36th Deborah Kahan Competition Winners Circle

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This year’s distinguished adjudicators were :

 

Piano Section: Mr. Randall Hodgkinson and Dr. Lois Shapiro      

String Section: Mr. Jaroslaw Lis and Ms. Naoko Tanaka.

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Piano Winners

Avigail Kohl...Chopin : Valse Op. 64-2

Mirah Chang...Debussy : Dr. Gradus ad Parnassum

Giora Nadav...Beethoven : Sonata Op. 10-1, I mov.

Eric Jansa...Ginastera : Rondo Special Award

Lina Elwood...Poulenc : Toccata

Abigail Chang...J.S.Bach : Well-Tempered Clavier, C minor BWV847

Avery Cotton...Chopin : Etude Op.10-12

Shalev Weber..Rachmaninoff : Prelude in E flat major, Op. 23-6

Melody Cui...Ravel : Alborada del gracioso

Stephanie Chang...Beethoven : Sonata Op. 7 I mov. Special Award

 

Honorable Mention

Tina Zhang

Aiden Scwaller

Ahan Ghosh-Rao

Keshav Kaushik Gopal

Anna Fiorito

Jeffrey Liang

 

Strings Winners

Yuanmei Zhao...Vivaldi : Concerto Op. 3 RV356 I.

Mindy Zhao...Saint-Saens : Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Op. 28

Nicole Razhansky...Wieniawski : Concerto #2 Op. 22 I mov.

Willa Brasch...J. S. Bach : Sonata in g, BWV1001, II Fuga

 

Honorable Mention

Isabella Mariani

Zach Bishop

 

Teachers of Winners

Yoshie Akimoto, Svitlana Fiorito, Kumiko Imamura, Dan Nadav, Benjamin Steinhardt (piano)

Teri Einfeldt, Marina Kitaychik (strings)

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Congratulations to all the winners and participating teachers!

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2020 Festival Audition Results

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First place:

        Ryan Ismael Bakkali
        Abigail Chang
        Mirah Chang
        Eric Chen
        Thomas Fanelli
        Jackson Jansa
        Christy Lai
        Wilbert Sullivan
        Alexander Svoronos
        Nathan Stanislavsky
        Sarah Whitney
        Juliana Yang

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Teachers of first place winners:

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Kumiko Imamura

 Victoria Markova

Amy Schumann-Griswold

Edith Sullivan

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Congratulations to all participants!

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