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Soo Ryun Baek
Three winners have emerged from a group of 22 finalists who competed on Saturday in the Yale School of Music’s Woolsey Hall Competition. They are: violinist Soo Ryun Baek, pianist Lindsay Garritson, and harpist Kristan Toczko. Each of the competition winners will perform next season with the Philharmonia Orchestra at Yale.
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Lindsay Garritson
The competition judges — New York Philharmonic violinist and Yale School of Music graduate Sharon Yamada, former Boston Symphony Orchestra horn player David Ohanian, and 1981 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition winner André-Michel Schub — heard Baek, Garritson, and Toczko perform Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, Op 46, Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15, and Ginastera’s Harp Concerto, Op. 25, respectively.
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Kristan Toczko
The 2011 Woolsey Hall Competition took place at Morse Recital Hall (in Sprague Memorial Hall).
The judges awarded honorable mentions to violinist David Radzynski, who performed Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 99, and soprano Sherezade Panthaki, who performed Mozart’s Schon lacht der holde Frühling, K. 580, and Vorrei spiegarvi, o Dio, K. 418.