Thursday, December 11, 2008

Announcement on result of final round for the 4th Seoul International Music Competition




Result of Final round for the 4th Seoul International Music competition organized by Seoul Metropolitan Government and Dong-A Ilbo was announced.
The Final Round of the competition was held on 26th and 27th of April at Concert Hall in Seoul Arts Center and those 6 finalists were LIM Hyo Sun (Korea), Mariya KIM (Ukraine), Mariana PRJEVALSKAIA (Spain), KIM Tae Hyung (Korea), Alexej GORLACH (Ukraine) and Eric ZUBER (USA). The result for those prize winners are as follows.

1st Prize Mariya KIM(Ukraine) Certificate and Prize Cash US$50,000
2nd Prize Alexej GORLACH(Ukraine) Certificate and Prize Cash US$30,000
3rd Prize KIM Tae Hyung(Korea) Certificate and Prize Cash US$20,000
4th Prize Eric ZUBER(USA) Certificate and Prize Cash US$8,500
LIM Hyo Sun(Korea) Certificate and Prize Cash US$8,500
5th Prize not awarded
6th Prize Mariana PRJEVALSKAIA(Spain) Certificate and Prize Cash US$5,000

The competition prepares world-class awards in cash prizes as well as performance engagements with major orchestras throughout the world, recital engagements and CD recordings for the great winners of the competition. As for the 1st prize winner, International Recording Label Naxos will provide an excellent opportunity to produce own albums on CDs in studios such as Germany, England, Canada and Hungary and distribute to 65 countries worldwide.

This year’s Seoul International Music Competition called in SHIN Soo Jung (Korea), LEE Kyung Sook (Korea), KANG Choog Mo (Korea), Nojima Minoru (Japan), Heinz Medjimorec (Austria), Dominique Merlet (France), Andrea Bonatta (Italy), Paul Schenly (USA), Xu Zhong (China), Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (Germany) and Piotr Paleczy (Poland) among total number of eleven pianists and professors of a world authority as jurors on the competition jury. Following the result announcement, Jin Gu RA Vice mayor from Seoul Metropolitan, Chairman Hak Joon KIM from Donga Ilbo and Representative Eui Joon KIM from LG Art Center attended the Award Ceremony as award giver.

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