The Latin American Music Center is very pleased to announce the results of the
The Twelfth Annual Competition in the Performance
of Music from Spain and Latin America
January 31 and February 1, 2009
Special Focus Category: Piano Trio
Winners:
Piano Trio Category
GRAND PRIZE: $1,500
Trio Micheletti
with Véronique Mathieu (violin) and André Micheletti (cello),
coached by Mark Kaplan, Alfredo Minetti, Emile Naoumoff, and Helga Winold, for their performance of the first movement from Enrique Granados’s Trio para violín, violoncello y piano, Op. 50 and Ástor Piazzolla’s “Invierno porteño,” “Otoño porteño,” and “Primavera porteña” from Las cuatro estaciones porteñas
Open Interpretation Category
FIRST PRIZE Ex Aequo: $1,000
I-Jeng Yeh (flute), student of Kathryn Lukas, for her performance of Ástor Piazzolla’s Tango étude No.3; Salvador Brotons’s Sonata per a flauta i piano Op. 21; and the second and third movements from Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Assobio a jato (The jet whistle)
FIRST PRIZE Ex Aequo: $1,000
Evan Mitchell (piano), student of Arnaldo Cohen, for his performance of Padre Antonio Soler’s Sonatas in C Minor, R. 100, and in E Major, R. 34; Enrique Granados’s “Quejas o la maja y el ruiseñor” from Goyescas; and Cláudio Santoro’s Sonata No. 4 (Fantasia)
JACQUES KLEIN PRIZE: $500
for the best interpretation of Brazilian solo piano music:
Evan Mitchell (piano), student of Arnaldo Cohen, for his performance of Cláudio Santoro’s Sonata No. 4 (Fantasia)
HONORABLE MENTION
for research and creativity in programming:
Woodwind Quintet
JungHwa Yoo (flute), student of Kathryn Lukas
Sasha Bachwich (oboe), student of Roger Roe
Mary Poole (clarinet), student of Eli Eban
Banri Hoshi (bassoon), student of Charles Ullery
Zach Glavan (horn), student of Jeff Nelsen
Jury
Indiana University Professors Ernesto Bitetti, Erick Carballo, Emma Dederick, Espen Jensen, and Javier F. León; with moderator Luiz Fernando Lopes, from the Latin American Music Center, and observer Jacobo Mir, education advisor of the Embassy of Spain.
All Winners will record a documentary CD that will be featured at:
http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/lamc/competition_root/index.html
Click here to access the complete guidelines and competition rules.
Click here to access the resources page for this year's Special Focus Category.
Click here to access the additional resources for the Open Category.
The Special Focus Category for the
Thirteenth Annual Competition in the Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America (2010) will be devoted to Violin
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