Lysa Choi, violin

2007 Suzanne Brenton Award Winner - a prize of an appearance with the PEISO for a promising young classical musician, awarded through the PEI Kiwanis Music Festival.

Sixteen-year-old Violinist Lysa Choi is a grade 10 student at Halifax West High School.  She began playing the piano at age four and the violin at age seven.

Lysa and her family immigrated to PEI from South Korea in 2006.  In the same year, she got the Most Outstanding String Award in the PEI Kiwanis Music Festival and was featured as a solo performer at the Indian River Music Festival. Lysa also performed a recital at the Music Room in Halifax.

In 2007, Lysa won the Suzanne Brenton Award donated by the PEI Symphony Orchestra.  Last summer in New York, she played the Vieuxtemps Concerto No.5 at Keene Valley Church as a Meadowmount student, and she will perform at Jean Campe Memorial Concert Hall this summer. 

Lysa is the winner of the Nova Scotia Kiwanis String Rose Bowl for the second year in a row(07'/08') and was a featured performer in the annual Gala Concert at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium.  Lysa is also the recipient of this year's President's Cup at the NS Kiwanis Music Festival.

In 2008, Lysa won the 2008 Debut Atlantic RBC Award for musical excellence and has performed at a Debut Atlantic Concert as a special guest at Woodlawn United Church.  Lysa currently studies violin with Professor Gerardo Ribeiro at Northwestern University and the Meadowmount School of Music.
 

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