PAST COMPETITIONS:
2011-2012 FIRST PLACE AWARD:
($5,000)
Alexey Sychev
Alexey was born October 9, 1988 in Lipetsk,
Russia. He began to study music at age 7, and played the first concerto of L.Beethoven with orchestra at age 10.
He is a laureate of numerous International and National competitions, including 2nd prize and critics prize of San Marino International piano competition 2010, 1st prize of the 4th Franz Liszt International piano competition 2009, under the chairmanship of Martha Argerich; 2nd prize of International piano competition "Les Virtuoses du Futur" 2009, Switzerland; 2nd prize of International piano competition “The Muse” 2008, Greece. He is Grand-prix, First prize of the International Radio Competition “Concertino Prague” 2007; 1st prize, audience prize and press prize of International Piano Competition 2006, Enschede, Netherlands; 1st prize and Gold Medal of the Fourth National Delphic Games-2005, Russia.
Alexey's performances have been broadcast in Russia, the Netherlands, and Italy; he also recorded a CD with Czech Radio. He performed in the Great hall of Moscow Conservatory, Rudolphinum Hall in Prague, Salle Cortot in Paris and Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Alexey gave solo recitals in Russia, Israel, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Japan, USA and Germany. He played with different symphonic orchestras in Russia and Europe, including Gulbenkian symphony (Lisbon), Lithuanian National symphony (Vilnius), Czech Radio symphony (Prague), and concert tour with the East Netherlands symphony orchestra.
Alexey graduated from Moscow Chopin College; currently he is a student of Moscow P.I.Tchaikovsky Conservatory, studying with professors Alexey Nasedkin and Pavel
Nersessian..
1. J.S. Bach Prelude and Fugue in F major from WTC II
2. F. Liszt Sonata in B minor
3. P.Tchaikovsky/Pletnev Three movements from
"Sleeping Beauty": Dance of Pages, Vision, Adagio
2011-2012 2nd PLACE AWARD:
($1,000)
Angelo Arciglione
One of the brightest musicians of the new generation, Italian pianist Angelo Arciglione has been praised by international audiences and critics for his sensitive interpretation, his poetic passion and fascinating touch. He has performed, as a soloist and with orchestras, in major venues and renowned festivals in his country and abroad.
Mr. Arciglione has won major prizes at numerous international piano competitions, including the 2005 “Pozzoli” Competition in
Seregno, the 2006 “Arcangelo Speranza” Competition in Taranto, the 2008 “José
Iturbi” Competition in Valencia, the 2010 “Scriabin” Competition in
Grosseto, the 2010 “Napolitano” Prize in Vietri sul Mare, the 2011 “UmbriaMusicFest” Competition in
Todi.
Angelo Arciglione has featured in many television and radio broadcasts in Italy, Spain, USA, Brazil and Japan.
Born in Acri (Cosenza), Angelo Arciglione is a graduate of the Music Conservatory of
Cosenza, where he studied with Angelo Guido. He obtained the Master of Music degree with
honors from the Music Conservatory of Siena under Hector Moreno. He teaches piano at the Academy of Music in Florence.
Beethoven: Sonata Op. 111
Chopin: Scherzo n. 3 Op. 39
Debussy: La Puerta del Vino - Ondine - Feux d'artifice
Scarlatti: Sonata K.125
2011-2012 3rd PLACE AWARD:
($500)
Yangmingtian Zhao
18-year-old prodigy Zhao Yang Ming Tian was born in Hainan, China, and started learning the piano at the age of four. At 13, he entered the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music, where he studied with renowned pianists Chen Bigang and Ling Yuan. A recipient of the Lee Foundation Talent Scholarship, Ming Tian has since completed two years of study in Piano Performance at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore under Mr. Benjamin Loh.
Since taking part in the Hong Kong Mozart Competition in 2003, where he was the Second Prizewinner, this teen sensation has won multiple awards in international competitions. He received Gold awards at the China Central Television’s Youth Piano Competition in 2004, as well as the "Kadenza" Youth Competition in China in 2007, where he also claimed the First prize. In 2010, at the inaugural International Chopin Piano Competition (Singapore), Ming Tian charmed a local audience and an international jury to sweep both the Audience Prize as well as the Second Prize. A local reviewer praised the ‘vast palette of sound and emotions’ displayed in his ‘awe-inspiring’ performance.
In Singapore, he has given numerous performances, at the Lee Foundation Theatre in NAFA and elsewhere, both as a soloist and a chamber musician. In 2011, he successfully presented a piano recital at Esplanade Recital Hall. The local critic Chang Tou Liang praised "Ever wondered what celebrity pianists Lang Lang and Li Yundi were like before they became really famous?"
Mingtian also is a active piano educator although he is only 18 years old, conducting masterclass in 2011 at the University of Hainan. In 2011, Mingtian is the full-scholarship student at University of Kansas and studying piano with Steinway Artist, Dr. Steven Spooner.
01 E.Wild-G.Gershwin: Virtuoso Etude No.4 Fascinating Rhythm
02 W.Mozart: Sonata in F major K.332 1st movement
03 W.Mozart: Sonata in F major K.332 2nd movement
04 W.Mozart: Sonata in F major K.332 3rd movement
05 F.Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
06 B.Bartok: Three Folk Songs From The Csik District
07 F.Chopin: Nocturne in D flat major Op.27 No.2
08 F.Chopin: Scherzo in B minor, No.1 Op.20
Eun-Shik Park was born in Seoul, Korea in 1977. He graduated from the
Seoul National University where he received a BM and also studied at
the Korean University of Art. He is now training his musicianship
with pursuing his Artist Diploma at the Indiana University in which
he already finished the Doctorate and Masters degree. He currently
studies with world-renowned pianist Menahem Pressler.
He won prizes at several competitions, which include Concert
Artist Guild Competition, Indiana Travel Grant competition, Seoul
Music Competition for Young Artist, Chopin Competition by the
Korea Chopin Association, Joong-Ang Music Competition and more.
Eun-Shik Park appeared at many concerts as a soloist and a
collaborative pianist in Seoul, New York, Chicago, Paris, and
London. He also performed with the KBS symphony orchestra the
Seoul National University Orchestra.
Listen
to Eun-Shik Park's Winning Submission:
Click here to download J. Haydn Sonata No.38 in F
Major, Hob.XI:23 F. Liszt Etude de Concert No.2
"La leggierezza" S. Prokofiev
Sonata No.6 in A Major, Op.82
World
International Piano Competition Presents:
2010 SECOND PLACE:
($1,500)
Frank Huang
A native of Seattle, WA, pianist Frank Huang has performed many
concerts in the United States and abroad to critical acclaim. He
recently made his New York debut in Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, as
a winner of Artists International. New York Concert Review raved
that Mr. Huang was a “thoughtful and accomplished performer”
and that his playing was “impressive for its maturity and
refinement.”
Mr. Huang has performed in notable venues such as Benaroya Hall,
Seattle, US Embassy in Warsaw, Zelazowa Wola Park (Chopin’s
birthplace), Gijon International Piano Festival (Spain), Theatro
Municipal (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Kennedy Center, Washington DC,
and Lincoln Center in New York, along with radio broadcasts in
Seattle, Vermont, and New York. Recently, he was the winner of the 2008 5
Towns Piano Competition, adding to his list of competition
successes including first prize at The International Young Artists
Concerto Competition.
An avid chamber musician, he is not only a founding member of The
Fairmount Trio, but has also collaborated with members of the
Cleveland Orchestra in concerts. Mr. Huang has worked with
distinguished musicians such as Lee Kum-Sing, Nelita True, Byron
Janis, Jon Kimura Parker, Robert McDonald, Richard Goode, Murray
Perahia, and Dominique Weber. He studied extensively with Willard
Schultz before obtaining Bachelor of Music and Master of Music
degrees from The Juilliard School, where he continued his studies
with Julian Martin.
Mr. Huang is currently a doctoral student at the Cleveland
Institute of Music studying under the direction of Antonio
Pompa-Baldi. Mr. Huang currently serves as a piano faculty member at the Arts Prep program at
Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio.
Listen
to Frank Huang's Performance
- Click
here to download Brahms Sonata in C major,
Op.1, II. Andante Haydn Sonata in E flat major,
Hob XVI:52, I. Allegro Haydn Sonata in E flat major,
Hob XVI:52, II. Adagio Haydn Sonata in E flat major,
Hob XVI:52, III. Presto J.S. Bach, Prelude and Fugue
in F major from WTC II Stravinsky, Trois mouvements
de Petrouchka, II. Chez Petrouchka Stravinsky, Trois mouvements
de Petrouchka, III. La semaine grasse
World
International Piano Competition Presents:
2010 THIRD
PLACE: ($500)
Tzu-Feng Liu
Pianist Tzu-Feng Liu works as a solo pianist and collaborative
artist, and has performed in many different settings, including
vocal, chamber, orchestral and solo concerts in both Taiwan and
the U.S. She received her Doctoral of Musical Arts degree from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008.
Tzu-Feng’s past awards include first prize at the 1997 Taipei
Senior division piano competition, second place at the 1998 Taiwan
Senior division piano competition and finalist in the Taiwan
Symphony Young Artist debut, as well as the YAMAHA young artist
debut in 1999.
In 2003, she was the winner of the concerto competition at the
University of Illinois. Her 2010 concert highlights include solo
performances at Keller Hall, (Albuquerque, NM), Weill Recital Hall
at Carnegie Hall (New York, NY) and the Embassy of the Republic of
Poland (Washington, DC). Besides her solo engagements, Dr. Liu is
also devoted to new music performance.
She was the co- winner of the UIUC “21st Century Piano
Commission” award in 2007. Ms. Liu has been invited to perform
in several festivals including the Electronic Music Midwest
Festival (EMM, Kansas City), CHASM Festival (Tallahassee, FL),
Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States (Salt Lake
City, UT) along with John Donald Robb Composer’s Symposium
Concerts in 2008 and 2010. She currently resides in Albuquerque,NM.
Listen to Tzu-Feng Liu's
Performance- Click
here to download F. Chopin Nocturne, op.48-1 F. Rzewski Winnsboro cotton
mill blues F. LisztPiano
Sonata in B minor
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World International Piano Competition 2008 Winners
First Place
$10,000- Dr. Christopher
Atzinger International
Piano Competition winnerChristopher Atzinger, a native of
Jackson, Michigan, has performed in Austria, Italy, France, Spain and Canada in
addition to concerts in
New York at Carnegie Hall (Weill), New York University, St. Pauls Chapel,
Liederkranz Hall; in Chicago at the Dame Myra Hess Series; and in Washington,
D.C. at the Phillips Collection. He has
performed at the Banff International Keyboard Festival, Brevard Music Festival,
and the Chautauqua Institution, in addition to giving lectures and masterclasses
across the
county. Atzinger earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano
performance from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. Prior to his
faculty appointment at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, he taught at
Dickinson College
(PA).
Second Place
$2,000 - Esther Park International
Piano Competition second-place winner Esther Park has
performed as a soloist with orchestras and in recitals across the United States
as well as in Korea, China, Canada, France, Russia, Ireland, Spain, Poland,
Italy and Israel.
Ms. Park is the winner of the 2004 Gina Bachauer Piano Competition at the
Juilliard School, the
52nd Kosciusko International Piano Competition, New Jersey Young Artists
Audition, the Van Cliburn-TCU Institute Young Artist Competition, Corpus Christi
International Piano Competition, and several other international piano competitions.
She is the recipient of the President Clinton
Prodigy
Award.
Born in Pusan, Korea in 1984, Ms. Park began to play in public soon after her
first piano lessons at the age of four. Ms. Park moved to the United States in
1995, and has since received her Bachelors degree and Masters degree from the
Juilliard School, studying with Yoheved Kaplinsky.
Third Place $1,000
- Mauricio
Arias International
Piano Competition third-place winner Mauricio
Arias was born in Bogota, Colombia in
1984. He began his piano studies at age 13 with polish professor Ludmila Weber.
In 2005 he received his Bachelors Degree Summa Cum Laude from Fundacin
Universitaria Juan N. Corpas in Bogota with a minor in composition.
From
2003-2004
he participated in Piano Summer at New Paltz, NY. He has been featured as a soloist with the Tolima
Symphony Orchestra (2002), Corpas Symphony Orchestra (2003), Filarmnica del
Valle (2004), National Conservatory Symphony Orchestra (2005), National Symphony
Orchestra of Colombia (2005), National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba
(2005).
His piece The Snake was premiered by the Corpas University
Symphony Orchestra in 2003.
Fourth
Place $500
- Dr. Noel Engebretson
International Piano Competition fourth-place winner Noel Engebretson has established a significant
career as a pianist and educator.
A Professor of Music at The University of Alabama, he originally is from
Minneapolis, Minnesota. His debut occurred there when he was sixteen, and since then he has won
numerous awards and honors, including a bronze medal at the 1989 McMahon
International Piano Competition, as well as one of the most important awards in
the 1988 Young Keyboard Artists Association International Piano Competition and
the 2007 Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition.
In the
summer of 1996 he embarked on a concert tour of The Peoples Republic of China,
where he was featured artist in a series of recitals, lectures, and master
classes. He has studied with some of the worlds leading
musicians; among them, John Perry, Frank Mannheimer, and Paul Freed. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from
the University of Minnesota.
Fifth Place (Tie) - $250
- Michael
Schneider
Critics have hailed
International Piano Competition fifth-place winner Michael Schneider as "a
pianist with exceptional insight" and a "performer with great panache" in
performances across the states and overseas to Poland and France. Recently, Michael
won six
awards at the Los Angeles International Liszt Piano Competition
Mr. Schneider has performed in such
venues as the legendary chateau of George Sand in Nohant, France, performing an
all-Chopin recital as a guest artist in the International Chopin Festival, and
Carnegies Weill Recital Hall as a prizewinner of the Frinna Awerbuch
International Piano Competition.
The fall of 2004
marked the inauguration of the San Angelo Piano Festival (SAPF), a new festival
in West Texas created and directed by Michael Schneider One of the
missions of the festival is to help bridge the gap between classical music and
youth by offering outreach programs to schools in the community. .
Fifth Place (Tie) -$250
- Rena
Rzayeva
International Piano Competition fifth-place winner Rena Rzayeva graduated from Azerbaijan
State Conservatory and she is a soloist of the Azerbaijan
State Philharmony, Baku. Recitals and orchestral performances include Azerbaijan,
Russia, USA, Austria, Germany, UK, Switzerland, Netherlands, Egypt, Spain,
and Turkey.
Rena Rzayeva performed together with such
honored and well-known
conductors as Niyazi, Rauf Abdullayev (both - Azerbaijan), Kreshimir Shipush
(Norway), David Bukhin (Russia), violinist
Hans-Heinz Schneeberger (Switzerland), and pianist Daniel Grimwood (Great
Britain). Rena has recorded four solo CDs over the last decade.
Rena Rzayeva was the first in Azerbaijan to set up solo
programs, tied to the principle of creative continuity and a spiritual
relationship: She continues her desire to create more programs united by interesting
and extraordinary
conceptions.
Dr. Michael Baron, Chair of Adjudication
Dedicated to Dr. William Seymour
and Professor
William Gant
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