CAROLINE
GOULDING: a star in the making First Prize Winner: Finals of the 2009
Young Concert Artists International Auditions
and GRAMMY NOMINEE for BEST INSTRUMENTAL SOLOIST without orchestra!
On
Saturday, November 21st, violinist Caroline Goulding was awarded First
Prize at the Finals of the 2009 Young Concert Artists International
Auditions held at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
As a First Prize winner, Caroline joins the roster of Young
Concert Artists, Inc., a prestigious organization which will provide
debuts in the 2010-2011 Young Concert Artists Series in New York,
in Washington D.C. at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater,
and in Boston at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, as well as management,
including concert engagements and career guidance.
Caroline
is the youngest of the four artists granted the prestigious prize
this year who were were chosen from ten Finalists, selected out of
146 applicants hailing from 30 countries. The honor caps off a milestone
year for Caroline during which she released in August her debut album
on the Telarc label featuring YCA alumnus, pianist Christopher O’Riley.
In September, Caroline performed with Christopher at New York’s
(Le) Poisson Rouge in celebration of her album and the new recording
from the acclaimed National Public Radio series with the Cincinnati
Pops and the late Erich Kunzel, "From the Top at the Pops,"
on which Caroline performs. Caroline, who this spring graduated high
school with top honors at 16 from Gilmour Academy in Cleveland, is
the cover artist in the December issue of Strings Magazine.
Other prize winners include 21-year-old American pianist Charlie Albright,
26-year-old Belarusian flutist Aleksandr Haskin, and 25-year-old American
mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson.
