{"id":51475,"date":"2018-03-06T14:47:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T19:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=51475"},"modified":"2018-03-06T14:47:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T19:47:02","slug":"scoop-canadians-land-two-top-prizes-at-2018-schadt-string-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2018\/03\/06\/scoop-canadians-land-two-top-prizes-at-2018-schadt-string-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Canadians Land Two Top Prizes At 2018 Schadt String Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51476\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-51476 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/2018-SCHADT-STRING-COMPETITION-PRIZE-WINNERS-ANIA-FILOCHOWSKA-VC-YOUNG-ARTIST-TIMOTHY-CHOOI-HANNAH-CHO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/2018-SCHADT-STRING-COMPETITION-PRIZE-WINNERS-ANIA-FILOCHOWSKA-VC-YOUNG-ARTIST-TIMOTHY-CHOOI-HANNAH-CHO.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/2018-SCHADT-STRING-COMPETITION-PRIZE-WINNERS-ANIA-FILOCHOWSKA-VC-YOUNG-ARTIST-TIMOTHY-CHOOI-HANNAH-CHO-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/2018-SCHADT-STRING-COMPETITION-PRIZE-WINNERS-ANIA-FILOCHOWSKA-VC-YOUNG-ARTIST-TIMOTHY-CHOOI-HANNAH-CHO-768x861.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/2018-SCHADT-STRING-COMPETITION-PRIZE-WINNERS-ANIA-FILOCHOWSKA-VC-YOUNG-ARTIST-TIMOTHY-CHOOI-HANNAH-CHO-913x1024.jpg 913w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2018 Schadt String Competition prize winners: (L-R) Ania Filochowska, Timothy Chooi and Hannah Cho.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Victoria-born violinist Timothy Chooi (24) has won first prize at the American Schadt String Competition in Allentown, United States.<\/p>\n<p>The award comes with a purse of $8,000 and includes a solo performance with the Allentown Symphony.<\/p>\n<p>Second prize went to Warsaw-born violinist\u00a0Ania Filochowska ($2,500), and third prize to Hamilton Ontario\u2019s Hannah Cho ($1,500).<\/p>\n<p>The American Schadt String Competition is open to violinists, cellists and classical guitarists aged 18-30, who are living within the United States. Previous winners include VC Young Artists\u00a0Zeyu Victor Li\u00a0and\u00a0Ji-Won Song.<\/p>\n<p>Chooi studied at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, and is a graduate of the\u00a0Curtis Institute of Music. He is currently a post-graduate student at The Juilliard School, with Catherine Choat. Making his Carnegie Hall\u00a0solo debut in 2013, he has won major prizes with the Menuhin and Michael Hill International Violin Competitions, the 2012 Canada Council Instrument Bank Competition, the American Fine Arts Festival\u00a0Vadim Repin Masterclass Scholarship, and the 2013 Vadim Repin International Scholarship Audition. Chooi plays a 1729 Guarneri del Gesu.<\/p>\n<h3><b><i>LUDWIG VAN TORONTO<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria&#8217;sTimothy Chooi and Hamilton&#8217;s Hannah Cho take top honours at the American 2018 Schadt String Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":51476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14761,5,36,39,68],"tags":[17428,17426,17427],"yst_prominent_words":[7005,17417,17413,17411,17424,17418,7781,17422,6616,9943,17425,17416,17412,10496,10907,17415,17423,7605,17414,13134],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/2018-SCHADT-STRING-COMPETITION-PRIZE-WINNERS-ANIA-FILOCHOWSKA-VC-YOUNG-ARTIST-TIMOTHY-CHOOI-HANNAH-CHO.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-dof","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51477,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51475\/revisions\/51477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51475"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=51475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}