AFAF's 2006-2007 Season
2006-2007 was an exciting season for the American Fine Arts Festival. Auditions were expanded to the West Coast and Toronto, Ontario. Several new venues were added to our Winners’ Concert series, including the Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, Yamaha Piano Salon in NYC, and Klavierhaus in NYC.
A new summer program, the AFAF Summer Courses in Europe, was introduced, offering participants a chance to spend two weeks in the Netherlands, studying and playing music in a unique and creative atmosphere under the tutelage of a distinguished, international faculty.
2006-2007 special prize Winners
Skip to: Music Director’s Awards | Strings (solo) | Piano Duet | Chamber Music Ensemble | Special Diplomas.
Piano (solo)
1st Prize ($500, shared)
Kimberly Hou (b.1994), Piano
“Rigoletto” Paraphrase, Verdi-Liszt
Teacher: Marjorie Lee
Alexei Tartakovski (b.1989), Piano
Prelude in B flat major, Op. 23 No. 2, Rachmaninoff
Teacher: Nina Lelchuk
2nd Prize ($300, shared)
Shire Beach (b.1990), Piano
Three Preludes, Kennanh
Teacher: Erna Gulabyan
Anna Park (b.1889), Piano
Transcendental Etude No. 12 “Chasse-neige”, Liszt
Teacher: Victoria Mushkatkol
Midori Tanaka (b.1990), Piano
“Oiseaux Tristes” from “Miroirs”, Ravel
Teacher: Mitsuko Ichimura
3rd Prize ($200, shared)
Poony Poon (b.1997), Piano
Variations, Chopin
Teacher: Victoria Mushkatkol
Jiayan Sun (b.1989), Piano
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D flat major, Liszt
Teacher: Victoria Mushkatkol
Niu Niu Teo (b.1994), Piano
Romance Op. 5, Tchaikovsky
Teacher: Lena Grozman
Honorable Mentions ($50/each)
- Cory Chang (b.1992), Piano
L’isle Joyeuse (The Island of Joy), Debussy
Teacher: Yu-Ting Chen - Alex Chien (b.1998), Piano
“The Cat and the Mouse”, Copland
Teacher: Kai Chi Zhu - Allison Costello (b.1991), Piano
Five Preludes, Op. 34, Shostakovich
Teacher: Margarita Kotlyarova - Steven Ionov (b.1995), Piano
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15 in A minor “Rakoczy March”, Liszt
Teacher: Sophia Genis - David Orr (b.1989), Piano
Suggestion Diabolique, Prokofiev
Teacher: Tatyana Dudochkin - Leo Svirsky (b.1988), Piano
“Scarbo” from “Gaspard de la Nuit”, Ravel
Teacher: Santiago Rodrigues - Sumire Takamatsu (b.1990), Piano
Paganini Etude No. 5, La Chasse, Liszt
Teacher: Lidia Boguslavsky - Elan Wong (b.1993), Piano
“Reflets Dans l’eau” from “Images”, Debussy
Teacher: Nilly Epstein Shilo
Music Director’s Awards ($100/each)
Steven Ionov (b.1995), Piano
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15 in A minor “Rakoczy March”, Liszt
Teacher: Sophia Genis
Leo Svirsky (b.1988), Piano
“Scarbo” from “Gaspard de la Nuit”, Ravel
Teacher: Santiago Rodrigues
Strings (solo)
1st Prize ($500)
Metok Hugnes-Levine (b.1990), Violin
Introduction and Tarantella, Sarasate
Teacher: Vera Rubin
2nd Prize ($300, shared)
Jehshua Karuna Karan (b.1994), Violin
La Ronde Des Lutins, Bazzini
Teacher: Olga Khroulevitch
Hayne Kim (b.1990), Violin
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19, 1st mvt, Prokofiev
Teacher: Dmitri Berlinsky
3rd Prize ($200, shared)
Zeynep Alpan (b.1995), Violin
Symphonie Espagnole in D minor, Op. 21, 1st mvt, Lalo
Teacher: Shirley Givens
Melody Chu, (b.1991) Cello
Concerto E minor, Op. 85, 2nd mvt, Elgar
Teacher: Sieun Lin
Tristan Zeman (b.1995), Violin
Concerto, Op.48, 1st mvt, Kabalevsky
Teacher: Patinka Kopec
Piano Duet ($300, shared)
Derek Chen (b.1992), Piano
Alex Hsia (b.1992), Piano
"Easter" from Suite for Two Pianos "Fantaisie-Tableaux," Op. 5, Rachmaninoff
Teacher: Malvina Potop
Farshad Tahvildar-Zadeh (b.1993), Piano
Julian Edgren (b.1994), Piano
Waltz from “Masquerade”, Khachaturian
Teacher: Larissa Korkina
Chamber Music Ensemble ($300)
Sulzbach Trio
Margarita Rovenskaya (b.1990), Piano
Victoria Lewis (b.1990), Violin
Sam Lavery (1990), Cello
Piano Trio in G, 3rd mvt, Chaminade
Teacher: Galina Prilutskaya
Special Diplomas
piano
- Anirudh Arun (b.1991)
Teacher: Margarita Gurevich - Jung A Bang (b.1991)
Teacher: Natalia Harlap - Mindy Cheng (b.1996)
Teacher: Su Hui Yang - Jehshua Karuna Karan (b. 1994)
Teacher: Irene Orlov - Carmen Knoll (b.1997)
Teacher: Marjorie Lee - Matthew Robert Maimone (b.1994)
Teacher: Victoria Mushkatkol - Michael Peng (b.1995)
Teacher: Kai Chi Zhu - Anna Russell (b.1993)
Teacher: Irene Orlov - Janet Song (b.1991)
Teacher: Joy Kiszely - Sara Takamatsu, (b.1990)
Teacher: Lidia Boguslavsky - Clare Yeo, (b.1992)
Teacher: Victoria Mushkatkol - Raymond Zhang (b. 1999)
Teacher: Ingrid Clarfield
strings
- Nicolette Cho (b.1995), Cello
Teacher: Miron Yampolsky - Maya Chung (b.1993), Violin
Teacher: Grigory Kalinovsky - Kira Jacobson (b.1993), Violin
Teacher: Jousun Kim - Christine Dong Hee Lee (b.1995), Violin
Teacher: Dmitri Berlinsky - Eric Soo Hoo (b.1991), Violin
Teacher: Sophia Sogland - Yu Xi Zhang (b.1990), Violin
Teacher: Jeremy Zhu
