Shenandoah Conservatory Announces Winners of the 2017 Student Soloists Competition

Shenandoah Conservatory is proud to announce the winners of the 2017 Student Soloists Competition (SSC) on behalf of the SSC committee. The final round of the competition was held at 7 p.m. on Feb. 3, in Armstrong Concert Hall.

Pictured left to right: Shengbo Lin, saxophone; Richard Jeric, piano; Kirstie Lynn Mosher, soprano; Eoín Fleming, piano; Sarah Levering, soprano and Jacob Moyer, clarinet

Category I – Undergraduate

 

Category II – Graduate

 

Honorable Mention

Victoria Okafor, soprano • John Roxburgh, viola • Drake Stoughton, saxophone

 

Winners of this year’s competition will be featured in performance with the Shenandoah Conservatory Symphony Orchestra later this semester.

Participants performed in preliminary and semifinal rounds judged by the 2017 SSC Committee, which featured Shenandoah Conservatory faculty representatives from the instrumental, keyboard and vocal/choral divisions, as well as Director of Orchestral Studies, Conductor, Chair of Instrumental Division and Professor of Conducting Jan Wagner, who also serves as SCC Committee chair. The final round was adjudicated by an all-external jury comprising Katherine Murdock (viola, University of Maryland), Boris Slutsky (piano, Peabody Conservatory) and Carl Tanner ’85 (tenor).

2017 Student Soloists Competition Committee

Jan Wagner, SSC Chair
Director of Orchestral Studies; Conductor; Chair of Instrumental Division; Professor of Conducting

Doris Lederer, SSC Instrumental Division Representative
Director of Instrumental Chamber Music; Professor of Viola and Chamber Music

Michael Forest, SSC Vocal/Choral Division Representative
Associate Professor of Voice (Tenor)

John O’Conor, SSC Keyboard Division Representative
Distinguished Artist-in-Residence; Chair of Keyboard Division; Professor of Piano

2017 Guest Final Jury

Katherine Murdock, viola
University of Maryland

Carl Tanner, tenor ’85
Shenandoah Conservatory Alumnus

Boris Slutsky, piano
Peabody Conservatory

About the Winners

Eoín Fleming is a freshman performance major studying with Distinguished Artist-in-Residence; Chair of Keyboard Division and Professor of Piano John O’Conor, Mus.D.

Richard Jeric ’18 is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance under the tutelage of Distinguished Artist-in-Residence, Chair of Keyboard Division and Professor of Piano John O’Conor, Mus.D.

Sarah Levering ’18 is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance under the tutelage of Associate Professor of Voice (Tenor) Michael Forest, M.M.E. ’85, ’86.

Shengbo Lin ’19 is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Performance under the tutelage of Professor of Saxophone Timothy Roberts, D.M.A.

Kirstie Lynn Mosher ’17 is a senior performance major studying with Chair of Vocal/Choral Division and Associate Professor of Voice (Tenor) Byron Jones, D.M.A.

Jacob Moyer ’17 is a senior performance major studying with Anna Lee Van Buren Chair in Clarinet, Coordinator of Winds and Percussion and Associate Professor of Clarinet Garrick Zoeter, M.M.

Victoria Okafor ’17 is a senior performance major studying with Chair of Vocal/Choral Division and Associate Professor of Voice (Tenor) Byron Jones, D.M.A.

John Roxburgh ’19 is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance under the tutelage of Director of Instrumental Chamber Music and Professor of Viola and Chamber Music Doris Lederer, Diploma, Curtis Institute of Music.

Drake Stoughton is a junior music education major studying with Professor of Saxophone Timothy Roberts, D.M.A.