10th USA International Harp Competition (2016)
June 8 - 18, 2016
L to R: Petrovic, Siochi, Bass
Gold Medal - Katherine Siochi (USA)
Silver Medal - Elizabeth Bass (UK)
Bronze Medal - Lenka Petrovic (Serbia)
4th Prize - Se Hee Hwang (South Korea)
5th Prize - Claudia Lamanna (Italy)
6th Prize - Valeria Voshchennikova (Russia)
7th Prize - Woojin Lee (South Korea)
8th Prize - Aisté Baliunyté (Lithuania)
Winners
Prize for Best Performance of Alberto Ginastera’s Harp Concerto, Op. 25 - Katherine Siochi (USA)
Prize for the Best Performance of Jeremiah Siochi’s Sublimation - Lenka Petrovic (Serbia)
Prize for the Highest Ranked Italian Contestant - Claudia Lamanna (Italy)
5th Composition Contest Prize - Jeremiah Siochi (USA), Sublimation
Special Prizes
Judy Loman (Jury President)
Emmanuel Ceysson
Jason Chang
Sarah O’Brien
Florence Sitruk
Caryl Thomas
Irina Zingg
Jury
Gold Medal:
Lyon & Healy Concert Grand Harp, up to a value of $55,000, sponsored by Lyon & Healy Harps
Debut Recital at Lyon & Healy Hall in Chicago sponsored by Lyon & Healy Harps
CD Recording sponsored by Lyon & Healy Harps
Hong Kong Harp Centre Winner’s Recital in Hong Kong
Hantang Culture Award sponsored by Shanghai Hantang Culture Development Co., Ltd
Hantang Culture Trophy (Chinese Bronze Trophy)
China five city concert tour over two weeks during July 2017, with $1,500 USD artist fee per concert performance
$5,000 – David and Linda Rollo Award in memory of Mindee Rollo
Silver Medal: $5,000 – Bow Brand Prize
Bronze Medal: $4,000 – Korea International Harp Competition Prize
Fourth Prize: $3,000 – Hong Kong Harp Centre Prize
Fifth Prize: $2,500 - Dr. Konrad William Rinne and Dr. Erzsébet Gaal Rinne Prize
Sixth Prize: $2,000 – Rachel Mary and John Isaac Jones Memorial Prize
Seventh Prize: $1,500 – Marlene Rapp Prize
Eighth Prize: $1,000 – Eleanor Fell Memorial Prize
Special Prizes
$1,000 – Willy Postma Concerto Prize for the best performance of Alberto Ginastera’s Harp Concerto, Op. 25
$1,000 – Willy Postma Composition Prize for the best performance of the winning composition of the 5th Composition Contest – Jeremiah Siochi’s Sublimation
€1,000 – Zaniboni Prize for the highest ranked Italian contestant
5th Composition Contest Prize
$2,000 American Harp Society Prize
Publication of winning composition by Lyon & Healy Publishing
Prize Awards
Stage I
Jon Ladislav Dussek: Sonata in F (Allegro and Allegretto ‘The Lass of Richmond Hill’)
Choose One:
Claude Debussy: Deux Arabesques (No. 1 and No. 2), any edition
Jean Cras: Deux Impromptus (Editione Salabert)
Choose One:
Henriette Renié: Légende
Carlos Salzedo: Scintillation
Stage II
Henriette Renié: Contemplation
Choose One:
Pietro Domenico Paradisi: Toccata in A Major
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet: Toccata in F Major
Choose One:
Juan Orrego-Salas: Variations on a Chant
Paul Patterson: Spiders
Ernst Krenek: Sonata for Harp, Op. 150
Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Harp
Choose One:
Wilhelm Posse: Carnival of Venice
Félix Godefroid: Carnival of Venice
Stage III
A free choice program of 40 minutes to include the following:
5th Composition Contest winning composition: Sublimation by Jeremiah Siochi
Choose One:
Jean-Michel Damase: Sicilienne variée
André- François Marescotti: Mouvement
Stage IV
Alberto Ginastera: Harp Concerto, Op. 25
Repertoire
Ritsuko Arima, Japan
Aisté Baliunyté, Lithuania
Elizabeth Bass, United Kingdom
Yunhuan Chen, China
Yeon Hwa Chung, South Korea
Hannah Cope Johnson, USA
Antonella De Franco, Italy
Héloïse de Jenlis, France
Catherine Derrick, United Kingdom
Shelly Du, China
Francesca Gao, China
Katie Graham, USA
Feier Gu, China
Rachel Lee Hall, USA
Naomi Hoffmeyer, USA
Se Hee Hwang, South Korea
Competitors
Se Young Hwang, South Korea
Abigail Kent, USA
Olivia Hyoyeon Kim, USA
Claudia Lucia Lamanna, Italy
Woojin Lee, South Korea
Valerio Lisci, Italy
Yi-Yun Loei, Australia
Melanie Danielle Mashner, USA
Maria Mikhaylovskaya, Russia
Shizuko Mitani, Japan
Hila Ofek, Israel
Louise Ollivier, France
Jia Peng, China
Lenka Petrovic, Serbia
Marika Cecilia Riedl, Germany
Arianna Rossi, Italy
Oksana Sidyagina, Russia
Katherine Siochi, USA
Oksana Sushkova, Russia
Joanna Thalmann, Switzerland
Alexandra Tikhonova, Russia
Elise Veyres, France
Joel von Lerber, Switzerland
Valeria Voshchennikova, Russia
Noël Wan, Taiwan
Anna Wiegandt, USA
Klara Woskowiak, Poland