Musical Notes
Andrew Blake Zutty, who was in the original cast of “Children’s Letters to God,” a musical at the Lamb’s Theater in New York, is on the recently-released CD, available through amazon.com and towerrecords.com for $15.99.
Joshua Everett Andrew Suslak, 14, of West Windsor is the first place winner of the Westminster Conservatory 2004 Concerto Competition. He will perform at Richardson Auditorium on March 19, 2005, with the Westminster Community Orchestra. Suslak is a ninth grade student at High School South.
He also took first place in the Music Teachers of New Jersey Master Class as a solo and chamber performer. Past awards include first place for the Golden Key Music and Arts Festival, where he played Concert Paraphrases of Rigoletto by Franz List, which he then played at Carnegie Hall last spring.
He is also the winner of the Westminster Conservatory Scholarship for 2001 and 2003 and high honors winner for the New Jersey Teachers Association Competition for 1998 through 2003 and received his five-year trophy in May at the winner’s recital. He was also a participant in the fifth annual Andrew de Grado Piano Competition for 2003; winner of the sixth annual Cecilian Young Artist Competition (he played at the winners’ recital at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center in November, 2003); and first place winner in the American Fine Arts Festival.
