Aiana String Quartet Wins Competition
The SDSU scholarship quartet won the Coleman-Barstow Prize for Strings April 16.
The Aiana String Quartet captured the Coleman-Barstow Prize for Strings and a $4,000 award at the annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition held April 16 in Pasadena, Calif.
The group, which is the SDSU scholarship quartet in association with San Diego's Mainly Mozart organization, performed Bartok’s “Quartet No. 2, Op. 17.”
About the event
Starting in 1947, the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition is for young, non-professional performers. Members of competing ensembles, on average, are 28 years or younger.
From a modest beginning, the annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition has become a highly respected national and international event with competitors coming from major music schools across the country. The competition, sponsored by the Coleman Chamber Music Association in Pasadena, Calif., offers an opportunity for musicians to perform before an outstanding panel of nationally chosen judges for three prizes totaling $15,500.
For more information about the Coleman Chamber Music Association, please visit the website.
About the quartet
Quartet members Roseminna Watson and Hanna Hurwitz, violins; Mario Anton Andreu, viola, and Jillian Bloom, cello, hold degrees from prestigious institutions, including the:
- Eastman School of Music
- Manhattan School of Music
- University of Southern California Thornton School of Music
- Yale University
- Stony Brook University School of Music
- San Francisco Conservatory
For more information about Aiana String Quartet, visit the group's website.
