Thursday, June 7, 2012

Thursday Afternoon: Check-In Time And Artist Order

Notes From Check-In
All over the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music drawing room, people are tapping on their phones, scribbling on forms, buttonholing semifinalists for long conversations. A few semifinalists swap travel stories. Somebody’s grandson plays with a plastic toy airplane. Three semifinalists cluster together, swapping stories and future plans. Across the room, conversations and hi-how-are-yous mix with last-minute logistical arrangements. Contestants exchange rapid-fire bursts of Chinese. There's a kind of genial hustle and bustle everywhere.
Finalists pick through light blue PianoArts bags, brimming over with papers and CDs. A giant sheet of paper filled with practice room slots is slowly filling up. A Journal Sentinel article describing the competition takes center stage on the check-in table. “Come on in. We’ve got some stuff for you,” Bill Stafford tells a new arrival—Josephine Yang—in a flowing gray-and-white dress. She walks over to a long covered table and begins the check-in process.
Another contestant-Yoan Ganev-wears blue jeans and a gray T-shirt stamped “Westfield Physical”, but a fancy leather-and-gold watch perches on his wrist. Model trains rattle across the floor downstairs as the little brother amuses himself. He’s somebody’s grandchild, being taken care of all day. “He didn’t mind going to the airport in the morning,” his grandmother tells me. 

Much later on, the official order for both the solo and the duo is drawn and set. Each semifinalist receives a number for their solo and a letter for their duo performance. 

Solo Order
1. Josephine Yang (Phoenix, AZ)
2. Ariela Bohrad (Madison, WI)
3. Phillip Kwoka (West Palm Beach, FL)
4. Sahun Hong (Fort Worth, TX)
5. Brian Lin (New York City and Shenzhen, China)
6. Yinuo Qian (San Francisco, CA and Wenzhou, China)
7. Psi Hsu "Emma" Liu (Rochester, NY and Taichung, Taiwan)
8. Xiaohui Yang (Philadelphia, PA and Chaoyang, China)
9. Garrick Olsen (Madison, WI)
10. Christian Gamboa (Hamburg, NJ)
11. Yesse Kim (Ann Arbor, MI)
12. Yoan Ganev (Wheeling, IL)

Duo Order
1. Yinuo Qian
2. Xiaohui Yang
3. Brian Lin
4. Yesse Kim
5. Josephine Yang
6. Phillip Kwoka
7. Christian Gamboa
8. Garrick Olsen
9.Yoan Ganev
10. Emma Liu
11. Sahun Hong
12. Ariela Bohrod

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