**SENIOR DIVISION FINALIST**
**FRENCH HORN, 16**

**Reinhold Glière**
***Horn Concerto in Bb Major***

Haruka Sakiyama is currently a Junior at West Linn High School. She has been playing the French horn for 5 years, and studies with Larry Johnson. She has also been playing the violin for 13 years, and currently studies with Clarisse Atcherson. Haruka has been a part of the Portland Youth Philharmonic for 9 years playing both French horn and violin, and is currently the principal horn of both the Conservatory Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra. She was a part of the 2022/2024 All-State Ensembles, as well as the 2023 All-Northwest Orchestra, and was a winner of the 2024 Jewish Community Orchestra Young Artist Competition. In addition to horn and violin, she enjoys composing and was the winner of the 2020 and 2021 OMEA State Composition Contest and the 2022 National Federation of Music Clubs Junior Composers Competition, also receiving honorable mention in the 2023 OMEA State Composition Contest. Haruka is also currently a member of the Young Composers Project. Her first work for full symphony was premiered by the Oregon Symphony in 2018 and she has had other pieces premiered by ensembles of the Portland Youth Philharmonic. Haruka has also been playing the Koto, a traditional Japanese instrument, for 5 years, and is a junior member of the Oregon Koto Kai. In her free time, she enjoys ski racing and reading.

If you could only eat one dessert for the rest of your life, what would it be? The cream puffs that my mom makes.

What famous person would you most like to have dinner with? John Williams

What’s on your bucket list? Skateboard or snowboard

If you were stranded on a deserted island, which composer or piece of music would

you bring? Anything by Tchaikovsky or Holst

What is your most used emoji? Cowboy

What is your least favorite school subject? History

What is one cool feature you would like to have in your dream house Towels that are warm when you get out of the shower

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given? "Miss notes, but don't miss the music."