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2003 Finalists
MAREINE
ITO (winner)
Mareine completed
her Artist's diploma in Berlin after studies with Nora Chastain
receiving Highest Honours. She was the top ranking auditionee for
an orchestral fellowship with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
where she has been accepted to be in the Karajan Academy for the
next two years. Only four out of one hundred applicants were chosen
and she was apparently their first choice. In 2008 she is an academist at the Orchestral-Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
August 2008
ZHU
WEN
Zhu Wen was born
in China and began learning the violin at the age of five. In 1996,
she was awarded a full scholarship to study at the Central Conservatory
of Music in Beijing. This Conservatory is the most prestigious in
China boasting a very high standard.
Zhu Wen has been a prize winner in many International violin competitions
including:
• 3rd prize in Novosibirski International Violin Competition,
Russia in 2001
• Took part in the Guangxi New year Musical Festival, where
she played violin solo with Guangxi Symphony orchestra in 2001
• Played the Violin Concerto in D Major Op.35 by Tchaikovsky
with East-West Orchestra in Sydney in 2002
• Was a finalist in the Kendall National Violin Competition
in 2003 and was awarded the Audience Choice prize as well as the
Australian Composition prize. She also gave a recital in Port Macquarie.
• Won the Merit Diploma in the International Violin Competition
Sion-Valais, Switzerland in 2004
• Won the Richard Goldner Award in 2005, and wasinvited to
play as a soloist with Balmian Sinfornia, and later invited to be
the Concert-master with the Orchestra.
• Won the 2nd Prize in the 18th Gisborne International Music
Competition in New Zealand, amongst 49 participants from different
parts of the world in 2006
Zhu Wen regularly
represents the Australian Institute of Music on prestigious occasions,
including the important concerts held at the Art Gallery of N.S.W
and Young Music concert series at St.Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney.
Since arriving in Australia
in 2002, she has been studying at the Australian Institute of Music,
where she was awarded Bachelor of Music Degree First Class Honours.
Currently she is studying Master of Music under Ms Charmian Gadd,
as a full scholarship holder at the Australian Institute of Music.
November 2007
EMMA JARDINE
Emma received an
Australia Council grant and a scholarship from the Accademia Musicale
Chigiana, Siena, which enabled her to spend 4 months of study at
various summer schools in Europe, with teachers Pierre Amoyal, Igor
Osim, Grigory Zhislin and Gianno Carmignola. Emma has also performed
in concerts with pianist, Benjamin Kopp, in Sweden, Switzerland
and Austria. She is now living in Lausanne and studying
with Pierre Amoyal at the Conservatoire de Lausanne as well as playing
with the Camerata de Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
May 2007
EMMA SKILLINGTON
As the founding member of the TinAlley
String Quartet, Emma won the Grand Prize and String Quartet Award
at the last National Chamber Music Competition (2005). She set up
a residency for the group at the Australian National Academy of
Music for the academic year of 2006. She travelled with TASQ to
the UK and USA on a few occasions to study with leading quartets
at some top universities (Stanford, Yale) and to compete in the
last London International String Quartet Competition. At the end
of 2006 she resigned her position in TASQ to focus on her own playing.
Emma is now privileged to be studying
with Prof. Nelli Shkolnikova, who recently returned to Australia
after teaching at Bloomington, USA for many years. She is concurrently
pursing my academic interests, completing a Masters in Musicology
at the University of Melbourne.
June 2007
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