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Young local artist to attend renowned Interlochen Arts Camp for second consecutive year
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – This summer a talented Lake County student will return to the renowned Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan.
Julianne Carter, age 12, of Hidden Valley Lake, has been accepted and will attend Interlochen, which boasts the world’s premier summer arts program for aspiring artists grades third through 12th.
This is the second year in a row that Julianne has been selected to attend Interlochen. She underwent a difficult and competitive audition in San Francisco and was selected to study violin at the camp.
Julianne takes violin lessons from Jennifer Cho, a Julliard graduate and first violinist with the San Francisco Opera. She auditioned for and was accepted as a student with Cho last year.
“Julianne is a lovely and talented young musician with great focus and determination. It is a joy to work with such a student,” Cho said.
In addition to violin, Julianne plays and teaches piano. She plays viola and writes her own musical compositions.
Julianne is a member of three orchestras: The Napa Valley Youth Symphony, the Santa Rosa Repertory Orchestra and the Lake County Youth Orchestra.
Julianne will be traveling to Europe next year to go on tour with the Napa Valley Youth Orchestra, where she is a first violin. The group will perform in York, Dublin, Edinburgh, London and other venues during their tour.
Anyone interested in seeing this young artist perform locally can attend the Lake County Youth Orchestra's concert at the Soper Reese Theater in Lakeport on June 7 at 3 p.m. Admission is only $5.
At the June 7 concert, Julianne will perform two solos during this concert, including the Bach Minuet which helped gain her admission to Interlochen.
Interlochen Arts Camp attracts students, faculty and staff from all 50 U.S. states and more than 40 countries.
These 2,500 artists fill Interlochen’s northwoods campus with an explosion of creativity. Student-artists learn from world-class instructors and produce hundreds of presentations each summer in dance, theater, creative writing, visual arts, music and film.
“My teachers at Interlochen are the best in the world,” Julianne said. “We worked very hard each and every day and I learned so much. I made friends from so many different places all over the world and learned so much about music from others who share my passion.”
Among the distinguished camp alumni are Norah Jones, singer Josh Groban, members of the band OK Go, Rufus Wainwright, opera and concert soprano Jessye Norman, conductor Loren Maazel, jazz pianist Eldar, actor Anthony Rapp, cartoonist Cathy Guisewite and many more.
Approximately 10 percent of the nation’s professional orchestra musicians have roots at Interlochen and the alumni community has been awarded nearly 100 Grammy Awards.
In addition to hundreds of performances, presentations and readings by young artists, Interlochen brings leading artists and performers to the northern Michigan campus. Julianne saw Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne perform on campus last summer at Interlochen.
Interlochen Arts Camp is part of the nonprofit Interlochen Center for the Arts, recipient of the National Medal of Arts and the only organization in the world that brings together: a 2,500-student summer camp program; a 500-student fine arts boarding high school; opportunities for hundreds of adults to engage in fulfilling artistic and creative programs; two 24-hour listener-supported public radio stations (classical music and news); more than 600 arts presentations annually by students, faculty and world-renowned guest artists; a global alumni base spanning eight decades, including leaders in the arts and all other endeavors.
For information, visit Interlochen online at www.interlochen.org .