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Amateur Competition winners perform special recital

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Hosted on April 28, 2012 as part of the Foundation's year-long 50th Anniversary celebration, the Cliburn presented a special concert featuring International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs™ winners Michael Hawley (2002, First Prize), Drew Mays (2007, First Prize), Christopher Shih (2011, First Prize), and Clark Griffith (2011, Second Prize). Following the performance, all guests were cordially invited to a reception at Michael's Cuisine Restaurant (3413 West 7th Street, Fort Worth, Texas) to meet the artists.

View photos of the event here.

PROGRAM
Michael J. Hawley (2002)
Godowsky: Renaissance
Sarabande in E Major (after Jeasn-Philippe Rameau)
Sarabande in E Minor (after Jean-Baptiste Lully)
Bach-Rachmaninoff: "Gavotte" from Suite from Partita in E Major for Violin
Bach: Prelude and Fugue No. 5 in D Major, BWV 874 from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
Bach-Hawley: Fugue for Organ in G Major, BWV 577

Drew Mays (2007)
Beethoven: Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110

Christopher Shih (2011) & Clark Griffith (2007, 2011)
Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals