Boca Raton, FL (April 18, 2003) - The Centre for the Arts at Mizner Park is pleased to announce the recipients of the Centre’s first annual Music Scholarship Competition named “The Michael and Madelyn Savarick Annual Music Scholarship Competition” for orchestral instruments, piano and voice. The scholarship auditions, which were open to all students from middle school through graduate school and were held on March 22nd and produced the following winners: $3,000 Award: Qin Han, piano (sponsor - Michael & Madelyn Savarick Trust); $1,000 Award: Pornphan Banternghansa, piano (sponsor -Paul & Joan Gallo), James Barry, saxophone (sponsor - Burt & Roberta Bronheim), Yang Lu, violin (sponsor- Al & Kit Maroone) and Andrei Moiseyev, trumpet (sponsor - Bernie and Sandra Meyer); $500 Award: Anne Chicheportiche, violin (sponsor - Marie Iandoli), Alex Fink, cello (sponsor - Juliette Ezagui), Sylvia Kim, violin (sponsor - Leon, Ellie & Paul Carman), Danut Muresan, violin (sponsor - Siemon & Larsen, P.A.), Marta Murvai, violin (sponsor - Laraine & Marvin Satisky), Erica Peel, flute (sponsor - Jeanne Sankin), Dmitri Pogorelov, violin (sponsor - Yvonne Boice), Kristi Rostad, harp (sponsor - Mr. and Mrs. William O. Rockwood), Robert Vagi, tuba (sponsor - Gayl & James Hackett), Girard Villanueva, clarinet (sponsor - Morris & Charlotte Robinson) and Yi Zhang, piano (Mr. & Mrs. Sam Sadler). Additional event donors included Tiffany & Donald Fitzhenry, Sylvia Galazan, Floss Keesely, Lynn University, Kay Murphy, Bob Luptak and The Steinway Piano Gallery of Boca Raton.

On Sunday, March 23rd, all scholarship sponsors, donors, volunteers, student competition winners and their families were invited to attend an awards luncheon held on stage at the Centre’s Count de Hoernle Amphitheater in Mizner Park. The scholarship award certificates were distributed at the luncheon by the sponsors of each scholarship. “Donors such as Madelyn Savarick are what make music education accessible to the youth of today as its availability in the public school system steadily declines” stated Joan Gallo, chair of the Competition.

“We were thankful to have the participation of our very talented judges,” states Joan Gallo. The judges include Leonid Treer, Music Professor from Florida Atlantic University; David Alt, Professor of Music, Chairman of the Department of Vocal Performance and Program Director for Musical Theatre at the University of Miami; John David Smith, Principal Horn of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra and Anna Kudresca, Private Cello Instructor and former Music Professor at the University of Poland.

The Centre for the Arts at Mizner Park is a not-for-profit organization, dedicated to creating a cultural heart for the entire South Florida community, located at Mizner Park in Boca Raton. The Centre is currently developing a three phase project on the north end parcel of land at Mizner Park, which when completed, will include the Count de Hoernle outdoor Amphitheater (Phase II) which opened to the public in November 2002 and the indoor performing arts hall and arts education building (Phase III). The Boca Raton Museum of Art (Phase I), located to the west of the Count de Hoernle Amphitheater opened to the public in January 2001.

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For more information on The Centre for the Arts at Mizner Park, call Lisa R. Warren at (561) 368-8445.

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