11th USA International Harp Competition (2019)
July 3 - 13, 2019
L to R: Lisci, Wauters, Laurent, Lee, Riedl, Hwang, Ruf, Blardone
Gold Medal - Mélanie Laurent (France)
Silver Medal - Valerio Lisci (Italy)
Bronze Medal - Mathilde Wauters (Belgium)
4th Prize - Se Hee Hwang (South Korea)
5th Prize - Woojin Lee (South Korea)
6th Prize - Miriam Ruf (Germany)
7th Prize - Myriam Blardone (Canada)
8th Prize - Marika Cecilia Riedl (Germany)
Winners
Prize for Best Performance of Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez - Mathilde Wauters (Belgium)
Prize for the Best Performance of Uno Alexander Vesje’s work Life is flashing before my eyes and I realize it all started with a blackbird for Live Harp and Soundtrack - Valerio Lisci (Italy)
6th Ruth Inglefield Composition Contest Prize - Uno Alexander Vesje (Norway), Life is flashing before my eyes and I realize it all started with a blackbird for Live Harp and Soundtrack
Special Prizes
Skaila Kanga (Jury President)
Milda Agazarian
Sylvain Blassel
Jana Boušková
Mario Falcao
Anneleen Lenaerts
Dan Yu
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
International Laureate Exchange Prize between the USA International Harp Competition and the International Harp Contest of Israel
Laureate Recital at the 21st International Harp Contest of Israel
Hantang Culture Award sponsored by Shanghai Hantang Culture Development Co., Ltd
Hantang Culture Trophy
$6,000 Prize – Susann McDonald Prize
Silver Medal: $5,500 – Rachel Mary and John Isaac Jones Memorial Prize
Bronze Medal: $5,000 – Korea International Harp Competition Prize
Fourth Prize: $4,000 – Hong Kong Harp Centre Prize
Fifth Prize: $3,000 - Dr. Konrad William Rinne and Dr. Erzsébet Gaal Rinne Prize
Sixth Prize: $2,500 – HarpMasters Academy Prize
Seventh Prize: $2,000 – Marlene Harris Prize
Eighth Prize: $1,500 – Eleanor Fell Memorial Prize
Special Single Work Performance Prizes
$1,000 – Willy Postma Concerto Prize for the best performance of Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez
$1,000 – Margaret Louise Smith & Nancy Smith Taylor Memorial Prize for the best performance of the winning composition of the 6th Composition Contest – Uno Alexander Vesje: Life is flashing before my eyes and I realize it all started with a blackbird for Live Harp and Soundtrack
6th Composition Contest Prize
$2,000 American Harp Society Prize
Publication of winning composition by Lyon & Healy Publishing
Prize Awards
Stage I
J.S. Bach: Any Prelude and Fugue from “The Well-Tempered Clavier”
Louis Spohr: Variations sur l’air “Je suis encore dans mon printemps”, Op. 36
Jacques de la Presle: Le jardin mouillé
Stage II
Nino Rota: Sarabanda e Toccata
Gabriel Fauré: Une châtelaine en sa tour
Choose One:
Ernst Krenek: Sonata for Harp, Op. 150
Germaine Tailleferre: Sonata for Harp
Choose One:
Carlos Salzedo: Ballade, Op. 28
Henriette Renié: Ballade Fantastique
Stage III
A free choice program of 40 minutes to include the following:
6th Composition Contest winning composition: Life is flashing before my eyes and I realize it all started with a blackbird for Live Harp and Soundtrack by Uno Alexander Vesje
Spoken program notes not to exceed five minutes of the 40-minute program. The performer may speak in any language. A printed transcription in English must be provided to the jury.
Stage IV
Choose One:
Franz Liszt: Liebesträume No. 3 (any edition)
Mikhail Glinka: The Lark (any edition)
Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
Repertoire
Myriam Blardone, Canada
Marcel Cara, France
Nicolette Chin, Singapore
Hannah Cope, USA
Noelia Cotuna, Spain
Louisic Dulbecco, France
Johanna Dorothea Goerissen, Germany
Zachary Hatcher, USA
Naho Higuchi, Japan
Nanako Hirai, Japan
Se Hee Hwang, South Korea
Abigail Kent, USA
Kyunghwa Kim, South Korea
Chelsea Lane, USA
Mélanie Laurent, France
Competitors
Woojin Lee, South Korea
Subin Lee, South Korea
Valerio Lisci, Italy
Sunshine Lo, UK/Hong Kong
Lea Maria Löffler, Germany
Julia Christine Lukan, Austria
Yana Lyashko, Uzbekistan
Alexandra Mullins, USA
Chanel Perdichizzi, Belgium
Marika Cecilia Riedl, Germany
Juan Riveros, USA
Miriam Ruf, Germany
Julien Sabbague, France
Liliana Safikhanova, Russia
Michelle Sweegers, Netherlands
Sakura Taga, Japan
Nagisa Tanaka, Japan
Emma Thomazeau, France
Lise Vandersmissen, Belgium
Jenna Vergeynst, Belgium
Clara Wang, Canada
Nan Wang, China
Mathilde Wauters, Belgium
Joost Willemze, Netherlands
Klara Woskowiak, Poland