CLIBURN AMATEUR SPOTLIGHT
CLIBURN AMATEUR SPOTLIGHT CONCLUDED ON MAY 29, 2020. ENJOY ALL THE FEATURED PERFORMANCES BELOW. Performances also available on Facebook and Youtube.
Our amateur pianists hold a special place in the Cliburn Family. Their commitment to music and music-making is extraordinary, as is their talent. The 2020 Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition has been rescheduled to 2022, but that won’t stop us from celebrating them.
Deirbhile Brennan
Accountant from Dublin, Ireland
Age 50
JANÁČEK Piano Sonata 1.X.1905, “From the Street”
Dominique Salloum
CEO, Artificial Intelligence Industry from Cormontreuil, France representing France & Lebanon
Age 50
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, op. 13 (III)
BACH Italian Concerto, BWV 971 (II)
Aaron Miller
Academic Administrator from Los Angeles, California
Age 39
HAYDN Sonata in A-flat Major, Hob. XVI:46 (I)
POULENC Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (I) (with Nicholas Kim, clarinet)
Youjin Hong
Psychiatrist from Gangneung, South Korea
Age 39
CHOPIN Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, op. 58 (I)
Hajime Kobayashi
Management Consultant from Niza, Japan
Age 54
TAKEMITSU Rain Tree Sketch II
Miriam Berro
Software Engineer from Montréal, Canada representing Argentina & Canada
Age 62
CHOPIN Ballade No. 2 in F Major, op. 38
DEBUSSY Feux d’artifice
Stephen Bertges
Retired Sales and Marketing Executive from El Dorado Hills, California
Age 68
BACH-BUSONI “Chaconne” from Partita No. 2 for Violin, BWV 1004
Dmytro Vynogradov
Business Development Manager from Kyiv, Ukraine
Age 50
CHOPIN Etudes, op. 10, nos. 4 and 5
LISZT-BUSONI La campanella
LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 8
Matthew Barnhill
Accountant from Charlotte, North Carolina
Age 36
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 16 in G Major, op. 31, no. 1 (I)
Luis Alberto Bernhard
Retinal Angiographer from Miami, Florida
representing Honduras & the United States
Age 70
SCARLATTI Sonata in E Major, K. 380
VILLA-LOBOS Impressões seresteiras
LISZT Harmonies du soir from Transcendental Etudes
Keiko Kircher
College Physics Instructor from Champaign, Illinois
representing the United States & Japan
Age 39
RAVEL Sonatine
Eladio Santiago
President & CEO, Advisory Investment Management
from West Friendship, Maryland
Age 56
CHOPIN Polonaise in A-flat Major, op. 53 (“Heroic”)
Richard Reid
Software Engineer from Cary, North Carolina
Age 69
CHOPIN Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, op. 58
Anna Antimiichuk
Marketing Communications Professional
from London, England representing Russia & the United Kingdom
Age 37
MOZART Sonata No. 13 in B-flat Major, K. 333 (I)
Michael Slavin
Retired Neuro-ophthalmologist from Manhasset, New York
Age 69
RAVEL “Noctuelles” from Miroirs
LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12
Eiji Yoshimura
Director of Business Planning, Semiconductor Sales from Tokyo, Japan
Age 47
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 21 in C Major, op. 53 (“Waldstein”) (I)
Sean Sutherland
Product Manager from Montréal, Canada
representing Saint Vincent and the Grenadines & Canada
Age 43
RAVEL La valse
Vivienne Fleischer
Ergonomics & Wellness Consultant from Brooklyn, New York
Age 56
RACHMANINOV Étude-tableau in E-flat Minor, op. 39, no. 5
SANCAN Toccata
Heesun Joyce Rogers
Physician from North Royalton, Ohio
Age 56
HAYDN Sonata in A-flat Major, Hob. XVI:46 (I)
Saffet Bayka
Retired Electrical Engineer from Ankara, Turkey
Age 61
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 3 in C Major, op. 2 (III, IV)
Hiroko Toya
Attorney from Tokyo, Japan
Age 63
BACH Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, BWV 903
Irene Longacre-Whiteside
Executive Assistant from Arlington, Texas
Age 64
PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, op. 14 (IV)
Barbara Roeser-Liebech
Dermatologist from Bad Arolsen, Germany
Age 64
BRAHMS Capriccio in F-sharp Minor, op. 76, no. 1
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 30 in E Major, op. 109 (I)
BRAHMS Capriccio in C-sharp Minor, op. 76, no. 5
Xavier Aymonod
Marketing Director – Public Transportation from Paris, France
Age 44
BACH Fantasia in C Minor, BWV 906
HOROWITZ Variations on a Theme from Bizet’s Carmen
Ipek Bozkurt
Professor from Seabrook, Texas, representing Turkey & the U.S.
Age 40
SCHUBERT Impromptu in E-flat Major, op. 90, no. 2
CHOPIN Etude in F Minor, op. 25, no. 2
Eugene Lee
CEO – Technology Entrepreneur from Palo Alto, California
Age 57
CHOPIN Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, op. 52
Jorge Zamora
Business Development Director from Huixquilucan, Mexico
Age 47
LISZT Ballade No. 2 in B Minor
Robert Finley
Retired Electronics Engineer from Northborough, Massachusetts
Age 69
CHOPIN Etude in A-flat Major, op. 25, no. 1
FAURÉ Impromptu No. 3 in A-flat Major, op. 34
DEBUSSY “Golliwog’s Cakewalk” from Children’s Corner
Yuka Otohata
Marketing Operations Professional from Tokyo, Japan
Age 49
BACH Italian Concerto, BWV 971
Noah DeGarmo
Physician from Dallas, Texas
Age 42
PROKOFIEV Sarcasms, op. 17, nos. 1 & 4
Kathy Abrahamson
Nurse Practitioner from Arlington, Texas
Age 58
CHOPIN Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, op. 23
John Gutheil
CEO – Medical Oncologist from San Diego, California, representing the U.S. & U.K.
Age 63
BACH Sinfonia No. 15 in B Minor, BWV 801
BACH Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C-sharp Major, BWV 848
CHOPIN Etude in G-flat Major, op. 10, no. 5 (“Black Key”)
James Rosenblum
Attorney from Harwich, Massachusetts – Age 39
CHOPIN Polonaise in A-flat Major, op. 53 (“Heroic”)
Diane Austin
Retired Biostatistician from Fort Worth, Texas – Age 65
BRAHMS Klavierstücke, op. 118, nos. 2 & 3
Simon Finlow
Retired IT Project Manager from Washington, D.C., representing the U.S. & U.K. – Age 64
RAVEL Jeux d’eau
PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, op. 83 (III)
Hideko Tazawa
Supply Chain Manager from Tokyo, Japan – Age 63
LISZT Les jeux d’eaux a la Villa d’Estes
Julien Bedon
System Simulation Engineer living in Yokohama, Japan (representing France) – Age 38
CHOPIN Rondo in C Minor, op. 1
Xiao Chen
Professor of Management living in Charlottetown, Canada (representing China) – Age 41
JIANZHONG WANG Five Folk Tunes of Yunnan
Rie Moore
Translator from Lexington Park, Maryland (representing Japan) – Age 45
BACH Prelude from English Suite No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 807
Ferdy Talan
Realtor from West New York, New Jersey (representing Indonesia) – Age 36
GUBAIDULINA Chaconne
Adrienne Johnson
Playwright from Minneapolis, Minnesota – Age 65
RAVEL Ondine
Ken Iisaka
Software Engineer from Foster City, California (representing Japan/Canada) – Age 51
CHOPIN Barcarolle in F-sharp Minor, op. 60
FILIPPO TRESCA
International Tax Consultant from Barletta, Italy – Age 38
LISZT Funérailles
Masanori Murakami
Clinical Research Associate from Tokyo, Japan – Age 35
LISZT Spanish Rhapsody
BILL EVANS Waltz for Debby