Dear Piano Families:
Congratulations to all of the students who participated in the Concerto Competition! You all worked so hard, and each of you sounded AMAZING! The results are in, and remember you are all winners, truly. This concerto is YOUR concerto to enjoy for years to come. The judge had some difficult decisions, even asked about splitting medals, and enjoyed listening to each of you. Here is his message:
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Message from the Judge:
Thank you to all the teachers who participated. I would like to extend my congratulations to you for the excellent work you did with your students preparing this repertoire and for all your hard work playing the orchestral parts on the second piano and supporting your students in such a great way. Also, I know getting all the videos ready to submit on such short notice must not have been easy and your work is appreciated.
To the students: Thank you all for your fantastic playing and great work preparing for this competition. I enjoyed hearing you and you all did a great job. Please, do not feel discouraged if you did not get a prize or honorable mention. It is certainly not a sign that you did not do a good enough job. The level was high, and I faced some hard choices to make. I wish splitting awards was possible under the rules. Regardless of the result, keep up the good work and I encourage you to enter again next year with another selection, surely a more challenging one as you will have grown more.
Ricardo de la Torre
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CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN! I am so proud of each of you, and I hope you are all proud of the beautiful music you have made and learned by heart! Trophies, medals and ribbons will be available this week, so please let me know when you can come pick it up!
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Elementary Division
2nd prize - E3 Landon Allen
Honorable mentions: E1 Linnea Allen
Upper Intermediate Division
Honorable mentions: UI4 Calvin Aldrich, U12 Christine Zhang
Advanced A Division
1st prize - AA5 Gabriel Ong
Honorable mentions: AA2 Sky Lin
Advanced B Division
1st prize: AB2 Chloe Song
2nd prize: AB1 Michael Zhao
Honorable mention: AB3 Megan Lorich
Full results will be available on the OMTA website this week, olymusicteacher.org.