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Justin Mackewich

Photo of Justin Mackewich, a volinist and 2001 Panasonic Young Soloists Award winner from the state of Washington

Justin Mackewich from Vancouver, Washington, is an 18 year old Violinst attends the Vancouver School of the Arts and Academics and has been playing since the age of five. He has had the honor of not only meeting his idol, Itzhak Perlman, but he was chosen to study at the Perlman Music Program in East Hampton, New York and performed at Avery Fisher Hall with the Perlman Chamber Orchestra under Perlman's Baton. Justin says he is honored to have won the 2001 Panasonic Young Soloists Award and hopes "it might encourage other teens living with Crohn's disease to achieve their dreams."