The Boise Chamber Music Society is pleased to announce the results of the Twenty-First Annual Young Artists String Quartet Competition, as judged by the members of the Escher String Quartet: Adam Barnett-Hart, Bryan Lee, Pierre Lapointe, and Brook Speltz, on Saturday, Feb. 28, in the Morrison Center Recital Hall on the campus of Boise State University.

The winner of the BCMS’s Idaho high school competition, including the $1,000 prize, was Timberline High School’s Impromptu Quartet, Hadley Starman and Jeemin Kim, violins; Javi Feo-Fernandez, viola; and Evelyn Myers, cello; coached by Micah Claffey, Timberline High School Orchestra Director. They performed first movements from Mendelssohn’s Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, op. 13 and Prokofiev’s Quartet No. 2 in F, op. 92.

The BIG DAWGS, also competing from Timberline High School, included Isaac Ballentine and Sam Gallafent, violins; Joseph Connell, viola; and Arlo Majcher, cello. They performed the first movement of Beethoven’s Quartet Op. 74, no. 10 in E-flat “The Harp,” and the fifth movement of Sibelius’s Quartet in D Minor, Op. 56, "Voces intimae.”

From Centennial High School, the Centennial Quartet, Christian Nelson and Annie Herd, violins; Liam Rieth, viola; and Rebekah Watson, cello, performed Borodin’s Quartet No. 2, first movement, and the entire Quartet No. 2 by Philip Glass, as coached by Dr. Renaud Boucher-Browning, Orchestra Director at Centennial High School.

The Boise Chamber Music Society and Boise State Department of Music are proud to have created, administered, and supported this inspirational annual event that highlighted and encouraged the accomplishments of student string players across the State of Idaho, and we thank our generous season corporate sponsors Hotel 43 and The Grove Hotel.