천재 피아니스트 양희원 밴 클라이번 콩쿨서 은메달
양희원양
이로써 양희원양은 밴 클라이번에서 메달을 획득한 최초의 한국인이며 12번째 개최되는 대회 역사상 최연소의 메달 획득자로 이름을 올리게 됐다.
이번 대회에서 은메달을 수상한 양희원양은 2만 달러의 상금과 함께 미국 순회 콘서트 기회, 음반 제작 지원 등을 받게 된다. 또 ‘최고의 뉴욕 연주상’으로 5천달러, ‘최고의 실내악 연주상’으로 6천 달러의 추가 상금도 받게 됐다.
한편, 이번대회의 결선에는 양희원양을 포함해 포함하여 중국인 2명, 이탈리아인 2명, 러시아인 1명이 최종 결선에 진출하게 됐다. 양희원 양은 4살 때 선물로 받은 피아노 연주에 몰두 한 뒤 국내 여러 피아노 콩쿨에서 우승하는 등 활약하다가 10세에 미국으로 건너가 1997년 줄리아드 예비학교, 2004년 줄리아드 음대에서 피아노를 배우고 있다.
올해로 12회째를 맞고 있는 밴 클라이번 국제 피아노 콩굴은 미국 텍사스 출신의 피아니스트 밴 클라이번의 업적을 기리기 위해 1962년부터 4년에 한 번씩 열리는 권위있는 대회로 이번 12회 대회에는 250여명이 참가 신청서를 제출해 140여명이 지역 예선을 거쳐 35명만이 최종 본선에 참가했다.
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KOREA JOYCE YANG, 19, THE COMPETITION YOUNGEST ENTRANT, IS AWARDED SILVER MEDAL, BEST CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCE, AND BEST PERFORMANCE OF A NEW WORK.
FORT WORTH, Texas, June 5, 2005 ?The winners of the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition were announced this evening. The announcement was made by Mr. Van Cliburn during the Awards Ceremony at the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall, in Fort Worth, Texas.
Silver Medalist:
Ms. Joyce Yang, 19 (S. Korea)
The Second Prize includes a cash award of $20,000; U.S. concert tours and career management for the three concert seasons following the Competition; and a compact disc recording on harmonia mundi usa. The Silver Medal is awarded by the William M. Fuller Foundation, Marcia and Bobby French.
Additional prizes awarded to the participants of the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition include:
Beverely Taylor Smith Award for the Best Performance of a New Work:
Ms. Joyce Yang, 19 (S. Korea)
Cash award of $5,000.
Steven De Groote Memorial Award for the Best Performance of Chamber Music (Cash award of $6,000):
Ms. Joyce Yang, 19 (S. Korea)
FINALIST BIOGRAPHIES
Joyce Yang, S. Korea, 19
The youngest of the Twelfth Cliburn Competition participants, Joyce Yang received her first piano as a birthday present from her aunt when she was four and immediately took to the instrument. After winning several national competitions in Korea, she moved to the United States to begin studies at Juilliard뭩 pre-college division. Her victory at the Philadelphia Orchestra뭩 Greenfield Competition for students led to her debut with that orchestra at the Academy of Music when she was thirteen. She has since performed with the Baltimore, Corpus Christi, Knoxville, and National Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Long Island and Reno Philharmonic Orchestras and the Ravinia Festival Orchestra. In recital, Ms. Yang has been presented by the La Jolla Music Society, the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, and Ravinia뭩 Rising Stars series, among others. An avid chamber musician, she is a regular guest artist of the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival.
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Jun 5, 2005
For Immediate Release
RUSSIA ALEXANDER KOBRIN TAKES THE GOLD MEDAL AT THE TWELFTH VAN CLIBURN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION
KOREA JOYCE YANG, 19, THE COMPETITION YOUNGEST ENTRANT, IS AWARDED SILVER MEDAL, BEST CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCE, AND BEST PERFORMANCE OF A NEW WORK
CHINA뭆 SA CHEN WINS CRYSTAL AWARD
FORT WORTH, Texas, June 5, 2005 ?The winners of the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition were announced this evening. The announcement was made by Mr. Van Cliburn during the Awards Ceremony at the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall, in Fort Worth, Texas.
The winners are:
Gold Medalist:
Mr. Alexander Kobrin, 25 (Russia)
The First Prize includes the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal; a cash award of $20,000; international and national concert tours and career management for the three concert seasons following the Competition; a compact disc recording on harmonia mundi usa; performance attire provided by Neiman Marcus; and contribution towards domestic and international air travel on American Airlines.
Silver Medalist:
Ms. Joyce Yang, 19 (S. Korea)
The Second Prize includes a cash award of $20,000; U.S. concert tours and career management for the three concert seasons following the Competition; and a compact disc recording on harmonia mundi usa. The Silver Medal is awarded by the William M. Fuller Foundation, Marcia and Bobby French.
Crystal Award
Ms. Sa Chen, 25 (China) The Third Prize includes a cash award of $20,000; U.S. concert tours and career management for the three concert seasons following the Competition; and a compact disc recording on harmonia mundi usa. The Crystal Award is awarded by Mary D. Walsh.
Finalists (in alpha order):
Mr. Davide Cabassi, 28 (Italy)
Ms. Chu-Fang Huang, 22 (China)
Mr. Roberto Plano, 26 (Italy)
Finalists receive a cash award of $10,000 each, and U.S. concert tours and career management for the three concert seasons following the Competition.
Additional prizes awarded to the participants of the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition include:
Beverely Taylor Smith Award for the Best Performance of a New Work:
Ms. Joyce Yang, 19 (S. Korea)
Cash award of $5,000.
Jury Discretionary Award (Each receives a $4,000 cash award):
Raymond E. Buck Jury Discretionary Award
Ms. Maria Mazo, 22 (Germany/Russia)
Additional awards funded by Bell Helicopter a Textron Company and the Neal Steffen Memorial Foundation
Ms. Jie Chen, 19 (China)
Mr. Sodi Braide, 29 (Nigeria/UK)
Ms. Gabriela Martinez, 21 (Venezuela)
Steven De Groote Memorial Award for the Best Performance of Chamber Music (Cash award of $6,000):
Ms. Joyce Yang, 19 (S. Korea)
Internet Audience Prize:
Also for the first time, during the final phase of the Competition, internet users were able to cast a vote for their favorite pianist. The internet audience prize, presented by Apple, is a 60GB iPod Photo, engraved with his/her name and loaded with digital photos of his/her winning performances at the Competition. Apple will also offer a 20GB engraved iPod to the other 5 finalists. Nearly 3000 votes were cast from around the world. The winner of the internet audience prize is: Mr. Alexander Kobrin, 25 (Russia)
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Documentary:
A documentary of the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, directed by French filmmaker Andy Sommer, will premiere on PBS stations across the country on Monday, October 3, 2005. KERA-Dallas/Fort Worth will present the 90-minute film, 밒n the Heart of Music,?through PBS before the documentary is distributed worldwide.
First Professional Appearances by the Medalists:
The medalists will make their first official appearances performing their winning concertos at Concerts in the Garden, Friday, June 10, 2005 with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in Fort Worth under music director Miguel Harth-Bedoya.
Next Steps for the Medalists:
The Cliburn Competition, functions as the ultimate audition, showcasing the world뭩 most promising young pianists over two and a half weeks of thrilling music-making. The emerging six finalists are provided with a unique opportunity to share hundreds of concert engagements throughout the United States and Europe. During these 17 days in Fort Worth, the young contestants played various works in three phases of Competition뾱olo works, chamber music, and concertos.
Coordinated by the Van Cliburn Foundation on a commission-free basis, the contracted tour dates during the three years following the Competition have a combined value estimated at more than $1,000,000. Winners will be managed by the Van Cliburn Foundation in the United States and by IMG Artists in Europe.
The Road to the Cliburn Competition:
The process of entering the competition began in October 2004, when 270 pianists from all over the world applied. From that group, 147 pianists from thirty-four countries were invited to audition. Auditions were held in Utrecht, Netherlands; St. Petersburg, Russia; Lugano, Switzerland; New York City, and Fort Worth. The five-person screening jury consisted of John Giordano, Marcello Abbado, Thomas Frost, Yoheved Kaplinsky (chair of the Piano Department of the Juilliard School of Music), and J?gen Meyer-Josten.
On March 1, the thirty-five winning pianists were announced뾫ineteen women and sixteen men. For the first time in the history of the Competition more women than men were selected. The pianists range in age from nineteen to thirty, and represent thirteen countries: Australia (1), Canada (1), China (8), Germany (1), Israel (1), Italy (4), Lithuania (1), Russia (6), South Korea (2), United Kingdom (1), Ukraine (3), United States (5), and Venezuela (1).
Following entry to the Competition, the medalists had to play three rounds of Competition: The first round included a 50-minute recital. The second round required a 60-minute recital and a chamber music performance with the Takacs Quartet. In the final round the competitors performed another 50-minute recital as well as two concertos, accompanied by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Conlon.
Competition Jurors:
This year뭩 Competition jury consisted of eleven members: Maestro JOHN GIORDANO: chairman, conductor and Music Director, Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra; Mr. MARCELLO ABBADO: pianist, composer, and administrator; Mr. PETER COSS? producer, lecturer, administrator; Mr. RICHARD DYER: writer and music critic for the Boston Globe; Mr. CLAUDE FRANK: pianist and teacher; Mr. THOMAS FROST: recording producer; Ms. ZHOU GUANGREN: pianist and magazine editor; Mr. JOSEPH KALICHSTEIN: pianist, teacher, administrator; Mr. J?GEN MEYER-JOSTEN: administrator and pianist; Mr. MENAHEM PRESSLER: pianist and teacher; Mr. TADEUSZ STRUGALA: conductor.
Live Internet Broadcast and On-line Voting:
For the first time in its history, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition offered streaming audio and video of the competition in real time through its website, www.cliburn.org. The website offered unlimited access to internet users all over the world who watched and listen to performances, and view text on the repertoire and performers. By the end of the competition, more than 10,000 people had registered to view the streaming from countries as diverse as Zambia, Thailand, Christmas Island, China, Peru, Turkey, and many other countries in Europe, Asia and South America. The on-line audience voted during the finals to determine the Internet Audience Prize.
Cliburn Competition Blog:
Two bloggers were invited to cover the competition and to report on their experiences from the audience뭩 point of view. By the end of the competition, more than 70,000 entries were recorded from the on-line audience reading the blog. Mike Winter covered the preliminaries from May 20 to May 24, and Carl Tait, a past Cliburn Amateur Competition participant, covered the semifinals and finals from May 25 to June 5. The blog was available through the website and readers were invited to write to the bloggers with comments. The blog will remain archived and available for viewing following the competition. For additional information, please visit www.cliburn.org.
Press Information:
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FINALIST BIOGRAPHIES
Davide Cabassi, Italy, 28
Davide Cabassi made his orchestral debut at the age of thirteen with the RAI Symphony Orchestra in Milan. He has also collaborated with the Munich Philharmonic, the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, and the Russian Chamber Philharmonic, as well as with several Italian orchestras. In recital, he has been engaged by most of the prominent musical associations of his native country, including Serate Musicali in Milan and Festival Pianistico in Brescia and Bergamo. Abroad, Mr. Cabassi has played concerts in Austria, China, France, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Scandinavia, and Switzerland. After graduating from Milan뭩 Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, he spent five years as one of the few select students at the International Piano Foundation in Cadenabbia, Italy, where he studied with Karl Schnabel, Dmitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, Rosalyn Tureck, and William Grant Nabor? among others. In December 2004, Mr. Cabassi recorded a solo disc for BMG records called Dancing with the Orchestra, and featuring works by Bart?, De Falla, Ravel, and Stravinsky. He is on the faculty of the Istituto Musicale 밎. Puccini?in Gallarate, Italy.
Sa Chen, China, 25
Born into a musical family in Henan, China, Sa Chen shares with Lang Lang and Yundi Li the distinction of being named one of the top three Chinese virtuoso pianists today by the legendary artist and teacher Fou Ts'Ong: "I will be happy if they do better than me." She has collaborated with the Berne, City of Birmingham, Shanghai, and Latvian Symphony Orchestras, as well as the China, Israel, Strasbourg, and Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestras. A frequent guest artist in China and Japan, she has also appeared in recital and festival engagements in Basel, Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Milan, Minneapolis, Sydney, and Vancouver. She was invited to perform with Gidon Kremer and Nicolaj Znaider at the Kronberg and Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festivals, and was soloist with the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra at the re-opening concert of the legendary Shanghai Concert Hall this season. Sa Chen's debut disc Chopin Impression was released in 2003 under the JVC label.
Chu-Fang Huang, China, 22
At the age of twelve, Chu-Fang Huang was accepted on full scholarship as the youngest student in the Shenyang Music Conservatory뭩 pre-college division. Two months after moving to the United States in 1998 at the age of fifteen, she made her U.S. recital debut on the Prodigy Series of the La Jolla Music Society. A top prizewinner at several recent national and international competitions, she has performed throughout China, Europe, and the United States, including recitals at Germany뭩 Klavier Festival Ruhr, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Kravis Arts Center in West Palm Beach, and Carnegie Hall뭩 Weill Recital Hall. Ms. Huang has also collaborated with the Charleston, Fort Collins, Fort Worth, Pacific, and Sydney Symphony Orchestras, as well as with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Illinois and Shenzheng Philharmonic Orchestras. She is a passionate reader who enjoys novels, comic books, CD inserts, and the dictionary.
Alexander Kobrin, Russia, 25
First-prize winner of the 1999 Busoni Competition and second-prize winner of the 2003 Hamamatsu Competition (with no first prize awarded), Alexander Kobrin has toured extensively throughout Europe, South America, and Asia. He has performed with the Moscow Virtuosi, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Virtuosi of Salzburg Chamber Orchestra, and the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra. Recent engagements include collaborations with the Rio Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber, the Osaka, and Tokyo Symphony Orchestras, in addition to a recital at the 2004 Chopin Festival in Duszniki. This spring, Mr. Kobrin toured Italy and Japan while completing his graduate studies at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the direction of Lev Naumov.
Roberto Plano, Italy, 26
Winner of the 2001 Cleveland International Piano Competition, Roberto Plano has performed engagements throughout the United States, including his New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hall. He has also performed at the Sala Verdi in Milan, the Herkulessaal and Gasteig in Munich, and the Salle Cortot in Paris. Among orchestras with which he has collaborated are the Sendai Philharmonic (Japan), the Rheinland-Pfalz Staatsphilharmonie (Germany), the Valencia Symphony (Spain), and the Akron and Spokane Symphony Orhestras in the United States. Recent festival appearances include the Chopin in Duznicki, Poland; Stresa Festival, Italy; and the Williamstown International Piano Festival. Mr. Plano has recorded two discs, the most recent devoted to solo works by Franz Liszt for the Azica Label. He has been the guest artist on a number of noted radio stations, which include NPR, as a guest on Performance Today; WNYC New York; WGBH Boston; and RadioRai 3 in Italy. Also an organist at his hometown church (Varese), he has composed several hymns for the choir.
Joyce Yang, S. Korea, 19
The youngest of the Twelfth Cliburn Competition participants, Joyce Yang received her first piano as a birthday present from her aunt when she was four and immediately took to the instrument. After winning several national competitions in Korea, she moved to the United States to begin studies at Juilliard뭩 pre-college division. Her victory at the Philadelphia Orchestra뭩 Greenfield Competition for students led to her debut with that orchestra at the Academy of Music when she was thirteen. She has since performed with the Baltimore, Corpus Christi, Knoxville, and National Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Long Island and Reno Philharmonic Orchestras and the Ravinia Festival Orchestra. In recital, Ms. Yang has been presented by the La Jolla Music Society, the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, and Ravinia뭩 Rising Stars series, among others. An avid chamber musician, she is a regular guest artist of the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival.
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