Jennifer Chew '10 Announced Co-Winner of Jeanne Selander Memorial Concerto Competition

Chew will perform with the Lowell Philharmonic on May 8

February 18, 2009 -- Phillips Academy student Jennifer Chew ’10 has been named a co-winner of the Jeanne Selander Memorial Concerto Competition, sponsored by the Lowell Philharmonic Orchestra. The prize for the award is the opportunity to perform with the Lowell Philharmonic on Friday, May 8.

Chew, a day student from Reading, Massachusetts, has been playing the piano for ten years and has studied with PA Instructor in Music Christopher Walter since 2007. She auditioned with the 1st movement of Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, which she will play again on May 8. Along with being a talented pianist, Chew is also a dancer and plays the viola in the Academy Chamber Orchestra. “I am very glad to have won, especially with such a lovely piece of music, and I am very much looking forward to performing my competition piece with the Lowell Philharmonic Orchestra in May,” said Chew.

The Jean Selander Memorial Concerto Competition has been taking place since the early 1990’s and is open to local musicians under the age of 18 who live within 75 miles of Lowell, Mass. Musicians must audition with one prepared movement from any major work for solo instrument and orchestra for which orchestral parts are available.

Past winners of the Selander Memorial Concerto Competition include Jennifer’s brother, Justin Chew ’07, and current PA student Maddie Tucker ’11.