Ilana Blumberg (violin) was the winner of the Khuner Young Artist Concerto Competition's inaugural competition held in the fall of 1989. She was granted first prize, chosen to perform with the Prometheus Symphony Orchestra in a live concert in 1990.
Ilana also began the pattern of our young winners going on to remarkable music careers. She first played violin at age two, then attended The Crowden School – the music-based elementary and middle school in Berkeley – before entering the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Pre-College program. She then obtained a music degree at Oberlin Conservatory.