Students

Jesús Castro-Balbi, a fourth-year doctoral student of Aldo Parisot and a member of the Pre-College faculty, played the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Arild Remmereit, in February. The concert was broadcast live nationally in Mexico.

Composition doctoral student Justine Fang Chen was commissioned by the Concertante Chamber Group for her work Six, a string sextet for two violins, two violas, and two cellos. It received its premiere in February at the Harrisburg (PA) Whitaker Center and has since been performed in Baltimore and New York.

Violin student Mayuko Kamio will be among those featured on the television documentary Playing for Real on PBS in April. The program profiled the organization Young Concert Artists and its process of creating careers for young classical musicians.

Violinist Chang Ho Lim won second place in the 33rd annual International Competition for Piano and Strings at the Corpus Christi Young Artists' Competition in February.

Naaman Sluchin, a violinist in his second year of the Artist Diploma program, won first prize of the Uralsk International Violin Competition in Kazakhstan.