[NEohioPAL] Pianists from Ohio to Participate in the Oberlin International Piano Competition and Festival July 24 – July 31
Marci Janas
Marci.Janas at oberlin.edu
Fri Jul 22 07:25:54 PDT 2005
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MEDIA CONTACT: Marci Janas
July 22, 2005 =
440-775-8328//marci.janas at oberlin.edu
Pianists from Ohio to Participate in the Oberlin International Piano=20
Competition and Festival July 24 =96 July 31
<Editors please note: A schedule of free, public concerts and=20
biographies of the guest judges are included.>
OBERLIN, OHIO =97 Young Ohio pianists from Amherst, Cincinnati,=20
Cleveland, Elyria, New Albany, Solon, and Pepper Pike are among the=20
more than 30 young musicians from cities throughout the United States,=20=
Canada, China, and Korea participating in the 11th annual Oberlin=20
International Piano Competition and Festival, sponsored by the Oberlin=20=
Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College. The weeklong event will take=20=
place Sunday, July 24, through Sunday, July 31, 2005, with the finals=20
round =97 where up to six cash prizes are awarded =97 being held in =
Warner=20
Concert Hall Saturday, July 30, at 8 p.m.
Free and open to the public, the finals round will be broadcast live on=20=
104.9 FM WCLV, Cleveland=92s classical music radio station. Robert=20
Conrad, co-founder and president of WCLV, will serve as the master of=20
ceremonies; Jacqueline Gerber, the host of WCLV=92S morning show First=20=
Program, will be the on-air host. Audience members will be invited to=20
vote for their favorite performer.
The participants from Ohio are Corey Knick, 16, of Amherst; Katie=20
Florez, 13, of Cincinnati; Katherine Bi, 17, of Cleveland; Sean=20
Wilkins, 17, of Elyria; Michelle Zhuravlev, 17, of New Albany, Jeremy=20
Paul, 13, of Solon, and two sisters from Pepper Pike, Katrina and Emma=20=
Bobbs, ages 16 and 13.
The competition is for pianists between the ages of 13 and 18; those=20
accepted were chosen following a preliminary taped audition round. Of=20
the pianists who traveled to Oberlin to compete, 12 to 16 will be=20
selected from a first performance round and will advance to the third=20
round of competition. Up to six pianists remaining after the third=20
round will perform in the competition finals.
Oberlin Professor of Piano Robert Shannon has directed the competition=20=
and festival since its inception. Interviewed last year by the Morning=20=
Journal (Lorain, Ohio), he defined the purpose of the event: =93We want=20=
to stimulate interest in young pianists and give them something to=20
shoot for. We combine [the competition] with an educational program. We=20=
try to give them a taste of what studying music at a high level in=20
college is like.=94
The festival faculty =97 composed of renowned professors from the =
Oberlin=20
Conservatory of Music and distinguished guest artists =97 will offer=20
private lessons, master classes, recitals, and lectures throughout the=20=
week that will provide the festival participants with intensive and=20
in-depth opportunities to expand their knowledge of music history,=20
theory, and pedagogy, as well as the vital connection of those three=20
elements to on-stage performance.
Guest judges for the final round of the competition and guest faculty=20
for the festival are Professor Matti Raekallio of the Sibelius Academy=20=
in Helsinki, Finland and Assistant Professor of Music Mykola Suk from=20
the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.
They will be joined in their final deliberations by Associate Professor=20=
of Piano Alvin Chow and Professor of Piano Sanford Margolis of=20
Oberlin=92s faculty, and they will award cash prizes ranging from $4,000=20=
to $100. In addition, audience members attending the finals concert=20
will cast their vote for the =93Audience Favorite,=94 which carries a =
cash=20
prize of $100.
More information about the competition and festival is available by=20
calling Assistant to the Dean of the Conservatory Anna Hoffmann at=20
440-775-8044 or by visiting www.oberlin.edu/con/summer/piano.
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, founded in 1865 and situated within=20=
the intellectual vitality of Oberlin College since 1867, is the oldest=20=
continuously operating conservatory in the United States. Renowned=20
internationally as a professional music school of the highest caliber=20
and pronounced a =93national treasure=94 by the Washington Post, =
Oberlin=92s=20
alumni have gone on to achieve illustrious careers in all aspects of=20
the serious music world. Its students and alumni have won top prizes in=20=
numerous international piano competitions, including the Van Cliburn,=20
the Fryderyk Chopin, the Queen Elisabeth, the Arthur Rubinstein, the=20
Walter W. Naumberg, the Unisa International Piano Competition (South=20
Africa), the American Pianists Association Classical Fellowship=20
competition, the World Piano Competition, the Kosciuszko Foundation=20
Chopin Piano Competition, and the Busoni Competition. The=20
Conservatory=92s collection of 1,700 period and modern musical=20
instruments includes 199 Steinway grand pianos. Oberlin, an=20
All-Steinway School, is Steinway & Sons oldest continuous client, with=20=
a relationship dating back more than 125 years.
=0CConcert Schedule
Programs and artists are subject to change.
These concerts are free and open to the public.
Faculty Recital
Peter Tak=E1cs
Sunday, July 24
8 p.m. Warner Concert Hall
Program:
Works by Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, and Ravel
Faculty Recital
Robert Shannon and Haewon Song
Monday, July 25
8 p.m. Kulas Recital Hall
Program:
Works by Czerny and Rzewski
Faculty Recital
David Breitman
Tuesday, July 26
8 p.m. Kulas Recital Hall
Program:
Works by CPE Bach, Beethoven, and Haydn performed on two copies of=20
Viennese pianos, a five-octave Anton Walter from 1790 that was made in=20=
Connecticut by Philip Belt in 1975, and a six and one-half octave=20
Congrad Graf from 1819 that was made in 2004 by Paul McNulty in=20
Divisov, Czech Republic.
Guest Recital
Matti Raekallio
Wednesday, July 27
8 p.m. Warner Concert Hall
Program:
The complete 27 =C9tudes of Fr=E9d=E9ric Chopin
Guest Recital
Mykola Suk
Thursday, July 28
8 p.m. Warner Concert Hall
Program:
Works by Haydn, Prokofiev, Dvorak, and Ravel
Semifinalists=92 Concert
Friday, July 29
8 p.m. Warner Concert Hall
Competition Finals Concert
Saturday, July 30
8 p.m. Warner Concert Hall
This concert will be broadcast live on WCLV 104.9 FM
and on wclv.com.
=0COberlin Piano Competition and Festival
Guest Faculty Biographies
Matti Raekallio
Matti Raekallio is a tenured professor at the Sibelius Academy in=20
Helsinki, Finland. Raekallio=92s class includes several top prize=20
winners, among them the First Prize laureates in Leeds, ASA Dublin,=20
London, Vienna (Beethoven), New York (Artists International), and=20
Budapest (Liszt-Bart=F3k). He has been a juror in several international=20=
competitions, including Shanghai, Vienna (Beethoven), Tokyo (PTNA), the=20=
Selection Committee of the =93Gilmore Artist=94 as well as the American=20=
Pianists=92 Association Awards in the United States, and the Artur=20
Rubinstein in Memoriam International Competition in Poland. His=20
concerts and recordings, notably the three-CD set of the complete=20
Prokofiev Piano Sonatas, for the Finnish Ondine label, have been widely=20=
praised. He has performed the complete Transcendental, Paganini, and=20
Concert etudes by Liszt in a two-recital set. A central part of=20
Raekallio=92s solo repertoire is the cycle of the complete 32 Beethoven=20=
sonatas, which he has presented eight times altogether. In addition to=20=
his extensive solo repertoire, Raekallio has given performances of 62=20
piano concertos. These include all of Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff,=20=
and Prokofiev, as well as rarities like the concerti by Busoni,=20
Szymanowski, and Lutoslawski.
Mykola Suk
Mykola Suk is assistant professor of music at the University of Nevada,=20=
Las Vegas, and has performed in solo recitals as well as soloist with=20
major orchestras under leading conductors (most recently with the=20
Russian National Symphony under Mikhail Pletnev), and at chamber music=20=
festivals throughout the former USSR, North America, Europe, the Middle=20=
East, Australia, and Asia. Suk has recorded for the Melodya, Russian=20
Disc, Hungaraton, Melda and Troppe Note/Cambria labels. He studied at=20
the Kiev Special Music School and at the Moscow Conservatory with Lev=20
Vlasenko. In 1971 he was awarded the first prize and gold medal at the=20=
International Liszt-Bartok Competition in Budapest. Suk has formerly=20
been on the faculties of the Kiev and Moscow Conservatories, the New=20
England Conservatory of Music, and Columbia University.
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Marci Janas
Director of Conservatory Media Relations
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
39 West College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
www.oberlin.edu/con
(P) 440-775-8328
(F) 440-775-5457
marci.janas at oberlin.edu=
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</underline><center><bold><bigger><bigger><bigger>Pianists from Ohio
to Participate in the Oberlin International Piano Competition and
Festival July 24 =96 July 31</bigger></bigger>
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schedule of free, public concerts and biographies of the guest judges
are included.>
</smaller></bold></center>OBERLIN, OHIO =97 Young Ohio pianists from
Amherst, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Elyria, New Albany, Solon, and Pepper
Pike are among the more than 30 young musicians from cities throughout
the United States, Canada, China, and Korea participating in the 11th
annual Oberlin International Piano Competition and Festival, sponsored
by the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College. The weeklong
event will take place Sunday, July 24, through Sunday, July 31,<bold>
</bold>2005, with the finals round =97 where up to six cash prizes are
awarded =97 being held in Warner Concert Hall Saturday, July 30, at 8
p.m.=20
Free and open to the public, the finals round will be broadcast live
on 104.9 FM WCLV, Cleveland=92s classical music radio station. Robert
Conrad,<bold> </bold>co-founder and president of WCLV, will serve as
the master of ceremonies; Jacqueline Gerber, the host of WCLV=92S
morning show <italic>First Program</italic>, will be the on-air host.
Audience members will be invited to vote for their favorite performer.=20=
The participants from Ohio are Corey Knick, 16, of Amherst; Katie
Florez, 13, of Cincinnati; Katherine Bi, 17, of Cleveland; Sean
Wilkins, 17, of Elyria; Michelle Zhuravlev, 17, of New Albany, Jeremy
Paul, 13, of Solon, and two sisters from Pepper Pike, Katrina and Emma
Bobbs, ages 16 and 13.=20
The competition is for pianists between the ages of 13 and 18; those
accepted were chosen following a preliminary taped audition round. Of
the pianists who traveled to Oberlin to compete, 12 to 16 will be
selected from a first performance round and will advance to the third
round of competition. Up to six pianists remaining after the third
round will perform in<bold> </bold>the competition finals.
Oberlin Professor of Piano Robert Shannon has directed the competition
and festival since its inception. Interviewed last year by the
<italic>Morning Journal </italic>(Lorain, Ohio), he defined the
purpose of the event: =93We want to stimulate interest in young pianists
and give them something to shoot for. We combine [the competition]
with an educational program. We try to give them a taste of what
studying music at a high level in college is like.=94
The festival faculty =97 composed of renowned professors from the
Oberlin Conservatory of Music and distinguished guest artists =97 will
offer private lessons, master classes, recitals, and lectures
throughout the week that will provide the festival participants with
intensive and in-depth opportunities to expand their knowledge of
music history, theory, and pedagogy, as well as the vital connection
of those three elements to on-stage performance.=20
Guest judges for the final round of the competition and guest faculty
for the festival are Professor Matti Raekallio of the Sibelius Academy
in Helsinki, Finland and Assistant Professor of Music Mykola Suk from
the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.=20
They will be joined in their final deliberations by Associate
Professor of Piano Alvin Chow and Professor of Piano Sanford Margolis
of Oberlin=92s faculty, and they will award<bold> </bold>cash prizes
ranging from $4,000 to $100. In addition, audience members attending
the finals concert will cast their vote for the =93Audience Favorite,=94
which carries a cash prize of $100.=20
More information about the competition and festival is available by
calling Assistant to the Dean of the Conservatory Anna Hoffmann at
440-775-8044 or by visiting www.oberlin.edu/con/summer/piano.
<bold>The Oberlin Conservatory of Music</bold>, founded in 1865 and
situated within the intellectual vitality of Oberlin College since
1867, is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United
States. Renowned internationally as a professional music school of the
highest caliber and pronounced a =93national treasure=94 by the
<italic>Washington Post,</italic> Oberlin=92s alumni have gone on to
achieve illustrious careers in all aspects of the serious music world.
Its students and alumni have won top prizes in numerous international
piano competitions, including the Van Cliburn, the Fryderyk Chopin,
the Queen Elisabeth, the Arthur Rubinstein, the Walter W. Naumberg,
the Unisa International Piano Competition (South Africa), the American
Pianists Association Classical Fellowship competition, the World Piano
Competition, the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition, and
the Busoni Competition. The Conservatory=92s collection of 1,700 period
and modern musical instruments includes 199 Steinway grand pianos.
Oberlin, an All-Steinway School, is Steinway & Sons oldest continuous
client, with a relationship dating back more than 125 years.
<center>=0C<bold>Concert Schedule
</bold><italic>Programs and artists are subject to change.
These concerts are free and open to the public.
</italic></center>
<center><bold>Faculty Recital
Peter Tak=E1cs
</bold>Sunday, July 24
8 p.m. Warner Concert Hall
Program:
Works by Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, and Ravel
<bold>Faculty Recital
Robert Shannon and Haewon Song
</bold>Monday, July 25
8 p.m. Kulas Recital Hall
Program:
Works by Czerny and Rzewski=20
<bold>Faculty Recital
David Breitman
</bold>Tuesday, July 26
8 p.m. Kulas Recital Hall
Program:
Works by CPE Bach, Beethoven, and Haydn performed on two copies of
Viennese pianos, a five-octave Anton Walter from 1790 that was made in
Connecticut by Philip Belt in 1975, and a six and one-half octave
Congrad Graf from 1819 that was made in 2004 by Paul McNulty in
Divisov, Czech Republic.
<bold>Guest Recital
Matti Raekallio
</bold>Wednesday, July 27
8 p.m. Warner Concert Hall
Program:
The complete 27 <italic>=C9tudes</italic> of Fr=E9d=E9ric Chopin
<bold>
Guest Recital
Mykola Suk
</bold>Thursday, July 28
8 p.m. Warner Concert Hall
Program:
Works by Haydn, Prokofiev, Dvorak, and Ravel=20
<bold>Semifinalists=92 Concert</bold>
Friday, July 29
8 p.m. Warner Concert Hall
=20
<bold>Competition Finals Concert
</bold>Saturday, July 30
8 p.m. Warner Concert Hall
<italic>This concert will be broadcast live on WCLV 104.9 FM
and on wclv.com.
</italic><bold>
</bold>=0C<bold><bigger>Oberlin Piano Competition and Festival
Guest Faculty Biographies
</bigger>Matti Raekallio
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</x-tad-smaller></bold></center><bold><x-tad-smaller>Matti
Raekallio</x-tad-smaller></bold><x-tad-smaller> is a tenured professor
at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. Raekallio=92s class
includes several top prize winners, among them the First Prize
laureates in Leeds, ASA Dublin, London, Vienna (Beethoven), New York
(Artists International), and Budapest (Liszt-Bart=F3k). He has been a
juror in several international competitions, including Shanghai,
Vienna (Beethoven), Tokyo (PTNA), the Selection Committee of the
=93Gilmore Artist=94 as well as the American Pianists=92 Association =
Awards
in the United States, and the Artur Rubinstein in Memoriam
International Competition in Poland. His concerts and recordings,
notably the three-CD set of the complete Prokofiev
=
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for the Finnish Ondine label, have been widely praised. He has
performed the complete Transcendental, Paganini, and Concert etudes by
Liszt in a two-recital set. A central part of Raekallio=92s solo
repertoire is the cycle of the complete 32 Beethoven sonatas, which he
has presented eight times altogether. In addition to his extensive
solo repertoire, Raekallio has given performances of 62 piano
concertos. These include all of Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, and
Prokofiev, as well as rarities like the concerti by Busoni,
Szymanowski, and Lutoslawski.
</x-tad-smaller>
<center><bold>Mykola Suk
</bold></center><bold><x-tad-smaller>Mykola
Suk</x-tad-smaller></bold><x-tad-smaller> is assistant professor of
music at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and has performed in
solo recitals as well as soloist with major orchestras under leading
conductors (most recently with the Russian National Symphony under
Mikhail Pletnev), and at chamber music festivals throughout the former
USSR, North America, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and Asia. Suk
has recorded for the Melodya, Russian Disc, Hungaraton, Melda and
Troppe Note/Cambria labels. He studied at the Kiev Special Music
School and at the Moscow Conservatory with Lev Vlasenko. In 1971 he
was awarded the first prize and gold medal at the International
Liszt-Bartok Competition in Budapest. Suk has formerly been on the
faculties of the Kiev and Moscow Conservatories, the New England
Conservatory of Music, and Columbia University.
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</x-tad-smaller></center>
Marci Janas
Director of Conservatory Media Relations
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
39 West College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
www.oberlin.edu/con
(P) 440-775-8328
(F) 440-775-5457
marci.janas at oberlin.edu=
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