Violinist Jung-min Amy Lee Wins Klein Competition,
Violinist Jung-min Amy Lee (shown here), 21, a Curtis Institute student, won the $10,500 grand prize (which goes with a series of solo appearances) in the 19th annual Irving M. Klein International String Competition, held in June in San Francisco. Second place went to violist David Kim, 23, from the New England Conservatory. Two cellists, Yves Dharamraj, 22, of Yale University, and Joshua Roman, 20, of the Cleveland Institute of Music, shared the third- and fourth-place prizes; while violinst Clara Lyon, 17, of State College, Pennsylvania, won fifth place. . . . Violinist Tai Murray and cellist Clancy Newman, both of New York City, are among the recipients of this year's $15,000 Avery Fisher Career Grants. . . . Kirt Mosier, director of orchestras at Lee's Summit High School and Pleasant Lea Middle School in Lee's Summit, Missouri, has claimed first prize in the American String Teachers Association/National School Orchestra Association (ASTA) 2004 Merle J. Isaac Composition Contest for his string-orchestra composition American Reel . . . Japanese prodigy Mayuko Kamio, 18, has won the first prize of $36,000 in the Monte Carlo Violin Masters Competition. In the finals, she played Paganini's Caprice No. 24 and Sibelius' Violin Concerto on a 277-year-old Stradivari violin.
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