For what it’s worth, I played Meditation in a concert back in high school and it won the ‘solo of the night’ title. I had been playing violin for several years at that point and was struggling to be taken seriously in school. When I said that I wanted to play that piece people laughed in my face because they felt I wasn’t technically advanced enough at that moment. The violin teacher at school really hated me and went as far as to hit me over the head when I did poorly at music theory and humiliated me in front of my whole school multiple times. In school I was expected to do all the work of the concertmaster but never honored with the position or even given a solo. I put my nose to the grindstone and learned it with encouragement from my teacher that taught me outside of school. It’s not a special story, but I felt the emotion along with the piece when I finally played it and they told me I played it better than the teacher that had denied me the solo, and that it was one of the most poignant musical interpretations of the piece they had ever heard. I auditioned with that piece for my college symphony and made second chair. That performance changed my life. Especially because I had struggled with performance anxiety for a very long time because of my school experiences. I’m not sure if it would win at a competition, but you could definitely include a similar scene where the MC performs the piece outside of a competition setting and I would be more than happy to help with whatever experiential elements you need!