Sergio Mims: Cellist Sujari Britt, 11 Years Old, In Recital at Manhattan School of Music on Saturday, January 19, 2013, 3PM

AfriClassical has posted news of Sujari Britt most recently on April 5, 2012: "John Malveaux: TheGrio.com: 'Sujari Britt, kid cellist with White House show under her bow' (VIDEO) (2:58)."

Sergio Mims forwards this release:

Cellist Sujari Britt showed her prodigious talent and uncanny devotion to and understanding of music from a very early age. Now 11 years old, she began her study of the cello at age five, following her study on the violin, and piano.

Sujari is a student of noted pedagogue Marion Feldman.

Sujari will present works by Bach, Elgar, and Hindemith during a recital at Manhattan School of Music* on Saturday, January 19, 2013, 3PM

• Sujari won first place in the 2008 annual Associated Music Teachers League, Inc. scholarship competition.
• Sujari is 2008- 2009 and 2009-10 recipient of the Dianne Flagello Precollege Division Scholarship Endowment and 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13 recipient of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation Scholarship at the Manhattan School of Music (MSM), where she studies with noted pedagogue Marion Feldman.
• Sujari won the2010-11 concerto competition at MSM.
• Sujari was awarded a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award through From the Top; she performed on From the Top radio program aired in Fall 2011, and she will serve in the Arts Leadership Program.
• Sujari had the honor of performing with Alisa Weilerstein at the White House for President Obama, the First Lady, and their distinguished guests.
• Sujari closed the 11^th Annual International Tropical Baroque Music Festival of the Miami Bach Society in Coral Gables, Florida,
• Sujari performed at Carnegie’s Weill Hall as a winner of the National Young Musicians Concerto Competition.
• Sujari was a guest performer at the Fifth Annual Midori and Friends Children’s Music Festival where she shared the progamme with Midori and with renowned clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera.
• Sujari was the featured artist at the 28^th Annual Children’s Concert for the Gary Historic and Cultural Society in Gary, Indiana.
• Sujari was the featured guest performer for the Adrian Symphony Orchestra Casual Classic Concert scheduled for May 2012.
• Sujari was featured as one of NBC TheGrio’s “100 History Makers in the Making” and her story was highlighted as a news item on the Today Show, and on NBC news stations across the nation!
  
  
  *Manhattan School of Music 120 Claremont Avenue (122nd Street/Broadway)
  
  

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