THE COMPETITORS ef the Ninth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition NAME COUNTRY AGE Mark Anderson United States 29 Hiroshi Arimori Japan 26 Andrew Armstrong United States 19 Armen Babakhanian Armenia 25 Fabio Bidini Italy 24 Frederic Chiu United States 28 Francesco Cipolletta Italy 23 Read Gainsford New Zealand 30 Alan Gampel United States 29 Kirill Gliadkovsky Russia 25 Jennifer Cecilia Hayghe United States 23 Ilya Itin Russia 26 Alexander Korsantiya Georgia 28 Valery Kuleshov Russia 30 Petronel Malan South Africa 20 Jura Margulis Germany 24 I Alexander Melnikov Russia 20 • I Laura Mikkola Finland 19 Lorraine Min canada 23 ' Edoard Monteiro Brazil 26 I Enrico Pace Italy 25 HaeSun Paik Korea 27 j Shirley Hsiao-Ni Pan canada 26 I Simone Pedroni Italy 24 Richard Raymond canada 27 I Veronica Reznikovskaya Russia 26 ' I Johan Schmidt Belgium 28 ' Graham Scott United Kingdom 26 I Margarita Shevchenko Russia 25 Connie Shih canada 19 • Sergei Tarasov Russia 22 • Christopher Taylor United States 23 I Fran~ois Weigel France 29 •I • Andreas Woyke Germany 27 ' •' I Mikhail Yanovitsky Resident of the United States 28 ' ' ~ I J I •I ' j ' I' 92 , MARK ANDERSON United States, age 29 Address: 1957 Greenwood Road Pleasanton, cal ifornia 94566 Competitions and Awards: 1992 International Music Competition of Japan, Third Prize 1992 Busoni International Piano Competition, Third Prize 1988 GPA Dublin International Piano Competition, Fourth Prize I • Professional Training: I 1987-89 Royal Northern College of Music, England • 1983-87 San Jose State University • Teachers: • 1987-89 Ryszard Bakst • 1988 Benjamin Kaplan • 1983 Aiko Onishi 1974-81 Trula Whelan Mark Anderson has performed • recitals in France, Germany, Holland, • Poland, Russia, England, Ireland, I canada and the United States. His • • ~ > RELUi/; .. r-;ARIES performances have been broadcast I ••• ••••••• •••• •• • ••• •• • •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • ••••••••••• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• throughout Great Britain on the BBC • uebuss·.,, Radio 3 and twice throughout canada • from Preludes, Book II I Les fees sont d' exquises danseuses on the CBC. He has appeared as soloist with the Tokyo Metropolitan • On dine Orchestra, the Peninsula Symphony in • Feux d'artifice cal ifomia, the Haydn Orchestra in • Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableau in E-flat minor, Op. 33, No. 6 l Etude-Tableau in E-flat major, Op. 33, No. 7 Italy, the RTE Symphony in Dublin's I Liszt Transcendental Etude No. 5, FeuxJollets National Concert Hall, and in Montreal Schumann Fantasy in C major, Op. 17 with the Orchestre Metropolitan. In 198 7 Mr. Anderson was awarded a SEMIFINALS Fulbright Scholarship for study in • ••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• England . • Chamber Music • Scl1uma11n Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44 • - Recital Program - Beethoven Sonata in A major, Op. 101 Scht1mann Toccata, Op. 7 - Gould Ghost Waltzes for Piano Brahn1s Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5 FINALS •••••• •••• •••• •• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 Bral1ms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 93 I HIROSHI ARIMORI Ji Japan. age 26 Address: 12-23, 1-chome, Mihan1a-cl10 Okayama, Japan 702 Competitions and Awards: 1992 Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia, Fourth Prize Professional Training: 1985 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts .and Music Teachers: 1973-85 Toshiko Nogami 1983 Hitoshi Kobayashi 1979 Yuzo Mizumoto • . --· .. I . " . Hiroshi Arimori has performed with PRELIMINARIES the Polish Radio National Symphony •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••• ••••••••••••••••••••• Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Chopin Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49 Orchestra, and tl1e Sydney Symphony Debussy Feux d'artifice,ftom Preludes, Book II Orchestra. He has toured in recital Rachmaninoff Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42 throughout Japan-in Tokyo, Osaka, Liszt Mephisto Waltz, No. 1 Okayama and Iwaki-City-as well as in Poland and Australia. A five-time SEMIFINALS first prizewinner of the Sanyo student ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ••••••••••• ••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••• competition in Japan, M.r. Arimori also Chamber Music received special recognition in the Mozart Piano Quartet in E-flat major, K. 493 Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition in 1990. He gave his first Recital Program public performance when he was Poulenc Theme varie seven years old, and makes his North Liszt Sonata in B minor American debut in the Ninth Van Gould Ghost Waltzes for Piano Cliburn International Piano Faure Nocturne No. 2 in B major, Op. 33, No. 2 Competition. Balakirev Islamey FINALS ··································· ··· ··· ·· ·············· · ·· · ·······················································~··· ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 • 94 ANDREW ARMSTRONG United States, age 19 Address: 545 West 111 th Street New York, New York 10025 competitions and Awards: 1992 New York Federation of Music Clubs, First Prize 1992 Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition, First Prize 1992 Kingsville International Performer's Competition, I Grand Prize, First Prize I" I l ' Professional Training: I 1992-93 Columbia University • 1.988-93 Hoff-Barthelson Music School, Scarsdale • Teachers: 1988-93 • Miyoko Nakaya Lotto ... - _... .... .. .. -· . 1981-88 Bebe Rhode • Andrew Armstrong has toured in • recital throughout the United States, • including appearances at Carnegie • ~:">RELlf;\:. ~::;_,<\.RIES Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Steinway · ·· ··········· · · · ~ , - ...•....•...•....••..••••.••.••.••••....••..•..•.•..••..•.••..•.•••••...••••••.•.•••••••.•...••....•..•.•...........•.•••..•..••.........•...• Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Woolsey ::-Iaydn Sonata in B minor, Hob. XVI/32 and Sprague Halls at Yale University, Kinzoku Hall in Tokyo, and the • ~.. iszt Transcendental Etude No . .9, Ricordanza ' Persichc:;:' ! Sonata No. 3, Op. 22 Bolshoi Hall of the Moscow I (~hop in Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 Conservatory. He has been soloist •I I with the Philhar1nonia Virtuosi •I I SEMIFINALS Chamber Orchestra at Lincoln Center's •I ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Alice Tully Hall. the New Haven t Chamber Music Symphony, the Richardson Symphony • Franck Piano Quintet in F minor in Texas, and the Shanghai Symphony in the People's Republic of China. Mr. Recital Program Armstrong was born in Detroit and l Beethoven Sonata in F major, Op. 54 now makes his home in New York. Gould Ghost Waltzes for Piano Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22 Liszt Ballade No. 2 in B minor I• Prokofiev Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14 I FINALS ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488 Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major l t 95 ARMEN BABAKHANIAN Armenia, age 25 Address: Rostovian Street 19 • 1., .. • Apartment 15 375008 Yerevan, Ar111enia Competitions and Awards: 1991 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Second Prize 1989 Pancho Vladigerov International Piano Competition, Sofia, Bulgaria, First Prize Professional Training: 1985-92 Yerevan Conservatory of Music 1973-85 Tchaikovsky Special Music School Teachers: 1982-92 - . J - Anal1it Bogdanian Armen Babakhanian has performed recitals in the United States, Russia, Armenia, Bulgaria, Gennany and PRELIMINARIES Austria. He has toured Austria with ································································•·······•············•····•·•····•·•··•···•··•····••··········•·•··•······ · ·· · ····· · ·· · ······- ~ ······ the Armenian State Symphony Bach - Busoni Chaconne in D minorftom Partita No. 2 for ~~.::: 1. 0 Violi 1) , Orchestra, and has also appeared as BWV 1004 soloist with the Sofia Philharmonic Franck Prelude, Chorale et Fugue Orchestra in Bulgaria, the St. Berg Sonata, Op. 1 Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra Babadganian Poem for Piano in C-sharp major (fonnerly tl1e Leningrad Philhar111onic), and the Utah SEMIFINALS Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber ·······················································~···························································· · ··························· · ··~····· · ··········· musician, he has also appeared in the Chamber Music United States with the Lark String Franck Piano Quintet in F minor Quartet. His recently released recital ' recording is available on the Melodiya Recital Program label. Beethoven Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 27, No. 1 Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Gould Ghost Waltzes for Piano FINALS •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a