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Score the highly-anticipated Eastern Conference match against Inter Miami CF, plus any three -- or more -- additional matches of your choice! Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb For Mei-Yi Wang performing the first movement of Sergei Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto with at the Concerto Concert at Bowling Green State University is a dream come true Wang  is one of the winners in the College of Musical Arts’ annual Competitions in Musical Performance.  Last December 69 students vied for the chance to perform a concerto with the BG Philharmonia.  Wang first heard the Prokofiev concerto when she was in junior high school in Taiwan So I’m dreaming I should play this piece someday.” That time will come as Wang and three other competition winners will perform with the Bowling Green Philharmonia, Saturday, Feb. 16, at 8 p.m. in Kobacker Hall. Tickets are available at bgsu.edu/arts or by calling the box office at 419-372-8171 receiving top prizes at the competition were: composer Emilio Jose Gonzalez who will have his piece performed at next fall’s New Music Festival who received the Virginia Marks Collaborative Piano Award Redick describes herself as shy and a percussionist who doesn’t like to play loudly even though she started in music because she wanted to be in a rock band Third year student from Fletcher said she decided to compete this year because “it would force me out of my comfort zone “It’s just tonal enough that it’s easy to listen to Her teacher Daniel Piccolo had her listen to three possible concertos to prepare for the competition It was only after she’d made her choice that she found out that the Séjourné piece was the one Piccolo expected her to select The percussion studio has not been as active in the concerto competition in the last few years so she found it “a bit shocking” to win She started playing percussion in junior high after dabbling a bit on piano and guitar but the junior high music program didn’t offer bass.  She went with drums in hopes of learning bass later She fell in love with percussion especially after she started taking formal lessons as a high school junior and discovered the percussive possibilities.  Redick said she decided to pursue music in college after working with junior high music students while she was in high school.  she didn’t come to BGSU to study with a particular teacher When she first visited she met long-time percussion professor Roger Schupp She immediately like BGSU because “everyone was so friendly.” and Piccolo had just taken over the studio when Redick came in Porter came to study with his teacher Conor Nelson When Porter was a junior in high school he attended a recital at BGSU by Nelson ended up studying with Nelson the next year Nelson “has been a strong influence on me.” He only decided to focus on flute as a high school sophomore Porter is a dual major in flute performance and music education The junior will be looking at getting a graduate degree in flute performance with the aim of teaching in college He’s interested in working more individually with students than is possible in a school setting This was his third time participating in the concerto competition He credited playing the Corigliano piece with helping him break through into the winners circle “It requires more intense collaboration between the soloist and the orchestra because of the contemporary notation it just sounded a lot cooler.” And he gets to wear a costume including a feathered hat Porter said he was surprised just to make the finals “because of the caliber of players I was competing against My colleagues are some of the best musicians I’ve ever met and some of the repertoire they were playing sounded really The winners are selected by a panel of five judges from outside BGSU The saxophonist said his ability to memorize the knotty concertante played a part in his success he has the score for reference while working with the orchestra The concertante is “a super important piece” in the saxophone literature but doesn’t get played as much because the piano reduction is inadequate His accompanist was able to work some of the missing orchestral parts into her part That included her playing percussion effects directly on the piano’s strings Kierspe grew up in China where his parents do mission work took up saxophone when he was in junior high In his senior year of high school he attended a residential arts high school in South Carolina before getting his bachelor’s degree at the University of Carolina Kierspe was drawn to BGSU by the chance to study with John Sampen who is “such a large presence” in the world of classical saxophone He plans to earn his doctorate with the aim of teaching in higher education Kierspe said: “There’s always a new challenge It’s a cruel world where nothing is ever perfect The fact there’s always something to improve has kept me in it.” Wang said music allows her to express herself Her teacher in Taiwan was a close friend of Solungga Liu of the BGSU faculty and recommended Wang study with her when Wang moved to the United States to pursue a second master’s in collaborative piano Wang said that this is the first time she’s participated in the competition Because she is studying collaborative piano she felt this may be a rare chance to solo with an orchestra So this offered her the opportunity to play that music by Prokofiev “You can pick the piece you really like and stand in front of orchestra and play the piece you really like That’s why people like the concerto competition.” Click typewriter to read opinions from readers or to learn how to submit one of your own Interested in advertising here on the sidebar of BG Independent News, or in becoming an annual sponsor? Contact Elizabeth Roberts-Zibbel at elizabeth.lrz@gmail.com or click image below for the Advertise page also accessible from the Main Menu heading above The German police arrested nine people in the Netherlands on Monday accused of committing at least 50 ATM bombings in the German states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg since November 2021. They stole over 5.2 million euros in these robberies, the German police said in a press release on Thursday The suspects are between the ages of 25 and 41 The number of ATM bombings in Germany has increased to worrying heights in the past year Perpetrators use explosives to blow open an ATM and access the cash inside the German police recorded 494 such robberies According to the German police, most of these attacks are committed by Dutch perpetrators. The National Forensic Coordination Team of the Dutch police agrees, estimating that 80 percent of ATM bombings in Germany can be attributed to Dutch perpetrators, RTL Nieuws reports Dutch banks have decreased the number of ATMs on the street and significantly increased the security around those that remain So Dutch perpetrators turned to the less secure targets across the border The German and Dutch authorities work closely together to investigate these bombings The police searched 15 locations in the Netherlands as part of this bust this indicated that the gang was already planning its next ATM bombing detective Johan van Hartskamp of the Utrecht police said to RTL “There is already a risk of explosion during the production of the explosive charges That obviously applies to the explosion itself And don’t forget that the escape route also poses a major traffic hazard,” he said to the broadcaster “Perpetrators drive back to the Netherlands at speeds exceeding 250 kilometers per hour The German police arrested another three Dutch men for an ATM bombing in Kierspe, near Cologne, on Wednesday evening. The suspects fled in a car and tried to blind the police chasing them with a laser pointer, NOS reports The suspects fled on foot after turning onto a dead-end street and the police eventually tracked them down in the forest with the help of a police helicopter