The Linden String Quartet

The Linden String Quartet was named one of the winners of the 2010 Victor Elmaleh Competition, for which they receive a two-year management contract and join the CAG artist roster. Linden burst on the scene in 2009, winning the coveted Fischoff Grand Prize. After winning the Hugo Kauder Competition this year, members Sarah McElravy and Catherine Cosbey (violin), Eric Wong (viola), and Felix Umansky (cello) were appointed the Graduate String Quartet in Residence at Yale University.

Chad Hoopes

A violinist in CIM's Preparatory division, Chad has been named 2011-2012 Artist-in-Residence at Classical Minnesota Public Radio (Classical MPR). Mr. Hoopes will participate in performances, interviews and other interactive collaborative projects with the station. He launched the residency season with a sold-out recital at the MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis.

The 17-year-old was selected for his already impressive career - having performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony and more.

Arianna Körting

Seventeen-year-old prep piano student of Gerardo Teissonnière and the first prize winner of the David D. Dubois International Piano Competition, Arianna has been named one of eighteen 2011 Davidson Fellows by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, earning her a scholarship and a special Congressional recognition.

The Calliope Quartet

CIM graduates The Calliope Quartet - violinists Timothy Kantor and Juilia-Sophia Bellingrath, violist Cynthia Black and cellist Schuyler Slack - recently participated in the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, and were chosen for the Melba and Orville Rollefson Residency at the Banff Center, where they were the Quartet in Community for the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2010.

Matt Smith

Matt has been re-appointed as the Composition Fellow with the Canton Symphony for the 2011-12 season after serving the same role last season. As such, he will be writing 15-minute work for chamber orchestra to premier on the orchestra's Cameo series in spring 2012. Mr. Smith studies with Keith Fitch.

Trio Terzetto

Trio Terzetto, consisting of violinist Diana Cohen (BM '01, MM '10), cellist Tanya Ell (MM '03) and pianist Renana Gutman, was the first prize winner of the 25th Annual Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition for emerging professional ensembles. The trio was formed in 2007 and has already recorded throughout the United States and Canada.

Stanislav Golovin

Stanislav Golovin (BM '09, clarinet student of Franklin Cohen) won the 2010 Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition.

In all, Stanislav received a Gold Medal, 1st Place, and the Grace Woodson Memorial Award.

Matthew Allen

Matthew Allen, freshman cello student of Melissa Kraut and first prize winner of The Gaspar Cassado International Competition in Japan, performed The Rococo Variations with the State hermitage Orchestra of St. Petersburg as part of the Olympus Music Festival in Russia last summer.

Matthew followed that concert with a two-week recital tour of Japan with CIM alumnus Ryo Yanagitani (AD '02, student of Sergei Babayan).

Julie Ann Link

Julie Ann Link, student of Barrick Stees, received a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Zurich, Switzerland in Fall 2011. She is CIM's first Fulbright recipient since 2004 and one of only four total.

Julie holds positions with the Canton Symphony Orchestra, The World Orchestra, and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra.

Louis Chiappetta

Recent graduate and Charles Ives Scholarship recipient Louis Chiappetta (BM '11) received a 2011 Fulbright Foundation Grant to further his composition studies at the Guildhall School in London.

He is also a recent winner of an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award.

Yunjie Chen

Yunjie Chen won the First Prize at the Isang Yun Competition in Seoul, Korea.

Chen, who studies with Antonio Pompa-Baldi, was also the Audience Favorite at the New York Frederic Chopin Piano Competition, where Chaoyin Cai, a former student of Daniel Shapiro, won First Prize.

Jeanette Aufiero

Jeanette Aufiero won first prize in the Ibero-American Piano Competition of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, organized within the initiatives for Santo Domingo cultural Capital of Latin America for 2010.

Jeanette studies with Antonio Pompa-Baldi.

Joshua Rodriguez

Joshua (graduate student of Keith Fitch and Mark Kohn) scored a short stop-motion film entitled, "Curiouser II" for Micaela Lynch, a Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) student, also featuring CIM violinist Charles Morey. This year it was one of nearly 70 films accepted into the annual Student Independent Exhibition (S.I.E.) at CIA, and subsequently won two awards (First Place The Hal and Syndy Goodwin Award and Second Prize CIA Board of Directors Award.)

Lauren Roth

Lauren was appointed concertmaster of the Canton Symphony in September.

A native of Seattle, she was previously concertmaster of the Seattle Philharmonic, Thalia Symphony and 5th Ave. Theater. Ms. Roth is a first-year master's student of William Preucil.