Saturday, June 14th

Classical Upper Strings - Open - Group A

Adjudicator: Meagan Turner

Classical Upper Strings - Open - Group A

Canadian violist Meagan Turner is in demand as a performer throughout North America and Australia. A dedicated chamber musician, she has appeared at the Ravinia Festival (Steans Music Institute), Tippet Rise Arts Centre, the Toronto Summer Music Festival, the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, the Luminato Festival, the Mackay Chamber Music Festival, Bangalow Festival, and Musica Viva's Morning Masters series. Additionally, Meagan performs with the Alma Moodie Quartet, and will serve as guest violist for the latter half of the Affinity Quartet's 2024 season. She has performed as guest principal violist with Sydney's Omega Ensemble and with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players and Shattered Glass (NYC). In addition, Meagan has served as principal violist of the New York String Orchestra Seminar, the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, and the Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra. She regularly performs with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Meagan is the recipient of numerous awards, including Canada's "Hottest Musicians Under 30"

(Canadian Broadcasting Company, 2019). Additionally, she was chosen as a recipient of a Rachel Elizabeth Barton Pine Foundation Career Grant – an award intended for the advancement of young artists' performance careers – and is a past scholar and grant recipient of the Virtu Foundation. From 2018-2020, Meagan held a young artist in residence position at Carnegie Hall (Ensemble Connect), a residency designed to prepare extraordinary young classical musicians for careers combining musical excellence, teaching, community engagement, advocacy, entrepreneurship, and leadership. During her time with Ensemble Connect, Meagan worked closely with Carnegie Executive and Artistic Director Clive Gillinson in a performance and workshop series at Sing Sing Correctional Institute in conjunction with Carnegie's Musical Connections Program.

Meagan received her Bachelor's (violin) and Performance Certificate (viola) from the University of Toronto under the tutelage of Eric Nowlin and Erika Raum, and her Master's degree from The Juilliard School as a full-scholarship student (Felix Galimir Scholarship and Irene Diamond Graduate Fellowship) of Samuel Rhodes. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University, working as Eric Nowlin's Teaching Assistant. Meagan plays a viola by Giovanni Pistucci, on private loan.

Location

All Saints Anglican Church
400 Northfield Dr. W.
Waterloo, ON N2L 0A6

Classical Upper Strings - Open - Group A - Morning

TimeNameTitlesHome Festival
Time:9:15 AMName:Sam WongTitles:
Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Paganiniana by Nathan Milstein
Caprice, op. 1, no. 16 by Niccolò Paganini
Home Festival:North York Live
Time:9:40 AMName:Emilie TamTitles:
Concerto No. 2 n D Minor, op. 22, 1st and 2nd mvts. by Henryk Wieniawski
Tambourin chinois, op. 3 by Fritz Kreisler
Home Festival:Yip's
Time:10:10 AMName:Lisa LiuTitles:
Sonata in A Major, K 526, 1st and 2nd mvts. by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto in E Minor, op. 64, 1st mvt. by Felix Mendelssohn
Home Festival:IMFC
Time:10:45 AMName:Aiden GengTitles:
Partita No.1 in B Minor, BWV 1002, Sarabande and Double by Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata No. 11 in G Major K. 379 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer
Home Festival:Windsor-Essex
Time:11:10 AMName:Benjamin YangTitles:
Introduction and Tarantelle, op. 43 by Pablo de Sarasate
Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003, 3rd mvt: Andante and 4th mvt.: Allegro by Johann Sebastian Bach
Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis

11:45 AM - Lunch Break

Classical Upper Strings - Open - Group A - Afternoon

TimeNameTitlesHome Festival
Time:12:45 PMName:Victoria GilerovitchTitles:
Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K 218, 2nd and 3rd mvts. by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Zigeunerweisen, op. 20 by Pablo de Sarasate
Home Festival:CCC
Time:1:15 PMName:Alina ZhangTitles:
Scottish Fantasy in E flat Major, op. 46 SCH; INT, 3rd and 4th mvts. by Max Bruch
Caprice, op. 1, no. 9 by Niccolò Paganini
Home Festival:Toronto
Time:1:40 PMName:Lucas JuTitles:
Concerto in E Minor, op. 64, 1st, 2nd & 3rd mvts. by Felix Mendelssohn
Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003, 1st mvt.: Grave by Johann Sebastian Bach
Home Festival:Toronto
Time:2:20 PMName:Tina SieversTitles:
Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002, Sarabande and Double by Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto No. 1 in D major, op. 19, 1st and 2nd mvts. by Sergei Prokofiev
Introduction and Tarantelle, op. 43 by Pablo de Sarasate
Home Festival:Pickering GTA

3:15 PM - Workshop and Announcement of Winners - MANDATORY

Workshop will be held from approximately 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm.

Announcement of winners will happen at the end of the workshop.

4:40 PM - PLAYOFFS - Classical Upper Strings - Open

The top two competitors from this class will proceed to the playoffs.
The playoffs will be held at All Saints Anglican Church
400 Northfield Dr. W., Waterloo, ON N2L 0A6