Wilton High School Student Wins Student Concerto Competition

WILTON, Conn. -- Wilton High School's Isabella Palacpac is the winner of the Danbury Symphony Orchestra's Student Concerto Competition, the Danbury Music Centre recently announced.

Christine R. Howlett, adjudicator; Zoe Lonsinger; Robert Linden; Isabella Palacpac of Wilton and Ariel Rudiakov, adjudicator.
Photo Credit: *Courtesy The Danbury Music Centre*

by Nathan Bruttell

11/09/2013 5:00 a.m.

The 12th annual competition took place Nov. 2 at the Danbury Music Centre. Palacpac, a cellist and junior at Wilton High School, was the first place winner in the final round of the competition, according to a press release.

Palacpac is a student of Minhye Clara Kim and played the first movement of Lalo’s "Cello Concerto in D Minor," and "won the opportunity to perform it with the Danbury Symphony Orchestra" at the Young People's Concert on Jan. 26, according to the release.

The first runner-up was pianist Robert Linden of Newtown, a student of Max Vladimiroff; and the second runner-up was violinist Zoe Lonsinger from Sandy Hook, a student of Joey Corpus, according to the release.

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