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Competitors Through to the Final Round of the Competition
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Soo Jung
Ann
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Korea
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Alexej
Gorlatch
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Ukraine
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| Alexej Gorlatch started studying piano with E.G.Georgiew in Passau. At the age of 12 he became a young student at the University of Arts in Berlin with Prof. M.Hughes. Since 2003 Alexej has been studying at the University of Music and Drama in Hannover with Prof. K.-H.Kämmerling. |
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Soo-Yeon
Ham
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Korea
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Naomi
Kudo
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USA-Japan
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| Twenty-one-year-old pianist Naomi Kudo is fast establishing a rising reputation for her fresh and versatile abilities as both a soloist and chamber musician. A newly-named winner of the 2008 Gilmore Young Artist Award, Kudo was born in Washington D.C. to Japanese-Korean parents. Since her debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at age sixteen, Kudo has played in venues around the world including the United States, Japan, Italy, Poland, France, and Austria. |
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Jong-Hai
Park
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Korea
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Eric
Zuber
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USA
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| Prize winner in the2008 Sydney International Piano Competition, the 2008
Seoul International Piano Competition, and winner of the 2007 Hilton Head
International Piano Competition, Eric Zuber is a musician of remarkable
emotional intensity and is recognized as one of the leading young American
pianists of his generation. The New York Times hailed his recent recital debut at
Carnegie Hall, calling his playing "irresistibly fluid," and the New York Concert
Review raved that Eric "was a breath of fresh air... Mr. Zuber struck one as an
especially thoughtful player who happens to possess technical brilliance."
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