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2023 Shain Competition Winner’s Concert

Ethan Maxwell Moeck (saxophone) & Dominik Cambeis (piano)
Madison Leischner (clarinet) & Changyue Liu (piano)

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Program 

Ethan Maxwell Moeck & Dominik Cambeis

Sonata in C#       Ferdande Decruck (1896–1954)
1. Tres modere, expressif
2. Noel. Andante
3. Fileuse. Legerement anime
4. Nocturne et Rondel. Calme, tres modere

Hot-Sonate       Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942)
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Golden Hour      Lawren Brianna Ware

Madison Leichner & Changyue Liu

Clarinet Sonata       Paul Hindemith  (1895–1963)
1.  Mäßig bewegt
2. Lebhaft
3. Sehr langsam
4. Kleines Rondo, gemächlich

Clarinet Sonata       Arnold Bax  (1883–1953)
1. Molto moderato
2. Vivace

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Max Moeck is a saxophonist from Dallas, Texas currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Music Performance at the Mead Witter School of Music. He received his undergraduate degree in Music Education from Stephen F. Austin State University. Max performs in a variety of styles, ensembles, and venues in Madison Wisconsin. In addition to performing, he serves as a teaching assistant with the UW Badger Marching Band. His primary teachers are Nathan Nabb and Matthew Koester.

Dominik Cambeis played the piano since the age of 11. In his first piano competition in 2011, the national competition for young pianists (“Jugend musiziert”), he won the first prize in regional and the state round, and the second prize in the national round.

From 2013 until 2017, he was studying his Bachelor degree in the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music under Thomas Hecht. In October 2016, he helped prepare the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra as the soloist in Beethoven’s piano concerto No. 1 for Sir Andras Schiff. One year later, he was one of the finalists in the International Anton Rubinstein Competition in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Dominik performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz in April 2018.

Between 2018 to 2020, he pursued his Master degree in the University of Missouri-Kansas City with a granted scholarship and teaching assistantship under Thomas Rosenkranz.

In November of 2018, he won the 1st Prize at the MMTA Competition (Graduate Division) and in Februar of 2020, he won the 3rd place in the Zschietzschmann Scholarship competition.

After finishing his Master’s, Dominik continued his studies in a one-year Graduate Certificate program with Neil Rutman at the University of Central Arkansas where he earned a full scholarship and graduate assistantship to prepare for his Doctoral auditions. Since fall of 2021, Dominik studies his DMA degree in Piano Performance with Prof. Christopher Taylor where he holds a full scholarship and teaching assistantship. In October, 2022, he was the finalist of the concerto competition.

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Madison Leischner (she/her) is a clarinetist and educator from rural central Illinois, currently pursuing a masters degree in performance from the Mead-Witter School of Music at UW-Madison under the tutelage of Alicia Lee. She holds bachelors degrees in music education and clarinet performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she studied with J. David Harris. An avid chamber music performer, Maddie has played with a wide variety of ensembles in addition to clarinet-piano duos, with repertoire ranging from standard pieces to contemporary works. A passionate educator, Maddie maintains a small private studio and enjoys working with young clarinetists in the Madison area.

Changyue Liu is from Northeast China. She started learning the piano at the age of four, and then she focused on schoolwork in middle school and high school. After graduating from Tsinghua University with a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering, she worked in Beijing and restarted playing the piano with Ying Zhang at Central Conservatory of Music Continuing Education Program. The desire for music drove her to pursue a music degree, and she received her second bachelor’s degree in piano performance in Professor Steven Glaser’s studio at the Ohio State University in 2021. Currently, she is a second-year master student in Professor Christopher Talor’s studio at UW-Madison, where she also teaches undergraduate applied piano courses. Teaching allows her to think deeper about piano, and she is experimenting with more possibilities in music making.

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About the competition

Started in 2007 by former Chancellor, biochemist and flutist Irving Shain (1926-2018), the Irving Shain Woodwind and Piano Duo Competition was created to encourage pianists and wind players to collaborate. Chancellor Shain had already created the Beethoven Competition in the Keyboard Area in the early ‘80’s and felt that it was successful in championing the works he wanted to hear while supporting students through monetary awards. Since 2007, the fund has awarded and recognized over 50 students and is now endowed.