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...Adams House junior, Hinton spent the first 14 years of his life in a relatively obscure pocket of Louisiana before coming north to pursue a career in music. After four years at boarding school in New Hampshire--years punctuated by weekend trips to Boston for piano lessons--Hinton made Boston a more permanent home three years ago when he came to Harvard to study music with Russell Sherman of the New England Conservatory...
...Hinton's travels are paying off. The soft-spoken junior finished first in a December concerto competition held by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, thereby winning a spot on tonight's program with HRO at Sanders...
...great opportunity," says Hinton. "I wish there were more opportunities for undergraduates to play concertos here...
...winning the HRO contest, Hinton is characteristically modest. "I don't put too much weight on the results of competitions. There are so many subjective things that can enter into it--maybe you have a good day, maybe the judge happens to love the piece you're doing...
...President Alec Garraway '90 is more liberal with congratulations. "It showed a tremendous amount of musical and technical prowess," Garraway says of Hinton's competition winning performance. "He picked a really exciting piece, very difficult to play...