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Each year students are nominated for and then compete to perform on the Blair Student Showcase. Above, Natalie Taylor, soprano, accompanied by Jennifer McGuire on piano, rehearses “Tornami a vagghegiar” from the opera Alcina by G.F. Handel for the 2011 Blair Student Showcase.

Each year students are nominated for and then compete to perform on the Blair Student Showcase. Above, Natalie Taylor, soprano, accompanied by Jennifer McGuire on piano, rehearses “Tornami a vagghegiar” from the opera Alcina by G.F. Handel for the 2011 Blair Student Showcase.

The Apollo Trio, (Lillian Johnson, violin; Jennifer Pittman, cello; and Paul Dab, piano), performed the first movement (allegro vivace e con brio) of Beethoven’s Piano Trio in D, Op. 70, No. 1 “Ghost” for the showcase.
Sophomore Brian Woods and senior Jeannette Mathieu were co-winners of Blair’s Concerto Competition last January. In recent years, the competition has been open to the public during the final round. Both Woods and Mathieu like the new format, because it feels more like playing a concert or recital and less like a competition.

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