OCSO 2024 Youth Concerto Competition Winners
Jocelyn Hsu, harp
Jocelyn Hsu is currently a senior at Lansing High School in Lansing, NY. She has studied harp since the age of nine with Deette Bunn and has been a founding member and principal harpist of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Youth Orchestra (CCOYO) since 2017. Jocelyn is also a member of the Lansing High School Band, Symphony Orchestra, and Jazz Band. She has attended the Young Artist Harp Seminar, where she won the 2023 YAHS Choice Awards. Jocelyn has also attended the MPulse Summer Performing Arts Institutes along with the Oberlin Summer Harp Intensive in 2024. Jocelyn will be performing as the 2024 CCOYO Concerto Competition winner as well as the winner of the 2024 Doreen B. Hertzog Concerto & Aria Competition for the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes. When not playing harp, Jocelyn enjoys being a part of Lansing High School’s musicals and being a member of the Running to Places Theatre Company. She also enjoys swimming and has recently been a member of Lansing High School’s Varsity Girls Swim Team.
Soren Krantz, piano
Soren Krantz, 18, grew up in a household in Syracuse, NY, where everyone plays the piano. He followed the tradition of his older siblings, taking piano lessons from his mother as soon as he could crawl up on the piano bench. At age 14, he switched to his current teacher, John Spradling. Soren has been homeschooled since Kindergarten. He fulfilled his high school requirements by taking classes at Onondaga Community College and is attending LeMoyne College in the fall studying pre-law.
Soren has participated in the Central New York Association of Music Teacher’s advanced piano competition during high school. He also participated in the Thousand Island International piano competition in the fall of 2023.
He played the first movement of the Grieg piano concerto with the Orchestra of Northern New York in April, 2023 in Potsdam, NY.
Besides practicing piano, Soren enjoys playing basketball, chess, working out and composing for solo piano.
