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| Junior Division Semi-Finalists |
 | Monica Davis
Instrument: Violin
Age: 17
Teacher: Mickey Reisman
Home: Manchester, CT
Credits: Winner of the Kingswood-Oxford 2000 Concerto Competition, 1st Place Winner of Camerata Ensemble Young Artist Competition, Principal Violin - Aspen Concert Orchestra
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 | Gareth Johnson - 3rd Place Laureate
Instrument: Violin
Age: 15
Teacher: Almita & Roland Vamos
Home: Festus, MO
Credits: Associate Concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony Concert Orchestra, Gateway Young Achievers Performing Arts Citation Winner, featured violinist in award-winning music video, Classical Quest
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 | Marcus Johnson - 2nd Place Laureate
Instrument: Cello
Age: 16
Teacher: Andres Diaz
Home: Minneapolis, MN
Credits: Winner of the Schubert Club, Thursday Musical and Sinfonia 2000 Competitions, featured performer on the NPR show "From the Top," Prize Winner of the 1999 YPSCA Competition
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 | Megan Faulkner Luck
Instrument: Violin
Age: 15
Teacher: Dr. Michael Jamanis
Home: Hershey, PA
Credits: 1st Place Winner of the 2000 Lancaster Symphony Junior Competition, Principal Violin - the Penn. Academy of Music String Orchestra, soloed with the Harrisburg Symphony at the age of seven
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 | Joy Payton-Stevens
Instrument: Cello
Age: 16
Teacher: Crispin Campbell
Home: Cleveland, OH
Credits: Two-time Winner of the Shaker Heights Interest Group Music Competition, recipient of the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Cleveland Music School Settlement and Interlochen Arts Academy endowments
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 | Elizabeth Ramos
Instrument: Violin
Age: 16
Teacher: Manuel Ramos
Home: St. Louis, MO
Credits: 1st Prize Winner of the Mexican National Violin Competition, soloist with the University City, MO Symphony and the Belleville, IL Philharmonic
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 | Victor Sotelo
Instrument: Cello
Age: 16
Teacher: Julia Preston
Home: Louisville, KY
Credits: First Place Winner of the MacDowell Competition 2000, Finalist of the 1999 & 2000 Louisville Orchestra Concerto Competition, recipient of the Mastropaolo Cello Scholarship
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 | Melissa White - 1st Place Laureate
Instrument: Violin
Age: 16
Teacher: Hal Grossman
Home: Lansing, MI
Credits: Soloist with the Detroit, Savannah, Battle Creek, Ann Arbor, Lansing and Czech National Symphony Orchestras, Assistant Concertmaster of the Interlochen Arts Academy Symphony Orchestra
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| Senior Division Semi-Finalists |
 | Jennifer Arnold
Instrument: Viola
Age: 20
Teacher: Robert Vernon
Home: North Royalton, OH
Credits: 1999 debut with the Cleveland Orchestra, past principal violist of the World Youth Symphony
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 | Richard Biaggini - 3rd Place Laureate
Instrument: Violin
Age: 23
Teacher: Yuval Yaron
Home: Bloomington, IN
Credits: Winner of the Pittsburgh Concert Society Competition, past Concertmaster of the La Guaira Youth Symphony
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 | Jocelyn_Butler
Instrument: Cello
Age: 19
Teacher: Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi
Home: Lexington, KY
Credits: Winner of the CKYSO
Concerto Competition, Semi-Finalist
of the 1998 ASTA Competition
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 | Joseph Conyers
Instrument: Bass
Age: 19
Teacher: Harold Robinson
Home: Savannah, GA
Credits: Soloist with the Savannah, Alabama and Flagstaff Symphonies, featured on NPR's "From the Top"
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 | Ilmar Gavilan - 1st Place Laureate
Instrument: Violin
Age: 26
Teacher: Glenn Dicterow
Home: New York, NY
Credits: Laureate of the International Heinrick Schering Violin Competition, Concertmaster of the Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia
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 | Shelby Latin
Instrument: Violin
Age: 19
Teacher: Paul Biss
Home: Westchester, OH
Credits: Gold & bronze double medalist of the ACTSO Competition, Winner of the Rockford Mayor's Art Award
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 | Ndidi Menkiti
Instrument: Cello
Age: 18
Teacher: Ronald Lowry
Home: Somerville, MA
Credits: First Place Winner of the Longy School of Music Concerto Competition, Winner of the Harvard Musical Association Achievement Award
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 | Jessie Montgomery - 2nd Place Laureate
Instrument: Violin
Age: 18
Teacher: Sally Thomas
Home: New York, NY
Credits: Recipient of the Edmund and Sally Van Lier Scholarship Fund, Concertmaster of the Third Street Music School Chamber Orchestra
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 | Aristides Rivas
Instrument: Cello
Age: 21
Teacher: Dr. Gary Hardie
Home: Waco, TX
Credits: Principal cello of the Los Llanos Symphony Orchestra, member of the Waco Symphony Orchestra, active solo performer in Venezuela
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 | Ingrid Roberts
Instrument: Violin
Age: 23
Teacher: Igor Gruppman
Home: Provo, UT
Credits: Winner of the Florida West Coast Symphony Young Artist's and Tampa Bay Symphony Concerto Competitions, Guest Assistant Concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra
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