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