Corpus Christi Piano competition winners.The Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, in Christianity Corpus Christi [Lat.,=body of Christ], feast of the Western Church, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday (or on the following Sunday). International Competition for Piano 2004 winners recently were announced. The first-place Mary Hope Brennecke Award of $5,000 was given to Anna Polusmiak from Northern Kentucky, whose teacher is Sergei Polusmiak Sergei Polusmiak, "Honored Artist of Ukraine", Artist in Residence, is the Tom and Christine Neyer Family Professor of Music at Northern Kentucky University. He is first prize winner in the Lysenko International Music Competition. . The second-place winner (Morris L. Lichtenstein, Jr. Award) and third-place winner were Alexander Seredenko, from Richmond Hills, Ontario, Canada, who received $2,500 and whose teacher is Valerie Tryon Valerie Tryon is a British-born pianist, now residing in Canada. Her international concert tours have been reviewed by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Daily Telegraph (London), BBC Music Magazine, The Times (London), The Globe and Mail (Toronto). , and Gabriela Martinez, from The Juilliard School Juilliard School Internationally renowned school of the performing arts in New York, New York, U.S. It has its roots in the Institute of Musical Art (founded 1905) and a graduate school (1924) founded through an endowment from the financier Augustus D. , who received $1,000 and whose teacher is Yoheved Kaplinsky, respectively. The fourth-, fifth- and sixth-place winners, who each received $500, were Di Wu from The Curtis Institute, who studies with Gary Graffman; Daria Rabotkina from Mannes College of Music Mannes College The New School For Music is a music conservatory located in New York City, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Mannes is considered one of the leading music conservatories internationally, unique in its small size and rigorous musicianship training. , whose teacher is Vladimir Fehsman; and Mana Tokuna from Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, who studies with Victor Rosenbaum, respectively. Also, receiving the Leo Sirota Memorial Piano Solo Award were Tokuna and Alexander Seredenko. |
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