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Four 2002 MTNA state winners have been selected among 125 ARTS Week National Finalists for 2004. Kathryn Huo, Tim Sawyier, Christopher Schmitt and Stephanie Wu will travel all-expenses-paid to Miami, Florida, for ARTS Week 2004, the week of January 5. Their ARTS Week participation will earn them between $500 and $10,000 each in cash awards.
Huo, a resident of Madison Wisconsin, studies piano with Christopher Taylor. Sawyier, a resident of Chicago, Illinois, studies oboe with J. Ricardo Castaneda. Schmitt, a resident of Fairfax Station, Virginia, studies piano with Marjorie Lee. Wu, a resident of Naperville, Illinois, studies piano with Emilio del Rosario.
In addition, Hejin Bai, a resident of Northbrook, Illinois, and student of Gerardo Ribeiro; Loren Fishman, a resident of Columbus, Ohio, and student of Sergei Polusmiak, and Emely Phelps, a resident of Frederick, Maryland, and student of Marjorie Lee, earned honorable mention awards of $100 each. This placed them in the top five percent of the 6,506 applicants.
Fifteen other MTNA state winners earned merit awards of recognition, placing them in the top ten percent of applicants. Participation in the ARTS Week National Competitions was made possible by a partnership formed between MTNA and the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts.
The partnership allows students who win an MTNA state competition as a high school junior (eleventh grade) the opportunity to enter the ...