Kingsville International Competition 2005 results.

Jonathan Ware, a 20 year-old pianist from Dallas, Texas, won first place in the 2005 Kingsville International Young Performers Competitions. Ware will receive a total of $5,900 cash and will perform with the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra during its 2005-2006 season. Ware is presently studying with Natalya Antonova at The Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.

The 24th annual competition awarded more than $25,000 in prizes to young instrumental performers under age 26. There were 230 entries in eight different contests. One hundred thirty-five contestants were invited to participate in the competitions. Contestants represented 42 music schools and 14 foreign countries. The youngest contestant entered was 10 years old; the oldest 25.

Second-place winner in the final competition was 19-year-old clarinetist Georgiy Borisov from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Borisov will receive $3,000 in total prizes and will perform with the Corpus Christi Wind Symphony during its 2005-2006 season. Borisov is studying with Nathan Williams who teaches at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan.

Third-place winner in the final competition was 20-year-old violinist, Celeste Golden, from Dallas, Texas. Golden received $3,200 in total prizes. She studies with Ida Kavafian and Jaime Laredo who teach at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Three contestants received Honorable Mentions in the final competition. The contestants were: Sun-A Park, 17-year-old pianist, a student of Yoheved Kaplinsky at the Juilliard preparatory program in New York City; Sarah Lynn Roberts, 23-year-old saxophonist, a student of Eric Nestler at the University of North Texas in Denton; and Charles Yang, 16-year-old violinist, from Austin, Texas, who studies with Brian Lewis (University of Texas- Austin), Kurt Sassmannshaus and Sha Zhu.

Winners in the Isabel Scionti Piano Solo Competitions, which are held simultaneously with the concerto competitions, were Leo Benjamin Svirsky, 16, from Potomac, Maryland, who won the Precollege Piano Solo First Place and Jiyeon Shin, 18, from Oberlin Conservatory in Oberlin, Ohio. Svirsky studies with Irena Orlov, who teaches at Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C.; Shin studies with Haewon Song.

Judges for the competition included Evelyne Brancart and Kemal Gekic, piano; Royce Lumpkin, brass; Brooks de Wetter-Smith, woodwinds; and William Barbini and Gilberto Munguia, bowed instruments.

For more information about the Kingsville International Competitions, visit www.KingsvilleMusic.com.