[NEohioPAL] CORRECTION to Editors' Note in Piano Competition Release

[Marci Janas]

**CORRECTION**

An error appeared in the editors' note accompanying the following  
press release concerning the week of semifinal rounds for the Oberlin  
International Piano Competition.

The semifinal rounds are held during the week of July 26, not the  
week of August 26.

A corrected release appears below.



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Media Contact Only:

Marci Janas, Director of Conservatory Media Relations

440-775-8328 (office); 440-667-2724 (cell); marci.janas at oberlin.edu



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:


YOUNG PIANISTS PLAY TO WIN IN 14th OBERLIN INTERNATIONAL PIANO  
COMPETITION, JULY 26–AUGUST 3, 2008

<Editors please note: A schedule of public events is included.  
Finalists will be decided in a series of semifinal rounds during the  
week of July 26.

Names of those selected as finalists will be available immediately  
before the last round of competition. Oberlin will release the names  
of the winners to the media after the event.>


OBERLIN, OHIO (July 11, 2008)— The 14th Oberlin International Piano  
Competition and Festival, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music’s annual  
event for young pianists, will take place Saturday, July 26, through  
Sunday, August 3, at the Conservatory. The weeklong competition  
culminates in a final round held in Warner Concert Hall on Saturday,  
August 2, at 8 p.m. The pianist named first-prize winner on that  
night will take home $10,000, the largest first-prize offered by a  
youth piano competition internationally, and will receive orchestral  
concert engagements in Beijing and Shanghai, China. Up to six  
additional prizes will be awarded, including a $100 Audience Prize  
decided by popular vote.

Free and open to the public, the finals round will also be broadcast  
live on 104.9 FM WCLV, Cleveland’s classical music radio station, and  
available worldwide by streaming audio from wclv.com. Robert Conrad,  
cofounder and president of WCLV, will serve as the master of  
ceremonies; Jacqueline Gerber, the host of WCLV’s morning show First  
Program, will be the on-air host.

Young pianists travel from around the world to participate in the  
festival. This year’s competitors hail from Australia, Hungary, Peru,  
China, Korea, Canada, and the United States. Directed by Oberlin  
Professor of Piano Robert Shannon, the competition is expressly for  
pianists between the ages of 13 and 18, and the winners are chosen  
through a selective five-round audition process. Pianists must first  
audition for acceptance into the competition by CD recording or at  
live auditions held in China. Of the pianists chosen to compete in  
Oberlin, 12 to 16 will be selected from the next stage, a live  
performance round, and will advance to the third round of  
competition. Up to six pianists remaining after the third round will  
perform in the competition concerto round and finals.

In addition to the $10,000 cash prize, the first-prize winner will  
receive engagements with the Chinese National Opera and Ballet  
Orchestra and the Shanghai Philharmonic.

Competition judges include faculty members from the Oberlin piano  
department and several special guests on campus for the festival,  
Stanislav Ioudenitch, Jason Hardink, and Nelita True. Ioudenitch  
comes to the festival from Park University in Missouri, where he is  
Artistic Director of the Youth Conservatory of Music and the  
International Center for Music; he won the Gold Medal in the 2001 Van  
Cliburn competition, and completed a worldwide tour in 2004. Hardink  
is a 1997 graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and  
currently holds the position of Principal Symphony Keyboard and Opera  
Rehearsal Accompanist for the Utah Symphony and Opera. True has an  
international performing career and is Professor of Piano at the  
Eastman School of Music.

Members of the festival faculty will offer private lessons, master  
classes, recitals, and lectures throughout the week to festival  
attendees as well as to competition participants, providing them 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.

A number of festival events this year are inspired by the theme,  
“Messaien and the French Tradition,” in celebration of the centennial  
of the birth of organist and composer Olivier Messaien, born in  
Avignon, France in 1908. On the eve of the final round, Friday,  
August 1, at 8 p.m., guest artist Jason Hardink will play the  
complete Vingt regards sur l’enfant Jésus for piano by Messaien, the  
composer’s masterpiece two-hour contemplation of the Christ child.  
The free concert will be held in Warner Concert Hall at the  
Conservatory.

More information about the competition and festival is available by  
calling Anna Hoffmann at 440-775-8044 or by visiting oberlin.edu/con/ 
summer/piano.

The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, founded in 1865 and situated amid  
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 “national treasure” by the  
Washington Post, Oberlin’s alumni have gone on to achieve illustrious  
careers in all aspects of the serious music world. Conservatory  
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  
Thailand International Piano Competition, the World Piano  
Competition, the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition, and  
the Busoni Competition. The Conservatory’s collection of 1,700 period  
and modern musical instruments includes 200 Steinway grand pianos.  
Oberlin, an All-Steinway School, is Steinway & Sons’ oldest  
continuous client, with a relationship dating back more than 125 years.


CALENDAR LISTINGS

All concerts are held at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin  
College and are free and open to the public, including semi-final  
rounds. For a complete schedule, please visit oberlin.edu/con/summer/ 
piano. The Conservatory is located at 77 West College Street in  
Oberlin, Ohio. Free parking is available throughout the campus, and  
the Conservatory venues are wheelchair accessible.



FACULTY RECITAL

Saturday, July 26, 2008, 8 p.m.

Monique Duphil, piano

Sedmara Zakarian Rutstein, piano

Program TBA

Warner Concert Hall


FACULTY RECITAL

Thursday, July 31, 2008, 6:30 p.m.

Haewon Song, piano

Robert Shannon, piano

Program TBA

Warner Concert Hall


GUEST ARTIST RECITAL

Friday, August 1, 2008, 8 p.m.

Jason Hardink, piano

Program:

Olivier Messaien: Vingt regards sur l’enfant Jésus

Warner Concert Hall


OBERLIN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION – FINALS ROUND

Saturday, August 2, 2008, 8 p.m.

Finalists compete for top prizes in competition.

Warner Concert Hall

Broadcast live on 104.9-FM, WCLV and www.wclv.com.



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Marci Janas
Director of Conservatory Media Relations
  and Editor, Oberlin Conservatory Magazine
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
39 West College Street
Oberlin, OH  44074
www.oberlin.edu/con
Voice: 440.775.8328
Fax: 440.775.5457
marci.janas at oberlin.edu

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