2021 Grand Finals

Anais Feller

Anais Feller (14) studies violin at the Music Academy of the Colburn School in Los Angeles, under the tutelage of Martin Beaver. At age 10, she made her orchestra debut with the California Chamber Orchestra in Koblenz, Germany. As a soloist, Anais has collaborated with orchestras such as the Plano Symphony Orchestra, San Angelo Orchestra, and Memphis Repertory Orchestra. She won the grand prize at the 2019 Young Artist Competition at Collin County, Texas and garnered top prizes at the Fort Worth Symphony Young Artist Competition, Vernell Gregg Young Artists Competition, International Academy of Music concerto competition, Bravo International Music Festival competition and at the 2020 Southern California Philharmonic Young Artist Concerto competition. Anais has attended music festivals in the US, Germany, Italy, Spain and Greece. Shehad master classes with Leonardo Kavakos, David Kim, Cho-Liang Lin, Chee Yun and JinJoo Cho. Her favorite concert experience was playing Bach Double Violin Concerto with the renowned violinist Ray Chen in 2020. Anais was previously a competitive ballet dancer and now dances mostly modern and lyrical.

Alexander Hobbs

Alexander Hobbs recently made his Carnegie Hall recital debut, followed by a string quartet performance with Noah Bendix-Balgley, the first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic in Los Angeles. Alexander has earned prizes at numerous competitions, including Second Prize, the highest award given, at the Osaka International Competition in 2013, Second Prize at the Nationals, Student Music Concours of Japan in 2011. Alexander has appeared as soloist with multiple orchestras including performances with the Japan Classical Orchestra, the NHK Philharmonic Orchestra Ensemble, and the Japan String Teachers Association Orchestra. Alexander has performanced at prestigious venues including the concert halls Elbphilharmonie, Kioi Hall, Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Suntory Hall, Teatro Olimpico, Walt Disney Hall and Carnegie Hall.

Alexander was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1997. At the age of eleven, Alexander earned the honor of serving as concertmaster for a performance of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of the conductor Myung-Whun Chung. Alexander has participated in master classes with several renowned artists and pedagogues, including Andras Keller, Zakhar Bron, Leon Spierer and Augustin Dumay. Alexander is currently a fourth-year undergraduate student at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where he studies with Robert Lipsett, who holds the Jascha Heifetz Distinguished Violin Chair at the institution.

Emily Rosenberg

Soprano Emily Rosenberg has been recognized as a “spirited actress” with a “rounded and lyrical voice, well under her control” by Platea Magazine, and “could be part of the program at any established international theater.” This season, Emily made her role debut as Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto with Jerusalem Lyric Opera. Other recent highlights include an appearance as Lieschen in Korngold’s Der Ring des Polykrates with Numi Opera, a return to Pacific Opera Project for their “super” take on The Magic Flute, singing the title role of The Cunning Little Vixen with Opera Steamboat, and her Chicago debut originating the role of the Narrator in the world premiere of For Those in Peril, a new opera by Francis L. Lynch. Emily has captivated audiences in multiple portrayals of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, with performances in Los Angeles, Prague, and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Additional roles include Laetitia (The Old Maid and the Thief), Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance), Amore (Orfeo ed Euridice), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Annina (La traviata), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica), and covering Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), and Zerlina (Don Giovanni). Emily made her Boston Symphony Hall debut in 2015 as soloist in the Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY world tour. Emily holds degrees in Vocal Performance and Professional Music with a focus in Songwriting from Berklee College of Music. A native of Chicago, Emily is currently based in Los Angeles, where her sound is sought after for commercial and film score recordings in addition to opera and concert producing organizations.

Henry Woolf

Flutist Henry Woolf made his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 15 as first prize winner of the Alexander and Buono International Flute Competition. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Flute Jeffrey Khaner. At Curtis, Woolf was frequently featured on the student recital series and participated in multiple touring projects including a nine city European tour as well as a chamber orchestra tour of the US.Since graduating from Curtis in 2018, Woolf has played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Artosphere Festival Orchestra, and Orpheus at Mannes Chamber Orchestra,among others. In October of 2019 Woolf was invited to compete in the Maxence larrieu International Flute Competition in Nice, France and in 2020 was invited to the Sarasota Music Festival.Woolf currently studies with Denis and Erin Bouriakov at UCLA.