Knabe Young Artist Piano Competition

Inaugural event, William Knabe Young Artist Piano Competition was held at Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall, University of Maryland. Preliminary round was judged by three distinguished judges for two days in two locations before finalists were announced.

Raelyn Hoang performed with great confidence in the preliminary round and was one of only 6 finalists selected in the age group of 10-13.

   Congratulations to Raelyn on winning 3rd place! She performed Impromptu in A flat major by F. Chopin. She received a lovely trophy and a cash award!

NVMTA Sonata Festival

Nicole, Jacqui and Raelyn after Honors Concert, GMU

This year, NVMTA Sonata Festival hosted 910 students. After listening to first round, judges invited 89 students to second round. 41 finalists were chosen to perform at the Honors Concert at GMU on May 22. Congratulations to all students who were chosen for 2nd round and received Honors!
  Luke, Cameron and Sophia W. played beautifully and received great reports from judges along with shiny trophies, well done!

Katherine after 2nd round

Lucy after 2nd round

Advanced to 2nd round: Kayleigh, Katherine, Lucy, Jacqui, Sophia G., Raelyn and Nicole
     Honors- Nicole, Raelyn, Sophia G. and Jacqui

Big thank you to NVMTA chairman, Ms. J.Bennett and Sonata Festival chairman, Ms. J. Kuo for all the hard work on making this event successful!