In Harmony: the Kaufman Center Newsletter
Lucy Moses School Student News (Winter 2010)
Daniel Fanshel (Flute) was a winner in the National Flute Association High School Flute Choir Competition and performed at the National Flute Association annual convention last August. Daniel also received a perfect score (100 out of 100 points) at the annual New York State School Music Association All State Adjudication in June.
Alice Ivy-Pemberton (Violin) won First Prize at the 2009 Greenwich Village Orchestra Concerto competition and performed at the Winners Concert on December 13 at Washington Irving High School in lower Manhattan. She was accepted as a semi-finalist to the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in Norway. Alice will perform her first solo recital in New York at Barge Music in Brooklyn on March 27 at 1 pm in anticipation of her trip.
Manami Mizumoto (Violin) won the St. Petersburg International Music Academy Concerto competition in Beloit, Wisconsin.
Joseph Morag (Violin) won first prize in the Alexander & Buono International String Competition and finished as a finalist in the Greenwich Village Orchestra Young Artists Competition. Joseph is also playing with the New York Youth Symphony as their youngest first violin section player.
Together with Sir James Galway and the National Flute Association, SMS students Tamar Benami (5th grade) and Eleanor Bent (6th grade), Young Artists Program student Louis Diaz, LMS students Eni Karahoda and Cynthia Holden and LMS faculty Valerie Holmes and Susan Friedlander took part in what the Guinness World Records officially recognized as the World's Largest Flute Ensemble on August 14, 2009 at the Marriott Marquis hotel in New York. With 1,989 participants, the event surpassed the previous record of 1,975 set in China last July.
