And the Winner is... Daniel Szefer

I couldn't be more happy for my student Daniel Szefer, who became a Winner of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra 2018 Concerto Competition after performing F. Chopin's Piano Concerto in F Minor Op. 21 yesterday evening (March 13, 2018) with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Professor Edmond Agopian at the Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall at the University of Calgary.

Congratulations Daniel! You have made me proud of you yesterday! I wish you all the best and more successes like this!

Thank you, everyone, who helped Daniel, who helped us, who helped me!

I congratulate Sua Kwoun, Cameron Wong, and Daniel Dastoor! You were all magnificent!
(I had a pleasure of working with Daniel Dastoor and Cameron Wong as their chamber groups' coach so I was cheering them up as well!)

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From left to right: Karl Hirzer (Resident Conductor of the CPO and Jury), Paul Dornian (President & CEO of the CPO and Jury), Brad Mahon (Director, MRU Conservatory), Daniel Dastoor (violin), Sua Kwoun (cello), Cameron Wong (oboe), Daniel Szefer (piano), Edmond Agopian (Professor, Conductor and Violinist), Bruce Barton (SCPA Professor & Director), Joelle Welling (SCPA Chair & Senior Instructor).

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