Brendan Conway has won
numerous violin competitions, including the Virginia
Concerto Competition, the Russian-American Music
Association Young Virtuosos Competition
and the Interlochen Arts Camp Concerto Competition. In
2004, he was the youngest competitor in the Paganini
Competition in Genoa, Italy, and took part in the
International
Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki, Finland.
An avid chamber musician, he is also a member of a trio
that garnered a silver medal at the 2002 Fischoff
National Chamber Music Competition and has twice taken
part in the Menuhin Chamber Music Festival in San
Francisco. Currently studying with Vladimir Landsman at
the Université
de Montréal, Brendan Conway has also studied with Itzhak
Perlman (with whom he performed at the Mostly Mozart
Festival) and Patty Kopek.
United States
Born September 19, 1987
SEMI-FINALS
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Sonata No. 1 for solo violin, in G
minor
BWV 1001
SERGUEÏ PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94a
SCOTT GOOD And dreams rush forth to greet the distance
EUGÈNE YSAŸE Sonata in E major No. 6 Op. 27 for solo
violin
NICCOLÒ PAGANINI Caprice Op. 1 No. 15 in E minor
FINALS
PIOTR ILYITCH TCHAIKOVSKY Concerto in D major, Op. 35
