2006 Concerto Competition Winners Perform April 12

March 29, 2006

March 29, 2006, Greencastle, Ind. - The Winners of the 2006 DePauw School of Music Concerto Competition will perform with the DePauw University Orchestra under the direction of Orcenith Smith on Wednesday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium of the DePauw Performing Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public. (l-r in photo: Keith Teepen, Brett Imamura, Stacey Erin Sands, Elizabeth Hartnett, Ann Marie Hostetter, Nathan Kross)

Chosen from 36 contestants in the event’s February competition, the six winners were selected after passing through preliminary and final rounds. Faculty members from the DePauw School of Music participated as judges in the competition’s first round, while adjudicators from outside of DePauw were brought in to judge the final round.

The competition’s winners are Elizabeth Hartnett, soprano; Ann Marie Hostetter, piano; Nathan Kross, piano; Stacey Erin Sands, soprano; Keith Teepen, piano; and Brett Imamura,piano. Imamura was also a winner of the 2005 Competition. 

Music presented in the concert will include: “Spiel’ ich” from Johann Strauss Jr.’s operetta Die Fledermaus, Piano Concerto No. 1 by Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto No. 3 by Beethoven, Piano Concerto in F by Gershwin, and “Ain’t it a Pretty Night” from the opera Susannah by Carlisle Floyd.

This is the first year that two students will be playing the same concerto on the concert, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. It is also the first year that there will be two soloists from Hawaii, both of which are from the same city, Mililani, Hawaii. There are also two soloists from Indiana, and one each from Ohio and Kentucky.

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