Gallia KASTNER – USA
Date of Birth: February 27,1997
Nationality: American
Did not attend the competition in Oslo
Gallia is studying with Almita and Roland Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago Senior Academy. She has won 1st Prizes at the Chinese Fine Arts Society (2004, 2007 and 2008), the Sejong Cultural Society Competition (2007) and the Society of American Chamber Musicians and the Jules M Chamber Music Competition (both 2009). She has also won 3rd Prize at the International Violin Competition Kloster Schöntal/Germany in 2009. Gallia has performed solo with the Northshore Chamber Orchestra in Evanston, and both as a soloist and chamber musician in the Young Steinway Concert Series and the Okemo Young Artist Program Summer Concert Series in Vermont.
1st ROUND
J.S. BACH Sonata No. 3 BWV 1016, movements 3 & 4
E. GRIEG Sonata in G major, 1st movement
Freestyle Improvisation
O. BULL Rondo – from Cantabile dolorosa and Rondo giocoso
FINALS
L. van BEETHOVEN Sonata No 5 in F major, Op. 24
A. DVORAK Terzetto in C major, Op.74, Scherzo: Vivace and Thema con variazioni
M. RAVEL Tzigane
Accompanist: Official
