1st USA International Harp Competition (1989)

July 4 - 14, 1989

Program Book

Gold Medal - Maria Casale (USA)
Silver Medal - Elizabeth Hainen (USA)
Bronze Medal - Kirsten Agresta (USA)
4th Prize - Marie-Pierre Chavaroche (France)
5th Prize - Suzanne Handel (USA)
6th Prize - Jana Boušková (Czech Republic)
7th Prize - Vera Danilova (Russia)
8th Prize - Beatrice Guillermin (France)

Best performance of Variation on a Chant by Juan Orrego-Salas - Elizabeth Hainen (USA)

Winners

Charles H. Webb (Jury President)
Marilyn Costello
Vera Dulova
Judy Loman
Susann McDonald
Catherine Michel
Susanna Mildonian
Marisa Robles
Siegfried Weinberger

Jury

Gold Medal:

  • Lyon & Healy Concert Harp

  • New York Debut Recital, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center

Silver Medal: Aoyama Concert Harp

Bronze Medal: $6,000 - Jack Nebergall Prize

Fourth Prize: $2,000 - Mildred Dilling Prize

Fifth Prize: $1,000 - New Harmony Prize

Sixth Prize: $1,000 - Maria Damm Rensch Prize

Seventh Prize: $1,000 - Cora S. deVolt Prize

Eighth Prize: $1,000 - Duquessa Andretta McGuffin Prize

Special Prize: $1,000 - Indiana University Latin American Music Center Prize for the best performance of Variations on a Chant by Juan Orrego-Salas

Prize Awards

Stage I

  • W. Posse: Any étude from Eight Concert Études

  • Any work written by a composer born before 1750. Maximum length: six minutes. Transcriptions are acceptable. Also acceptable: one or more movements from a work whose length exceeds six minutes.

  • A. Roussel: Impromptu

Stage II

  • J. Orrego-Salas: Variations on a Chant, Op. 92

  • G. Fauré: Une châtelaine en sa tour

  • Choose one:

    • H. Renié: Légende

    • M. Grandjany: Rhapsodie

    • C. Salzedo: Five Poetical Studies, Nos. 1, 3, and 4 ("Flight," "Inquietude," and "Idyllic Poem")

Stage III

  • Choose one:

    • B. Britten: Suite for Harp

    • P. Houdy: Sonata for Harp

  • Choose one:

    • H. Renié: Danse de Lutins

    • A. Khatchaturian: Danse Orientale and Toccata

  • Choose one:

    • E. Parish-Alvars: Serenade

    • E. Parish-Alvars: Introduction, Cadenza, and Rondo

Stage IV

  • Free choice solo, maximum length of twelve minutes

  • M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concertino for Harp and Orchestra

Repertoire

Kirsten Joy Agresta, USA
Nicolleta Alberti, Italy
Catherine Anderson, USA
Mariko Anraku, Japan
Gillian Benet, USA
Susanna Bertuccioli, Italy
Maria Bildea, Romania
Jana Boušková, Czech Republic
Astrid von Brueck, Germany
Maria Casale, USA
Mary-Pierre Chavaroche, France
Isabelle Courret, France
Vera Danilova, Russia
Petra Barbara Eglhuber, Germany
Martine Flaissier, France
Vanessa Gong, Taiwan
Beatrice Guillermin, France
Elizabeth Hainen, USA
Suzanne Handel, USA
Risako Hayakawa, Japan
Hsieh Shuen, Taiwan

Competitors

Ieuan Jones, Great Britain
Julie A. Kemp, USA
Nora Koch, Germany
Nathalie Labbe, France
Jung Wha Lee, South Korea
Hong Liang, China
Ma Long, China
Shinobu Matsuda, Japan
Hsiako Matsui, Japan
Olga Giusy Mazzia, Italy
Aude Michot, France
Anne Morse-Hambrock, USA
Andrea Steckermeier, Germany
Olga Sudzilovska, Russia
Elzbieta Szymt, Poland
Isabelle Toutain, France
Sarah Voynow, USA
Nathalie Weber, France
Kirsten Rydman Witt, USA
Melinda C. Zak, USA