Rachel Shekinah Hsu
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Rachel Shekinah Hsu is a fourth grade student at Romona Elementary School in Wilmette, IL. She has learned piano for five years and violin for six years. Currently she studies piano with Sueanne Metz and violin with Desiree Ruhstrat. Rachel has won many piano competitions, including 1st place at ISMTA, SAM, Confucius Music Festival, Illinois Music Association, the MACMO Piano Contest, CAMTA Roberta Savler Piano Contest, Granquist Music Competition in Olympic Division, as well as gold medals at the NSMTA and CAMTA Sonata-Sonatina Festivals. She was the winner in Steinway Young Artist Competition 2008, 2009, 2010 and her performance has been broadcast live on WFMT radio station as a winner in 2008. Rachel also won many violin competitions, including first-place awards in 2008 Confucius Music Festival and in 2009 SAM violin competitions. She received Honorable Mention in Walgreens National 2010 Concerto Competition and was the winner of 2009 DePaul Concerto Festival for Young Performers having chance to play violin solo with the DePaul Symphony Orchestra.
Rachel was interviewed and invited to perform piano and violin in the “Superior Performance Moments” program for the International Clinical Excellence Conference at Kansas City on October 2010. She will also have an interview and live performance on Introductions on WFMT as a piano soloist. It will be broadcast on Saturday 11AM, April 9 and Thursday 10PM, April 14, 2011. Her other interests include: singing, writing, drawing, reading and math.
Program
Mozart: Sonata in C Major K.330
Allegretto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Scarlatti: Sonata in A major K.113
Debussy: “Gardens in the Rain” from Estampes
Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 Op. Posthumous in C-sharp minor
Chopin: Etude in C Major op. 10, No. 1
Liszt: “Un Sospiro” Etude No. 39 in D flat major