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Amy Semes, Violinist
Amy Semes is a Distinguished Honors junior at the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School, Amy has won the competitions of the Bucks County Symphony, Ambler Symphony, Delaware County Symphony, Kennett Symphony and the Newark (DE) Symphony and has appeared as soloist with each of those orchestras and several others. She also appeared internationally as soloist with the Shanghai Philharmonic and the Macau Youth Orchestra as part of their 10 Year Anniversary Celebration. Amy has twice appeared on the popular NPR show "From the Top", first as soloist with the Ocean City Pops in 2011, and again in 2012 as first violinist of the Temple Prep Honors Quartet. She has also appeared as a guest on WRTI's "Crossover", and has also been heard on Shanghai Radio's "The Weekly Radio Broadcast" and on Hong Kong radio RTHK as a guest on "Children's Corner". A chamber musician in the Temple Prep Piano Trio, she won First Prize in the Tri-County Concerts Association Young Artists Competition. As a member of the Snitzer Quartet, she has appeared in several concerts in the Tri-State area. Amy has spent the last five summers as a student of Naoko Tanaka at The Aspen Music Festival, and has played in Master Classes for Pamela Frank, Robert Lipsett, Ida Levin, the Johannes Quartet, the Orion Quartet, and the Emerson Quartet. |
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Carolyn Semes, Violinist Carolyn Semes is 15 years old and a 10th grade distinguished honors student at the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School, University Scholars Program. She is a student of Masao Kawasaki at Juilliard's Pre-College Division. She was a student of Choong-Jin Chang, Principal Viola of the Philadelphia Orchestra. She was a recipient of a Starling Violin Scholarship at Temple Music Prep, where she was a member of the Youth Chamber Orchestra. She currently holds a Braverman Advanced Studies Scholarship at Settlement Music School. In 2011 she won the Temple Music Prep Competition and performed as soloist with the Temple University Orchestra. She has also won the Ambler Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition and performed Sarasate's "Carmen Fantasy" with them. In 2009, she was a soloist with the Shanghai Philharmonic at the Shanghai Concert Hall, performing Sarasate's "Zigeunerweisen" and the Bach "Double" Concerto. She has also performed as soloist, along with her three sisters, with the Olney Symphony and the Ocean City Pops. In 2007 they performed with the Macau Youth Symphony for their 10th Anniversary Concert. She has been on "The Weekly Radio Broadcast" in Shanghai, on "Children's Corner" on RTHK in Hong Kong, On WRTI in Philadelphia "live", and on WHYY for their "President's Dinner". She has spent the last 5 summers at the Aspen Music Festival studying with Masao Kawasaki. |