Concerto Scholarship Winner 2023 - Queenie Dai

We are pleased to announce that Queenie Dai is the winner of this year’s Concerto

Scholarship Concert. Queenie Dai is 14 years old, and a high school student at Jericho

High School. She started flute at the age of 9 and was accepted into the Manhattan

School of Music Pre-College at the age of 11. She won the Young Musicians Contest

hosted by NYFC at the age of 13 and was accepted into the Juilliard School of Music Pre-

college the same year. She is currently studying with Bart Feller and has studied with

Melanie Williams and Stephanie Kwak beforehand. Other than flute, she enjoys dancing

and listening to different types of music. 

Queenie will receive a $500 scholarship award from the Woodbridge Flute Choir and

will perform Cécile Chaminade’s Concertino with the Woodbridge Flute Choir at its

Sunday, March 19, 2023 concert. The concert will be held at 3:00PM at

Congregation Adat Reyim, 6500 Westbury Oaks Ct., Springfield, VA 22153

followed by a reception. Admission is free!

Other pieces that will be performed on the concert are Overture to Candide, by Leonard

Bernstein and arranged by Mel Orriss, Eos by Zachary Friedland, Inno for Joueurs by

Vincenzo Sorrentino, Woodlands Springs Suite by Martin Blessinger, Meditation on

‘Abide with Me’ by Kelly Via, Umoja by Valerie Coleman and Nimrod by Edward Elgar,

arranged by Matt Johnson.

Congratulations, Queenie!