Senior Strings Concerto Competition: Winner

Queenie Edwards is an active violinist and chamber musician. Her principal teacher has been Yan Jiang Lu for the last eleven years. She has won several awards for her performances, including twice the Florida State Music Teachers’ Association State-wide String Concerto competition, and was the winner of the 2006 and 2009 Florida Midstate Music Teachers’ Association competition. In 2008, she earned 2nd place in the Junior Strings Division of the Florida Orchestra Young Artist Competition. Her most memorable accomplishment was winning the Imperial Symphony Orchestra competition and performed as a soloist with the orchestra.

She has three times been associate concertmistress for the Florida MEA All-State Orchestra. At the 2010 Florida Federations Music Club Junior Convention, she won the Violin Solo Performance and was nominated for the Irene Muir Award. Queenie has been playing music with the Tampa Bay Patel Conservatory since she was ten years old and currently is the concertmistress for the Patel Conservatory Youth Orchestra (PCYO). In 2007, the PCYO performed at Carnegie Hall. This past summer, she was named the 2010 Florida recipient of the Emerson Scholarship from Interlorchen Arts Camp and performed in the World Youth Symphony Orchestra with 2-time Grammy Nominated violinist Philippe Quint and Avery Fisher Prize Awarded clarinetist David Shifrin.