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DAVID HERTZBERG NAMED 2012 YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE

With “playing that reaches passionate depths with seemingly effortless technical prowess, beguiling sensitivity and an energetic stage presence”(The Washington Post) Armenian Clarinetist Narek Arutyunian commanded the audience at his Kennedy Center Debut

In early June 2011, in 6,000 cabs in New York, taxi riders saw an ABC video about Young Concert Artists’ 50th Anniversary – including concert clips from the YCA Marathon and short interviews with Paula Robison, Jennifer Johnson Cano, and Susan Wadsworth.

Jennifer Johnson Cano gives “ELOQUENT, IMPASSIONED DEBUT RECITAL” in The New York Times

 
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