Mihai Marica Wins Top Honors at Klein Competition
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Mihai Marica was the lone cellist in a field of 77 string players competing in the 20th Irving M. Klein International String Competition, held on June 11 at San Francisco State University. But the 21-year-old won top honors and also walked away with the Allen R. Weiss Memorial Prize for the best performance of the required commissioned work by local composer Jeffrey Miller. “We just witnessed a future superstar,” said Mitchell Sardou Klein, competition director. “Mihai is a brilliant cellist and interpreter of music. His playing is spellbinding.”
A native of Romania, Marica is a student of Aldo Parisot at the Yale School of Music. He returns to his studies in New Haven with a prize totaling nearly $11,000 and a series of career-launching solo appearances and recitals.
Four other prizes were bestowed. Second prize, including $5,000, was awarded to violinist Tee Khoon Tang, 21, from Singapore, a student of Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory. Third Prize, including $1,500, was awarded to violinist Ilana Setapen, 21, who begins working toward a professional-studies degree at Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles this fall. Fourth prize, including $1,000, was awarded to violinist Kathryn Eberle, 22, a candidate for an artist diploma at the Colburn School and a student of Robert Lipsett. Fifth prize, including $500, was awarded to violinist Rachel Harding, 22, from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studies with David and Linda Cerone.
The Klein Competition draws applicants from up to 20 countries each year. It was founded in 1985 to memorialize Irving M. Klein, a champion of young artists.
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