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QSO Young Artists Announced

 
The Quincy Symphony Orchestra has announced the winners of its 53rd Annual Young Artists Competition: Alice Ye, piano, Amanda Saul, soprano, and Clarissa Hallmark, saxophone.  These high school students will perform as soloists during the QSO’s Young Artists Concert on February 10, 2008.  The competition, open to area 10th-12th graders, was held on December 1, 2007.

Alice Ye, a sophomore at Macomb High School, is the daughter of Drs. Zhong Ye and Sherry Li.  She started studying piano at the age of five. Currently she studies with Mrs. Hyung Ja Kim.  She plays flute in the Macomb HS Wind Symphony, and participates in Art Club, Ecology Club, Speech Team, Interact, tennis team, Scholastic Bowl, Math Team, and WYSE.  She has won first prize in Art Olympiad.

Amanda Saul is a junior at Quincy High School.  She studies voice with Amy Stollberg.  She is involved in many music and theater activities at QHS, including concert band and orchestra as an oboist, jazz band as a pianist, and concert choir, madrigals, and show choir.  She has performed with the Quincy Community Theatre and is an alum of the Quincy Area Youth Chorus.  Amanda is the daughter of Michael and Randi Saul of Quincy.

Clarissa Hallmark is a senior at Quincy High School.  She has been studying saxophone since age 10.  She studies under her father who is a saxophone teacher.  Before moving to Quincy in 2007, Clarissa attended Knightdale High School in Knightdale, NC, where she received The Most Outstanding Musician Award and The Music Achievement Award in her junior year. She is the daughter of Lynette and Roger Hallmark of Quincy.