The 2009/2010 season's Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music Youth Competition will be held on Tuesday evening, March 30, 2010. The winning ensemble will have the opportunity to open the concert of the Weilerstein Trio, on Saturday, April 24 at Lincoln Middle School.

If your group is interested in taking part in the competition, contact John Oberbrunner at (315) 479-8084.

The winning ensemble of last season's SFCM Youth Competition, the Vesna Trio, consisted of 13-year-old violinist Emerson Millar, 16-year-old cellist Marza Wilks, and 17-year-old pianist April Shen, all from Ithaca, NY. They were coached by Elizabeth Simkin, professor of cello at Ithaca College. They opened the concert featuring the Claremont Piano Trio, on April 4, 2009, by playing the first two movements of Dvořák's "Dumky" Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 90 -- their competition piece. The audience warmly applauded their fine playing.

You're hearing an MP3 clip of the entire 2.6 minutes of the fourth movement of Haydn's String Quartet in C Major, Op.33, No. 3 ("The Bird"), played by Quatuor Mosaïques. This work will be played by the Cypress String Quartet at our March 20th concert.