Hanover High School freshman Miriam Viazmenski will play a violin solo during the Burlington Chamber Orchestra’s season-closing concert on Saturday night at the University of Vermont.
Viazmenski, a member of the Vermont Youth Orchestra who won the chamber ensemble’s concerto competition, will perform the first movement of Mozart’s Concerto in D Major during the concert in UVM’s Recital Hall.
Viazmenski’s other recent accomplishments include representing Vermont in the 2018 Eastern Division Junior Strings Competition of the Music Teachers National Association, and earning a seat in the New England Music Festival Orchestra.
The Hanover resident started taking violin lessons at age 3 and piano lessons at age 6, and sang with the children’s chorus for many seasons at Opera North, before singing the title role in the company’s 2016 production of Amahl and the Night Visitors.
Viazmenski has honed her work on violin during recent summers at Kinhaven Music School in Weston, Vt., and this year will attend the Young Artist Summer Program at The Curtis Institute in Philadelphia.
Outside of the arts, Viazmenski competes with her school’s math team and conducts science research at the N.H. Academy of Science.
The Burlington Chamber Orchestra performs on Saturday night at 7:30, at the University of Vermont recital hall. Admission is $10 to $30.
To learn more about the Burlington Chamber Orchestra concerto competition, visit bcovt.org and click on the link for competitions for young artists.
All the Valley’s a Stage
Twelve Upper Valley schoolchildren will perform at Randolph’s Chandler Music Hall on May 18, during the venue’s 10th Next Generation Concert.
Area performers who earned places in the concert through competitive auditions include, by hometown:
Hanover — Pianists Stephen Wang, Joseph Goff and Sophie Usherwood (who also will play flute); violinist Annica McDougall; singer Patrick McDevitt; cellist Justin Zhou.
White River Junction — Singers Brianna Aubrey, James Bryan and Kyle Mason.
Windsor — Pianist Alexandria Leary.
West Lebanon — Singer Sabrina Lawrence.
Grantham — Singer William Tanski.
The 10th annual Next Generation Concert, covering the works of composers from the 1700s through the present, will take place at Randolph’s Chandler Music Hall on May 18 at 7:30 p.m. For tickets ($10 to $16) and more information, visit chandler-arts.org or call 802-728-6464.
Northern Stage is expanding its residency program that brings Upper Valley students into White River Junction’s Barrette Center for the Arts to learn from theater professionals on the stage and behind the scenes.
The residency program, which started in 2016 as Shakespeare in the Schools, is now called BridgeUp: Theater in the Schools. This school year, students started learning about the production of musicals as well as straight dramas and comedies. During the current school year, students worked with performers and crew members in, and watched performances of, A Doll’s House, Robert Frost: This Verse Business, The Little Mermaid, Only Yesterday, Disgraced and Noises Off.
Schools participating this year were Claremont’s Bluff School, Hartford’s Dothan Brook School, Hartland Elementary School, Newbury (Vt.) Elementary, Newport’s Richards School, Rivendell’s Samuel Morey and Westshire schools and Tunbridge Central School.
To learn about participating in BridgeUp during the 2018-2019 school year, call Northern Stage at 802-296-7000.
Scholarship-Shape
The Alice M. Yarnold and Samuel Yarnold Scholarship Trust is inviting New Hampshire high school students pursuing careers in medicine and social work to apply for financial help attending the post-secondary schools of their choice.
May 21 is the deadline to apply for the scholarships of between $1,000 and $5,000, which come from a fund that the Yarnolds established in response to care they received over the years at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover and Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover.
To request an application, send a letter to The Alice M. Yarnold and Samuel Yarnold Scholarship Trust, 127 Parrott Ave., Portsmouth, NH, 03801.
Collegiate Recognition
Curry College recently honored White River Junction resident Madison Libuda for earning a place on its dean’s list for all four years she attended the Milton, Mass., school. She is one of 83 seniors to receive the honor.
Hanover resident Connor Stafford made the grade for the dean’s commendation list at Gettysburg (Pa.) College, and two other Upper Valley students qualified for the dean’s honor list, for their academic performance during the fall 2017 semester: Sharon resident Claire Healey and Charlestown’s Grace Bushway.
Ohio’s University of Findlay recently named Hartland resident Holly Weglarz to its dean’s list for the fall 2017 semester.
David Corriveau can be reached at dcorriveau@vnews.com and at 603-727-3304. Education news also can be submitted to schoolnotes@vnews.com.