Special Awards

Most Outstanding Musician from Nth Qld - Joy Rutledge Award $500 sponsored by Mrs D. Gaemers Most Promising String Player Award $250 sponsored by AUSTA (NQ) Most Promising Pianist - Frank Carroll Memorial Award $250 sponsored by Anne Brook and Alan Stephenson Most Promising Brass/Woodwind Award $250 sponsored by Arthur Florence of MusicAid

Adjudication and Prize Presentation Gala Instrumental Concert

1st $4000 * Townsville City Council Prize provided by Australian Concerto & Vocal Competition *1st place winner will also receive an invitation to perform as a guest soloist with the Barrier Reef Orchestra. In addition, as part of the John Hopkins Performance Fellowship Award (valued $1000+), we will endeavour to arrange a performance as a soloist with an Australian Community Orchestra. This has sometimes proved difficult

nd 2 $2000 7.00pm Tuesday 24 July 2018 Dr Bill Williams OBE Memorial Prize sponsored by Townsville City Council and Australian Concerto & Vocal Competition Townsville Civic Theatre C2 Auditorium 3rd $1000 Australian Concerto & Vocal Competition Prize Adjudicator– Piers Lane AO

Audience Choice Award $300 sponsored by triple t – Classic Music Team

Australian Concerto & Vocal Competition 4772 7419 [email protected] www.acvc.com.au All photography by Cam Leitch PROGRAM

Michael Li, Melbourne | Piano (43 min) Accompanist: Peter de Jager Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, op. 30 I. Allegro ma non tanto II. Intermezzo: Adagio III. Finale: Alla breve

Crystal Smith, Tomewin | Piano (25 min) Accompanist: Luke Sharp Piano Concerto No. 1 Carl Vine

Victor Dai, | Piano (26 min) Accompanist: Catherine Davis Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, op. 26 Sergei Prokofiev I. Andante - Allegro II. Tema con variazioni III. Allegro, ma non troppo

Yebin Yoo, Melbourne

INTERVAL Yebin Yoo is 18 years old and studies under Dr Robin Wilson at ANAM. In September, she will begin studying at New England Conservatory in Boston with Professors Ayano Ninomiya and Miriam Fried. She has previously studied with John Curro. Raechel Suh, Brisbane | Violoncello (30 min) Accompanist: Robert Manley Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, op. 107 Dmitri Shostakovich Yebin was named the winner of the Gisborne International Music Competition at I. Allegretto II. Moderato III. Cadenza- Attacca IV. Allegro con moto the youngest age in the competition history, also receiving the Pultron Composites Award. She has also won the Australian National Youth Concerto Competition, Preston Youth Concerto Competition, Hephzibah Menuhin Memorial Award and the National 3MBS ‘The Talent’ Competition. Yebin Yoo, Melbourne | Violin (45 min)

Accompanist: Peter de Jager Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 61 Ludwig van Beethoven She has appeared as a soloist with the Preston Symphony, Queensland Youth I. Allegro ma non troppo II. Larghetto III. Rondo: Allegro Symphony, South Melbourne Symphony, Melbourne Youth Orchestra, Art of Sound Orchestra, performing the Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Brahms, Beethoven and

Khachaturian Concertos. Raechel Suh, Brisbane Michael Li, Melbourne

Raechel Suh began learning the cello at the age of eleven and has since earned her Michael Li currently studies piano under the mentorship of Glenn Riddle at the reputation as a skillful performer. Her sound has been described as “rich and round” and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. He has received many accolades, including her interpretations “innately musical”. She is currently in her third year of study at the LMusA with Distinction (2008), inaugural winner of the Melbourne Recital Centre’s Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University with esteemed cellist and pedagogue, Dr. Richard Mills Bach Prize (2010), and winner of the Preston Symphony Orchestra Meta Weiss. Upon auditioning for the Conservatorium, she was awarded the 2016 Concerto Prize (2012). Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University Audition Incentive Bursary. Raechel was In 2014, Michael was a finalist in the prestigious ABC Symphony Young the first prize winner of the 2017 Queensland Conservatorium Piatti Prize and a semi- Performers Awards, where his performances in the Recital Round and Chamber finalist in the 2017 Gisborne International Music Competition. She has been selected to participate in workshops and masterclasses with David Requiro, Howard Penny, Caroline Music Round were broadcast nationally on ABC Classic FM. Other recent highlights Henbest and the Australian String Quartet. include receiving the Pam Wells Prize for best performance of a work by Chopin at the 2016 Australian National Piano Award; and being selected as National Finalist Raechel has performed as the principal cellist of numerous orchestras including the in the 2017 Australian Youth Classical Music Competition. Queensland Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, Australian Youth Orchestra National A frequent guest soloist with orchestra, Michael has performed with the Preston Music Camp (2017) and the Australian Youth Orchestra Young Symphonists (2016). Recently, she was selected for the 2018 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Old Scotch Symphony Orchestra, University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Fellowships. Raechel has a strong passion for chamber music and is Medical Students’ Orchestra, and the Zelman Symphony Orchestra – with which he a member of emerging ensembles, the Hazelwood String Quartet and Asha Mae Piano won the Boroondara Eisteddfod’s Piano Concerto Competition held last month. Trio. Crystal Smith, Tomewin Victor Dai, Sydney

Described by renowned Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa as “a pianist with a fantastic Australian pianist Victor Dai is currently studying at the Royal College of Music, technique,” Crystal Smith was selected as one of the Australian Piano Showcase London with Professor Andrew Ball for his Bachelor of Music. He is an RCM performers for the Sydney International Piano Competition 2016. She is currently scholar supported by the Olive Rees Prize. Prior to this, he undertook studies at undertaking a Bachelor of Music (Honours) at the Queensland Conservatorium the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Clemens Leske, where he was Griffith University under the tutelage of Natasha Vlassenko. recipient of the John and Dorothy Vimpani Pianoforte Scholarship. Victor began his piano studies at the age of six, and shortly after began Further highlights of Crystal’s musical growth include being selected to perform Carl performing live on radio station Fine Music 102.5FM (2MBSFM) in the Young Vine’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Queensland Conservatorium Symphony Performers and Emerging Artists programs. Orchestra in August 2018, receiving Bachelor of Music with Distinction and the Conservatorium Medal in 2017, and winning the M. K. Lassell Prize for the Best Third Since then, he has performed across many venues in Australia and . Victor Year Recital. has also been awarded prizes in numerous competitions, including First Prize in the Sydney Eisteddfod Kawai Piano Award and the Ryde Open Piano Crystal has enjoyed participating in masterclasses and lessons with a variety of world Championship (2016). He has performed in masterclasses for distinguished -class musicians such as Ian Munro, Gerard Willems, Duncan Gifford, Roy Howat, pianists such as Jonathan Plowright, Boaz Sharon and Sa Chen. Most recently, he Peter Hill, Alexander Strukov, Alexander Madzar, and Gil Garburg. She enjoys a wide has received tutelage from Pascal Devoyon at the MusicAlp Festival, France, in range of repertoire from Baroque to contemporary, and recently performed the Berlin and London. Australian premiere of Kate Moore’s Bloodmoon October, a piece for piano and live electronics.