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Anne-Marie McDermott

Anne-Marie McDermott – United States

Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott is a consummate artist who balances a versatile career as a soloist and collaborator. She performs over 100 concerts a year in a combination of solo recitals, concerti and chamber music. Her repertoire choices are eclectic, spanning from Bach and Haydn to Prokofiev and Scriabin to Kernis, Hartke, Tower and Wuorinen. 
 
With over 50 concerti in her repertoire, Ms. McDermott has performed with many leading orchestra including the New York Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Seattle Symphony, National Symphony, Houston Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi,  Hong Kong Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, New Jersey Symphony and Baltimore Symphony among others. Ms. McDermott has toured with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Moscow Virtuosi. 
 
In the recent seasons, Ms. McDermott performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, North Carolina Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Huntsville Symphony, Alabama Symphony, San Diego Symphony, the Oregon Mozart Players, and  the New Century Chamber Orchestra. 
 
Recital engagements have included the 92nd Street Y, Alice Tully Hall, Town Hall,  The Schubert Club, Kennedy Center, as well as universities across the country. Anne-Marie McDermott has curated and performed in a number of intense projects including: the Complete Prokofiev Piano Sonatas and Chamber Music, a Three Concert Series of Shostakovich Chamber Music, as well as a recital series of Haydn and Beethoven Piano Sonatas. Most recently, she commissioned works of Charles Wuorinen and Clarice Assad  which were premiered in May 2009 at Town Hall, in conjunction with Bach’s Goldberg Variations. 
As a soloist, Ms. McDermott has recorded the complete Prokofiev Piano Sonatas, Bach English Suites and Partitas (which was named Gramophone Magazine’s Editor’s Choice), and most recently, Gershwin Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra with the Dallas Symphony and Justin Brown. 
 
In addition to her many achievements, Anne-Marie McDermott has been named the Artistic Director of the famed Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado, which hosts the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony  in addition to presenting over 40 chamber music concerts throughout the summer.  She is also Artistic Director of two new Festivals; The Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival and The Avila Chamber Music Celebration in Curacao. 
 
As a chamber music performer, Anne-Marie McDermott was named an artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 1995 and performs and tours extensively with CMS each season. She continues a long standing collaboration with the highly acclaimed violinist, Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg.  As a duo, they have released a CD titled “Live” on the NSS label and plan to release the Complete Brahms Violin and Piano Sonatas in the future. Ms. McDermott is also a member of the renowned piano quartet, Opus One, with colleagues Ida Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom and Peter Wiley.  
 
She continues to perform each season with her sisters, Maureen McDermott and Kerry McDermott in the McDermott Trio. Ms. McDermott has also released an all Schumann CD with violist, Paul Neubauer, as well as the Complete Chamber Music of Debussy with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. 
 
Ms. McDermott studied at the Manhattan School of Music with Dalmo Carra, Constance Keene and John Browning. She was a winner of the Young Concert Artists auditions and was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. 
 
Ms. McDermott regularly performs at Festivals across the United States including, Spoleto, Mainly Mozart, Sante Fe, La Jolla Summerfest, Mostly Mozart, Newport, Caramoor, Bravo, Chamber Music Northwest, Aspen, Music from Angelfire, and the Festival Casals in Puerto Rico, among others.

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Anna Kesselman

ANNA KESSELMAN

United States  I  15

Anna Kesselman has studied with Natela Mchedlishvili since she was 5 years old. A New York native, she attends the Special Music School High School at Kaufman Music Center, has performed at both Carnegie Weill Recital Hall and Merkin Hall, and has placed in three U.S.-based competitions. Anna was a co-author of the book Who is Florence Price?, published by G. Schirmer, and presented and performed Price’s music with her fellow co-authors in several New York City libraries and halls, as well as Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.She also serves on the Ambassadors Club at her school, which helps support and promote the Center’s programs through volunteering. Other hobbies include reading and painting.

 

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Anna Geniushene

Anna Geniushene

Russia  |  Age 31

Born in Moscow on New Year’s Day in 1991, Anna Geniushene made her recital debut just seven years later in the small hall of the Berlin Philharmonic. She has since developed a diverse and versatile career as an artist: performances in major world venues such as the Town Hall in Leeds, National Concert Hall in Dublin, Museum of Arts in Tel Aviv, the Konzerthaus ‘Neue Welt,’ Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, and Sala Greppi in Milan; a dedication to chamber music, including duo piano repertoire with her husband, Lukas Geniušas, and close collaboration with Quartetto di Cremona; and the creation of her own festival of collaborative music-making (NikoFest).

During the pandemic, Anna’s penchant for creativity manifested in online projects, such as a series of online recitals for the Vancouver Chopin Society, participation in the “Armchairs Season” of the Moscow Philharmonic, and recording sessions for the ConSpirito music channel on YouTube. Her debut CD was released on LINN Records in March 2020.

A laureate of major international piano contests, she has had strong finishes at the Leeds, Tchaikovsky, Busoni, and Dublin Competitions. She sees her participation in the Cliburn as a “dream,” as an “opportunity to be part of a very friendly community, to find a new audience, and to challenge myself.”

Anna graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2015, and completed her Master’s with Distinction and Advanced Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music (London) in 2018. She has also been one of the elite Bicentenary Scholars at the Academy under the tutelage of Christopher Elton.

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REPERTOIRE

Preliminary Round

HAYDN Sonata in D Major, Hob. XVI:42
HOUGH Fanfare Toccata
RACHMANINOV Études-tableaux, op. 33

Quarterfinal Round

BRAHMS Four Ballades, op. 10
BARTÓK Sonata, Sz. 80

Semifinal Round – Recital

BEETHOVEN Seven Bagatelles, op. 33
VERDI–LISZT Danza sacra e duetto finale d’Aida
PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 8 in B-flat Major, op. 84

Semifinal Round – Mozart concerto

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 5033

Final Round – Concerto I

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, op. 15

Final Round – Concerto II

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, op. 23

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Nikita Mndoyants

NIKITA MNDOYANTS
2013 CLIBURN FINALIST
Cliburn Competition Semifinal Round Recital
(originally broadcast June 1, 2013)

PROGRAM
SCARLATTI Sonata in G Minor, K. 476
Sonata in B Minor, K. 87
Sonata in G Major, K. 125
THEOFANIDIS Birichino
DEBUSSY Selected Preludes
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

ABOUT NIKITA
The 2013 finalist has performed in many of the world’s most prestigious venues in North America, Europe, and Asia. Hailed as a “wise and thoughtful musician,” Nikita has enjoyed collaborations with conductors Charles Dutoit, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, and Bramwell Tovey; the Borodin and Escher Quartets; and violinists Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Valeriy Sokolov; amongst others. Also a well-established composer, he won top prizes at the 2014 Myaskovsky and 2016 Prokofiev International Competitions of Composers; his works are published by Composer, Muzyka, and Jurgensen; and they have been performed by violinist Daniel Hope, the Szymanowski and Zemlinsky Quartets, and the Moscow State Orchestra. He currently lives in Moscow, where he also teaches at his alma mater, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

NOBUYUKI TSUJII

NOBUYUKI TSUJII
2009 Cliburn Gold Medalist
Semifinal Recital
webcast live from Bass Performance Hall on May 31, 2009

PROGRAM
BEETHOVEN Sonata in B-flat Major, op. 106, (“Hammerklavier”)
MUSTO Improvisation & Fugue

ABOUT NOBU
Since the 2009 Cliburn, Nobu has earned the devotion of countless fans through the passion and excitement of his live performances. Long-standing collaborations with conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vasily Petrenko, and Yutako Sado have resulted in bestselling recordings for Avex, for whom he records exclusively. He travels across Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America for performances in the world’s most venerated halls, including the Royal Concertgebouw, Vienna’s Musikverein, Carnegie Hall, and Wigmore and Royal Albert Halls in London. avex.jp/tsujii/tsujii-en

NOAH DEGARMO

NOAH DEGARMO

AGE 44  I  DALLAS, TEXAS  I  UNITED STATES
PHYSICIAN

Noah DeGarmo’s lifetime goal: to be a physician who is active in music. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Cornell University, the Carlisle, Massachusetts native graduated medical school at Columbia University and completed his residency at Northwestern University. Now a respected and well-published emergency medicine physician, he holds a position at Arlington Memorial Hospital. He grew up seriously studying both the piano and oboe (he has a minor in the former from Cornell), and lamented the limited performance opportunity after college, which led to amateur competition participation (he competed in Chicago, as well as at the 2016 Cliburn Amateur). Having struggled with tendonitis since he was 18, he also has a passion for helping musicians with the prevention of performance- and practice-related injury. Currently a student of Alessandro Mazzamuto, he formed the Boulanger Piano Quintet in Dallas, composed of colleagues in medicine. They have performed at the Dallas Public Library and at the Dallas Arboretum. Dr. DeGarmo will be performing Gershwin’s Second Rhapsody as soloist with the World Doctor’s Orchestra during their October 2023 Dallas concert.

 

Repertoire

Preliminary Round

BACH–SILOTI Prelude in B Minor, BWV 855a
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, op. 109 (I)
RACHMANINOV Prelude in D Major, op. 23, no. 4

Semifinal Round 

CHOPIN Nocturne in C Minor, op. 48, no. 1
BRAHMS Intermezzo in A Major, op. 118, no. 2
PROKOFIEV Sarcasms, op. 17, nos. 1-5

Final Round 

SCHUMANN Concerto in A Minor, op. 54 (I)

Anne-Marie McDermott

ANNE-MARIE MCDERMOTT – UNITED STATES

Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott has played concertos, recitals, and chamber music in hundreds of cities throughout the world. In addition to performing, she also serves as artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Music and Ocean Reef Music Festivals, as well as Curator for Chamber Music for the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego.

The breadth of Ms. McDermott’s repertoire reaches from Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven to Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, and Scriabin, to works by today’s most influential composers. She has performed with many leading orchestras and is a long time member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center with whom she performs and tours extensively each season. In recent years, Ms. McDermott premiered and recorded a new concerto by Poul Ruders with the Vancouver Symphony, returned to play Gershwin with the New York Philharmonic at the Bravo! Vail Festival, and performed concertos with the Philadelphia Orchestra led by Sir Donald Runnicles and with Le Train Bleu. Other highlights include touring with violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and the New Century Chamber Orchestra; the complete Beethoven piano trios with Ida Kavafian and Peter Wiley; and the complete Beethoven cello sonatas with Lynn Harrell. Recent international engagements include a performance with the Sao Paulo Symphony at the Cartagena Festival and an all-Haydn recital tour of China.

Ms. McDermott gave performances of works by Charles Wuorinen in New York and Washington, D.C., in celebration of the composer’s 75th birthday. His last piano sonata was written for her and premiered at New York’s Town Hall. Ms. McDermott studied at the Manhattan School of Music and has received the Mortimer Levitt Career Development Award for Women and an Avery Fisher Career Grant. She lives in New York City with her husband, Michael, and her Maltese, Lola.

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NAOMI YAMAGUCHI

NAOMI YAMAGUCHI

United States / Japan I Age 15

Michigan-born Naomi Yamaguchi made her orchestral debut at 8 and her recital debut when she was 10. Appearances since include the Detroit Institute for the Arts, Jordan Hall, Detroit Symphony Hall, Consulate of Japan, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, and in Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Massachusetts, Switzerland, and Italy. She has several first-prize finishes to her name and has been featured on From the Top and WQXR’s Young Artist Showcase. A second-year student of Hitomi Koyama at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. She is a scholarship recipient of the Chopin Foundation of the United States, the Tatum Foundation for the Arts, and selected as the Young Artist of the Year 2017 of the Ruth Laredo Foundation. Naomi has a passion for performing at senior centers and a particular interest in the relation between music and memory in Alzheimer’s and dementia patients. She also plays clarinet in her school’s marching band.

“I believe music is a medicine. Researchers are exploring how music therapy can improve the health of their patients, including premature infants and those with Parkinson’s disease. I feel honored to have the ability to play for them, and it is my passion to help others with my music.”

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Repertoire

Preliminary Round
BACH Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp Major, BWV 872
CHOPIN Etude in G-flat Major, op. 10, no. 5 (“Black Key”)
DEBUSSY Feux d’artifice from Preludes, Book II
SCHUMANN Variations on the Name ‘Abegg,’ op. 1

Quarterfinal Round
HAYDN Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI:50 (I)
BOWEN Toccata in A Minor, op. 155
CHOPIN Nocturne in F-sharp Major, op. 15, no. 2
CHOPIN Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante, op. 22

Semifinal Round

MENOTTI Ricercare and Toccata on a theme from “The Old Maid and the Thief”

BARTÓK Hungarian Peasant Songs Nos. 1-6, Sz. 71

BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 7 in D Major, op. 10, no. 3

TANAKA Techno Etude No. 3

 

Final Round

GRIEG Concerto in A Minor, op. 16

Nathan Ryland

Nathan Ryland

Pianist Nathan Ryland, a native of Richardson, Texas, has been a winner in competitions across the United States, from the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition to the Brevard Music Center Piano Competition in North Carolina. Most recently, he was selected as the winner of the Texas State International Piano Competition and will be performing with the Central Texas Philharmonic later this season. He has performed with the Mid-Texas Symphony and UNT Symphony Orchestra. He was also chosen as a winner of the Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition, playing with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra in 2014.

He completed his bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and a graduate artist certificate at the University of North Texas. This is Mr. Ryland’s fourth year as a Cliburn in the Classroom artist.

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Nikita Abrosimov

Nikita Abrosimov

Russia | Age 28

Nikita Abrosimov was born in the Urals in Russia and began studying piano at age 6. After earning his undergraduate degree at the M.A. Balakirev Music College in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, he studied at Indiana University and the Royal College of Music. In 2011, he won the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, and the next year he was awarded the prestigious Gawon International Music Society Award in Seoul, South Korea. Mr. Abrosimov has performed at piano festivals in Russia, Europe, and the United States, and his notable concerto appearances include the Stars of the White Nights festival in St. Petersburg, where he performed with the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev. He also has played recitals in New York (Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall), Seoul (Yongsan Art Hall), and St. Petersburg (Mariinsky Concert Hall), among others. Mr. Abrosimov lives in Nizhny Novgorod with his wife and young son..

 

COMPETITION REPERTOIRE

Preliminary Recital
RACHMANINOFF Variations on a Theme by Corelli, op. 42
HAMELIN Toccata on “L`homme armé”
STRAVINSKY Trois mouvements de Petrouchka

Quarterfinal Recital
MENDELSSOHN Variations sérieuses, op. 54
PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 8 in B-flat Major, op. 84

Semifinal Recital
BACH-LISZT Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542
SHOSTAKOVICH Preludes, op. 34, nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13-17, 24
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

Semifinal Concerto
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat Major, K. 595

Final Round Piano Quintet
DVOŘÁK Piano Quintet in A Major, op. 81

Final Round Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, op. 23

NICHOLAS McGEGAN, CONDUCTOR – SEMIFINAL ROUND

NICHOLAS McGEGAN, conductor – Semifinal Round

Described by The New Yorker as “an expert in 18th century style,” Nicholas McGegan has served as music director of San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque, artistic director at the International Handel Festival Göttingen, and principal guest conductor of the Pasadena Symphony.

Active in opera as well as the concert hall, he has been principal guest conductor of the Scottish Opera and principal conductor of Sweden’s 18th-century theatre in Drottingholm, running the annual festival there. He has been a pioneer in the process of exporting historically informed practice beyond the world of period instruments to wider conventional symphonic forces, guest-conducting with orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Houston Symphony, Concertgebouw, Royal Scottish National, BBC Scottish Symphony, Scottish Chamber, Royal Northern Sinfonia, City of Birmingham Symphony, Hallé, and the symphony orchestras of Toronto, Montreal, and Sydney. Opera companies he works with include Royal Opera House Covent Garden, San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Washington. He has broken new ground in experimental dance-collaborations with Mark Morris, notably at festivals like Edinburgh International and Ravinia.

His discography of over 100 releases includes the world premiere recording of Handel’s Susanna, which attracted both a Gramophone Award and Grammy nomination. Among his other rediscoveries is the first performance in modern times of Handel’s masterly but mislaid Gloria.

Born in England, he was educated at Cambridge and Oxford universities. His awards include an honorary professorship at Georg-August University, Göttingen, the Hallé Handel Prize, an order of merit of the state of Lower Saxony, a medal of Honour of the City of Göttingen, and an official Nicholas McGegan Day, declared by the Mayor of San Francisco for two decades of distinguished work with the Philharmonia Baroque. He was made an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2010.

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ANNE-MARIE McDERMOTT

For more than 25 years, Anne-Marie McDermott has balanced a versatile career as a soloist and collaborator, playing concertos, recitals, and chamber music in hundreds of cities throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. The breadth of her repertoire spans from Bach and Haydn to Prokofiev and Scriabin, as well as works by today’s most influential composers.

Ms. McDermott has performed with many leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Minnesota and Philadelphia Orchestras, and the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and St. Louis. She has been a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1995, and continues a longstanding collaboration with violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. She also enjoys performing with OPUS ONE, a chamber group with Ida Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom, and Peter Wiley; together they have commissioned over 15 new works.

Her passions have recently coalesced in several important projects indicative both of her popularity and the range of her musical interests: the presentation of the complete Prokofiev piano sonatas and chamber music as part of the Lincoln Center Festival; the premier of Charles Wuorinen’s Piano Sonata No. 4; and the performance and recording of Gershwin’s complete works for piano and orchestra with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, which was named Editor’s Choice by Gramophone magazine.Ms. McDermott also serves as artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Music, and Ocean Reef Chamber Music, as well as curator for chamber music at the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego.

Nikolay Khozyainov

Nikolay Khozyainov

Russia | Age 24

Nikolay Khozyainov was born in Blagoveshchensk in far eastern Russia and made his debut at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory at age 7 in a Handel piano concerto. He won first prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition, second prize at the Sydney International Piano Competition, and was a finalist at the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. Mr. Khozyainov has performed at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, and Lincoln Center in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington, the Théâtre de Champs-Élysées and the Louvre in Paris, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He has recorded several CDs and has performed concertos with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, and many others. Mr. Khozyainov is now pursuing an advanced degree at the Hochschule für Musik Theater und Medien Hannover, where he studies with Arie Vardi. When he’s not playing piano, he likes listening to opera and often visits opera theaters.

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COMPETITION REPERTOIRE

Preliminary Recital
HAYDN Sonata in D Major, Hob. XVI:33
CHOPIN Etude in C Major, op. 10, no. 1
RACHMANINOFF Étude-Tableau in C Minor, op. 39, no. 1
LISZT Après un lecture de Dante (Fantasia quasi sonata)
HAMELIN Toccata on “L’homme armé”

Quarterfinal Recital
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, op. 110
RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte
STRAVINSKY Trois mouvements de Petrouchka

Semifinal Recital
CHOPIN Nocturne in C-sharp Minor, op. 27, no. 1
CHOPIN Ballade No. 2 in F Major, op. 38
SCHUMANN Fantasie in C Major, op. 17
LISZT-BUSONI Variations on Two Themes from Mozart’s Opera Marriage of Figaro

Semifinal Concerto
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467

Final Round Piano Quintet
SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, op. 44

Final Round Concerto
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, op. 30

 

Noah DeGarmo

Noah DeGarmo, M.D., 38
Physician
Dallas, Texas
United States

Noah DeGarmo began private piano lessons at 7, and started playing the oboe at age 10. In addition to performing with the Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble and Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, he took master classes at the New England Conservatory before entering medical school in New York. After a residency in emergency medicine at Northwestern University, he moved to Dallas, where he currently serves as medical director at Baylor Surgical Center at Las Colinas. Dr. DeGarmo was a semifinalist at the Chicago Amateur Piano Competition in 2010 (where he received Best Performance of a Contemporary Work) and a finalist at the contest in 2012. Since he was 18, Dr. DeGarmo has suffered from tendonitis, which he has lectured about as it relates to performing. In his downtime, he likes to cook, entertain, garden, travel, and spend time with his golden retriever, Mayzie.

COMPETITION REPERTOIRE

Preliminary Round
PROKOFIEV   Sarcasms, op. 17, nos. 1-4

Quarterfinal Round
SCARLATTI   Sonata in E Major, K. 380
CHOPIN   Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp Minor, op. 66
WAGNER-LISZT   Isoldens Liebestod: Schlußszene aus Tristan und Isolde

Semifinal Round
RACHMANINOV   Prelude in D Major, op. 23, no. 4
BEETHOVEN   Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, op. 110

Final Round
SHOSTAKOVICH   Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, op. 10: I. Allegro