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Junior Division Instrumentalist: First place, Noelle Hadsall on piano, a student at Mountain View Elementary; second place, Joseph Malvinni on guitar, a student at La Cumbre Junior High; and Holly Hadsall on piano, a student at San Marcos High School.
Honorable Mention: Olivia Barker, soprano; Grace Hu, piano; Nathaniel Hadsall, piano; Evelina McGary, piano; Zeyn and Rhyan Schweyk, piano.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the competition was held in Lehman Hall with the only audience members being competition judges Ani Aznavoorian, Paul Berkowitz and Armen Guzelimian event host and PASF Board president Deborah Bertling; and videographer David Bazemore.
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Students are given the opportunity to grow musically and gain experience by working with district music teachers and local professional musicians. By strengthening this elementary level music experience, the BRAVO! music program is designed to provide a pathway for students to enroll and be successful in junior high and high school music ensembles. Santa Barbara Unified is thrilled to be partnering with the Santa Barbara Symphony again this school year to ensure that students deepen their love of music and instrumental proficiency,” said Sierra Loughridge, SBUSD, director of elementary education.
“This year, we worked closely with the symphony to adapt the Bravo After School Program into a virtual program, where students can work safely with professional symphony musicians, in instrument alike sectionals to increase their mastery of their chosen instruments, Loughridge said.
By Gerald Carpenter, Noozhawk Contributing Writer | @noozhawknews
February 1, 2021
| 4:52 p.m.
In the unlikely event that any of our aspiring young virtuosos have been unaware of this, let me take this occasion to remind all of you, and your parents, that the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, under the sponsorship of the Santa Barbara Symphony, has opened its annual Concerto Competition, a longstanding tradition of providing Santa Barbara County’s finest young musicians the opportunity to be featured as a soloist with the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony.
The competition will proceed as in the past, with two major exceptions: 1) for the first time, this event will be virtual, and 2) this year’s competition, normally only open to members of the symphony’s programs, is now open to any student up to age 18, who lives in Santa Barbara County and studies an instrument other than a traditional orchestral instrument.