Holland-America Music Society Competition
If you are not going to the CSO’s Beyond the Score season opener with Pierre Boulez conducting The Miraculous Mandarin on Sunday, December 3, you might want to check out the 2006 HAMS Competition for Viola.
This annual string competition is organized by the Holland-America Music Society, an organization founded by Dutch CSO cellist Katinka Kleijn. Former HAMS Competition prize winners have been appointed to titled orchestra positions such as principal viola in the Toronto Symphony and principal cello in the Seattle Symphony. Kenneth Olsen, 2nd prize winner in 2002, is now assistant principal cello for the CSO. This year, a newly commissioned viola piece by Alexandra Karastoyanova-Hermentin will be premiered.
Admission is free and a reception follows. Sunday, December 3 at 3:00 p.m. at the DePaul Concert Hall, 800 West Belden Avenue.
And if you are Dutch, please vote today.
Update: voting today, of course, means Wednesday, November 22. I already voted this Sunday, as Dutch citizens living abroad could cast their vote on the Internet from Nov. 18-22.
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