Fischoff Chamber Competition winners announced - Items of Interest - Brief Article

American Music Teacher, August-Sept, 2002

The Fischoff National Chamber Music Association named Quintet Attacca of Chicago the Grand Prize winner of the 2002 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, held May 10-12, 2002, at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend.

As Grand Prize winners, Quintet Attacca will be featured on the Joseph E. Fischoff Memorial Winner's Tour, which includes concerts and community programming in Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota. An additional $5,000 cash prize will be awarded at that time. The ensemble also won the Senior Wind Division Gold Medal and a $3,000 cash prize. Fischoff will send the quintet to the Emilia Romagna Festival in Italy for several concert appearances.

The Senior Wind Silver Medal, worth $2,000, was awarded to Syrinx Saxophone Quartet from Northwestern University, and the $1,000 Senior Wind Bronze Medal was awarded to A Few Good Reeds saxophone quartet from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The Senior String Gold Medal and $3,000 prize went to The Chiara String Quartet of Grand Forks, North Dakota; the Senior String Silver Medal was awarded to Xanadu Trio, a piano trio form The Juilliard School; and the Senior String Bronze Medal was awarded to Jung Trio, a piano trio from the Yale School of Music.

In the Junior Division, for ensembles ages 18 and under, the First Place Scholarship of $2,000 went to Orion Piano Trio from Midwest Young Artists in Fort Sheridan, Illinois; the $1,500 Second Place Scholarship was awarded to Vidancia Trio of the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C.; and the Third Place Scholarship, worth $1,000, went to Ivory Winds, a piano/wind sextet from the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra.

The Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition is open to any wind, brass or string chamber music ensemble of three to six members and is divided into a junior and senior division. Groups must fulfill minimum repertoire requirements.

For more information about the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition contact Executive Director Ann Divine at (574) 631-0984 or info@fischoff.org.