MusicTeacherGifts.com Music Competition Ages 12 to 14
First Place - Bianca Gabriela Grigore
Second Place - Chia Ren Cher
Honorable Mention - Campbell Leiloglou
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Bianca Gabriela Grigore, “Mirror Of Dufy: Part 1, The Grid; Part 2, Jane With Flowers”, Contemporary Classical, 2 Violins
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Bianca-Gabriela Grigore (b. 2008 in Bucharest) began studying violin at the age of 5. She studied violin at the National College of Arts "Dinu Lipatti" in Bucharest with Prof. Popa Tania (2014-2020) and with Prof. Cristina Buzilă (September 2020-present).
At the age of 10, she started also to study composition with the Romanian composers established in Austria, Mihai Codrea and Sanziana Dobrovicescu. In 2020 she won the 2nd Prize at The 2nd International Competition of Composers «New Music Generation 2020», Kazakhstan. Her works explore a big spectrum of perspectives about sound and our relationship with our instruments, our body but also other arts.
Among the prizes won by Bianca as a violonist are the 1st Prize at the International Competition "Cantam online" (June 2020), the 2nd Prize at the National Competition "Dan Cumpătă", Romania, 2020, the 1st Prize at the International Competition "Paul Polidor" 2020, the 2nd Prize at the National Competition “Ion Dumitrescu”, Romania, 2021, the 2nd Prize at the "Master of Strings International Violin Competition" 2021, 1st Prize at the National Competition "Ada Ulubeanu" 2021.
From 2020, Bianca plays on a violin received as a scholarship from the violinist Razvan Stoica.
Chia Ren Cher, “String Quartet No. 1, Mvmt. 3, Coulor”, String Quartet, 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello
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Chia Ren Cher is (now) 15 years old. He found interest in composing music at 11 years old. His first composition was a violin-yangqin duet which he scribbled using his own notation and he performed with his brother in a public festival. That prompted him to start learning music theory and then progressed into the study of classical music composition.
By 13 years old, he has composed an outstanding classical work, String Quartet No.1, Colour , comprising four movements of 30 minutes, and performed by well-known professional musicians.
He went on to win two first prizes (as sole winner) in two different composition competitions in United States in 2020 and 2021 as well as multiple second prizes in composition in competitions in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Asia.
He is also talented in playing the violin and yangqin (a Chinese hammered dulcimer). He received multiple first prize awards for violin solo and yangqin solo competitions.
Ren Cher is also a very experienced orchestral violinist and yangqinist. He has performed over 60 performances across 9 years in a philharmonic orchestra plus ensembles in major concert halls in Singapore and internationally such as in Vienna, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Taiwan. Ren Cher is also the yangqin section chair of a Chinese orchestra, and has over 9 years of public performance experiences. He does music arrangements for his school’s orchestra and has also conducted string ensembles for public performances.
Campbell Leiloglou, “The Haunted Ballroom”, Piano
Honorable Mention
Campbell Leiloglou is a thirteen-year-old homeschool student who enjoys piano and drawing. He studies piano with Dorothy Yan and composition with Edna Longoria, both of MACSA. His compositions have received honorable mention in the 2019 TMTA Original Composition Contest and also in the 7th Annual Violettes by Becky Youth Music Composition Competition (now MusicTeacherGifts.com), under 15 division.
Emma Rollo, “Let’s Chat”, Violin, Cello, Piano
I'm Emma Rollo and I'm thirteen years old. I live in Lecce, in Italy, and I have been playing piano and composition for six years at “Orpheo Space”. I really like to listen to and compose music!
Congratulations to each of these students. I am proud of you all, and hope the judges’ comments can support you thru your next works. Thank you so much to our volunteer judges, Laura Schwendinger, University of Wisconson, Madison and Andrew Sigler from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
