Carolyn Mae Jantsch
Carolyn Mae Jantsch
2003 ARTS Finalist - Level I in Tuba
Graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy
University of Michigan
Mount Vernon, OH
Carolyn Mae Jantsch says the one thing she likes to do most is make people smile. While she believes a career as comedienne would be short-lived she found that she could also make people smile with her music. "I think that's what makes me an artist, and the realization of this came once people started laughing with me rather than at me while I play," Carolyn says. "A prime example of this was last year when for my senior recital (at Interlochen Arts Academy) I wrote a piece for tuba, slide whistle and narrator. I had the audience cracking up." Carolyn will be a sophomore at the University of Michigan. Her awards and honors include winning the Arnold Jacobs Mock Orchestra Tuba Audition, Second Place Young Artists Division, ITEC 2002 Solo Competition, the Columbus Symphony Young Artists Competition. She was a runner-up in the Kalamazoo Concert Band Youth Solo Competition, and received a Young Artist Award from Interlochen Arts Academy 2002.
Click here to view a video of Carolyn's performance at the 2003 Scholarship Awards ceremony.