2010 Winners!
	Name	Instrument/voice	Scholarship	Profile Information
	Lóránt Najbauer	Baritone	$15,000 Trovillo/Graham Award	Yale University ‘11 New Haven, CT Masters in Music Performance UCSD Graduate, Economics, Music minor
	Holland Hettinger Denny	Harp	$10,000 Fenstermaker Scholar	Brigham Young University Provo. Utah Music Performance major with Harp emphasis
	Sasha Hashemipour	Mezzo-Soprano	$10,000 Bob Faulk Award & Aspen Prize	Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA) Philadelphia, PA Voice major www.SashaHashemipour.com
	Mark Teplitsky	Flute	$10,000 Fenstermaker Scholar	Colburn Conservatory Los Angeles, CA Flute / Conducting major
	Shuo Vincent Yang	Piano	$10,000	USC Thornton School of Music San Diego, CA Piano Major
	Carolyn Lee	Violin	$7,500	Westview High School San Diego, CA
	Ji Eun (Lisa) Kim	Violin	$5,000 Fenstermaker Scholar	Julliard School NYC, NY Music Major Violin Performance
	Victoria Robertson	Mezzo-Soprano	$5,000	Graduate Artists Diploma SDSU BA in Visual Arts UCSD San Diego, CA www.victoriarobertson.com
	Alize Rozsnyai	Soprano	$5,000	Curtis Institute of Music Philadelphia Voice Major Philadelphia, PA www.AlizeRozsnyai.co.nr
	Jae-Eun (Jenny) Shin	Flute	$5,000	University of Illinois at Urbana Campaign Flute performance major

Lóránt Najbauer recently graduated from UCSD earning a B.A. in Economics and a minor in Music and is presently doing graduate work at Yale where he was seen in the fall ‘09 production of The Marriage of Figaro. He has recently performed with San Diego Opera in Boris Godunov and The Magic Flute, and in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex and Mozart’s Coronation Mass with the La Jolla Symphony and performed a recital in the 2009-10 Musical Merit Concert series..

Lóránt has been a winner with MMF in 2006 and 2007, and garnered First Place prizes in 2009 and 2010. He has also won first places in the Virginia Hawk Vocal scholarships, H.B. Goodin Scholarship Competition and NATS-SD Singer Auditions, plus second place in the La Jolla Young Artists Competition, along with placing in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Western Regional Finals. He has performed and studied in Austria, Croatia and Hungary.

Holland Hettinger Denny will be a senior at Brigham Young University in fall 2010. She is a Harp Performance Major and studies with Nicole Brubaker Brady. She previously studied with Susann McDonald and Naoko Yoshino at Indiana University, and Elena Mashkovtseva in San Diego. Holland has been principal harpist in ten community and university symphonies since high school, and has played under the direction of David Effron, Kevin Noe, Cliff Colnot, and Robert Gilson. Holland is also an experienced solo and chamber musician, winning music awards from the Barta-Lehman Musical Scholarship fund and North County Music Scholarship Federation, and being recognized as a Star of the Future by BRAVO San Diego. In 2010, prior to her MMF scholarship, Holland was a finalist in the Young Artists Harp Competition.

Sasha Hashemipour a native of San Diego, mezzo-soprano Sasha Hashemipour, is beginning to make a name for herself in the opera world. A prior MMF scholarship winner in 2009, she has won many awards in various competitions including being a prize winner in the 2010 Palm Beach Opera Competition, garnering the 1st place in the 2010 Mondavi Young Artist Competition and the 2nd place in the 2010 Crescendo Music Awards. In 2008 Sasha won the 2nd place in the Stewart Brady Competition of the Y.E.S. Foundation for the Arts.

This past April Sasha was seen playing the role of Dorinda in a Manhattan School of Music Senior Opera Theater performance of one of Handel's rarely performed works Il Pastor Fido. Her performance was described by New York's City Arts Review as sung "…with a gorgeous well-rounded tone in an affecting and seemingly uncalculated performance". During the 2009-10 season she performed in many operas as a resident artist at DiCapo Opera. Early in 2009 she performed the role of Siebel in the Opera Manhattan Repertory Theater production of Faust.

Mark Teplitsky, is a sophomore at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, after completing his first year at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. Mark has been a MMF finalist in ’08 and '09, and earned firsts in the San Diego Flute Guild competition in ’03, ’04 and’05, in the San Diego MTAC Concert Competition in ’05, SDYS Concert Competition in ’06, at the California State Finals of the VOCE competition intermediate winds division ’06, and senior winds in ’08. He has won the Los Angeles Music Center Spotlights 2007 and Orange County Performing Arts Center Tomorrow’s Stars 2008 competitions, in addition to being a winner of "From the Top" and the "National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts". He regularly performs throughout San Diego County in community outreach programs and SDYS fundraising events. His piano playing has won him finalist positions in prestigious competitions and his fencing qualified him for the 2007 Junior Olympics.

Shuo Vincent Yang was born in Beijing, China, Shuo Vincent Yang and his parents immigrated to Canada when he was 4 years old. He began taking piano lessons at 7 and went on to win numerous local, provincial and national competitions. In 2006, Vincent was the youngest pianist selected to participate in the 2nd Julia Crane International Piano Competition. In the summer of 2007, Vincent and his family moved to San Diego, where he attended Torrey Pines High School and continued his studies as a private student of Kevin Fitz-Gerald, professor of piano and keyboard collaborative arts at USC.

Vincent is preparing for his second year at the Thornton School of Music at USC on scholarship to study piano as a performance major with Fitz-Gerald. His other principle teachers have included Hsu Kwan Zhi, Lan Hua, Evangline Hung and Tomasz Aleksander.

In January of 2009, Vincent made his orchestral debut performing the complete Grieg A minor Piano Concerto with the Torrance Symphony. He received outstanding reviews from numerous newspapers including the Daily Breeze which described his playing as “sensitive and passionate… he has an incredibly light touch that guided him masterfully through the rapid passages”.
A previous MMF prize winner (2009), Vincent received the 5th prize at the Los Angeles Liszt International Piano Competition in 2008, and has won prizes with the Glendale Piano Competition, William Grant Still Competition, the 2008 Torrance Symphony Concerto Competition, the Bach Festival, MTAC Major Works, MTAC of San Diego Concerto Competition, Cypress Sonata Competition, and the Mu Phi Epsilon Music Fraternity Competition.

He is also a Young Musician Foundation Scholar as well as a Leni Fe Bland Scholar, and was a semi-finalist in the Oberlin International Piano Competition and California International Young Artists Piano Competition where he won a full tuition scholarship to the Viana do Costello Music Festival in Portugal.

Vincent has also participated in master classes and private lessons with some of America’s most distinguished teachers and artists including Nelita True, Ruth Slenzcenska, Douglas Humpherys, Diane Walsh, Menahem Pressler and the late Earl Wild.

Victoria Robertson is participating in the 2010-11 Musical Merit Concert series and" has been featured at performing arts centers and concert halls world wide including San Diego Symphony, La Jolla Symphony, TICO Orchestra, San Diego Opera, and Santa Barbara Opera. She recently performed in the World Premier of Séance on a Wet Afternoon by Stephen Schwartz (composer of Wicked) with Santa Barbara Opera. Along with her previous MMF award (2009), Victoria has also won the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus Competition. In 2009 she was sponsored by the city of San Diego to compete in the Dvorák Competition in the Czech Republic.

In addition to being an accomplished classical musician, Victoria is also known for her work as a recording artist and composer. Her previous albums, On My Mind (2004), and Say New You (2007), were nominated for San Diego and Los Angeles Music Awards. Soon after Say New You was released, Victoria submerged herself in the pursuit of a unique sound that combines both of her skills resulting in her new project, Opera Fusion™. The extraordinary combination of powerful classical vocals with contemporary electronic sounds creates this unique style of music and it bridges the gap between the traditional and the modern. She will be releasing her Opera Fusion album in 2010. Victoria was awarded the title Miss USO, San Diego in the year 2000 for her performance work for the US Military and supporting organizations, a title that she continued to hold for seven years with performances around the world.

Victoria graduated cum laude from UC San Diego with a BA in Visual Arts (Film and Media) and completed a graduate Artist Diploma in Vocal Performance from San Diego State. Her career has also included modeling and television hosting.

Alize Rozsnyai is a soprano attending the Curtis Institute of Music under the tutelage of Patricia McCaffrey. Upcoming engagements include Eurydice in Offenbach's Orphee aux Enfers in France, and Therese/Tiresias in LesMamelles des Tiresias by Poulenc with the Curtis Opera Theatre. Ms. Rozsnyai was recently seen as Lisa in Bellini's La Sonnambula with Curtis, the title role in the world revival of Hypermnestra by Ignaz Holzbauer with the Indiana University Early Music Institute, Mabel in Pirates ofPenzance, Second Woman in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, L'Arlesiana in the Bruno Rigacci's Dodici Personaggi in Cerca di Voce, partial roles of Blondchen in Die Entfuhrung aiis dem Serail, and Norina in Don Pasquale with the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Italy, and the soprano soloist in Alberto Ginastera's song cycle, Cantata para America Magica with Percussion Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival.

Additionally, Ms. Rozsnyai has given solo performances with the Cabrillo Chamber Orchestra, Brentwood- Westwood Symphony Orchestra, in central Mexico touring with the University of San Diego Orchestra, and in Handel's Messiah for three consecutive years with professional San Diegan orchestras. Ms. Rozsnyai received top awards from Musical Merit Foundation San Diego, Carmel Music Society, Shirley Rabb Winston Scholarship, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts among others, and an encouragement award with the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition. Ms. Rozsnyai likes to perform improvisational comedy, and dabbles on guitar and banjo.

Jae-Eun (Jenny) Shin, 20, began studying the flute at the age of 13 in South Korea, and is presently a junior at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign where she is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in flute performance with Professor Jonathan Keeble. At UIUC she participates in the wind symphony, orchestra and multiple chamber ensembles.

Since 2004, Jenny has been awarded numerous first place awards from the San Diego Flute Guild and placed first at the San Diego Music Teacher’s Association of California Concerto competition (woodwinds division) in 2006. With this honor, she performed the Poem by Griffes as a soloist at the San Diego Civic Youth Orchestra’s 50th Anniversary Concert at the Copley Symphony Hall. She also performed the Nielsen Concerto in the Panel Honor’s Recital at the 2007 MTAC convention in San Jose. In 2009 Jenny was one of the Yamaha Young Performing Artists.

Jenny wants to become, “an avid flutist who participates in orchestra, chamber ensembles and teaching”.

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