AFAF's 2005-2006 Season
Auditions for AFAF’s 2005-2006 Season were once again conducted in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Washington DC. With the success of American Fine Arts Festival’s first two seasons, interest in the Festival increased dramatically, and AFAF’s 2005-2006 Season featured two separate rounds of auditions and Winners’ Concerts – the first round held in early winter and the second round taking place late spring/early summer. With a total of over 700 in attendance, 2005-2006 proved to be AFAF’s most successful year thus far.
In 2005-2006, the American Fine Arts Festival joined the world music community in celebrating the 250-year anniversary of W.A. Mozart’s birth. As part of our celebration of the great composer’s life, the AFAF organized a concerto competition, with winners once again invited to perform with the Washington Youth Chamber Orchestra (Olga Yanovich - Music Director) at the Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center. The highlight of the year was a Spring Gala Concert featuring some of the best talent from this and previous seasons of the AFAF in a special performance at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Mozart Piano & Violin Concerto Competition Winners
Tiffany Ho (b.1992), Piano
Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414, 1st mvt, Mozart
Teacher: Ludmila Bekker
Metok Hughes Levine (b.1990), Violin
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216, 1st mvt, Mozart
Teacher: Vera Rubin
2006 AFAF Spring Gala Concert Participants
William Wong (b.1998), Piano
Little Prelude in G minor from Third English Suite, Bach
Teacher: Mei Chun Bao
Sara Takamatsu (b.1994), Piano
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, Op. 87, No. 2, Shostakovich
Teacher: Lidia Boguslavsky
Lisa Kojima (b.1993), Violin
Concerto in C major, 1st mvt, Kabalevsky
Teacher: Vladimir Agilin
Anna Russell (b.1993), Piano
The Lark, Glinka-Balakirev
Teacher: Irena Orlov
Farshad Tahvildar-Zadeh (b.1993), Piano
Toccata, Poulenc
Teacher: Larissa Korkina
Jehshua Karuna Karan (b.1994), Violin
Concerto in G minor, Op. 26, Allegro moderato, Bruch
Teacher: Olga Khroulevitch
Tiffany Ho (b.1992), Piano
Sonata in A major K. 113, Scarlatti
Teacher: Ludmila Bekker
Daniel Lay (b.1993), Viola
Viola Concerto, Op. posth., Allegro vivace, Bartok
Teacher: Alexander Rees
Casey Costello (b.1994) & Allison Costello (b.1991), Piano duet
Waltz, Gavrilin
Teacher: Margarita Kotlyarova
Joyce Chan (b.1989), Piano
Nocturne in E major, Op. 62, No. 2, Chopin
Teacher: Lyubov Shlain
Mariana Olaizola (b.1990), Piano
Sonata in D major, K. 311, Rondeau, Mozart
Teacher: Irena Orlov
Jun Luke Foster (b.1992), Piano
Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31, Chopin
Teacher: Svetlana Gorokhovich
Arielle Moore (b.1989) & Brendan Shea (b.1987), Violin duet
Navarra, Sarasate
Teacher: Olga Khroulevitch
Sam Lavery (b.1990), Cello
Suite No. 2 “Allemande”, Bach
Teacher: David Szepessy
Kevin Jang (b.1994), Piano
Rondeau, Kabalevsky
Teacher: Chiu-Tze Lin
Katherine Huang (b.1992), Piano
Jardins Sous La Pluie from “Estampes”, Debussy
Teacher: Grace Mc Farlane
Jeremy Stein Cushman (b.1990), Violin
La Ronde Des Lutins, Bazzini
Teacher: Shirley Givens
Steven Ionov (b.1995), Piano
Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5, Rachmaninoff
Teacher: Sofya Genis
Jamie Cai (b.1992), Piano
Scherzo Op. 6, No. 3, Griffes
Teacher: Ingrid Clarfield
Madison Ann Vest (b.1994), Violin
Introduction and Tarantella, Sarasate
Teacher: Victor Danchenko
Neysham Khazenie (b.1992), Piano
A La Albeniz, Schedrin
Teacher: Marina Alexeyeva
Dmitry Samogray (b.1989), Piano
Etude in C major, Op. 10, No. 1, Chopin
Teacher: Valerie Henkin
Sofi Fedushenko (b.1987), Voice
Alleluia, Mozart
Teacher: Lidiya Kutilova
Ji Hye Jung (b.1990), Piano
Allegro Barbaro, Bartok,
Teacher: Natalia Harlap
John Chen (b.1993), Piano
Islamey, Balakirev
Teacher: Anna Balakerskaia
Leo Svirsky (b.1988), Piano
Petrushka, 2nd and 3rd mvts, Stravinsky
Teacher: Irena Orlov
