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International Piano Competition and Festival at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music July 21-29 *Editors please note: A schedule of public events is included. July 12 , 2007 -- The 13th annual Oberlin International Piano Competition and Festival, sponsored by the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College, will be held from Sunday, July 21, through Sunday, July 29, 2007, at the Conservatory. Directed by Oberlin Professor of Piano Robert Shannon, the competition is for pianists between the ages of 13 and 18 who were chosen following a preliminary taped audition round. This year’s competition includes participants from Canada, China, Cyprus, Korea, Taiwan, and the United States, and features the largest first-prize award for an international youth piano competition: a $10,000 cash prize plus orchestral engagements in Beijing and Hong Kong, China. New to the competition this year is a concerto round for the competition finalists, the results of which will be weighted toward the competition’s final outcome. The competition’s final round, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Warner Concert Hall Saturday, July 28, at 8 p.m. and broadcast live on 104.9 FM WCLV, Cleveland’s classical music radio station. Robert Conrad, co-founder and president of WCLV, is master of ceremonies; broadcaster Jacqueline Gerber, of WCLV’s morning show First Program, is the on-air host. Audience members attending the finals round concert can vote for their favorite performer; the pianist garnering the most votes will receive a $100 prize. Finalists will also be competing for prizes ranging from the first through sixth award levels. Of the pianists who travel to Oberlin to compete, 12 to 16 will be selected from a first performance round and will advance to the second live round of competition. Up to six pianists remaining after the second live round will perform in the concerto round and the competition finals. Warner Concert Hall, located at 77 West College Street, at the corner of Professor and West College streets, is wheelchair-accessible, and is the site of free, public recitals associated with the festival. Members of the piano festival faculty are renowned professors from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and distinguished guest artists. They will offer private lessons, master classes, recitals, and lectures throughout the week that will provide festival participants with intensive and in-depth opportunities to expand their knowledge of music history, theory, and pedagogy, as well as the vital connection of those three elements to on-stage performance. Final round judges for the competition are Oberlin Professors of Piano Sanford Margolis and Monique Duphil, who will be joined by festival guest artists Malcolm Bilson, Visiting Professor of Historical Keyboards at the Eastman School of Music; Christopher Elton, Head of Keyboard at the Royal Academy of Music, London; Jerome Lowenthal, faculty member at the Juilliard School; and David Starobin, Founder and Director of Bridge Records and Chair of the Guitar Department at the Manhattan School of Music. Included among the judges for the concerto round is Tao Fan, principal conductor of China’s National Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra. More information about the competition and festival is available by calling Anna Hoffmann at 440-775-8044 or by visiting www.oberlin.edu/con/summer/piano. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, founded in 1865 and situated amid the intellectual vitality of Oberlin College since 1867, is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. Renowned internationally as a professional music school of the highest caliber and pronounced a “national treasure” by the Washington Post, Oberlin’s alumni have gone on to achieve illustrious careers in all aspects of the serious music world. Its students and alumni have won top prizes in numerous international piano competitions, among them the Van Cliburn, the Fryderyk Chopin, the Queen Elisabeth, the Arthur Rubinstein, the Walter W. Naumberg, the Unisa International (South Africa), the American Pianists Association Classical Fellowship, the World Piano Competition, the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition, and the Busoni Competition. The Conservatory’s collection of 1,700 period and modern musical instruments includes 200 Steinway grand pianos. Oberlin, an All-Steinway School, is Steinway & Sons’ oldest continuous client, with a relationship dating back nearly 130 years. 2007 Oberlin International Piano Competition and Festival NOTE: ALL VENUES ARE LOCATED WITHIN THE CONSERVATORY Schedule of Events Saturday, July 21 at 8 p.m. Monday, July 23 at 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 24 at 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 25 at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 25 at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 25 at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 25 at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, July 26 at 9 a.m. Thursday, July 26 at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 26 at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 26 at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 26 at 3:15 p.m. Thursday, July 26 at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 26 at 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 27 at 9 a.m. Friday, July 27 at 10 a.m. Friday, July 27 at 11 a.m. Friday, July 27 at 1 p.m. Friday, July 27 at 2:45 p.m. Friday, July 27 at 4:30 p.m. Friday, July 27 at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 28 at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, July 28 at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 28 at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, July 28 at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, July 28, at 8 p.m. Sunday, July 29 at 10:30 a.m. - ### - Media Contacts: Marci Janas < back to current press releases
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