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| The Winners of the 10th Annual International
Piano Competition
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| Wang Da, a 17-year-old pianist from Shenyang, China, is the first-prize winner of the 10 th Annual Oberlin International Piano Competition, held Saturday evening, July 31, in the Conservatory's Warner Concert Hall. He received a cash award of $4,000. Second prize and $1,500 went to the Korean-born Sejoon Park, a 14-year-old who now lives with his family in Falls Church, Virginia. The third place award of $1,000 went to Sun-A Park, 16. Originally from Korea, she now lives with her family in Little Ferry, New Jersey.
Kei Niedra, 14, of North Ridgeville, Ohio, and Hyo Kyun Shin, from Seoul, Korea, shared the fourth place prize, and each received $500. Niedra also won the audience favorite award of $100. Ying Cheng Yang, 17, of Shenyang, China, took fifth place; she received $200. No sixth place prize was awarded. Wang Da secured his first place award by performing the first movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Sonata no. 2, op. 36, Franz Haydn's Sonata in E major, Hob. XVI/31, and the first movement of Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata no. 6 . His teachers include Rosemary Platt and Quming Zhang; he will continue his studies in fall 2004 at the Juilliard School. Second-place winner Sejoon Park performed three works by Frédéric Chopin: the opus 25, number 7 Etude , the opus 31 in B minor Scherzo (number 2), and Etude, op. 10, no. 4 . Park concluded his program with Rachmaninoff's Etudes-Tableaux , op. 33, nos. 2 and 8 , and the prelude and sarabande from Claude Debussy's Pour le piano . Sun-A Park, who came in third, offered Ludwig van Beethoven's Eroica Variations (up to the fugue), and Book II of the Paganini Variations by Johannes Brahms. Audience favorite Kei Niedra, who shared fourth place with Hyo Kyun Shin, played two works by Franz Liszt: the Concert Paraphrase of Rigoletto and Liebestraum, followed by Haydn's Sonata, Hob. 52 (the allegro movement), the first movement of Igor Stravinsky's Trois mouvements de Petrouchka, and Chopin's Polonaise, op. 53 in A-flat major . Shin performed the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata op. 10, no. 3 in D major, Rachmaninoff's Etudes-Tableaux no. 6, op. 38 in A minor, Chopin's Ballade no. 2 in F major, op. 38, and Liszt's Concert Paraphrase of Rigoletto. Ying Cheng Yang played the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata op. 57 (the “Appassionata”), Brahms' Variation on a Theme by Paganini , Book II, op. 35, and Rhapsodie Espagnole, S. 254, by Liszt. Judges for the finals round were Oberlin professors Angela Cheng, Monique Duphil, and Sanford Margolis; John Perry, professor of keyboard studies at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California; Emeritus Professor of Piano Joseph Schwartz; Dean of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music David Stull; and Robert Weirich, holder of the Jack Strandberg Missouri Endowed Chair of Piano at the University of Missouri in Kansas City Conservatory of Music. Weirich is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, as is the Dean of the Conservatory, David Stull. All but one of the finalists performed on Oberlin's Hannan Hamburg Steinway; Hyo Kyun Shin chose the New York Steinway. The finals round was broadcast live on 104.9 WCLV, northeast Ohio's classical music station, and simulcast on the internet at wclv.com. President of WCLV, Robert Conrad, served as emcee for the evening.
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