Winners of WAMSO Young Artists Competition announced.(Items of Interest)

MTNA 2004 Young Artist String Competition winner Anna Burden was among the winners of the forty-ninth annual WAMSO Young Artists Competition, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in January.

Twenty-year-old Burden, cellist from Lake Bluff, Illinois, is a junior at Northwestern University and studies with Hans Jensen. She received a $2,500 cash award from WAMSO, plus a taped performance on McGraw Hill's Young Artist Showcase, WQXR in New York City. Burden also won the $500 Vincent R. Bastien Memorial Cello Scholarship Award.

The first-prize winner was Nuiko Wadden, 24, a harpist from Wilmette, Illinois, who received a master of music degree from Rice University as a student of Paula Page. She received the $3,000 WAMSO Young Artist Award; the $2,250 WAMSO Achievement Award; a performance with the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vanska; a taped performance on McGraw Hill's Dung Artist Showcase, WQXR in New York City; and the Erma Strachauer medal.

Two $1,000 third prizes were given to Matthew Coley, 25, percussionist, and Yangyoon Kim, 22, violist. Coley, of Chicago, received a master of music degree from Northwestern University. Kim attends Indiana University in Bloomington, where she studies ...