Aubree Oliverson,17, is a 2016 United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and a YoungArts National Winner for Violin Performance. She has appeared on National Public Radio’s popular program "From The Top" four times, and was also an invited soloist at their year end Gala in Boston. Aubree was a winner in the American Protege International Strings Competition and soloed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall at age twelve. She made her symphony solo debut with the Utah Symphony at age eleven, and has since soloed with them several times, including her performance of the complete Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto at age thirteen to multiple standing ovations. Aubree won Utah’s Best-of-State Award as Utahʼs Top Entertainer and performed at the Salt Palace at age twelve. She was a winner in the the Hennings-Fischer, Utah Chamber Artists, and Pasadena Orchestra Young Artist Competitions, a Utah Stradivarius Competition winner, a multiple Utah Symphony Salute-to-Youth winner, a National Finalist in the Music Teachers National Association Competition, a Strulberg International Strings Competition Finalist, and first runner-up at the Dorothy DeLay Memorial Fellowship Competition at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Aubree was Concertmaster for the Gifted Music School Orchestra of Salt Lake City for two years, and at age fifteen was one of only a select few students throughout the world invited to attend the Colburn Music Academy in Los Angeles—where through competitive audition she won the position of Concertmaster for the Colburn Virtuosi Orchestra, and served in that position for two years until her high school graduation. Aubree has soloed with a wide variety of orchestras and musical groups, performed at venues such as the Kennedy Center, New World Center, and Sundance Film Festival, and is a highly sought after chamber musician who has performed with artists such as Joseph Silverstein and Stefan Jackiw. Aubree is a multiple state and national composition winner and along with her father has co-composed and recorded six acclaimed CD albums and several music videos. Aubree has had master classes from Joseph Silverstein, Andres Cardenes, David Kim, Laurent Korcia, Evgenia Epstein, Stefan Jackiw, Scott St. John, Peter Oundjian, Augustin Hadelich; she is a former student of Deborah Moench, Eugene Watanabe, Danielle Belen, and currently studies with Robert Lipsett. Aubree is a fellowship recipient and guest performer at the Innsbrook Summer Music Camp and Aspen Music Festival this summer before she begins her bachelors degree at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in the Fall of 2016.