Come watch 2023 FWC Solo winners Yvette Kraft, violin, and Gracie Potter, trombone, perform a FREE concert at Englewood Christian Church in Yakima, Washington.
Ladies Musical Club
presents
Yvette Kraft, Violin
Gracie Potter, Trombone
Caden Potter, piano
2023 FRANCES WALTON COMPETITION WINNERS’ TOUR
Englewood Christian Church, Yakima, WA
Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 2:00 PM
Solo Violin Sonata, No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003, II. Fuga J.S. Bach
Sonata No. 3 in C Minor for Violin and Piano, II. Edvard Grieg
Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 7, La Campanella Niccolò Paganini
The Red Violin Caprices (1999) John Corigliano
2023 Solo Winner Yvette Kraft, Violin
Caden Potter, Piano
A Liminal Space David Faleris
Choral, Cadence et Fugato Henri Dutilleux
Concertino for Solo Trombone and Piano Ferdinand David
Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra Sergei Vasilyev and Vladimir Enke
2023 Solo Winner Gracie Potter, Trombone
Caden Potter, Piano
Concert Program PDF
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Gracie Potter, a Junior at The Colburn Conservatory, is a student of David Rejano. She is a Shires Rising Artist and a fellow for the 2023 Tanglewood Music Center. She has performed with the LA Phil, the London Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony and is the principal trombonist for American Youth Symphony. Gracie is the winner of the 2023 ITA Robert Marsteller Competition as part of the International Trombone Competition. She was also a quarter finalist for the Michel Becquet International Trombone Competition. In 2022, she won the Keston MAX Competition at Music Academy, placed 1st in the International Women’s Brass Conference Trombone Category, placed 2nd in the Final, and won the Phoenix Brass Collective Competition. In 2021, she placed 3rd in the Ian Bousfield International Trombone Competition and in 2020 received a New Horizons Fellowship from Aspen Music Festival and School. Gracie is a recipient of the Arizona MusicFest college Scholarship.
Pacific Northwest native Yvette Kraft debuted with the Spokane Symphony Orchestra at the age of eleven. Since then, she has won numerous regional competitions including the coveted Seattle Young Artist Music Festival Medal. Yvette has distinguished herself nationally as a finalist in the MTNA competition and as SFCM’s 2021/22 Concerto Competition winner. Internationally, Yvette placed 2nd at the 2020 Grumiaux International Violin Competition in Brussels and was a semi-finalist in the 2019 Louis Spohr International Violin Competition in Weimar. Recently Yvette performed in New York City at the prestigious Charlotte White’s “Salon de Virtuosi” Holiday Concert and has been sought after as a soloist in California and Tennessee. Yvette is an NPR “From The Top” Fellow and solo performer and has performed with numerous orchestras including the Seattle Symphony. She studied with Simon James, and she currently studies with Robert Lipsett at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles.
Caden Potter (piano) is a junior in the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University. As first prize winner of the 2023 New Albany Symphony Orchestra Concert Competition, Caden gave two performances of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with New Albany Symphony Orchestra in March of 2023 as part of their subscriptions concert series. Caden served as percussionist and timpanist with the Phoenix Youth Symphony Orchestras (PYSO) for five years and, in 2019, was piano soloist with PYSO at the Mesa Center for the Arts. In 2021, Caden was marimba soloist with the PYSO percussion ensemble and was a winner of the 2021 Ohio University School of Music High School Concerto Competition. Caden enjoys collaborating with other musicians, especially his sisters, Gracie (trombone), Emma (horn), and Lily (piano). Caden also enjoys reading, learning about history, playing board games with family and friends, and video games.
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