The
Competition consisted of three Preliminaries held several
months apart in August, December and July 30-31st, 2005.
The
Performance Hall for the Preliminaries was the Santuario de
Guadalupe, a historical-foundation based Mission Church
built in the 1700's, among the oldest churches in the United
States.
Finals were held Sept.
8-11th, 2005 at
Keller Hall at The University of New Mexico. Tickets $15.00.
Professional
Pianists along with Pedagogues, Doctoral Candidates and
exceptional performers of all ages gave a
total of approximately 30 performances.
The
Competition provides a cross-referencing of all elements of
the arts expressed within the pianists of all ages and
nationalities. These may integrate with the Santa Fe
Opera, Chamber Music Festival, Jazz Festival, Concert
Association and Visual and Cultural Arts.
WINNERS
OF 2004-2005
SOLO
DIVISION
3rd
place Winner - Michael Schneider
2nd
place Winner -
Fred Karpoff
1st
place Winners -
Yuri Chayama
Mana Tokuno
CONCERTO
DIVISION
Two
First Place:
Fred Karpoff & Ioannis
Potamousis
Awards
and Honorariums totaling $6500
Solo
1st Place -$1500
Solo
2nd Place-$1300
Solo
3rd Place-$1200
Honorium
from Mesa State College-$1500 to 1st Place
(including
performance engagement)
Performance
Engagement at Keller Hall at UNM and Honorarium
Total
of $1000 for Concerto Winner or Winners
SEMI-FINALISTS
& CONCERTO
FINALISTS OF
2004-2005
(In
Alphabetical Order)
Lauren
Anderson is currently studying piano performance at the
University of New Mexico with Professor Falko Steinbach.
Since beginning her studies with Professor in 2001, she has
traveled abroad (Germany and Italy) to participate in master
classes and perform in concert. She received a musicianship
scholarship. Ms. Anderson will represent the state of New
Mexico in the Division Level of the Young Artists Music
Teachers National Association Competition this coming
January in Long Beach, California, as she did last year as
well. While maintaining a busy schedule of piano and
academics, Ms. Anderson also composes. Her most recent
compositions are explorations in sound, language, and
mathematics. The cadenza she performs in Beethoven's
Concerto No. 1 in C Major is her own. Ms. Anderson is also
working toward a bachelor degree in pure mathematics.
Yuri
Chayama was born in Japan. She received her Bachelor's
Degree at the College of Music in Japan. She also received
her Artist's Diploma at the college of Music in Aachen,
Germany. She has worked as accompanist to vocal classes in
the College of Music in Aachen, Germany. Her
participation and performances include: International
Mastercourse in Nice, France Piano Mastercourse in Kassel,
Germany, by Prof. Renate Fischer-Kretschmar Mastercourse in
Montepulciano, Italy, by Prof. Falko Steinbach International
Musicfestival in Weikersheim, Germany, by Prof. Falko
Steinbach International Mastercourse by Chopin Gesellschaft
in Darmstadt, Germany, by Prof. Renate Fischer-Kretschmar
Mastercourse in Heek,Germany, by Prof. Falko Steinbach Val
Tidone Summer Music Camp, Piano Mastercourse in Italy,
Received a Scholarship. Since
January 2005 she has been living in Albuquerque, studying
with Prof. Falko Steinbach at the University of New Mexico.
Jeong-Yoon
Choi, a native of South Korea, began her musical studies at
the age of six, and won her first competition at age ten.
While in America, she won the New England Conservatory's
Honors Competition, University of Maryland's Concerto
Competition, and Homer Ulrich Competition. Recently she
appeared at President Monroe's historic House sponsored by
Arts Club of Washington and at The National Theatre in
Washington D.C. She was also chosen as a recitalist for
Concerts at the Alden 2004-2005 season, supported by Arts
Council of Fairfax County, Virginia. She
has appeared in many solo and chamber music concerts in USA
including performances at Jordan Hall (as a winner of NEC
Honors Competition), Dekelboum Concert Hall (as a winner of
UMCP Concerto Competition), Monroe House, The National
Theatre, KM Art Center, Out Lady of Victory Church, Ulrich
Recital Hall, and Gildenhorn Recital Hall, as well as
performances in Korea, Canada, and Russia. She has also
participated in master classes with Russell Sherman, Andre
Watts, Martin Canin, Gabriel Chodos and Joseph Kalichstein.
Summer festivals have included International School for
Musical Arts in Canada, Contemporary Piano Institute of
Boston, Ecole Normal de Musique de Paris, Juilliard School,
St. Petersburg Conservatory and Sergei Babayan International
Piano Academy. Active as a performer of contemporary music,
several composers have dedicated works to her. She attended
the Busan High School of Arts and Busan National University.
She holds Master of Music from New England Conservatory and
Doctor of Musical Arts from University of Maryland. Her
teachers include In-Il Kim, Jacob Maxin, Randal Hodgkinson,
Paul Shenly and Larissa Dedova. At the University of
Maryland, she had been a staff pianist teaching piano class
for three years. Her
Awards and Honors include: Winner
of Homer Ulrich Competition, University of Maryland,
2003,Winner of Concerto Competition, University of Maryland,
2002,Winner of Honors Competition, New England Conservatory,
1997,2nd Prize, Busan Music Competition, 1991'
John
Cobb is an international performer and recording artist
known for his broad interpretive range and technical
command. The
New York Times has praised his "solid technique, bronze
tone and flexibility of interpretive style." The
Chicago Daily News commented, "the vibrations that
filled the hall were less those of the piano than those of
an exquisite musical mind." Dr.
Cobb is a direct musical descendant of Franz Liszt through
his teacher, pianist Claudio Arrau, whose teacher was a
pupil of Liszt.
Brita
Ford is a former student of Michael Baron at Mesa
State College in Grand Junction, Colorado. She
currently holds a M.M. from Manhattan School of Music.
Justin
Gray, a brilliant young American virtuoso who has won
numerous awards for his artistry, has been described by the
Remarker Arts Magazine in Dallas, Texas as "managing to
perform with with both passion and composure, fervor and
poise, zeal and control." Mr.
Gray was the Kawai Grand Prize winner in the 2005 Palos
Verdes Music Peninsula Festival Competition in Los Angeles,
and he has also won prizes in the 1994 Kingsville
International Competition, the 1995 Texas Music Teachers
Association Competition for Solo Piano, the 1996 Grace Welsh
Prize for Piano in Chicago, the 2004 Mid-Texas Symphony
Competition, and the 2004 Los Angeles Liszt Competition.
Mr.
Gray has been coached by such esteemed artists as Claude
Frank, Ian Hobson, Anton Nel, and Jeffrey Swann. He has also
studied extensively with Tong-il Han and Donna
Edwards. In
his career, Mr. Gray has been a participant at the 1995
Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, the
1996 Festival for Young Artists in Lawrence, Kansas, the
1997 Cliburn Institute for Young Artists in Fort Worth,
Texas, and the 2004 International Piano Institute of Santa
Fe, New Mexico. He has been featured as soloist with the
Southern Methodist University Symphony, conducted by David
Milnes. Mr.
Gray is a graduate of The Juilliard School where he obtained
his Bachelors Degree in Piano Performance under Bartok
scholar Gyorgy Sandor and was a recipient of the William H.
Merrill scholarship. He recently graduated with his Masters
of Music degree in Piano Performance from Southern Methodist
University, where he was granted a full artistic scholarship
and was under the instruction of Alfred Mouledous, a former
pupil of Walter Gieseking. Mr. Gray is currently a Doctoral
candidate at the University of North Texas, where he is a
student of Joseph Banowetz.
Riko
Higuma. Born in Japan, Ms.Higuma started her piano
studies at the age of five. She gave her first solo recital
at the age of eleven at Teatro San Martin in Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Ms.Higuma has received numerous awards including
the top prize of the Jacob Flier International Competition.
She has given solo recitals and played in chamber music
concerts throughout the United States, Italy, Russia and her
native Japan. Ms.Higuma
has participated in music festivals around the world,
including the Nagano-Aspen Music Festival, Piano Summer at
New Paltz, New York, International Academy in Russia, Merano
Fest in Italy and LaJolla Music Society Summerfest in
California. She was one of the Young Artists for the Van
Cliburn Piano Institute in Fort Worth in the summer of 2002,
where she appeared with the Fort Worth Symphony under Edward
Browne. Among the distinguished artists with whom she
studied in master classes are Eugene Istomin, Vladimir
Feltsman, Igor Lazko, Paul Badura-Skoda, Oxana Yablonskaya,
Vladimir Virdo, Dang Thai Son and Leon Fleisher. She has
studied chamber music with Issidore Cohen, members of the
American String Quartet, Steve Taylor and Cho-Liang Lin.
Her
collaboration in chamber music performances has included
such distinguished artists as Albert Markov, Cho-Liang Lin,
Alan Gilbert, Charles Curtis, Steven Tanenbom and Timothy
Eddy among others. In La Jolla Summerfest 2003, her live
performance was broadcast on NPRfs Performance Today. She
studied with Phillip Kawin for six years at the Manhattan
School of Music in New York, of which she is a graduate and
is engaged as a staff vocal accompanist.
Fred Karpoff
has concertized as both soloist and collaborative pianist
throughout North America and across Europe and Africa, including at the Franz
Liszt Hochschle fr Musik in Weimar, the Theatre d'Esch in Luxembourg, the
American Cultural Center in Brussels, the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, the
Bulawayo Academy of Music in Zimbabwe, the National Concert
Hall in Dublin, and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He has
performed at the Rutgers Summerfest, Skaneateles, Ravinia,
and Siena (Italy) music festivals, as well as in recitals on
public radio stations throughout the United States in
collaborations with the Cassatt Quartet, Larry Combs, Eric
Ruske, and members of the New World, Chicago, and Audubon
String Quartets and the Los Angeles Piano Quartet.
The
Syracuse Post-Standard wrote, "In terms of musicality,
Karpoff is one of the most exciting pianists to watch and hear in the history of the
Skaneateles Festival. His involvement and intensity at the
piano are at once apparent, and his phrasing invariably
superb. Karpoff's interpretations consistently reveal not
only a keen dramatic sense of purpose, but also a deep
understanding of a work's architectural structure."
A
former Artistic Ambassador for the United States Information
Agency, Fred Karpoff has studied with Ann Schein, Yoheved
Kaplinsky, and Robert Weirich and holds the DMA from the
Peabody Conservatory, where he was a frequent performer in
the master classes of Leon Fleisher. He
has also worked with renowned artists such as Jeffrey Kahane,
Richard Goode, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, and the
late Karl-Ulrich Schnabel.
Dr.
Hwa-Jin
Kim was born in Daegu, South Korea, where she began her
piano studies at the age of five. She was chosen to perform
at MBC Television Station in Daegu at age seven, and she
appeared as a soloist with the Daegu Symphony Orchestra at
age fourteen. She
won numerous competitions and entered the prestigious Seoul
National University in South Korea on full scholarship,
studying with Dr. Jin-Woo Chung. Upon graduation, she came
to New York to continue her studies with Zenon Fishbein at
the Manhattan School of Music, where she received her
Masters and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. Dr.
Kim has performed in South Korea at Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
Cultural Center, and Arts Center in Daegu. She has also
performed at the Rossini Summer Festival in Italy, and at
many other venues in Boston, Rhode Island, and New York,
including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Dr.
Kim has been a faculty member at the Manhattan School of
Music, Reformed Presbyterian Seminary of the East, and New
York Bethesda Theological Seminary, teaching both piano and
music history. She has also been on the piano faculty at the
Music School in Providence, and a private piano instructor
at Brown University in Rhode Island. After
moving to the Asheville/Hendersonville area of North
Carolina in 2000, Dr. Kim has been featured as a soloist in
numerous concert series and benefit concerts. She joined the
music faculty at University of North Carolina at Ashville as
an adjunct assistant professor in January 2003, and has
given solo recitals annually.
Evan
Kory, originally from Nogales, Arizona, a small town
bordering Mexico, Evan Kory began his musical studies at the
age of six with Dorothy Boudreau. During the summers of
1998-2002, Evan attended the Interlochen Arts Camp in
Michigan, where he cultivated a love for classical music.
Subsequently, he enrolled at the Interlochen Arts Academy
studying with pianist Yoshikazu Nagai during his junior and
senior years of high school. Evan
has performed abroad in festivals such as the first Beijing
International Music Festival and Academy in China and the
International Academy of Music in Italy.
Presently,
Evan is entering his third year at the Manhattan School of
Music in New York and studies with Professor Philip Kawin.
Faith
Lanctot, has had music at the center of her life since she
was a dancing and singing toddler. She lives in Grand
Junction, Colorado, is home-schooled, and has eight brothers
and sisters. She
has studied piano with Dr. Michael Baron for eight years.
Faith has won seven First Prize awards in the Grand Junction
Music Teachers Association Sonatina Competition, First
Place in the Junior Solo Division of the Four Corners Piano
Competition in Durango, First Place in the First Plymouth
Congregational Church Annual Competition in Denver, and two
First Place prizes in the Colorado State Music Teachers
Association Concerto Competition. She
has performed recitals and has been soloist with orchestras
in the United States and in Italy.
Juanita
Madland has been playing piano since age four. She won
alternate for the first solo competition of the IPI. She has
bachelor and master degrees in piano performance, the latter
with Evelyne Brancart whose teacher was a pupil of Liszt.
In
the last ten years Juanita has given multiple concerts in
Oslo and at the branch of the Salzburg Mozarteum in Italy,
at the Peter Paul Rubens Museum in Antwerp, and in Germany.
She won the New Mexico adult concerto competition, performed
with concertos and solos in Albuquerque, Los Alamos, and was
twice in Van Cliburn competitions, one where the New York
Times photographed her with an article in the paper.
Previously she directed and performed in a United Service
Organization (USO)Troupe in the Caribbean and won a Ted Mack
contest for the Midwest. She
teaches music at UNM-LA and gives regular concert-lectures
as the "Pedagogical Pianist." In
2002 Juanita Madland was NM Music Teacher of the Year and is
a permanent Nationally Certified Teacher of Music. She and
her husband have three musician children.
Eun-Hee
Park graduated summa cum laude from Mesa State College in
Grand Junction, Colorado. A member of Alpha Chi, the
National College Honor Society, she is currently accepted to
a maters program in music performance at Oklahoma City
University on full scholarship, where she will continue her
studies with Dr. Michael Baron, head of the piano
department. Since
she started studying piano at her age of seven, she has won
numerous awards and scholarships in both Korea and the U.S.A.
Ms. Park has attended the summer music program, Corsi
Internazionali di Musica at the University of Urbino, Italy,
and has participated in masterclasses of Renato Premezzi,
Daniel Pollack, David Korevaar, Daniel Epstein, Robert
Marler, and Lisa Campi. She has performed recitals in Korea and the U.S.A.
Elias-Axel
Pettersson, born in Sweden and raised in New Mexico, Elias
began playing piano and violin at an early age. He
received a High School Diploma in Piano upon completing the
requirements for GUILD (sponsored by MTNA). In recent
summers, Elias received scholarships to attend music
festivals including the Adamant Music School (Vermont) and
Summit Music Festival (New York). In 2003, he was
invited to perform in the Adamant Music School Master Class
Session given by the distinguished pianist and pedagogue,
Menahem Pressler. Elias was recently accepted into the
prestigious 2005 International Prague Masterclasses.
In
2004, Elias competed in the 8th Biennial Los Angeles Franz
Liszt International Piano Competition. In the Budapest
Concert Division, he was awarded a Special Jury Prize
for his performance of Liszts Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
(from Annes de Plerinage: Deuxieme anne). He
also received 4th Prize in the Concerto Division for his
performance of Liszts Concerto No. 1 in Eb Major.
He is also a member of the Friday Morning Music Club of
Washington D.C. Eliass
solo performances include appearances in Gildenhorn Recital
Hall and Homer Ulrich Recital Hall (University of Maryland),
Henry Alvah Strong Auditorium (University of Rochester),
Howard Hanson Hall (Eastman School of Music), Keller Hall
(University of New Mexico), Simms Fine Arts Center
(Albuquerque Academy), Bnai Israel Synagogue
(Albuquerque, New Mexico), and the Jewish Community Center
of Greater Albuquerque, among others. He
has played in masterclasses for Andr Watts, Jean-Bernard
Pommier, Jeremy Denk, Dina Joffe, Pavel Nersessian, the
Merling Trio, and the Guarneri String Quartet. He
graduated from the University of Rochester with a B.A. in
Music (high honors) and a Minor in Biology.
Concurrently, he studied piano at the Eastman School of
Music with Dr. Douglas Humpherys, co-chair of the keyboard
division. Elias received his M.M. in Piano Performance
from the University of Maryland as a student of Professor
Larissa Dedova. Elias is a National Deans List
Scholar and a Chancellors List Scholar.
Ioannis
Potamousis. Born in Athens, Ioannis Potamousis
graduated "Summa Cum Laude" from the Piraeus
Federation Conservatory in Greece, from the studio of Thalia
Mira obtaining the First Prize and a gold medal in piano. As
a member of Roswitha Gedigas studio, he pursued his
education at the Cologne State University in Germany and
received his Bachelors and Masters degrees with
"Outstanding" recognition. In May 2002, Ioannis
Potamousis graduated from the studio of Pavlina Dokovska in
the Professional Studies Department at the Mannes College of
Music. He is currently a DMA candidate in piano performance
at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University
and is a student of Susan Starr. Most recently
Ioannis was a finalist at the Mozart Concerto Competition
organized by the State University of Cologne as well as a
winner of the Myconiou prize given by the Academy of Athens.
Additional awards include a special prize, awarded by the
Haus Marteau association of Music Friends in Lichtenberg,
Germany, also a winner in piano of the State Institution of
Athens as well as the top prize at the Balkan Piano
Competition in Patra, Greece. February 2001accolades for Mr.
Potamousis included the 2001-2002 NASO Young Artists
Concerto Competition in New York and the Silver Medal in the
2001 World Piano competition in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mr.
Potamousis is also the winner of the prestigious Concerto
Competition at Rutgers Universitys Mason Gross School of
the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Additionally Ioannis
was awarded with the prize of the best performance of a
Liszt work, at the Santa Fe International Piano competition
in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in August 2004. More over, at the
same competition Mr. Potamousis was selected to play at the
finals of the concerto and solo category in August 2005. In
July 2004 Ioannis was also featured as virtuoso piano
soloist in the Beethoven Choral Fantasy with the Summit
Festival Symphony Orchestra of Summit, New Jersey.
Ever since
1995, Ioannis Potamousis has been featured in recitals and
chamber music concerts in Greece, France, Germany and in New
York. As a soloist he has been featured with the Cologne
University Orchestra, with the Collegium Musicum, the
Altstadt Philharmonic of Cologne, the Athens State Orchestra
and with the Soloists of Patra. In April 2003 he made his
New York orchestral debut in at the 93rd Street Symphony
Space, playing the first piano concerto by Tchaikovsky with
the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra. In 2004 Ioannis
performed the same concerto with the Rutgers Symphony
Orchestra in New Brunswick. Ioannis has also recorded works
for both piano solo and chamber music for the WDR Koeln,
West Germany Radio and for the State Radio of Piraeus in
Greece. Mr.
Potamousis has been a member of the teaching faculty at New
Jersey City University in Jersey City and maintains a
private studio based in New York.
Michael
Schneider's performing career began at age eleven when he
made his orchestral debut performing Mozart's Piano Concerto
No. 20 with the San Angelo Symphony. Mr. Schneider made his
Carnegie Hall debut performing in Weill Recital Hall on
November 16, 2002 as a prizewinner of the 2002 Frinna
Awerbuch International Piano Competition. He also won the
prize for the best performance of a work by an American
contemporary composer. Mr. Schneider most recently won
second prize at the 10th Pacific Piano Competition in
Vancouver, Canada last February 2004. Mr. Schneider
frequently introduces his programs with historical
background and many times shares his own personal and
sometimes witty experiences with the music. This
fall marks the inauguration of the San Angelo Piano
Festival, a new festival in West Texas directed by Mr.
Schneider in order to bring a wealth of talent and music for
the city of San Angelo to enjoy and be a part of. Events
will include several guest artist recitals, impromptu
musicales, and a young artist program that includes master
classes and a young artist recital. The first student to
graduate from the Artist Certificate Program at the
University of North Texas, he also holds a Bachelors Degree
in Piano Performance from that school as a student of Dr.
Pamela Mia Paul. Currently,
Mr. Schneider is studying in the Professional Studies
program at the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of
Mr. Paul Schenly, where he also holds a Masters Degree in
performance.
Mana Tokuno
was born in Toyama, Japan, in 1978. Ms.Tokuno began music
lessons at age six and in 1992, she began studying with
Midori Tanabe (former professor at Tokyo National University
of Fine Arts and Music) in Tokyo,National University of Fine Arts and Music. She went on to
study with Victor Rosenbaum at The New England Conservatory
of Music in Boston, where she received her master of music
degree with academic honors and played with the NEC
Orchestra at her commencement concert. Since her childhood,
Mana
has been the winner of numerous awards, including many
competitions in Japan, Valsesia Musica in Italy
(Semi-Finalist, and Special Prize for her interpretation of
Schubert Sonata in A Major, D.959), Corpus Christy
International competition in Texas (Sixth place and special
Leo Sirota Award for her Schubert Sonata in A Major,D.959),
and the Susan L. Tajra Music Scholarship in France. In
June 2003, she was one of six pianists selected from all
over the world to participate in The Daniel Barenboim
Workshop: The Beethoven Sonatas, presented by Carnegie Hall.
Again, in January and March 2004, she was selected as one of
four pianists to participate in The Leon Fleisher Workshop:
The Late Schubert Sonatas, and performed at Carnegie Weill
Recital Hall. In addition to an active solo schedule of
performing throughout the US and Japan, she often
collaborateswith singers and other instrumentalists.
In 2000, she presented a series of lecture concerts in the
elementary schools in the US and Japan. Currently she
resides in Boston, Massachusetts, and is active as solo
recitalist, chamber musician and music coach.
FIRST
PRELIMINARY
July
26-31, 2004
PETER
ZOLLNER (USA)age 15,is a native of Grand Junction, Colorado. He began his piano studies at age 4 with his
grandmother. He has studied for some time with Dr. Michael Baron at Mesa
State College.
RIKO
HIGUMA (Japan)is a graduate student at the Manhattan School of Music where she studies with Phillip Kawin.
She is performing the Paganini Variations by Liszt.
CARL
ETTINGER (USA) from Albuquerque is a student of Falco Steinbach.
He is performing the first movement of Concerto in
Eb by Liszt.
EVAN
KORY (USA) from Nogales, Arizona, is a student at the Manhattan School of Music where he studies with Phillip
Kawin.
EVAN
KORY will perform the first movement of Concerto in D
Minor K466 by Mozart.
RIKO
HIGUMA (Japan)will be performing the first movement of
Beethoven Concerto No. 5 (The Emperor).
KATHRYN
HAYDEN (USA) lives in Albuquerque, New, Mexico . She is a student of Jacquelyn Helin. She will perform
Sonata in b minor by Liszt.
CARL
ETTINGER (USA) from Albuquerque is a student of Falco
Steinbach. He is performing the "Out of Doors Suite" by
Bartok and Etude Op. 10 no. 8 by Chopin.
IOANNIS
POTAMOUSIS (GREECE), a DMA student at Rutgers University will be giving his solo performance for the
competition.
KATHRYN
MIENTKA (USA) is a student of Michael Baron at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado. She is
performing Prelude Op. 23 no. 4 by Rachmaninoff and Arabesques on the
Blue Danube by Strauss-Schulz-Evler.
FAITH
LANCTOT (USA 17 years old is from Grand Junction, Colorado where she has studied piano with Michael Baron.
Faith will perform the Dante Sonata by Liszt and Toccata by
Prokofieff.
SEUNG
WON YOO ( South Korea) is a student of Dr. Joseph Banowitz
at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. She is
performing the third movement of Concerto No.5 by Saint-Saens.
IOANNIS
POTAMOUSIS (GREECE)is a DMA student at Rutgers University. He is performing the first movement of the
Concerto in Bb minor by Tchaikovsky.
EUN
-HEE PARK (South Korea) will be giving solo performance.
She is a student of Michael Baron at Mesa State College.
EUN-HEE
PARK is playing the Menotti Concerto.
BRITA
FORD (USA)is a student of Michael Baron at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado. She is performing
Concerto No.2 (1st movt.) by Saint-Saens .
ALEXANDER
SCHWARTZKOPF (USA) pianist and composer is performing the
first movement of Concerto in d minor by Brahms.
JUANITA
MADLAND (USA) teaches piano at the university of New Mexico - Los Alamos. Her program is as follows: French
Suite BWV 812; Sonata K457 1st. movt. by Mozart;
Brahms ,Op. 118 nos.
2,3,and6.
GREG
OGIN will be performing solo competition. Greg is a
student of Juanita Madland in Los Alamos, New
SECOND
PRELIMINARY
Dec.
27-29th, 2004
December
27th, 28th and 29th of 2004 featured one of the largest
piano events of the Southwest. Thirteen performing artists
gave 25 performances in Solo and Concerto Competition and
"Meet the Competitors" Concerts.
Adjudicators
for the event were Dr. Falko Steinbach University of New
Mexico; Michael Mauldin, Composer; Dr. John Olson Eastern
New Mexico University; Robert McKenna Artist; and
adjudicators each from Italy and Russia.
Semifinalists
in the December Preliminaries:
SOLO
Justin
Grey, Michael Schneider, Mana Takuno, Lauren Anderson, John
Cobb, Elias-Axel Pettersson.
CONCERTO
Justin
Grey
SPECIAL
AWARDS
Instrospective
Mozart: John Cobb
Demonic
Liszt: Michael Schneider
The
Competitors
(in alphabetical order)
(* signifies selected semifinalist)
Rodion
Burtsev, age 16, was born in the Soviet Union and is now an
honors student at Los Alamos High. At age 6, Mr. Burtsev
began his musical education under the tutelage of
award-winning violinist Dylana Jenson. Under the influence
of his mother, Natalia Efremova, he changed his musical
orientation and at age 10 began regular, intensive piano
instruction. He has participated in numerous master classes
with renown artists, including Evelyn Brancart, Robert
Hamilton, Falko Steinbach and others. In 2004, Mr. Burtsev
received a bronze medal in the Four Corners interstate piano
competition. He was accepted into the 2004 New Mexico Music
Teachers National Association competition and in the
Virginia Waring Piano International Competition in
California in January 2005. Mr. Burtsev is also an amateur
video artist and has written, directed, edited and produced
several short films.
Xiao-Bo
Chen was born into a musical family in Shanghai, China. She
graduated from the high school of the prestigious Shanghai
Conservatory of Music with top honors. After coming to the
States, Ms. Chen received her Performer's Certificate and
Artist Diploma from Texas Christian University. A prize
winner of many competitions, Ms. Chen made her Carnegie Hall
debut in 2001 after winning the Frinna Auerbuch Competition
in New York. She has won the Maria Canals Competition
(Spain) and Sorantin Young Artist Competition (San Angelo,
Texas), and has performed as a soloist with the Fort Worth
Chamber Orchestra, TCU Orchestra and University of North
Texas Orchestra. Ms. Chen is currently pursuing her Masters
degree in piano performance at University of North Texas.
Jennifer
Chu is a senior at the University of New Mexico, with a
double major in history and music. Ms. Chu is 21 years old,
from Albuquerque and currently studies with Professor Falko
Steinbach. She started playing piano at an early age under
the tutelage of her mother, Pei Pei, who is a piano teacher.
Ms. Chu plans to continue her studies in music and will soon
be submitting applications to law school.
Brian
Davenport is a 16-year-old pianist from Los Alamos, New
Mexico, who gravitates toward all things musical, from
church organist to musical theater to classical ballet and
jazz dance. Mr. Davenport enjoys creating his own music and
has written several original compositions for solo piano,
some of which have placed in national competitions and have
been featured in performance with Santa Fe New Music. He has
also performed in recent Santa Fe Opera productions of
Carmen and Wozzeck. Brian studies piano performance with
Juanita Madland. In addition to music, Mr. Davenport has
many interests, including science fair competitions, speech
and debate team activities, art and Boy Scouts.
Karl
Erik Ettinger born in Michigan and is currently a serving a
Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Group Piano at the
University of New Mexico, where he studies with Professor
Falko Steinbach. After coming to serious piano study later
in life, Mr. Ettinger earned the Bachelor of Music degree
from the Conservatory at the University of Missouri in
Kansas City. He feels fortunate to have studied with Nancy
Hartman, Michael Rickman, Richard Cass and Professor
Steinbach, all of whom continue to provide inspiration and
guidance. Mr. Ettinger is a member of the New Mexico
Federation of Music Clubs and teaches piano privately in
Albuquerque. Along with teaching, Mr. Ettinger performs
regularly in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. He has participated
in master classes in Italy and Germany and has also recently
participated in the Val Tidone International Piano
Competition in Pianello, Italy. He plans to enter a doctoral
program in piano performance next year.
Nathan
Salazar is 16 years old, currently a resident of La Mesilla,
NM. He has been homeschooled for eight years and is a part
of a large homeschool chorus. He started piano lessons with
Sharon Lauber of La Mesilla when he was eight years old;
since the age of twelve, he has studied with Charlene
Cox-Clifton of Los Alamos. In 2002, he placed first in the
state at the MTNA (Music Teachers National Association)
piano competition. He went on to compete at the regional
level with the state winners from California, Nevada,
Hawaii, Arizona and Utah. In 2003, he placed first in the
Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico State Honors
competition in his age level, accompanied the Missoula
Childrens Theater production in Los Alamos, as well as
Immaculate Heart of Mary girls choir and the Espanola
Homeschool choir. He plays for the elderly in Los Alamos and
for fundraisers at McCurdy Schools. On March 13, 2004, he
was awarded Grand Prize in the NM Symphony Orchestra and NM
Symphony Guild Young Artists Competition in Piano
Performance, a concerto competition. His fourteen-year-old
sister, Nena Salazar, accompanied him on the second piano.
During the summer of 2004, Nathan attended the International
Institute for Young Musicians at the University of Kansas at
Lawrence, Kansas. Most recently, he placed first in the MTNA
High School competition. He will compete regionally at Long
Beach, CA, in January, 2005.
THIRD
PRELIMINARY
JULY 29TH-31ST, 2005
ADJUDICATORS for
Third
Preliminary
(In
alphabetical order.)
Michael
Baron
Beryl
Lovitz (Honorary)
Michael
Mauldin
Robert
McKenna
Bill
Seymour, Chair
Tatiana
Vetrinskaya
Repertoire
for
the Third
Preliminary
(Artist-Competitors
in Alphabetical Order)
Phil
Amalong
SOLO
Sonata,
Op. 109 in E major Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Vivace.
Prestissimo.
Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung.
Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo.
Dale
Backus
CONCERTO
Brahms
No. 1 in d min. lst mvt.
Yuri
Chayma
SOLO
F.
Liszt : Rigoletto-Paraphrase
F. Chopin :
Polonaise- Fantasie Op.61
Jeong-Yoon
Choi
CONCERTO
Ravel
Piano Concerto in G. 3rd Mvt.
SOLO
Schubert
Zwei Scherzi, D. 593
I.
Allegretto
II.
Allegro moderato
Grieg
Lyric Pieces Op. 54
I.
Shepherd Boy
III.
March of the Trolls
IV.
Notturno
V.
Scherzo
Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14, 4th mov.
IV.
Vivace
Fred Karpoff
CONCERTO
Brahms
No. 1 in d min. lst mvt.
SOLO
Sonata
No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 50 "Eroica" Edward MacDowell
Slow,
with nobility; fast, passionately (1861-1908) Elf-like, as
light and swift as possible Tenderly, longingly, yet with
passion Fiercely, very fast
Hwa-Jin
Kim
SOLO
Piano Sonata in B Minor, K.27
D.
Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Piano
Sonata, Hob. XVI: 20 in C Minor Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
I.
Moderato
II. Andante con moto
III. Finale: Allegro
Grand
Etudes of Paganini No. 6 "A Minor"..Franz Liszt
(1811-1886)
Faith
Lanctot
CONCERTO
Liszt
Concerto in Eb
Emi
Nakajima
CONCERTO
Brahms
No. 1 in dmin. lst mvt.
SOLO
Chopin
Ballade No.1 in g minor, op. 23
Ravel La Valse
Victoria
Shusterov
CONCERTO
N.
Rimsky-Korsakov.
Concerto
for Piano and Orchestra
Op.
30 in C sharp minor
SOLO
P.
Tchaikovsky. Dumka
Beethoven.
Sonata op. 57 in F minor
Allegro
ma non troppo
A.
Scriabin. Two Etudes
Op.
2, No. 1 in C sharp minorOp. 8,
No.
12 in D sharp minor
R.
Shchedrin. Basso-Ostinato
Kate
Whitney
SOLO
Chopin,
Prelude in e minor
Mendelssohn,
Sonata in A flat
Allegro
Moderato
Adgio
Finale
Presto
Chopin,
Ballade in F, opus 38
Peter
Zollner
CONCERTO
Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1, 1st mvt.
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ARTIST-COMPETITORS
--
THIRD
PRELIMINARY
(In
Alphabetical order)
Philip
Amalong attended the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of
Music after winning a Van Cliburn Scholarship. He studied
with Frank Weinstock and later earned a Masters degree
studying with pianist Sandra Rivers. Other
awards include first prize in the McElroy Competition and
the Sarah B. Marvin Scholarship Award, and recently awards
at the IBLA Grand Prize International Piano Competition in
Sicily and a Fellowship to the Rome Festival in Rome, Italy.
He participated in masterclasses of Gary Graffman,Cecile
Ousset, and Samuel Sanders. Mr. Amalong has taught at Xavier
University and is currently on the faculty at the College of
Mount St. Joseph. Philip
Amalong has performed with the Razbia Ensemble and played
and recorded with the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops, the Fort
Wayne Symphony and the Dayton Philharmonic. He performs in
various cities throughout the US and has played in Germany,
Czech Republic, France and Italy. Mr.
Amalong is an Eroica Classical Recordings artist and his
recordings include many world premieres. His solo piano disc
has received critical acclaim in such publications as
American Record Guide, MisicWeb UK, and Music and Vision
Daily. Other releases include an Albany Records disc of 20th
Century works for flute and piano and a disc of sonatas for
violin and piano by Busoni and Elgar. Also released in April
2004 is Sanctuary at 3 AM a disc of works by composer
Rick Sowash featuring Mr. Amalong as both soloist and
chamber musician. Another
aspect of Mr. Amalongs musical career is his work as a
composer, both of concert music and of commercial scores for
television and film productions. His music has been heard as
background to the Academy Awards, the Golden Globe awards
and many television and firm productions worldwide.
Dale
Backus is a freelance pianist/keyboardist in the front range
region of Colorado. He competes internationally as an
amateur pianist. In January of 2003, he performed at
the 14th International Piano Competition for Outstanding
Amateurs in Paris, France. He received 4th place Jury
Award and 2nd place Audience Award. He was invited to
do a solo recital in North Carolina in March, 2003, and was also asked to return to
France to play a concert in Pontlevoy, France in July, 2003.
He received Honorable Mention at the Fourth Van Cliburn
international Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs in 2004. He also plays in the Center of
Awakening church band and regularly performs with 2004
Colorado Songwriter of the Year - Marcy Baruch.
He
currently teaches piano part time at the Colorado School of
Music in Monument, CO. He has a B.A. in Music from
Wake Forest University, a M.M in Piano Performance from the
University of Michigan, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Dale
is also a Mechanical Engineer at Honeywell in Colorado
Springs. He has held that position for 9 years.
He works on a Government contract (Satellite Control Network
Contract) where he helps maintain and enhance are large
antenna network with tracking stations throughout the world.
He is married to Laura, who is a professional equestrian.
They have two children, Madeline and Charlotte, who are nine and seven respectively.
They live in Larkspur, CO and take care of a large
equestrian center where Laura and the kids enjoy the outdoor
lifestyle of horses and Colorado.
Yuri Chayama
was born in Japan. She received her Bachelor's Degree at the
College of Music in Japan. She also received her Artist's
Diploma at the college of Music in Aachen, Germany. She has
worked as accompanist to vocal classes in the College of
Music in Aachen, Germany.
Her
participation and performances include: International
Mastercourse in Nice, France Piano Mastercourse in Kassel,
Germany, by Prof. Renate Fischer-Kretschmar Mastercourse in
Montepulciano, Italy, by Prof. Falko Steinbach International
Musicfestival in Weikersheim, Germany, by Prof. Falko
Steinbach International Mastercourse by Chopin Gesellschaft
in Darmstadt, Germany, by Prof. Renate Fischer-Kretschmar
Mastercourse in Heek,Germany, by Prof. Falko Steinbach Val
Tidone Summer Music Camp, Piano Mastercourse in Italy,
Received a Scholarship. Since
January 2005 she has been living in Albuquerque, studying
with Prof. Falko Steinbach at the University of New Mexico.
Jeong-Yoon
Choi, a native of South Korea, began her musical studies at
the age of six, and won her first competition at age ten.
While in America, she won the New England Conservatory's
Honors Competition, University of Maryland's Concerto
Competition, and Homer Ulrich Competition. Recently she
appeared at President Monroe's historic House sponsored by
Arts Club of Washington and at The National Theatre in
Washington D.C. She was also chosen as a recitalist for
Concerts at the Alden 2004-2005 season, supported by Arts
Council of Fairfax County, Virginia. She
has appeared in many solo and chamber music concerts in USA
including performances at Jordan Hall (as a winner of NEC
Honors Competition), Dekelboum Concert Hall (as a winner of
UMCP Concerto Competition), Monroe House, The National
Theatre, KM Art Center, Out Lady of Victory Church, Ulrich
Recital Hall, and Gildenhorn Recital Hall, as well as
performances in Korea, Canada, and Russia. She has also
participated in master classes with Russell Sherman, Andre
Watts, Martin Canin, Gabriel Chodos and Joseph Kalichstein.
Summer festivals have included International School for
Musical Arts in Canada, Contemporary Piano Institute of
Boston, Ecole Normal de Musique de Paris, Juilliard School,
St. Petersburg Conservatory and Sergei Babayan International
Piano Academy. Active as a performer of contemporary music,
several composers have dedicated works to her. She attended
the Busan High School of Arts and Busan National University.
She holds Master of Music from New England Conservatory and
Doctor of Musical Arts from University of Maryland. Her
teachers include In-Il Kim, Jacob Maxin, Randal Hodgkinson,
Paul Shenly and Larissa Dedova. At the University of
Maryland, she had been a staff pianist teaching piano class
for three years. She had served as an organist at College
Park United Methodist Church for four years from 2000 to
2004.
Faith
Lanctot, has had music at the center of her life since she
was a dancing and singing toddler. She lives in Grand
Junction, Colorado, is home-schooled, and has eight brothers
and sisters. She
has played several instruments; however, she is
concentrating on piano and violin at this time. She
has studied piano with Dr. Michael Baron for eight years.
Faith has won seven First Prize awards in the Grand Junction
Music Teachers Association Sonatina Competition, First
Place in the Junior Solo Division of the Four Corners Piano
Competition in Durango, First Place in the First Plymouth
Congregational Church Annual Competition in Denver, and two
First Place prizes in the Colorado State Music Teachers
Association Concerto Competition.She
has performed recitals and has been soloist with orchestras
in the United States and in Italy.
Juanita
Madland has been playing piano since age four. She won
alternate for the first solo competition of the IPI. She has
bachelor and master degrees in piano performance, the latter
with Evelyne Brancart whose teacher was a pupil of Liszt.
In
the last ten years Juanita has given multiple concerts in
Oslo and at the branch of the Salzburg Mozarteum in Italy,
at the Peter Paul Rubens Museum in Antwerp, and in Germany.
She won the New Mexico adult concerto competition, performed
with concertos and solos in Albuquerque, Los Alamos, and was
twice in Van Cliburn competitions, one where the New York
Times photographed her with an article in the paper.
Previously she directed and performed in a United Service
Organization (USO)Troupe in the Caribbean and won a Ted Mack
contest for the Midwest. She
teaches music at UNM-LA and gives regular concert-lectures
as the "Pedagogical Pianist." In
2002 Juanita Madland was NM Music Teacher of the Year and is
a permanent Nationally Certified Teacher of Music. She and
her husband have three musician children.
Emi
Nakajima, began her piano studies at the age of two. She
made her solo debut at the age of 11 with The Philadelphia
Orchestra and appeared with the orchestra again in 1994. Dr.
Nakajima has made numerous solo, recital and chamber music
appearances throughout the United States in such venues as
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, The Academy of Music
and Curtis Hall in Philadelphia, and with the Reading
Symphony Orchestra (PA), Haddonfield (NJ) Symphony and
Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Most
recently, she gave chamber recitals in Guatemala City and
Weill Hall, and made concerto appearances with the
Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, Rutgers University Orchestra,
and The Academy Chamber Society. She was a prizewinner in
the 1996 William Kapell International Piano Competition and
first-prize winner of The Pinault 5th Binnial Audio/Video
International Piano Competition (2000) and The Pennsylvania
Piano Competition (2001). In the spring of 2002, she won the
9th JAA Music Scholarship Awards Competition. During
the summer, Dr. Nakajima has traveled through Europe and
performed in such countries as Switzerland and Austria. She
has been a regular participant of the Sarasota Music
Festival since 1999, was a Peggy Rockefeller Memorial Fellow
at the Tanglewood Music Festival in the summer of 2000, and
was invited to the 2002 Fondazione Culturale Wilhelm Kempff
Beethoven Master Course in Positano, Italy. Dr. Nakajima
received her Bachelor of Music degree from The Curtis
Institute of Music, where she studied with Eleanor Sokoloff
and Claude Frank and held a Robert Ehrman Fellowship, and a
Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music, where
she continued with Claude Frank. At 26, she received a
Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the music department of
the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University
under the tutelage of Susan Starr. Her performances have
been broadcasted on WRTI (90.1 FM) Radio, Philadelphia and
WQXR (96.3) Radio, New York.
Kate
Whitney studied piano under Dalies Frantz, Lillian Steuber
and Gwendolyn Koldofsky. She
has toured throughout the United States as an accompanist
for Columbia Artist Community Concerts and appeared as a
soloist with the Houston Summer, USC, UCI and Orange Coast
Symphonies.
For
More Information: Larry Porter, M.M.,
Director
World International Piano Competition
Presented by the International Piano Institute of Santa Fe, Inc. 551 W. Cordova Rd. #133
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505