The Dorothy Farnham Feuer Memorial String Competition was created in 1963 as a tribute to Dorothy Farnham Feuer, founder of the Fairfax Symphony and a violinist with the orchestra.  This string scholarship competition has provided well-deserved recognition, encouragement, and monetary support to outstanding young performers on string instruments.  It is open to all string players in grades 7-12 in Northern Virginia, offering valuable prizes and experience for talented young musicians.  Award money must be used to further the musical training of recipients, and is most often spent toward study with noted teachers, tuition for a summer camp, or the purchase of a new instrument.  Many winners have continued to pursue music as private teachers and as members of orchestras throughout the nation, including the FSO.

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Congratuations to the 2010 Dorothy Farnham Feuer Memorial String Competition winners:
Sung Hong, Jungwook Choo, and Eric Adamshick!

•  Tied for First Prize ($1,250.00): ERIC ADAMSHICK, CELLO

Cellist Eric Adamshick is a senior at Centreville High School, and is principal cello of their Philharmonic Orchestra.  He is in his third year in the NSO Youth Fellowship Program, where he studies with cellist Loran Stephenson.  Through this program, Eric has performed on the Kennedy Center's Millenium Stage – four times solo, and twice in chamber ensembles.  He is co-principal cello of the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as a founding member of the Ellipses Quartet.  He played principal cello in the 2008 All-Virginia Orchestra, as well as principal in both the 2007 and 2009 Northern-VA Senior Regional Orchestras.  He plans to use the scholarship money to help pay for tuition next year as he pursues a major in cello performance.

•  Tied for First Prize ($1,250.00): JUNGWOOK CHOO, CELLO

Jungwook Choo is a freshman at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and a member of the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra (AYPO).  He began playing the cello at the age of 7.  In 2007, he won the Joseph and Goldie Feder Memorial String Competition.  Jungwook was selected as principal cellist in District Orchestra for two consecutive years.  He was also a member of the "Lance String Quartet," a Longfellow Middle School ensemble group, which played for former Virginia governor Timothy Kaine.  He enjoys learning biology and is participating in several extracurricular activities including the TJ Debate Team.  Jungwook studies cello with James Lee of the National Symphony Orchestra.  He will use his scholarship towards the purchase of a new cello.

•  Third Prize ($700.00): SUNG HONG, VIOLIN

A junior at Fairfax High School, Sung Hong is the concertmaster of the Advanced Orchestra.  This is the first major competition he has entered and is thrilled to have won third prize.  Sung studies violin with Yakov Shapiro, Concertmaster of the Symphony of the Potomac.  He will be using the prize money toward summer music studies. ........................................................................................................

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