High school student who studies violin with Wieck wins prize, Ellsworth American reports
The Ellsworth American reported Brandon Aponte of Brooklin won the Bay Chamber Concerts’ 2016 Young Stars of Maine Program for violin, which includes a $1,000 scholarship. Aponte studies violin with University of Maine music professor Anatole Wieck and is a freshman at John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, according to the article. He will perform “Meditation from Thais” by Jules Massenet at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 24, at the Rockport Opera House, the article states.