In Harmony: the Kaufman Center Newsletter
Special Music School Student News (Winter 2010)
Amory Benjamin (Cello – 6th Grade) was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Alexander & Buono International String Competition 2009 Winners’ Recital at Carnegie Hall.
Oliver Betz (Piano – 5th Grade) won the International Chopin Competition in Hartford, CT and the American Prodigy International Competition held at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.
Sebastian DeMayo-Stoger (Cello – 5th Grade) received a standing ovation for his performance of Steve Marzullo’s Suite for Cello and Piano performed with the composer on February 22 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. In November Sebastian performed as a special guest with Steve Marzullo in the concert "Steve Marzullo and Friends" at the jazz club Birdland in a performance of a piece written for Sebastian by Mr. Marzullo. He also performed the Boccherini Cello Concerto in G major first movement, in the Alexander & Buono International String Competition 2009 Winners’ Recital at Carnegie Hall.
Santtu Nevakivi-Callanan (Cello – 8th Grade) participated in the 2009 St. Petersburg International Music Academy in Beloit, Washington, where he studied cello with Leonid Shukayev, and the Suolahti International Music Festival in Finland, where he studied cello with Alexander Gebert.
Nadira Novruzov (Flute - 1st Grade) won first place in the New York Flute Club Young Musicians Competition (annual) in her age category and performed as a soloist at the New York Flute Fair, March 2009.
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.
