The American International Paderewski Piano Competition 2010
Winner Gallery
piotr kosinski
Poland
1st Place Winner
Piotr started his piano education at the age of seven at the Ignacy Paderewski Primary Music School in Cracow and studied piano with Professor Jerzy Łukowicz, Krystyna Adamska and Małgorzata Czech. Since 2004 he has been studying under the tuition of Professor Stefan Wojtas of the Academy of Music in Cracow. In June 2008 he graduated from the Frédéric Chopin High Music School, with excellent results. He is currently studying at The Academy of Music in Cracow.
Among his prizes at the Polish and international piano competitions are:
1st prize and a Special Elżbieta Stefańska Prize for the most outstanding interpretation at 8th Polish Piano Competition in Żagań (2003).
Several awards at 42nd Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk (2008).
4th prize at the 8th Arthur Rubinstein in Memoriam International Competition for Young Pianists in Bydgoszcz (2009).
Finalist of the Ricardo Viñes International Piano Competition in Lleida, Spain (2009).
3rd prize and special prize at the Aloise Vecchiato International Piano Competition in Finale Ligure, Italy (2009).
In the school year 2002-2003 he was granted the Scholarship of the Polish Minister of Culture for artistic achievements. From 2003 to 2008 he was a member of the Polish Fund for Talented Young People. He also qualified for several international piano courses, including the famous Morningside Music Bridge in Calgary, Canada, as one of only three pianists from Poland (2008). He has given piano recitals in Poland, Canada, Germany, Italy and Spain. His piano recitals have been broadcast by The Polish Radio and Television.
Gloria Campaner
Italy
2nd place Winner
Technique is not enough for young Venetian soloist and chamber pianist Gloria Campaner, already a winner of more than 20 national and international piano competitions for young musicians and an official Steinway & Sons Artist at 21. As a soloist, or in a chamber ensemble, Ms. Campaner always expresses her very deep sensitivity combined with refined musical intelligence. This unusual talent has earned her accolades from the public and critics alike in as culturally diverse countries as Italy, Japan, Israel, Turkey, Kazakhstan, England, Ireland,Germany, Switzerland, France, Brazil, and Russia, tapping her as one of the most talented young Italian pianists of the new generation. Ms. Campaner’s extraordinary career began in 1990 at the age of four. At five she already performed her first recital and at 12, she debuted with the Venetian Symphonia Orchestra. After graduating at Udine Conservatory and earning a Master Degree summa cum laude at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese with Prof. Mezzena, she took masterclasses at Ticino-Musica (Lugano-Switzerland), Accademia Incontri col Maestro (Imola-Italy), Mozarteum (Salzburg – Austria). She also took lessons with J. Swann, J. Rose, S. Perticaroli, B. Lupo, N. Troull, A. Jasinskij, M. Tirimo, O. Kern, D. Bashkirov. She’s presently studying with Konstantin Bogino and attending the “Konzertexam”Diplom at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Fany Solter. Constant study has been rewarded at the following international competitions: The prestigious 2009 IBLA Grand Prize with a début at Carnegie Hall in New York City and whirlwind world tour in 2010; Cantù International Piano&Orchestra Competition (Como, 2009); II European Piano Competition (Le Havre – France, 2009); XIII T.I.M. Competition (Verona, 2008); Rospigliosi Competition – R. Schumann Prize plusAudience & Critics Awards (Pistoia, 2008); Società Umanitaria Competition (Milan, 2007).Her successful chamber music life is the result of studies with such distinguished musicians as Tchaikovsky Trio members, Prof. Ana Chumachenco, Prof. J. Rissin and Salvatore Accardo. Selections of her concerts have often been broadcast byinternational TV & radio stations including RAI, Radio Classica, SKY Classica, RTSI and CNN. She hasrecorded for Audionova (Italy) and Meister Musica (Switzerland). In October 2009, Ms. Campaner was awarded from Eropean Union as part of the 2010 -2011 cultural program: Piano, Reflet de la Culture Europèenne.
Leonard Gilbert
Canada
3rd Place Winner
Having been a four time national first prize winner of the Canadian Music Competitions, 19 year old pianist Leonard Gilbert has been known for his sensitive touch and technical command. Native of Toronto, Canada, Leonard received private lessons from Canadian pianist Patricia Parr while attending the Claude Watson School for the Arts, graduating with the highest honors. Currently, he studies in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University with distinguished professor Menahem Pressler.
In summer 2009 at the age of eighteen, Leonard dazzled audiences and judges of the Canadian Music Competition in Montreal and was awarded 1st prize in the national final of the age 25 category; the highest division of the competition. As a result of his exceptional achievement, Leonard was also awarded a special honorary distinction from the Mayor of Markham and the Canadian House of Commons. Leonard’s major achievements include prize winner for the “Best Performance of a Romantic Work” at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Competition (2009), Rose Bowl and Grand Prize winner of the President’s trophy at the Kiwanis Music Festival (2008), winner of the Chopin trophy and Grand Prize at the Markham Music Festival (2008), and 2nd prize winner at the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, Ohio (2006).
Leonard’s poetic and insightful playing has led him to perform extensively at concerts in Canada and abroad. He was spotlighted on Rogers television in summer 2009, and was featured in the Rising Stars concert of the Toronto Summer Music Festival. In 2008, Leonard performed the Schumann Piano Concerto at George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Center for the Arts, and was also invited to give a solo recital at Baptist University in Hong Kong, China. In 2007, he was a featured soloist with the Esprit Orchestra in Toronto.
In addition to both Music Dean’s and Indiana University’s Distinction Scholarships, Leonard was recently awarded the Leonard Hokanson Chamber Music Scholarship (October 2009) from Indiana University. Leonard is currently a designated Founder’s Scholar, one of the highest honors given to undergraduate students.
hsiang john tu
USA
Best Performance of Leschetyzki
The New York Times has praised pianist Hsiang John Tu for the “eloquent sensitivity” in his playing. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Mr. Tu came to the United States at the age of fourteen, after winning Taiwan’s National Youth Piano Competition. In 2004, Mr. Tu made his New York debut at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center as the winner of the Juilliard School Concerto Competition. He was invited by the Taiwanese government in the following year to give concerts and radio interviews throughout his native country, which concluded in a performance at the Taiwan National Recital Hall. He is currently a Doctoral of Musical Art candidate at the Juilliard School, under the guidance of Jerome Lowenthal.
Prize winner at the New Orleans International Piano Competition, Texas Kingsville International Piano Concerto Competition, and Canadian Music Festival Competition, Mr. Tu has appeared as a soloist with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Juilliard School Orchestra, Boston University Symphonic Orchestra, and the New England Conservatory Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been presented in recitals by the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts in Boston, the Loyola University of New Orleans, the Taiwan National Recital Hall, and the Banff Centre in Canada, where he has done a six-month residency.
Hsiang John Tu began his study in the United Stated at the Idyllwild School in California with Nelms MacElvan, and at the Walnut Hill School in Massachusetts with Hae-Sun Paik and Hung-Kuan Chen. Mr. Tu followed Chen to the Boston University and the University of Calgary, where he received a Bachelor of Music degree in 2002. Subsequently, Mr. Tu was accepted into the master degree program at the Juilliard School, which he completed in 2004.
Nicholas king
USA
Jury’s Choice
Mr. King is a 19-year-old pianist from Los Angeles, California. His past instructors include Dawn Emerson, Dr. Jean-David Coen of Willamette University, and Dr. Wojciech Kocyan of Loyola Marymount University. He is currently under the tutelage of Marc Durand at the Royal Conservatory of Music – Glenn Gould School in Toronto, Ontario.
Recently he was awarded the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Award through the From the Top organization. Along with a $10,000 scholarship, he gave a performance on NPR for over 750,000 listeners. In his first year of studies at the Glenn Gould School Nicholas was a winner of the Royal Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition. A performance with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra in the Telus Centre of Performing Arts took place in February of 2010. He was a first prizewinner in the Young Musicians Foundation Scholarship Competition. Nicholas has also won the Music Teachers Association of California Scholarship Competition. In June 2008, Nicholas was awarded first prize in the Young Musicians Foundation Chamber Music Competition, and, as a result, performed the Brahms Trio No. 2 in a Los Angeles citywide concert series. In February of 2008, Nicholas performed the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Southeast Symphony Orchestra. He was asked to return and perform in the opening concert of the next season, and played the Beethoven Concerto No.1 in the following October. He will be making his debut in the Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Southeast Symphony Orchestra in the summer of 2010, performing the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini.
Nicholas has been coached in master classes by some of the world’s most prominent musicians. Some of the pedagogues he has worked with include Lang Lang, John Perry, Anton Kuerti, Leon Fleischer, Julian Martin, and Louis Lortie. He has also studied at a number of renowned music festivals, some of which include the Banff music academy, the Orford music academy, and the Franz Liszt summer music academy.
Nicholas attends the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music under a musical scholarship, and is in the process of obtaining his Bachelor of Music degree and Performance Artist Diploma.