March 28, 2006
MSO Announces Winners of “Side By Side” & Student Soloist Auditions

HAGERSTOWN, MD – The Maryland Symphony Orchestra announces the winners of two new competitions for young musicians. Six music students will perform “side by side” with MSO musicians at the annual Citi Youth Concerts on May 24 and 25, 2006, and a student violinist has been chosen to perform as soloist at the concerts. Students from Washington, Frederick, Franklin, Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan Counties, as well as students of current and former MSO musicians, were eligible to audition for these performance opportunities.

Side-by-side winners are Quinn Gelestino, clarinet, from North Hagerstown High School, Akane Fakuda, cello, from Saint James School, Heather Carbaugh, trumpet, from South Hagerstown High School, Elizabeth Pack, flute, from Ellicott City, Kelley Medcalf, clarinet, from Stephens City, VA, and Christa Hoover, violin, from Greencastle, PA. Eleven-year-old Madison Vest from Northern Virginian is the winner of the student soloist competition. A violin student of Victor Danchenko, Madison will perform the Rondo movement from Mozart’s “Haffner Serenade.”

Led by Music Director and Conductor Elizabeth Schulze, the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, now its 24th season, is the area’s premiere professional orchestra, dedicated to providing musical performances and programs that educate and entertain while enhancing the cultural environment of Western Maryland and the surrounding region.