June 1, 2025 Season FinalE Concert “A Concerto Extravaganza”
Featuring
2025 Young Artists Concerto Competition Winners Wilson Liu, piano, age 10 Oliver Mar, cello, age 14 Hannah Moon, violin, age 16 Leila Warren, violin, age 15
Program
Rossini Semiramide Overture Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations for Cello and Orchestra Wieniawski Violin Fantasia on a Theme from “Faust” Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor
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Pianist Wilson Li, age 10, comes from California. At the age of 7, he was admitted to The Juilliard School Pre-College Division, where he won the Bachauer Prize with full scholarship as well as its Concerto Competition. Wilson is a student of Hung-Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone. Wilson was nominated into the Artemisia Foundation, where he will perform and work with great pedagogues such as Jerome Lowenthal, Veda Kaplinsky, and Misha Voskressenski. Wilson was featured in the Great Performances program “Now Hear This” on PBS. At his young age, Wilson has already won numerous piano competitions, including the Grand Prize in the Chopin Piano Competition Hartford, Kaufman Music Center International Youth Competition, and the Chicago International Competition. Most recently, he won the International Young Artist Concerto Competition and DePaul CMD National Concerto Competition, and performed with Seen Worldwide, National Youth Orchestra, and the Oistrakh Symphony of Chicago.
14-years old Cellist Oliver Mar is a student of Clara Kim in the Juilliard Pre-College program. Oliver was recently chosen as the youngest semifinalist at the 2025 Stulberg International String Competition. He is also a top prizewinner in numerous competitions, including the Island Symphony Young Performers competition, Camerata Artists International Competition, Young Soloists International Competition, and the International Grande Music Competition in New York. Oliver has soloed with the Camerata New Jersey Orchestra and will be performing with the Island Symphony Orchestras in 2025. In 2024, he was accepted as a Fellow in “From the Top,” a platform dedicated to fostering and promoting talented young classical artists. Oliver will be attending the Perlman Music Program in the summer of 2025. Oliver is also a composer, and his works have been performed by members of the New York Philharmonic and featured on WQXR, New York's classical music station.
Violinist Hannah Moon is a freshman at Bergen County Academies. She is an avid chamber musician, studying under Benjamin Bowman at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division. Hannah began playing the violin at the age of 6 in the Korea Seoul Arts Center Gifted Children Music Academy. Hannah is a member of the New York Youth Symphony as well as their chamber music program as first violinist in the Concordia Quartet. Her quartet was invited to the Coltman Chamber Music Competition as semifinalist in 2024. Hannah is the concertmaster of the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Repertory Orchestra. She also served as assistant concertmaster in the NJMEA All-State Honors Orchestra. Hannah has won first prizes in the VITAS and Bellagrande International Music Competitions, and additional honors from Prima Volta, Vivo International, Camerata Artists, and the International Showcase Music Competitions. She has performed in Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium, Weill Recital Hall, and Merkin Hall.
Violinist Leila Warren is a high school sophomore from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. She made her debut at ten soloing with the University of North Florida Orchestra. Currently studying with Adelya Nartadjieva and Shannon Thomas, Leila has soloed with several orchestras as a result of winning their competitions, including the Delta Symphony Orchestra, Anderson Symphony Orchestra, Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, St. Augustine Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, Atlanta Symphony Community Orchestra, and the Alachua County Youth Orchestra. Leila was also a National Finalist of the MTNA Junior Strings Competition in 2022 and 2023. This summer, Leila has been accepted to the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA), and will perform in Japan, China, and South Korea. Leila tutors refugee students in the JaxThrive organization, is a member of the Model United Nations Team, and belongs to Mu Alpha Theta (mathematics), Thespian Honor Society, and the American Sign Language Honor Society.