{"id":6248,"date":"2019-06-04T19:05:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T19:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somainfo.org\/?page_id=6248"},"modified":"2019-06-04T19:05:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T19:05:31","slug":"our-2019-finalists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=6248","title":{"rendered":"Our 2019 Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">On May 18th of 2019, we were thrilled to meet and greet a wonderful group of 35 gifted singers, all well prepared to sing for our judges. Some we already knew, however, the majority were new to us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">On Saturday, after the last singer had performed for our judges, they adjourned to discuss every aria and singer they enjoyed hearing. Their decision was to advance these 10 gifted singers to the Final round and Awards Program, which took place on the following day, Sunday, May 19th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">We are always excited to invite every semi-finalist to the Awards Program to support their colleagues with their votes as audience members.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The 2019 Finalists were:<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Ekaterina Kim, \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Soprano<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"> Hao Hu, \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Tenor<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"> Jaeyeon Kim, \u00a0 \u00a0 Soprano<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"> Mariya Kangaskaya, \u00a0 \u00a0 Mezzo<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"> Brandon Scott Russell, \u00a0 \u00a0 Tenor<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"> Bronwyn White, \u00a0 \u00a0 Soprano<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"> Hyung Joo Eom, \u00a0 \u00a0Baritone<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"> Yi Wang, \u00a0 \u00a0Soprano<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"> Jason JaeHyuk Choi, \u00a0 \u00a0 Tenor<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"> Yulan Piao, \u00a0 \u00a0 Soprano<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/piano-1239729__340.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6252\" title=\"piano\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/piano-1239729__340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/piano-1239729__340.jpg 604w, https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/piano-1239729__340-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 18th of 2019, we were thrilled to meet and greet a wonderful group of 35 gifted singers, all well prepared to sing for our judges. Some we already knew, however, the majority were new to us. On Saturday, after the last singer had performed for our judges, they adjourned to discuss every aria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6075,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6248","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6253,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6248\/revisions\/6253"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}