Kingsville announces piano and concerto competitions - Competitions - sponsored by the Music Club of Kingsville, Inc

American Music Teacher, Dec, 2002

The Music Club of Kingsville, Inc., will hold its annual Kingsville International Competitions--The Young Performers Concerto and Isabel Scionti Piano Solo--April 3-5, 2003, on the campus of the Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

More than $24,000 in prize money is available for distribution to winners in the nine contests. The highest-ranking winner will receive a minimum of $5,000 and a performance with the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra.

Separate contests will be held in two divisions: junior (up to age 19) and senior (ages 19-26). The junior and senior prizes offered in each of the six preliminary contests--piano concerto, bowed instrument concerto, non-bowed instrument concerto and piano solo--are $1,000 for first place, $500 for second place and $200 for third place respectively.

Additional special prizes include the Isabel Scionti Award of $1,000, the $500 Judge Woodrow Laughlin Award for best piano concerto performance and additional prizes for bowed and non-bowed instruments.

Entries must be postmarked no later than January 22, 2003. There is an entry fee of $35 per contest.

For more information contact the Kingsville Competitions at P.O. Box 2873, Station 1, Kingsville, TX 78363; (361) 592-2374; youngperf@hotmail.com; www.d16acbl.org/YoungPerformers.