Eastman Showcase 2006
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Eastman Students Win Music Teachers National Association Competition
Eastman produced five big prizewinners at last month’s Music Teachers National Association national competition in Austin, Texas.
The MTNA Collegiate Chamber Music Performance winners were the members of Eastman’s ViM Saxophone Quartet: Kristin Rarick, Michael Matlock, Dimitrios Kostaras, and Richard Miserendino, all juniors and students of Assistant Professor of Saxophone Chien-Kwan Lin. The Quartet was awarded a $3,000 cash prize.
The group, which has been working together for almost three years, regularly rehearses five days a week. For the last stage of the competition, they performed their entire program from memory.
Additionally, pianist Joseph Liccardo, a senior in the studio of Piano Department Co-Chair Douglas Humpherys, won the top prize in the Collegiate Artists Performance category performing works of Schubert, Chopin, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff. His prize was a Steinway M Piano, which has a retail value of $47,000. He will soon be visiting the Steinway factory in Queens to choose the specific piano that suits him best.
In the spring of 2002 - during his senior year in high school - Joe was the top winner in the high school division of MTNA’s Artists Performance category.