International YouthCompetition Senior Division FINALS PROGRAM

Sunday, June 28, 20151:30 PM Petree Recital HallThe 2015 Finalists:Hao Yang (China)

Jos Daniel Salceda Velasco (Mexico)

Thanapot Lerttham (Thailand)

Audra Vigil (U.S.A.)

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2015 Oklahoma City, OklahomaJUNE 23-28, 2015Oklahoma City University Matthew Denman, Local Host

Special Thanks to our 2015 Sponsors:

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T R I LOGYG U I TA R S

A very special thanks to our International Youth Competition jurors: Senior Division JurorsMark Ashford, Isaac Bustos, and Alex Komodore;

Junior DivisionOlga Amelkina-Vera, Ekachai Jerakul, and Christopher Stell.

Thanapot Lerttham (Thailand)

Caprice No. 2 from 36 Caprices, Op. 20 Luigi Legnani

A lAube du dernier Jour Francis Kleynjans

Biography Thanapot Lerttham was born in Thailand. At the age of 9, he began taking guitar lessons from Kiatphawat Chomwichian at Yamaha Music School and Santi Keawjai at Kanjana Music School. Thanapot entered the College of Music, Mahidol University in 2013 to study in the Young Artist Musician Program and to study a major in performance with Dr. Paul Cesarczyk. Thanapot has been awarded prizes from a variety of competitions including 1st Prizes in the 2011 ASEAN Skill Competition (Junior), the 2013 Pattaya Classical Guitar Festival and Competition (Junior), the 2014 Chonburi Guitar Festival and Competition (Junior) 2nd prize at the 2014 Thailand International Guitar Festival (Youth International Category), 3rd prize at the 2012 Brillante Junior Guitar Competition, 3rd at the 2013 Chonburi Guitar Festival and Competition (Junior), 3rd at the 2013 Thailand International Guitar Festival, 4th prize at the 2015 TGS Guitar Competition, Special Prize at the 2014 Pattaya Guitar Festival and Competition (Senior), and award for Best Compulsory Piece Prize of Music Learning at the 2014 Festival Bangkok (for ages 25 and below).

Audra Vigil (U.S.A.)

Prelude from BWV 1006a J.S. Bach

Campo from Preludios Americanos Abel Carlevaro

No. 2 from Due Canzoni Lidie Nuccio DAngelo

Biography Audra Vigil was born in 1996 and started playing guitar at the age of 6. She has participated in several guitar festivals and competitions, winning top prizes in the 2014 Guitar Foundation of America IYC Senior Division (3rd), 2014 East Carolina University College/Professional Division Guitar Competition (2nd), 2012 Classical Minds High School Division Guitar Competition (1st), 2013 Sierra Nevada Open Division Guitar Competition (2nd), 2013 East Carolina University Professional Division Guitar Competition (4th), 2011 University of Louisville Division 1 Youth Guitar Competition (1st), and was a competitor in the 2012 Parkening Young Guitarist Competition. She was awarded the 2013 Classical Guitar Scholarship to the Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival, where she studied with Scott Tennant and Andrew Leonard. She was awarded the position of concertmaster in the third through sixth New Mexico All-State Guitar Ensembles and has been a guest performer with Presti, and has also performed on the hit National Public Radio show From The Top. Audra has performed in masterclasses with and/or received lessons from Denis Azabagic, Gabriel Bianco, Jane Curry, Roland Dyens, Marcin Dylla, Vladimir Gorbach, William Kanengiser, Andrew Leonard, Rovshan Mamedkuliev, Martha Masters, Johannes Mller, Lee Ritenour, David Russell, Livingston Taylor, Marc Teicholz, Scott Tennant, John Truitt, and Thomas Viloteau. She currently studies guitar with Dr. Lynn McGrath in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

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Hao Yang (China)

Sonate VI Wenzeslaus Thomas Matiegka Scherzo Finale Allegretto

Sonata for Guitar Antonio Jos Pavana triste: Lento Final: Allegro con brio

Biography Chinese guitarist Hao Yang entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2014 and studies with renowned guitarists David Starobin and Jason Vieaux. Ms. Yang has won top prizes in numerous guitar competitions. She was awarded the first prize in the 2015 Division I at Columbus State Universitys International Guitar Competition and first prize in 2014 Division II in the same competition. She was also the first prize-winner in Division I of the Andres Segovia 7th International Guitar Competition. In terms of performing experiences, Ms. Yang has played in the Beijing International Guitar Festival in 2008 and Tianjin International Guitar Festival in 2010. She was invited as a special performer for a masterclass at National Center of Performing Arts in Beijing. As a chamber music guitarist, Ms. Yang made her debut at Carnegie Hall premiering a piece by famous composer Paul Lansky, a professor at Princeton, and recorded this work with Bridge Records, Inc. in 2015. She has recently collaborated as a guitar duo at the New York SubCulture and at Princeton University.

Jos Daniel Salceda Velasco (Mexico)

Prelude from Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a J.S. Bach

Variations on a Theme by Sor Miguel Llobet

Biography Born in Salamanca in Guanajuato, Mexico, Jos Daniel Salceda began studying the guitar at age 8. He has had extensive training as an instrumentalist with more than 30 master classes with international teachers and seven years of guitar study in the Creative Instituto Moderno de Musica y Artes under the tutelage of Master Juan Jos Barron. He is currently majoring in guitar at the Conservatorio de las Rosas of Morelia, A.C., under the direction of Maestro Rodrigo Lopez Alarcon Naphtali. Jose Daniel has won a series of important state, national, and intermational prizes. In Mexico he has earned 18 top prizes in some of the most important competitions in the country, and internationally he won 2nd prize in the junior division of the XI John Duarte International Guitar Festival, Special Heinz Irmier Prize for best student at the Festival of Rust in Austria, and 1st prize in both the XI Certamen Internacional Guitarra Clsica Julin Arcas in Spain, and the 11th Concurso Internacional de Guitarra de Uruguay Ral Snchez Clagget in Montevideo, Uruguay.

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