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2008 Winners' Recital
The winners of the Neale-Silva Young Artists' Competition will hold a recital at the Wisconsin Union Theater, on the UW-Madison campus
on Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Details about the recital and this year's winners are available here.
The concert will be broadcast live statewide on the NPR News and Classical Music Network
of Wisconsin Public Radio and streamed on the web from WPR's website at http://wpr.org/live.
This year's winners were:
- Michael Smith, Piano
- Brian Viliunas, Clarinet
- Amy Lauters, Piano
- William Martin, Piano
- String Quartet including
- Danielle Simandl, violin
- Katie Ekberg, violin
- Sarah Bellmore, viola
- Max Hero, cello
2008 Finalists
Wisconsin Public Radio named eleven individuals and one ensemble as finalists for its Neale-Silva Young Artists' Competition,
which recognizes outstanding young Wisconsin classical performers who demonstrate an exceptionally high level of artistry.
This year's competition was open to soloists, duos, trios, quartets or quintets who are between the ages of 17 and 26, and are
residents of Wisconsin, or attend a Wisconsin college or university. All instrumentalists and vocal musicians entered by sending
in a recording of their abilities.
The finalists, who were selected in a preliminary judging in February, auditioned before a three-judge panel on March 16 at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Those auditions determined which of the 2008 Wisconsin Public Radio/Neale-Silva Young Artists
received a cash prize and the opportunity to perform on the winners' recital on Wednesday, April 30 in Madison.
The 2008 finalists were:
- Bassoon: David Wells (Madison) -- UW-Madison
- Clarinet: Brian Viliunas (Greendale, Milwaukee)
- Flute: Colleen White (Cedarburg) -- UW-Madison
- Flute & Percussion Duo:
- Flute: Kristine Rominski (Woodville)
- Percussion: Michael Mixtacki (Verona) -- UW-Madison
- Piano: Katelyn Bouska (Stoddard), Viterbo University-La Crosse
- Piano: Amy Lauters (Manhattan, KS) -- Lawrence University-Appleton
- Piano: William Martin (Flossmoor, IL) -- Lawrence University-Appleton
- Piano: Michael Smith (Davis, California) -- Lawrence University-Appleton
- Piano Duo: Paola Savvidou (Cyprus); Jonathan Kuuskoski (Wilmington, NC) --UW-Madison
- String Quartet:
- violin: Danielle Simandl (Marquette, MI)
- violin: Katie Ekberg (New Hope, MN)
- viola: Sarah Bellmore (Sherwood)
- cello: Max Hero (Wauwatosa) -- Lawrence University-Appleton
- Violin: Elizabeth Larson (Middleton) -- UW-Madison
- Violin: Danielle Simandl (Marquette, MI) -- Lawrence University
- Viola: Jacki Thering (Waunakee) -- UW-Oshkosh
- Voice-Lyric Coloratura Soprano: Janalyn Bump (Cambria) -- UW-Whitewater
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