Hobbs Native Wins Piano Competition

Date: 11/15/2007
Contact: Wendel Sloan at 505.562.2253

PORTALES—Hobbs native Matthew Monteverde, a sophomore piano performance major at Eastern New Mexico University, has won the Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico Collegiate Honors Competition in piano for the second year in a row.

Monteverde performed a polonaise by Fredrick Chopin during the state conventional held on the campus of San Juan College in Farmington.

Monteverde studies under Dr. John Olsen, professor of music at ENMU.