Madeline Son, 16, a tenth grader from Polytechnic School, started playing violin at the age of six. She has won top prizes in numerous competitions. She has been a first-place winner in Southwest Youth Music Festival, Satori String Competition, Southwest Bach Festival, and Young Muse International competition. She won the Prodigy Award at Satori at age eleven, and was a winner of the Music Teacher Association of California VOCE Competition and two-time Gold Prize winner in International Music and Arts Society competition. She was also featured in the highlight videos of “Play with Ray Chen” International competition on social media. Madeline has performed solo in Lincoln Center at age 8, Carnegie Hall at age 10, and at Kaufman Center in New York City at age 15. She recently won the Pasadena Rotary Instrumental Music Competition and the Pasadena Youth Symphony Orchestra Philharmonic Concerto Competition and the Golden Classical Music Awards International Competition. She will be performing at Walt Disney Concert Hall on July 19th.