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A winner of Astral’s 2009 National Auditions, violinist Benjamin Beilman was also awarded the MILKA/ASTRAL VIOLIN PRIZE, designated for a violinist invited to join the Astral Artists roster. Astral presents him in its Philadelphia Brahms Festival in November 2009. He is a 2007 Presidential Scholar in the Arts and the recipient of a Gold award in Music from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. Only 19, Mr. Beilman is the First Prize winner of both the 2009 Schmidbauer Competition and the 2009 Corpus Christi International Competition (where he was also awarded the special Bach prize), and, as the Grand Prize winner of the American String Teachers’ Association national solo competition, he recently made his debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He has been a featured artist at the Marlboro and the Verbier festivals and has performed with the Ft. Collins, Toledo, Dearborn, and Birmingham-Bloomfield symphonies as the winner of their respective young artists competitions. He has also appeared as guest soloist with the Ann Arbor Symphony, the Kalamazoo Symphony, and the RAI National Symphony in Turin, Italy. The recipient of the Gold Medal at the Stulberg International String Competition, Mr. Beilman also awarded First Prize in the Music Teachers National Association, the Society of American Musicians, and Midwest Young Artists competitions, among others. He currently studies with Ida Kavafian at the Curtis Institute of Music, and made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in June 2009, in Beethoven’s Romance No. 2.