Edith Emily Hines
2000 ARTS Finalist and Presidential Scholar in the Arts
MUSIC/INSTRUMENTAL/Violin
Kalamazoo, MI
Sponsored by The Clinton Companies
Edith Hines, from Kalamazoo, Michigan, began violin lessons at the age of five with Charlene Boehm of Kalamazoo's Young Strings Academy. She currently studies with Donald Weilerstein as a Master of Music degree candidate at the New England Conservatory; she graduated in 2000 from the Young Artist Program of the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) and Hathaway Brown School and received her Bachelor of Music degree from CIM in 2002. Her past violin teachers include David Updegraff, with whom she studied as a Young Artist, Dr. Philip Mason, and Karey Johnson. Edith has been a student at Encore School for Strings and the Yellow Barn Music School & Festival and a fellow of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival/Yale Summer School of Music.
In 2000, Edith received a Level I award in the Arts Recognition and Talent Search (ARTS) of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts; she was the 2000 Clinton Companies ARTS Awardee. She was also named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts and a recipient of a cash award from the Music for Youth Foundation as a result of the ARTS program. More recently, in 2001 and 2002 she received the CIM Alumni Association Annual Prize for having the highest grade point average for the academic year, and she was undergraduate valedictorian of the 2002 graduating class. In 1999 she won first place and performance prize in the Columbus Symphony Orchestra Young Musician's Competition; she also won second place in the 1998 Kalamazoo Bach Festival/First of America Young Artists Competition, second place in the 1998 Leonard Sorkin Memorial Violin Competition, and first place in the 1996 Michigan Federation of Music Clubs and Zerounian String Award Competition. In 1997, she was named a winner in CIM's Concerto Competition.
Edith has given recitals throughout her home state as well as on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, and she has performed as soloist with the CIM Orchestra, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the Cyprus State Chamber Orchestra, the International Symphony Orchestra, the Kalamazoo College and Community Orchestra, and the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra. She hopes to pursue a career as both a soloist and a member of a string quartet.
As an avid chamber musician, Edith has been a member of various ensembles at schools and summer festivals; her quartet at Encore 1998 was awarded the Kay Logan Chamber Music Award. She has been coached by members of the Cavani, Chicago, Cleveland, Tokyo, and Vermeer String Quartets, among others.
In addition to her music studies, Edith is interested in mathematics and is working toward a B.A. in that subject through a joint degree program between CIM and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). She has received awards at the local, state, and national levels for participation in various math competitions and won the 2000 Anne Cutter Coburn Mathematics Prize at Hathaway Brown School. She was a recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize from CWRU in 2002, and in 2000 she received a National Merit Scholarship from the Pharmacia Corporation, was inducted into the Cum Laude Society, and advanced to semifinalist standing in the academic Presidential Scholar Competition.