Lipscomb trio wins state chamber music competition

 | 11/11/2003

A piano trio from Lipscomb University placed first in the Music Teachers' National Association Collegiate Chamber Music Competition for Tennessee Nov. 8 at Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tenn. Students Katie Shaner, Molly Cronin and David Finney performed the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Trio in C minor, op. 1, no. 3, and all four movements of Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D minor, op. 49, for a panel of three judges, said Dr. Jerome Reed, professor of music at Lipscomb University and the trio's coach. Shaner, a violinist from Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Cronin, a cellist from Wheeling, W.Va., and Finney, a pianist from Dickson, Tenn., competed against groups from Vanderbilt University, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville and Middle Tennessee State University. All are juniors and are performance majors in the Department of Music at Lipscomb University. Performing as the "Avalon Trio," they now advance to regional competition at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro in January, where they will compete against winning chamber groups from eight other Southern states. The regional winner will advance to the finals in Seattle in March.