Photo by Geoffrey Biddle
Crowden School graduate and current John Adams Young Composers Program and San Domenico School Virtuoso Program participant Jo Griffin has just been named a winner of the National Young Composers Challenge.
She won in the ensembles category for her String Quartet in D Major, which she composed as part of her JAYC studies at Crowden last year.
Members of the Marin Symphony will perform her winning work at the NYCC Composium scheduled in Marin on Oct. 5-6.
The seven winners, between ages 13 and 18, come from all over the country. Jo is the third Bay Area musician to win this honor since the competition's inception, the others being Thomas Feng from Albany and another Crowden School alumnus, Stephen Spies, who won in the orchestra category twice, in 2010 and 2011.