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