Young Musicians Contest

2013 Michael Ben and Illene Komisarow Maurer Young Musicians Contest

FIRST PRIZE AWARD - Anson Hui, Piano
Anson Hui, 14, a homeschooled student from Bloomington, performed Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Opus 15, Movement 1 to claim top honors. He will perform as soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in the Marsh Symphony on the Prairie concerts on June 21 and 22.

Anson Hui has won many piano competitions in his native Canada, including the Grand Prize Award at the Royal Burlington Music Festival in 2011, the Concerto Trophy at music festivals in Markham and North York.  In 2010 Anson won the American Protégé International String and Piano Competition after which he performed in Carnegie Hall.  He performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto #20 with the New York Concerti Sinfonietta in New York City when he was eleven years old. In 2012 Anson had solo performances in Austria, Czech Republic and Canada.  He  performed at the Steinway Piano Gallery in Toronto in a concert celebrating the music of Bach and Mozart on March 17, 2013.  Anson studies piano with Edward Auer at the IU Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington.

THIRD PRIZE AWARD - Phillip Shou, Piano
Phillip Shou, 12, a seventh grader at Carmel Middle School, performed Piano Concerto #20 in D Minor by Mozart. 

Other finalists in the competition won $125 Awards of Excellence.  They were pianists Oliver Shou, 16, and Edward Shou, 14, from Carmel.  They are brothers of the third prize winner.  Clara Abel, 17, a cellist from Herron High School in Indianapolis, rounded out the group of finalists.

The Michael Ben and Illene Komisarow Maurer Young Musician’s Contest is a project of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Association.

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