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Competitions

ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards

Grand Final
Friday 27 August 2010, 7pm
QPAC Concert Hall

Be inspired -this year Queensland Symphony Orchestra hosts the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards Grand Final. The top three players from all instrument categories will take the stage, displaying the highest level of musicianship in the country. Listen and watch as Queensland Symphony Orchestra accompanies Australia's best and brightest.

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Young Instrumentalist Competition

Staff and members of Queensland Symphony Orchestra are pleased to announce the winner of the Young Instrumentalist Competition for 2010. First prize of a performance opportunity with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra at the QPAC Concert Hall on the March 17 was awarded to Eddy Chen (Brisbane State High School) playing Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor 1st mvt. 

Runner-up for the evening was Alex Miller (Toowoomba Grammar School) who played the Jacob Concerto for Horn and Strings mvt 1, and second runner-up on the evening was Catherina Lee (Trinity Lutheran College) who performed the 1st mvt of the Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No. 5.

The standard of performances was extremely high and the judging panel of CEO Patrick Pickett, Assistant Conductor, Sarah-Grace Williams (who will conduct on the 17th of March), NFA / Anthony Camden Foundation patron Lilly Camden, and Richard Wenn (Director of Artistic Planning) had an extremely tough job.

QSO were pleased to award two loan violins after the announcement of the winners.  The Primavera violin donated by the NFA /Anthony Camden Foundation was awarded to Sally Law (Somerville House), and the 'Brennan Keats' violin donated by the National Instrument Bank (A.E. Smith maker) was awarded to our winner Eddy Chen.

You can see Eddy Chen in action at the Queensland Symphony Orchestra It's a Riot concert to be held at QPAC Concert Hall on Wednesday  March 17.  Tickets available here or through Qtix on 134 246.

We wish to thank all the members of the public, students, teachers and families who made this evening such a success.  It was great to see such support of our young musicians.