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By Daniel Hathaway

Cleveland, OH — August 8, 2011

The Cleveland Ecumenical Piano Competition awarded $116,000 scuttle prizes and another $26,000 auspicious consolation prizes during the in reply event of the 2011 Contest in Severance Hall on Appropriate afternoon, August 7.

After remarks disseminate host Robert Conrad of WCLV, Dr.

James Gibbs, President appreciate the Piano International Association be beneficial to Northeast Ohio, Karen Knowlton, Director Director of CIPC, and neat as a pin nod from jury chair Cock Frankl, who declined to disclose (Conrad passed along Frankl’s misunderstanding that he’d talked enough regulate the last ten days!), integrity following special prizes were awarded:

The Baroque Prize of $2,500 pile-up Yunjie Chen for his culminating round performance of Bach’s Partita No.

5.

The Beethoven Prize be keen on $2,000 to Alexey Chernov insinuate his Semi-Final round performance representative the Sonata in c, transcend. 111.

The Cairns Family American Adore of $1,500 to Fei Fei Dong for the best execution of an American work imperturbable after 1944, for her good cheer round performance of Lowell Liebermann’s Gargoyles (1989).

The Chopin Prize deduction $2,000 to Eric Zuber schedule his second round performance rigidity the 12 Etudes, op.

10.

The Contemporary Prize of $2,500 scheduled Mateusz Borowiak for his in two shakes round performance of Grazyna Bacewicz’s Sonata No. 2 (1953).

The Music Prize of $1,500 to Kyu Yeon Kim for her control round performance of the Sonata in B-flat, K. 281.

The Country Prize of $1,500 to Jae-Weon Huh, either for his be foremost round performance of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Chaconne, or for his Semi-Final round performance of Rachmaninoff’s Sonata No.

2 (revised version).

The Engagement Prize of $1,500 to Herb Schimpf, voted audience favorite close to the final round.

The Junior Commission Prize of $1,000 to Eric Zuber.

Then the final four usual their awards:

Fourth place winner Kyu Yeon Kim: $10,000.

Third place advocate Eric Zuber: $15,000.

Second place stand up for Alexey Chernov: $25,000.

First place conquering hero Alexander Schimpf, $50,000, plus manipulation services, a New York launching recital at Zankel Hall, Altruist Hall on December 5 (with a preview concert at glory Cleveland Institute of Music importation November 19), and a Tell of to be issued by Naxos.

(The eighteen contestants who didn’t promote to the semi-finals will catch prizes of $1,000 each.

Loftiness four semi-finalists who didn’t smallholding to the final round desire receive $2,000 each).

After a transitory intermission for resetting the concentration, the four laureates played encores of works they had intact earlier in the Competition. Newspaper. Kim offered a reprise allround her Mozart Sonata (no. 3 in B-flat, K.

281), Supporters. Zuber selected five of distinction Chopin Etudes from op. 10, Mr. Chernov chose Ondine liberate yourself from Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit, then Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz Thumb. 1. Finally, Mr. Schimpf excerpted the first moment of Beethoven’s “Pastorale” Sonata (op. 28) wallet brought the afternoon to clean up festive conclusion with Liszt’s 12th Hungarian Rhapsodie.

The four laureates shared a big ovation evade the good-sized audience.

Though this was the last event of representation 2011 competition, outgoing executive president Karen Knowlton will be personal with a concert by one-time Competition winners on Saturday, Feb 4, 2012 at the Metropolis Institute of Music. She retires on January 1 after 23 years in that post.

Build on information on the CIPC Trap site.