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Updated at 3:32 p.m., Monday, January 7, 2008

Hawaii violinist, 17, wins award from 'From the Top'

Advertiser Staff

From the Top, the nonprofit organization best known for its NPR and PBS programs featuring America's best young classical musicians, has awarded 17-year-old Hawai'i violinist Asia Doike a $10,000 music scholarship.

As one of From the Top's Jack Kent Cooke Young Artists, Doike has received a $10,000 scholarship and an opportunity to perform on From the Top's NPR radio program. Her performance of Mozart's Sonata in E minor, K. 304, Movement I, Allegro will air on Hawaii Public Radio on Saturday, Jan. 12 at 10 a.m. Shows can also be heard on the Web at www.npr.org.

From the Top identifies and awards scholarships to 25 deserving young musicians each year. Chosen from a wide pool of applicants, Jack Kent Cooke Young Artists must demonstrate high levels of artistic and academic achievement and financial need. The $10,000 award can be applied towards music lessons, college tuition, instrument purchases, competition fees, and other expenses relating to the young artist's musical development and education.

Asia Doike is a student of James Stanford, who is a first violinist in the Honolulu Symphony. She has been playing the violin since she was 6 years old, and first took lessons with the late Hiroko Primrose. Doike also took lessons from her aunt Joan Martin-Doike for seven years.

Over the years, Doike has won competitions and scholarships, including Honorable Mentions in both the 2005 Music Teachers National Association Southwest Regional Junior Division Competition, and the 2006 Mozart Festival Advanced Strings Division Competition in Honolulu. She also tied for first place in the 2006 Hawaii Music Teachers Association High School Division Competition.

In 2007, she was invited to participate in the tuition-free National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute in Washington, D.C.

Doike serves as concertmaster of Youth Symphony I, the Hawaii Youth Symphony's top orchestra, under conductor and music director Henry Miyamura.

Her appearance on From the Top was taped at the Hawaii Theater in Honolulu, Hawaii on Nov. 14, 2007.

For more information about the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award, including application materials and other Award recipients, please visit www.fromthetop.org.