The Tenth Annual Competition in the Performance
of Music from Spain and Latin America
January 27 and 28, 2007
Special Instrumental Focus: Piano

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Winners:
Open Interpretation Category
FIRST PRIZE
Slobodan Milivojevic (guitar) for his performance of Joaquín Rodrigo’s “En los trigales” from Por los campos de España, Manuel Ponce’s Sonata romántica, and Isaac Albéniz’s Mallorca, Op. 202.
SECOND PRIZE
Ah-Rim Kim (harp) for her performance of Juan Orrego-Salas’s Variations on a Chant, Op. 92; Enrique Granados’s Valses poéticos; Alonso Mudarra’s “Fantasia que contrahaze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico” from Tres libros de musica en cifras para vihuela; and Astor Piazzolla’s Milonga del angel.
Solo Piano Category
FIRST PRIZE & JACQUES KLEIN PRIZE
Fernando Cruz for his performance of Antonio Soler’s Sonatas R. 88 in D-flat Major and R. 78 in F-sharp minor; Enrique Granados’s El pelele; Heitor Villa-Lobos’s “O polichinelo” from A prole do bebê No. 1, Caixinha de música quebrada, and “Dança do índio branco” from Ciclo brasileiro; and Jesús Rueda’s “Berceuse,” “Deslizamientos,” and “Omaggio,” Nos. 20-22 from 24 Interludios.
SECOND PRIZE
Jasmin Arakawa for her performance of Isaac Albéniz’s Iberia, Book IV (“Málaga,” “Jérez,” and “Eritaña”); Manuel Ponce’s Intermezzo No. 2; and Moises Moleiro’s Joropo.
Jury
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music professors Ernesto Bitetti, David Cartledge, Arnaldo Cohen, Don Freund, Luke Gillespie, Fred Hammond, Howard Klug, Teresa Kubiak, Luiz Fernando Lopes, Kathryn Lukas, Reiko Neriki, Juan Orrego-Salas, David Ward-Steinmann, and Yael Weiss, with moderator Carmen Helena Téllez, director of the Latin American Music Center, and observer Jacobo Mir, education advisor of the Embassy of Spain.
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