Hyunjung Kwon - Doriot Anthony Dwyer Flure Merit Award - 2008
A native of Seoul, Korea, flutist Hyunjung Kwon recently graduated from Boston University with a Performance Diploma after studying with Linda Toote. She received both her Masters and Bachelors degrees at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Marina Piccinini. Ms. Kwon was the first prize winner of the Baltimore Music Club Competition in 2005. She was awarded honorable mention in 2003 Heida Hermanns International Woodwind Competition and was one of the finalists in the 2003 and 2002 National Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist's Competition, where she was awarded the Milton W. King Memorial Certificate. She has participated in the 2004 Pacific Music Festival and the 2003 Aspen Music Festival. Former teachers include Mark Sparks, Emily Skala and Hye-Sook Yang.
Caitlyn Perry - Doriot Anthony Dwyer Flute Merit Award - 2006 Caitlyn is a graduate of Boston University School of Music, where she earned the degree Bachelor of Music while studying with Doriot Anthony Dwyer, former principal flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the artist for whom this award is named. Before coming to Boston, Caitlyn's teachers were Warren Little and Carl Hall, both of the Atlanta Symphony. Caitlyn has played principal flute in Boston University's Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, spent two summers at the Brevard Music Center, and in 2005 participated at the Hampden-Sydney Chamber Music Festival. The Boston Woodwind Society's Flute Merit Award is not the first prize Caitlyn has won. As a senior in high school, she won a scholarship from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and in February 2006, Caitlyn was the winner of the Bill Grass Memorial Prize in the Pappoutsakis Flute Competition.