Page 30 - Southern Exposure - June '22

Page 30, Southern Exposure

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Inaugural Winners Of Annual Mary Hilem Taylor

Music Scholarship Competition To Perform In

Young Friends Of Palm Beach Symphony Event

Flutists Attend Lynn University And University Of Miami Frost School Of Music

The winners of the First Annual Mary Hilem Taylor
Music Scholarship Competition held last fall performed
together for the first time since the contest’s finals in a
members only recital and social event for Young Friends
of Palm Beach Symphony in the Stiller Auditorium at the
Norton Museum of Art on Tuesday, May 24.
Katie Riley, a student at Lynn University, took first place
and was awarded $12,500 followed by Alexandre Meyer and
Rafael Mendez, who both study at the University of Miami
Frost School of Music and were awarded $7,500 and $4,500
respectively. First place winner Katie Riley
Palm Beach Symphony Board Member Felicia Taylor
Gottsegen created the scholarship competition named for seasons and held alternate
her mother that extended the symphony’s support of young positions at Aspen, Sarasota
musicians beyond K-12 for the first time. and Chautauqua music
“We rotate the annual competition among woodwinds, festivals as well as taking first
strings, and brass and percussion,” Ms. Taylor Gottsengen place in the Rochester Flute
said. “My mother played the flute and the piccolo and was Association Young Artist
a very active philanthropist in Palm Beach. I am pleased to Competition. She graduated
help support local young artists in her name.” summa cum laude from the
Riley studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Cincinnati Conservatory. From left: Competition Judge Luciano Magnanini, Rafael Mendez, Competition Judge
(CCM) and performed with its various ensembles. In a Meyer is a junior pursuing Trudy Kane, Alexandre Meyer, Katie Riley and Palm Beach Symphony Music Director
notable performance, she performed the Debussy Afternoon a degree in flute performance Gerard Schwarz
of a Faun to a sold-out crowd with the CCM Philharmonia with a minor in psychology.
led by Cincinnati Symphony conductor Louis Langree. He began playing music when he was 3 Shortly after his performed on the most important stages in the country with
Professionally, she also played flute with the Hendricks brother started taking piano lessons, he was able to copy the National Youth Symphony, the National Symphony
Symphony and Queen City Chamber Orchestra. She has what his brother played, even before starting lessons of his Orchestra and the National Theater Orchestra as principal
participated in Round Top Festival Institute for several own. He took piano for a few years, but his true passion flutist. Internationally, he has performed in Germany at
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