Announcing the 2023 Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition Winner
The Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra is pleased to congratulate the winner of the 2023 Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition: Ella Wimbiscus, cello, who performed Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 by Tchaikovsky.
Additional congratulations to Neal Eisfeldt, violin, the runner-up, as well as to two honorable mentions: John Lee, violin, and Jaden Teague-Núñez, steelpan.
More information about the 2023 winner can be found here.
The concerto competition featured instrumentalists who are Illinois residents and are 18 years of age and younger as of December 1, 2022. Each competitor had 12 minutes to perform one or more movements of a concerto of the musician’s choice, which was critiqued by a panel of judges. The winner will perform the concerto with the orchestra at the KSO’s Arthur D. Montzka Memorial Concert on February 18, 2023.
Northern Illinois University no longer requires that masks be worn inside of university buildings during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, persons preferring to wear masks are encouraged to do so. The university guidelines for wearing masks in university buildings during the pandemic are found here. Changes in those guidelines will be followed by the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
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Click on this photograph to watch the first concert of our 2021-2022 season, “Belated Happy Birthday, Beethoven!,” performed on October 9, 2021:
In 2022, the KSO was again the winner in the Best Live Entertainment category in the Daily Chronicle’s annual Readers’ Choice Awards for DeKalb County.
