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2010 Award for Excellence in the Arts
2010 Award for Excellence in the Arts Chair Katherine Kyle ● The Seventh Annual Seventh Annual Award for Excellence in the Arts Program was celebrated this Spring on Monday, April 19, 2010 7:30 p.m. at The Terrace Theater The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Washington, DC
Some of our 2010 Award for Excellence in the Arts Winners ●
2010 PERFORMANCES
Below are the young alumni artists who were chosen to perform onstage at The Kennedy Center via NSALs audition process.
Tenor Lyon Stewart, St. Albans School
Pianist Clifton Williams, Duke Ellington School of the Arts
Classical Guitar Trio Andrew Holcomb, Heritage High School, Kate Oliphant and Young Jun Lim both from Freedom High School
Violinist Sarah Haney, West Potomac High School
Audition Judges Katherine Kyle, Mary Ellen Madden, Jane Pearson
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Keynote Speaker Robert C. Pullen Director, Special Programming The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2010 Award Presenters Carla Jones-Batka, NSAL Washington DC Chapter President Anne Rullman, NSAL Vice President for Chapter Activities
Registration Chair Cici Hughes
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2010 AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE WINNERS
Matthew Morgan Brigham Music Great Mills High School
Gabriel Danilo Castillo Art Washington-Lee High School
Trang Phuang (Theresa) Do Art Potomac Falls High School
Benjamin Harmon Duff Musical Theater St. Albans School
Leah Frederick Music Osbourn High School
Hannah Grace Glaser Art Damascus High School
Ben Godwin Music Chopticon High School
Katelyn Hunt Music Glen Burnie High School
Sam Johnson Drama Falls Church High School
Kevin Kelly Drama Woodrow Wilson High School
Emily Rose Levine Music Sherwood High School
Cody McNeeley Musical Theater Long Reach High School
Adam Maurice Middleton Drama Benjamin Banneker High School
Daniel C. Miller Music Rockville High School
Maria Miller Art Forest Park High School
Katherine Bellamy Mitchell Literature National Cathedral School for Girls
Sarah Johanna Olsen Literature Bishop Ireton High School
Joseph T. Pappas Music Thomas Wootton High School
Sarai Reed Literature Duke Ellington School of the Arts
Trevor Allen Richardson Drama Osbourn Park High School
Daniel Rillo Art Freedom High School
Jessica Anita Russell Music
Adrian Cantrell Saylor Dance Model Secondary School for the Deaf
Rory Schwartz Dance Maret School
Katharine Scruggs Literature South River High School
Emerson Sieverts Musical Theater H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program
Alvaro Silva Music Northwood High School
Ryan Christopher Smith Art Chantilly High School
Elizabeth Ann Williams Art Heritage High School
Patricia Zhou Dance The Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington, DC
2010 Certificate of Merit Recipients in the Discipline of Art
Katerina Agate-Mays Model Secondary School for the Deaf
Tiffany Camp Falls Church High School
Jessica Eversmeyer Potomac Falls High School
Amy Flores Rockville High School
Bradlee Craig Garant Freedom High School
Kelsey L. Gehr Osbourn Park High School
Jackelyn Joy Gitlin Damascus High School
Christopher John Green Osbourn Park High School
Andrea Michele Hale National Cathedral School for Girls
Telina Marie Hodge Glen Burnie High School
Ashley A. Jager South River High School
Elsie Jernigan Duke Ellington School of the Arts
Nina Khoury Maret School
Minho Daniel Kim St. Albans School
Katherine Margaret Marchese Damascus High School
Kevin Quoc Van V. Nguyen Chantilly High School
Natalia Seo Northwood High School
Erik Spear Chantilly High School
Sarah Nicole Todd Chantilly High School
Catherine D. Trowbridge Thomas Wootton High School
Matthew Welborn H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program
2010 Certificate of Merit Recipients in the Discipline of Dance
Kellie Chafin Northwood High School
Shaela Davis Long Reach High School
Megan Amanda Ehrlich Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington DC
Rachel Gettinger Long Reach High School
Erika Goodfellow Glen Burnie High School
Meredith Harrill Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington DC
Dong Woo Kim Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington DC
Sherman Wood Duke Ellington School of the Arts
2010 Certificate of Merit Recipients in the Discipline of Drama
Claudia Brownlee Duke Ellington School of the Arts
Patrick Carnes Freedom High School
Danielle Comer Bishop Ireton High School
Georgi Goldstein Woodrow Wilson High School
Richard Allen Hartford Glen Burnie High School
Nathan Kohrman Woodrow Wilson High School
Ashley Nicholas Woodrow Wilson High School
Roman Solovey Model Secondary School for the Deaf
Margo Weill Northwood High School
Carley Marie Wilson Osbourn High School
2010 Certificate of Merit Recipients in the Discipline of Literature
Anya Natalya Grenier National Cathedral School for Girls
2010 Certificate of Merit Recipients in the Discipline of Music
Michael Abbey Maret School
Julia Beck Chopticon High School
Andrew Bearden Brown St. Albans School
Forrest Csuy Leonardtown High School
Carol Anne Drescher South River High School
Ricky Drummond Bishop Ireton High School
John Patrick Fengya Potomac Falls High School
Charnice Christine Frazier Chopticon High School
Kallie Ann Jahn Great Mills High School
Stephanie Greene Great Mills High School
Annie Gabrielle Grove Chopticon High School
Alisa Hahn Rockville High School
Gregory Robert Hay Leonardtown High School
Nahum Hernandez Rockville High School
Samual Tyler Keeler Osbourn High School
Cassie Malato Osbourn High School
Christina Lea McCarthy Heritage High School
Bridget Olson Falls Church High School
Patricia Juanita Perez Sherwood High School
Emily Kathleen Petersen Osbourn Park High School
Anthony M. Risotto H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program
Nicolas Enrique Rueda-Sabater St. Albans School
Joseph Sabatino Heritage High School
Gretchen Marie Schroeder Washington-Lee High School
Eric Shapiro Sherwood High School
Bryan Allan Smith Leonardtown High School
Valerie Straus Sherwood High School
Ebony Thomas Great Mills High School
Joshua Tsai Damascus High School
Michelle Elizabeth Viljoen Potomac Falls High School
Andrew Pham Weed Heritage High School
Hayden Hunter Workman Falls Church High School
Kevin Yang Thomas Wootton High School
2010 Certificate of Merit Recipients in the Discipline of Musical Theater
Caroline Farrand Kelley National Cathedral School for Girls
Julianne Kuhn Bishop Ireton High School
Sylvia Leith Maret School
Ian McConnell South River High School
Jeffrey N. Popkin Thomas Wootton High School
Michael Sloan H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program
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P R E S S R E L E A S E
The National Society of Arts and Letters Will Hold Its Seventh Annual Award for Excellence in the Arts In Collaboration with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Education Department Monday, April 19, 2010 at the Terrace Theater
Monday afternoon in a rehearsal room at St. Albans School, two students met again for the first time in a year to rehearse for a performance at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Did they remember one another? Not really. But as two of thirty-two Award for Excellence in the Arts winners from last years award ceremony, they auditioned for a chance to return to the Kennedy Center. And they won. This time, instead of receiving an award and recognition, they would perform for the newest class of award recipients.
The two students are Lyon Stewart, a tenor from St. Albans, and Clifton Williams, a pianist and Valedictorian of his class from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. They already have quite a resume. Stewart was a soloist in the Hurricane Katrina Memorial Service at Washington National Cathedral in 2005 and was a boy treble soloist in Handels Messiah and Bernsteins Chichester Psalms with the Washington Chorus and Cantate Chamber Singers. Williams has recently given a series of concerts in Vienna, Austria and Paris, France for the U.S. Ambassador to Vienna and U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO. He is slated to perform the hymn It is Well With My Soul and then remain on stage to accompany Stewart in Maria from West Side Story.
Also on tap for the evening is Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No. 4 by West Potomac High Schools Sarah Chaney. In addition, the audience will hear a performance of Sakura: Theme and Variations by a classical guitar trio which includes previous Award for Excellence winners Kate Oliphant of Freedom High School and Andrew Holcomb of Heritage High School and is rounded out by their third colleague, Young Jun Lim, also from Freedom High School.
Chaneys resume includes the first violin chair in the Washington Metropolitan Youth Orchestra from 2007 to 2009, and she has also performed with the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic. Classical guitarist Oliphants accolades include placing first in the Loudoun County Public Schools Aguado Club Guitar Competition, while Holcomb performed at the Yale Guitar Extravaganza in both 2006 and 2009.
The keynote speaker for the evening will be the Kennedy Centers Director, Special Programming, Robert C. Pullen. Julliard-trained Pullens advocacy for young artists in the area is becoming legendary. Aside from producing the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor television specials every year since 2005, Pullen teaches musical theater master classes at universities across the country.
This is the seventh year that the National Society of Arts and Letters will sponsor such an event. Held in conjunction with the Education Department of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, this program allows Washington area public, charter, and private high schools a chance to honor high school juniors for their accomplishments in the arts by nominating one Award for Excellence in the Arts winner and up to three Certificate of Merit recipients. Students are recognized in any of six disciplines showcased by NSAL: art, dance, drama, literature, music, and musical theater. The decision to recognize high school juniors was made so that recipients could include the NSAL Award for Excellence and Certificate of Merit distinction on their college applications.
The event is special for all participants. Each year, the students are excited, the parents are proud, the teachers are happy, and there is overall joy in the air. The talent and accomplishments of the recognized students are an inspiration to all at NSAL.
The National Society of Arts and Letters is a non-profit, volunteer organization of men and women who are professionally engaged in the visual, literary, and performing arts. Its mission is to support the development of talented young Americans in the fields of art, dance, drama, literature, music, and musical theater. ###
PRESS CONTACT: Katherine Kyle, 2010 Chair, Award for Excellence in the Arts at CarsonKyle@gmail.com ●
Photos from the 2010 Award for Excellence Ceremony
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