8th USA International Harp Competition (2010)
June 7 - 17, 2010
L to R: Lushchevskaya, Clément, Kageyama
Gold Medal - Agnès Clément (France)
Silver Medal - Rino Kageyama (Japan)
Bronze Medal - Vasilisa Lushchevskaya (Russia)
4th Prize - Coline-Marie Orliac (France)
5th Prize - Jimin Lee (UK/South Korea)
6th Prize - Ruriko Yamamiya (Japan)
7th Prize - Gwenllian Llyr (Wales)
8th Prize - Marta Marinelli (Italy)
Winners
Prize for Best Performance of Gliere’s Concerto for Harp and Orchestra - Rino Kageyama (Japan)
Prize for the Best Performance of Maganuco’s Awakening Stillnesses - Coline-Marie Orliac (France)
3rd Composition Contest Prize - Michael Maganuco (USA), Awakening Stillnesses
Special Prizes
Jury
Patricia Wooster (Jury President)
Daphne Boden
Ayako Shinozaki
Ernestine Stoop
Patrizia Tassini
Ann Yeung
Jean-Marie Panterne
Gold Medal:
Commemorative Lyon & Healy Gold Concert Grand Harp, value $55,000, sponsored by Lyon & Healy Harps
Two Debut Recitals, sponsored by Lyon & Healy Harps
CD Recording sponsored by Lyon & Healy Harps
Artist Management sponsored by the Victor Salvi Foundation
$5,000 – David and Linda Rollo Award in memory of Mindee Rollo
Silver Medal: $5,000 – Dick Johnson Memorial Prize
Bronze Medal: $4,000 – Jung-Suk Han Memorial Prize
Fourth Prize: $3,000 – Vanderbilt Music Company 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 – Mr. Eul Duk Kwak Memorial Prize
Eighth Prize: $1,000 – Friends of the Harp Competition Prize
Special Prizes
$1,000 – Jan Jennings Prize for the best performance of Gliere’s Concerto for Harp and Orchestra
$1,000 – Mario Falcao Prize for the best performance of Maganuco’s Awakening Stillnesses
2nd Composition Contest Prize
$2,000 American Harp Society Prize
Publication of winning composition by Lyon & Healy Publishing
Prize Awards
Stage I
Choice of:
Johann Baptist Krumpholtz: Sonata I, op. 16 bis, “Comme Scene Pathetique”, Ed. Emanuela Degli Esposti
A group of three transcriptions:
Couperin/Renié: Tic-Toc-Choc
Daquin/Renié: L’Hirondelle (The Swallow)
Daquin/Renié: Le Coucou
Choice of:
Elias Parish-Alvars: La Mandoline
Elias Parish-Alvars: Introduction, Cadenza and Rondo
Elias Parish-Alvars: Serenade
Choice of:
Isaac Albeniz, tr. McDonald: Zaragoza (from Second Suite Espagnole)
DeFalla/Grandjany: Spanish Dance from “La Vida Breve”
Choice of:
Albert Roussel: Impromptu
Bernard Andrès: Elegie pour la mort d’un Berger
Stage II
J.S. Bach: Partita 1, BWV 825, arr. Maria Luisa Rayan-Forero (no repeats)
Henriette Renié: Pièce symphonique
Choice of:
Juan Orrego-Salas: Variations on a Chant
Paul Patterson: Spiders
Pierick Houdy: Sonata for Harp
Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Harp
Benjamin Britten: Suite for Harp
Stage III
A free choice program of 45 minutes to include the following:
3rd Composition Contest winning composition: Awakening Stillnesses by Michael Maganuco
Choice of:
Liszt/Renié: Un Sospiro
Liszt/Renié: Liebestraume
Stage IV
Marcel Tournier: La danse du moujik
Reinhold Glière: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra
Repertoire
Robin Best, Canada
Lena-Maria Buchberger, Germany
Katie Buckley, USA/Iceland
Elizaveta Bushueva, Russia
Albertina Chan, Canada
Agnes Clement, France
Caroline Cole, Canada
Cristina di Bernardo, Italy
Seika Dong, USA
Claire Galo-Place, France
Mathilde Giraud, France
Yue (Grace) Guo, China
Hinako Hara, Japan
Fay Hazaveh, USA
Heidi Tims Hernandez, USA
Chen-Yu Huang, Taiwan
Competitors
Li-Ya Huang, Taiwan
Emilie Jaulmes, France
Rino Kageyama, Japan
Agne Keblyte, Lithuania
Ah-Rim Kim, South Korea
Hannah Kuipers, USA
Jimin Lee, UK/South Korea
Chu-Heng Liao, Taiwan
Gwenllian Llyr, Wales
Yi-Yun Loei, Australia
Vasilisa Lushchevskaya, Russia
Marta Marinelli, Italy
Maryanne Meyer, USA
Valerie Milot, Canada
Cecile Monsinjon, France
Domenica Musumeci, Australia/Italy
Kei Nakayama, Japan
Coline-Marie Orliac, France
Haley Rhodeside, USA
Katrina Szederkenyi, Canada/Hungary
Wei-Ching Tseng, Taiwan
Ruriko Yamamiya, Japan
Ina Zdorovetchi, Moldova/USA