2015 IBLA-VIRGINIA AWARDS
IBLA GRAND PRIZE WINNERS PERFORM AT RADFORD UNIVERSITY
VIRGINIA
May 1, 2015
Friday, 6:00 pm
Performance Hall, Covington Center, 800 Main Street, Radford, Virginia
IBLA WINNERS
Miwa Hoyano, Piano - JAPAN
IBLA GRAND PRIZE TOP PRIZE Winner Miwa Hoyano was born in Saitama, Japan and began her career as a pianist at the age of four. After completing her undergraduate course for piano performance in Tokyo College of Music, she was admitted to the prestigious Soloklasse of Prof. Bernd Goetzke at the Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media (Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover). Miwa performed extensively throughout Japan and in Europe, in e.g. Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Norway, both as a soloist and as chamber musician. She’s a regular guest at music festivals such as the Ticino Musica Music festival in Switzerland, the Musica Riva Festival in Italy, the NDR Musiktag Hannover, BMW Welt Klassik & Lounge in the Steinway Lounge Munich in Germany, the Osaka Classic Festival, and the Classic Festival Hiroshima in Japan.
Miwa won various competitions, among others the Ibla Grand Prize International Music Competition in Sicily in 2014. As a result of this prize, she will make her debut performance in Carnegie Hall in New York in May 2015 as part of her debut tour through the United States of America. Other prizes include the first prize in the 11th International Music Competition Luigi Cerritelli in 2014, the Camilo Togni International Music Competition in 2008, the Valsesia International Music Competition in Monterosa in 2007, a bronze medal in the PTNA Piano Competition in Tokyo( Japan)in 2007 and the Martinu Prize at the Grieg Piano Competition in Norway in 2009.
She has studied at the Accademia Mezzogiorno Musicale in Taranto with Prof. Bruno Mezzena.
Her previous professors were among others Emiko Harimoto, Hitoko Kurasawa and Sumiko Mikimoto. Miwa attended master classes with top pianists such as Aldo Ciccolini, Pascal Rogé, Jacques Rouvier, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and Oxana Yablonskaya. Currently, she is attached to the University of Music, Theater and Media in Hannover as the accompanying pianist for the woodwinds & horn section. Besides, being active as chamber musicians.Future concert engagements in Japan, Netherlands, Italy and the United States, as well as performances with maestro Eiji Oue (Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra).
Cho Hyun Park, Piano - SOUTH KOREA / USA
IBLA GRAND PRIZE Most Distinguished Musician recipient, Pianist Cho-hyun Park holds a Doctoral and Master’s degree in piano performance from The University of Texas at Austin, and Bachelor’s degree from Seoul National University, School of Music. She was awarded with many renowned scholarships from both schools. While and after her degree program, she has appeared widely as a soloist, both collaborative artist and ensemble pianist in South Korea, Texas, and Southern California. She has served UT undergraduate Opera, UT Symphony, Wind ensemble, Ballet Austin, and Austria America Mozart Academy, Academy of Music and Art in Special Education. Her dedication and enthusiasm towards piano music shined on her recent win of The Most Distinguished Award at the 2014 IBLA Grand Prize Music Competition and the 1st prize at the Bartok-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev International Piano Competition along with Bartok and Prokofiev special awards in Italy, July 2014. Her teachers include George Katz, Gregory Allen, Gye-Sook Suh, Hae-Sun Paik, Ki-Won Lee and In-Il Kim.
Anna Rutkowka-Schock, Piano - POLAND
IBLA GRAND PRIZE Anna Rutkowska-Schock was a finalist in the European Chopin Piano Competition in Darmstadt, Germany in 1992 as a piano student of Prof. Helena Furmanowicz-Kurzy?ska. She was awarded a scholarship in the USA (1997-98) by French-American pianist, Dr. Madeleine Forte. Anna Rutkowska-Schock graduated with a Master’s degree from the Academy of Music in Wroclaw (where she presently works), under the tutelage of Prof. Grzegorz Kurzy?ski. She further mastered her collaborative piano skills under Prof. Anne Epperson as a scholarship recipient at the Summer Academy of Music in Santa Barbara, California, in 2006. In 2003 she received the Best Collaborative Pianist award in the IBLA GRAND PRIZE International Music Competition in Sicily. She has been invited to work as the staff pianist and jury member for the IBLA Grand Prize Competition every year since, and in the same capacity for international music competitions in Rome, Peru, Slovakia and Poland. Anna Rutkowska-Schock received a PhD in 2007 and a post-doctoral degree in 2013. She has recorded 4 CDs with French chamber music. She has given solo and chamber concerts in Poland, the U.S.A. (including several performances at Carnegie Hall), Indonesia, Peru, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Russia
Annette Scholten, Lame Sonore and Nanke Flach, Piano - THE NETHERLANDS
IBLA GRAND PRIZE Most Distinguished Musicians recipients, Annette Scholten and Nanke Flach, both from The Netherlands, form a duo from 2009. Before getting fascinated by the lame sonore, Annette graduated as a cellist from Groningen conservatory, and qualified in Teaching and Performing with an extra certificate for chamber music. Nanke studied piano at the conservatories of Groningen and Utrecht, where she obtained a Master’s degree with special attention to chamber music and accompaniment. Nanke is also a laureate of the Princess Christina Competition for performing chamber music. From 2011 Annette started to play the lame sonore and fell in love with its sound. This unusual instrument, related to the musical saw, was developed by Jacques Keller in 1948. At first, it was meant to be used as precentor in the Catholic church. A few composers, a.o. Khaciaturian and Enescu, wrote music for the new instrument but after that, the instrument fell somewhat into obscurity. Unfortunately, very little music is written specifically for the instrument. Maybe in the future, more composers might be interested in writing new repertoire for the lame sonore! After presenting the lame sonore at the Ibla Grand Prize 2014, the duo played many concerts in The Netherlands. Besides performing as a duo, Annette played as a soloist with the orchestra Filharmonie Noord, which arranged music for Annette. Together they gave the first concert in Europe for lame sonore, accompanied by symphonic orchestra. The Noordpool Orchestra recently included a melody for the lame sonore, to be performed by Annette. In January 2015, the duo is invited by Dutch Radio4 to perform at the programme ‘Spiegelzaal’, live broadcasted from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Audrey Yamamoto, Piano - JAPAN
IBLA GRAND PRIZE Most Distinguished Musician recipient, Audrey studied at the TOHO Gakuen High School of Music and the TOHO Gakuen School of Music. She finished Master’s degree in the HMTM Hannover. Currently studies in the Soloklasse at the HMTM Hannover. She won Prizes at numerous Competitions. For example, she got Prize in 13th and 15th Piano Audition by the League of Piano Education in Japan. She got Encouragement Prize as Youngest Pianist in the 8th Pianist Camp in Kamisaibara, received Prizes of the Excellent with Honor every year in 9th,10th and 11th Pianist Camp in Kamisaibara. She was one of Finalists in 3rd International Piano Competition Maria Herrero, got 4th Prize in 2nd International Piano Competition “Ischia” 3rd Prize and Scriabin Special Mention in 23rd IBLA Grand Prize. She participated many International Master Classes. For example in 2014, she was selected one of 8 pianists and got Diploma for Beethoven Class by Wilhelm Kempff in Positano. She has many concerts also, in 2006, she performed in Kioi hall in Japan as selected one of the Excellent Pianists in the Graduate Concert of TOHO Gakuen High School of Music. In 2010, she performed in Hamarikyu hall in Japan as selected one of the Excellent Pianists in the Graduate Concert of TOHO Gakuen School of Music. She studied with Yasuo Watanabe, William Ransom, Keiko Takeuchi and Bernd Goetzke.
The Music Program will include a selection from the following:
Miwa Hoyano, Piano - JAPAN
F. Liszt - Piano Concerto No.2
J.S.Bach - Chromatic fantasy and Fugue in D Minor BWV.903
J.S.Bach - Cantata BWV.208 Sheep may safely graze
F. Chopin - Ballade No.4 in F Minor op.52
F. Chopin - Waltz op.64-2,
F. Chopin - Fantasy impromptu
M. Ravel - La Valse
C. Debussy - Claire de lune, Arabesque No.1
W.A. Mozart - Fasil say Turkish March
Cho Hyun Park, Piano - SOUTH KOREA
F. Chopin - Scherzo in E Major, No. 4, Op. 54 11’
S. Prokofiev Sonata No. 7 in Bb Major, Op. 83
I. Allegro inquieto 9’
II. Andante caloroso 7’
III. Precipitato 4’
Bela Bartok Sonata, Sz. 80
I. Allegro moderato 4 30”
II. Sostenuto e pesante 4’
III. Allegro molto 3 30”
Annette Scholten, Lame Sonore and Nanke Flach, Piano - HOLLAND
P. Casals - Pablo Song of the Birds 4 20”
S. Rachmaninov - Sergei Vocalise, op. 34 nr. 14 4 30”
S. Rachmaninov - Do not sing to me, beautiful maiden, Op. 4 nr. 4 4 55”
C. Debussy -Claude Clair de lune 5 40”
E. Satie - Gymnopédie nr. 1 4 50”
P.J. Tchaikovsky - Nocturne op. 19 nr. 4 6’
F. Chopin - Nocturne op. 32 nr. 2 6’
Audrey Yamamoto, Piano - JAPAN
A. Scriabin - Fantasy Op.28
F. Chopin - Ballade No.3 Op.47
F. Chopin - Ballade No.1 Op.23