Carrie Kennedy, Violinist
Young Artist Winner of 2001

 

 

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Background Information

Carrie Kennedy, from Houston Texas, is the winner of the 2001 National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Award for Strings. She is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Music Degree in Violin Performance at the University of Southern California. Having previously studied with Henry Rubin, she is now a student of Robert Lipsett.

Ms. Kennedy has won numerous awards including first place in the American String Teachers Association, National Solo Competition, Culver City-Marina del Rey-Westchester Symphony Competition, Lennos/Richardson Symphony Competition, Clear Lake Symphony Competition, Houston Music Teachers Association Competition, and the state and division levels of the Music Teachers Association Competition. She has been a winner in the California International Young Artists Competition in the University of Southern California Concerto Competition. Other awards include second place in the pre-college division of the Kingsville International Competition and two-time silver medal winner of the Houston Symphony Competition. She has also been a finalist in the Irving M. Klein Competition, the Tunbridge Wells International Competition in England, and the Concert Artists Guild Competition.

Ms. Kennedy has had the opportunity to solo with many orchestras including the San Antonio Symphony, Richardson Symphony, University of Southern California Symphony, Clear Lake Symphony, Westchester Symphony, and the Greater Houston Youth Orchestra.

Ms. Kennedy has attended the Santander Master Courses in spain where she studied and performed in concert with Zakhar Bron. She has also attended the Indiana String Academy, Weathersfield Music Festival, Encore School for Strings and the Angel Fire Chamber Music Festival. During the summer of 2001, Carrie attended the London Master Classes to study with Gyorgy Pauk, and she will be performing concerts in France at the French-American Chamber Music Festival as the first violinist of the Kalos String Quartet.

 

Repertoire

Solo

Bach

Sonatas for Solo Violin
Nos. 1, 2, & 3

Bartók

Romanian Folk Dances
  Sonata for Solo Violin

Beethoven Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30, No. 2
Bolcom Sonata No. 4
Brahms Sonata No. 3 in D minor
Sonata No. 2 in A Major
Sonatensatz
(Scherzo Opus posthumous)
Debussy

Sonata
  Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
    arr. Heifetz

Dvorak Sonatina Op. 100
Gershwin

Three Preludes  
  arr. HeifetzIt 
Ain’t Necessarily So  
  arr. Heifetz

Greig Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45
Ives Sonata No. 4
Kreisler Recitativo and Scherzo, Op.6
Praeludium and Allegro
Liptak Starpoints
Massenet Meditation from Thais
Mozart Adagio
Paganini-Liszt Caprices
Ravel Tzigane
Sarasate

Carmen Fantasy
Zigeunerweisen
Introduction and Tarantelle, Op. 43

Stravinsky Divertimento
Saint-Saens Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso
Schumann Sonata in A minor, Op. 105
Vieuxtemps Souvenir D'Amerique
Ysaye Ballade

Concerto

Brahms Concerto  in D Major Op. 77
Bruch Concerto #1 in G Minor, Op.26
Glazunov Concerto in A Minor, Op. 82
Mendelssohn Concerto in E Minor Op. 64
Mozart

Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216
Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219

Prokofiev Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63
Sibelius Concerto in D minor Op. 47
Vieuxetemps Concerto No. 5 in A minor
Wieniawski Concerto No. 1 in F# minor, Op. 14
Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22

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