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Senior Piano Duet Winner
Priscila Navarro is currently a freshman Piano Performance Major
studying with Dr. Michael Baron at the Bower School of Music at Florida
Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida. She started her piano
studies at the age of 9 at the National Conservatory of Music of Peru
under the guidance of Professor Lydia Hung. She received the academic
excellence award there for 6 years, and the first place in her level of
studies. She was selected by audition to perform with the National
Symphony Orchestra of Peru from 2006 to 2009. In 2007 she won the
National Concerto Competition in Lima, Peru. She attended "International
Institute for Young Musicians,” Kansas, in 2008 thanks to a scholarship
that was awarded to her. In 2009 she was awarded the Maddy Summer Artist
Award, for being one of the best 15 soloists out of 700, at the
Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, Michigan. In 2010 she received a Fine Arts
award, and was a finalist in the Concerto Competition at Interlochen.
She received a scholarship to study with Boris Lysenko at the Royal
Conservatory of Music, Toronto. She won the Kiwanis Music Festival of
Greater Toronto in the Concerto class, and was awarded a special
scholarship. Besides piano, she enjoys playing volleyball. She is
currently a finalist in the Jefferson Symphony Young Artist
International Competition in Denver, Colorado.
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