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Link: http://www.oregonlive.com/performance/index.ssf/2010/11/kristin_qian_13_... Kristin Qian, 13, a freshman at Oregon Episcopal School, will perform as a violinist in the 2011 American High School Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall in February. Members of the Honors Orchestra are among the highest-rated high school performers in North America. Qian studies violin with Carol Sindell at Portland State University and is a member of the Portland Youth Philharmonic. She won the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Oregon State Junior Strings Competition at 11 and won the Young Artists Debut Concerto Competition at 12. She has also appeared as soloist with members of the Oregon Symphony and he Oregon Ballet Theatre, the Mittleman Jewish Community Orchestra, and Portland Youth Philharmonic's Young Strings Ensemble. But that's not all Qian does. She is an award-winning pianist and composer, has had one-girl art shows at Marylhurst University and has published a book of poems. At 11, she gave solo recitals on both violin and piano at Classic Pianos and The Old Church. She also has an extraordinary memory. In a Pi competition where entrants were asked to recite as many place digits of Pi as they could, Qian rattled off 500 digits. Harvard University held a similar competition and the winner remembered only 230 digits. Kristin has participated and performed at a number of summer music festivals, including the 17th Académie Internationale de Musique in France, the First International Strings Festival in China, and the Aspen Music Festival and School, as a double major in both violin and piano. An accomplished artist, published poet and polyglot, Kristin enjoys fencing, writing, and solving puzzles of all types. Finalists will come together for five days in February in New York City to work with conductors and other finalists and tour the city. The performance takes place Feb. 11.