2025

2025 Young Artist Competitors
Congratulations, everyone!

G R A N D P R I Z E W I N N E R S
SENIOR DIVISION: Blaise Sytsma-Reed (left), Charlevoix High School
JUNIOR DIVISION: Olivia Sokolowski (right), Charlevoix Middle School
Senior Division Grand Prize Winner, Blaise Sytsma-Reed, will be performing with the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra on Saturday, October 11, 2025 at Great Lakes Center for the Arts in Bay Harbor at 7pm.
2024

2024 Young Artist Competition Grand Prize Winner, Lena Sytsma-Reed, cello, of Charlevoix, performed with the
Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra on September 7, 2024 at John M. Hall Auditorium in Bay View.

Lena was a senior at Charlevoix High School when she performed with the GLCO in 2024.
She is a member of the Dorothy Gerber Strings Program.
2023

2023 Young Artist Competition Grand Prize Winner, Eeva Rintala, violin, of Boyne City, performed with the
Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra on November 4, 2023 at the Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor.

Eeva was a freshman at Boyne City High School when she performed with the GLCO in 2023.
She is a member of the Dorothy Gerber Strings Program.