 16, from San Jose
Meet Our YVC 2021 Finalists:
Michelle Koo, Hannah Lam, Wyeth Minami,
Pearl de la Motte & Ingrid Nordberg
Michelle Koo is a freshman at Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California. She started out playing the violin but switched to viola after 4 years and currently studies with Pei-Ling Lin at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She was awarded 2nd place at United States International Music Competition (USIMC) in 2020 and was also invited to play at Junior Bach Festival. Additionally, Michelle has been a member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra since 2019. Along with her older sister, she is the co-founder of the music program called Bridges in Music. She also is a third degree black belt in Taekwondo. Other than music, she enjoys coding, drawing, reading, singing, and watching her favorite tv shows and Disney movies
Hannah Lam, 15, is a sophomore at San Ramon Valley High School. Hannah started her musical journey on a 1/16 violin in a Suzuki beginner’s class at the age of four and picked up the viola in the sixth grade. She was with Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra for two years and has been with San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra since 2019. She has also received chamber training from the Crowden School of Music, as well as Idyllwild Arts. Hannah studies with Ms. Pei Ling Lin of the Telegraph Quartet. Along with viola, Hannah has been playing the harp for the past seven years. She hopes to entertain, inspire and heal with her music. Hannah also enjoys traveling, baking and interior decorating.
Pearl de la Motte is a 17 year old from San Francisco and she currently studies viola with Dimitri Murrath at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She is one of 9 children and attends Compass Charter School. She started playing the violin when she was just 2 years old then switched to the viola when she was 10. At first she didn’t enjoy playing the viola at all, but she soon grew to love the instrument’s deep and expressive tone. Pearl has won many awards for her playing and every week she plays concerts with her family on the street corner. When she’s not playing music, she enjoys knitting, studying chemistry, and playing with her siblings.
Ingrid Nordberg is seventeen years old and a senior at Northgate High School. She plays viola in the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and is principal viola at the Northgate High School orchestra. Her current teacher is Hyelim Shin, who she has been learning from since November 2019. She has also studied chamber music at the Domaine Forget International Music Festival in Quebec and at the Fry Street Chamber Days in Utah.
Eligibility: Pre-college, aged 19 or younger. Applicants must be based or studying in Northern California. Previous YVC first place winners not eligible to re-apply. Cash prizes: $500, first prize / $300, second prize / $200, third prize.
2023 Application / Tape-round Information
Deadline: January 8, 2023
Finalists will be announced January 22, 2023
Application Fee: $35
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