Posted on 01/17/2003 5:54:56 AM PST by Ozone34
This morning when introducing Lauren Green's news segment on Fox & Friends, E.D. mentioned that Lauren is an outstanding amateur pianist and competes annually in the Van Cliburn Competition for Outstanding Amateurs! Sure enough, Lauren is listed among this years competitors. What I wouldn't give to hear Lauren and Condi Rice perform together! Perhaps Medtner's Russian Round Dance or Knight Errant! (She's listed below under US competitors from New York)
75 CONTESTANTS SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN VAN CLIBURN FOUNDATIONS THIRD
INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION FOR OUTSTANDING AMATEURS
IN FORT WORTH, TEXAS, JUNE 3 - 8, 2002
International peacemaker, missionary, and CD-ROM game composer among participants from around the world and all walks of life
Copyright 2002 Van Cliburn Foundation Fort Worth, Texas, April 1, 2002 - The Van Cliburn Foundation has announced the 75 selected participants for the third INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION FOR OUTSTANDING AMATEURS, to be held at Ed Landreth Auditorium on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, June 3 through 8.
Designed to encourage and recognize the importance of music-making, both off and on stage, this event features pianists above the age of 35 whose principal source of income is not derived from piano performance or teaching piano. It will begin with the preliminary round (June 3-5), during which each pianist will perform a 12-minute recital. The semifinal round (June 7) will showcase up to 18 pianists performing 20-minute recitals. The final round (June 8) will feature six finalists performing 30-minute recitals and will be followed by an awards ceremony. The repertoire for each round is unrestricted, except that a pianist may not repeat works from round to round. All phases of the competition are open to the public. To purchase tickets, call the Central Ticket Office at 817-335-9000. Alternately, you may print out the Ticket Order Form to order tickets for the competition.
The third International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs is sponsored by Steinway & Sons and The Pangburn Foundation, Bank One, Trustee.
COMPETITORS
This years participants come from Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and 25 states throughout the United States. Out of 130 applicants, 75 were selected to participate, including 14 doctors, four college professors, four composers, four homemakers, four computer programmers, three attorneys, three engineers, two accountants, two librarians, two piano technicians, a flight attendant purser, a news anchor, a missionary, and a railroad manager. (Due to dropouts, only 73 competitors will be at the competition.)
Return IPCOA competitor Debra Saylor is a visually impaired sales associate from Omaha, Nebraska, whose inspirational life was the subject of WBAP-AMs award-winning 2001 radio broadcast, She Found God in the Silences.
After web developer Greg Fisher participated in the 2000 Amateur Competition, ABC told his triumphant story of overcoming drug addiction through music as part of its World News Tonight series, 21st Century Lives. Fisher has recently relocated to North Texas.
Janie Leatherman, the author of several books on war prevention, is a professor of international relations and the director of peace and conflict resolution studies at Illinois State University. Israeli-born veterinarian Nathan Srebernik, who lives in London, served as a tank commander for the Israeli army, and Suzanne Fremon, a computer programmer from New York, recently opened a hypnotherapy practice for pregnant women.
Los Angeles composer Paul Romero creates musical scores for CD-ROM strategy games, and Mark Horowitz serves as cantor for the Temple Israel in Columbus, Ohio, in addition to his job as executive director for the Bureau of Jewish Education in his hometown of Buffalo, New York. Berkeley resident and computer programmer Rocky Nevin wrote his doctoral dissertation on the neural network of the common cricket, and Richard Katz, a physician from Clayton, Missouri, recently recorded his own CD synthesizing classical, jazz, and pop elementscombining Chopin and Beethoven with Sting and Stevie Wonder. For a complete list of participants, their hometowns, and occupations, please see below. Please email requests for photographs or complete biographies to leeann@cliburn.org.
PRIZES
All performers will receive gifts for participating and will compete for a top prize of $2000 cash as part of the Jury Awards. The Press Jury will also award prizes, and the audience at the finals will vote for its favorite. Additional awards include best performances of works from various musical eras, Most Creative Programming Award, and Jury Discretionary Awards.
JURY
A select panel composed of prominent pianists, teachers, and other music professionals will adjudicate the amateur pianists. The Jury is chaired by John Giordano, retired music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Other Jury members are Shields-Collins Bray, pianist of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra; David Karp, professor of piano at Southern Methodist University; Phillip Kawin, pianist and professor of piano at the Manhattan School of Music; Gabriel Kwok, head of keyboard studies at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts; Carol Leone, professor of piano at Southern Methodist University; Harold Martina, pianist and professor of piano at Texas Christian University; John Owings, pianist and Herndon Professor of Piano at Texas Christian University; Antonio Pompa-Baldi, silver medal winner in the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition; Jack Roberts, professor of piano at the University of North Texas; and Alina Rubinstein, pianist, psychiatrist, and daughter of Artur Rubinstein.
The Press Jury is chaired by William Littler, music critic of The Toronto Star. Other Press Jury members are Scott Cantrell, music critic of The Dallas Morning News; Daniel Cariaga, music critic of the Los Angeles Times; Richard Dyer, music critic of The Boston Globe; Stuart Isacoff, author and editor of Piano Today; James Roos, music critic of The Miami Herald; John von Rhein, music critic of the Chicago Tribune; and Charles Ward, music critic of the Houston Chronicle.
SPECIAL ACTIVITIES
Competitors who are not selected for the semifinal round will have an opportunity to play their remaining repertoire for the general public during a Piano Marathon at the Fort Worth Public Librarys downtown location. Performance times are Thursday, June 6, from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. and Friday, June 7, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Two Symposia with the competition's jury are scheduled for June 6 and 7 at TCU's PepsiCo Recital Hall and are open to the general public: on June 6 at 10:30 a.m., members of the Jury will discuss what they listen for when judging the competition; on June 7 at 10:15 a.m., music critics of the Press Jury will participate in a symposium called "Do It Yourself: the Importance of Hands-on Music Making." On June 5, the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) will host a symposium on medical and performing issues for participants, sponsored by the Texas Center for Music and Medicine. Additionally, competitors will have the opportunity to read through chamber music scores privately with professional musicians. Numerous social activities are also planned.
Created in cooperation with the highly successful Concours des Grands Amateurs de Piano, founded in 1989 and held annually in Paris, France, the 1999 International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs was the first competition of its kind in the United States. A second Amateur Competition followed in 2000. The event now takes place every two years, with the fourth competition scheduled for June 2004.
The Van Cliburn Foundation is principally known for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, held every four years in Fort Worth, Texas since 1962. A distinction from the Van Cliburn Competition, which is open to professional pianists between the ages of 18 and 30, is the Amateur Competitions minimum age requirement of 35.
Steinway & Sons is the official piano of the Amateur Competition. ExxonMobil is the Principal Corporate Sponsor of the Van Cliburn Foundation. American Airlines, Citigroup, City of Fort Worth, Lexus, Nokia, RadioShack, Star-Telegram, and Steinway & Sons are Official Corporate Sponsors.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Preliminary Round Monday, June 3, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. and 7:30 - 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 4, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. and 7:30 - 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 5, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. and 7:30 - 10:30 p.m. (followed by announcement of semifinalists)
Semifinal Round Friday, June 7, 2:00 - 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 - 11:00 p.m. (followed by announcement of finalists)
Final Round and Awards Ceremony Saturday, June 8, 3:00 - 7:45 p.m.
TICKET INFORMATION
Each Preliminaries session: $10 Each Semifinals session: $20 Finals and Awards: $35
Ticket packages are: The Complete Amateur Competition: $105 All Semifinals, Finals, and Awards: $60
The competition ticket brochure is available in Adobe Acrobat format. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat, you can download it here. The ticket order form may be printed out and used to order tickets for the competition.
Brochure Cover About the Competition Press Quotes Ticket Order Form
UNITED STATES COMPETITORS
ALABAMA Lauren Carter, Homemaker, Huntsville
ARIZONA Stephen Burg, Substance Abuse Counselor, Tucson Milton Farbstein, Clinical Microbiologist, Prescott Jonathan Hanks, Emergency Department Physician, Prescott Michael Moore, Retired Court Reporter, Tucson
CALIFORNIA Janice Bates, Retired Business Owner, Garden Grove Charles Chien, Flight Attendant Purser, Manhattan Beach Logos Hall, Business Owner, Alhambra Jit-Seng Khoo, Plastic Surgeon, Carmichael Scot King, Mortgage Broker, Lake Forest Rocky Nevin, Biophysicist and Program Developer, Berkeley Linda Poligono, Homemaker, Greenbrae Paul Romero, CD-ROM Game Composer, Los Angeles Yoshiko Tamai, Homemaker, Rowland Heights
CONNECTICUT Dave Duebendorfer, Hedge Fund Manager, Westport
FLORIDA Franz Mantini, Electrical Engineer, Tampa Karen Bush Purpero, Missionary, Longwood
ILLINOIS Cary Adams, Dentist, Chicago Janie Leatherman, Professor of International Relations, Normal
KANSAS J. Russell Wilson, Higher Education Administrator, Leawood
KENTUCKY J. Todd Spangler, Attorney at Law, Middlesboro
MARYLAND Linda A. Gilbert, Accountant, Baltimore Virginia Lum, Attorney at Law, Bethesda
MASSACHUSETTS Ellen Dodson, Business Consultant, Lexington Robert Finley, Electrical Engineer, Northboro Michael Hawley, Director of Special Projects, MIT, Cambridge Edward Rosser, Music Librarian and Publisher, Leverett
MICHIGAN Yat-Lam Hong, Piano Technician, Kalamazoo Hiroko Ohtani, Chemist, Dearborn Heights Kenneth Roe, Business Owner, Bay City
MINNESOTA Darin Tysdal, Sheet Music Salesperson, Richfield
MISSOURI Richard Katz, Physician, Clayton Jon Morgan, Physician, Lees Summit
NEBRASKA Debra Saylor, Sales Associate, Omaha
NEW JERSEY John Blasdale, Retired Patent Agent, Whippany
NEW MEXICO Lawrence Porter, Concert Piano Technician, Santa Fe
NEW YORK Allan Blumenthal, Psychiatrist, New York Mark Cannon, Psychiatrist, New York Michael Collier, Sales Consultant, Canaan Louis Dalaveris, Ophthalmologist, New York Henri Delbeau, Doctor of Internal Medicine, Jackson Heights Suzanne Fremon, Childbirth Professional, New York Lauren Green, News Anchor, New York Mark Horowitz, Cantor and Educator, Buffalo Richard Jorgensen, Architect, New York Thomas Shepard, Recording Producer and Composer, New York Carl Tait, Computer Scientist, New York
NORTH CAROLINA John Markey, Certified Public Accountant, Raleigh
OHIO Victor Alexeeff, Composer, Groveport
PENNSYLVANIA Lori Gilbert, Radio Sales Representative, Wexford
SOUTH CAROLINA Ann Herlong, Homemaker, Rock Hill Stephen Hubbard, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Clemson
TEXAS Viktors Berstis, Software Engineer, Austin J. Michael Brounoff, Attorney at Law, Irving Stephen Fierros, Systems Analyst, Houston Greg Fisher, Web Developer, Denton Miho Fisher, Retired Cardiologist, Denton David Hibbard, Railroad Manager, Fort Worth Glenn Mallory, Consultant, Dallas Cynthia Riley, Registered Nurse, Burleson
UTAH Nancy Futrell, Neurologist, Salt Lake City
VIRGINIA John Gardecki, Private Investor, Middleburg Eric Gustafson, Parish Administrator, Vienna
WEST VIRGINIA Victoria Bragin, Professor of Chemistry, Barboursville
FOREIGN COMPETITORS
CANADA Darius Bägli, Pediatric Surgeon, Toronto Marie-Claude Montplaisir, Senior Economist, Laval
GERMANY Christoph Ewers, Physician, Altdorf Renée Lampe, Orthopedic Surgeon, Munich Eberhard Zagrosek, Retired Business Administrator, Berlin
GREAT BRITAIN David Earl, Composer and Sales Manager, Cambridge Howard Southern, Marketing Consultant, London Nathan Srebernik, Veterinary Surgeon, London
ITALY Karoline Fink-Gostner, Sales Manager, Bolzano
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She is beautiful as well as talented. She provides the few moments of sanity and dignity on that show (which I love, BTW). Like to start the day off with a laugh or two before work.
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Thursday, October 10, 2002![]() Lauren Green serves as an anchor for FOX News Channels (FNC) daytime news program "Fox News Live," where she provides daily news updates.
A graduate of Northwestern Universitys Medill School of Journalism, Green was named Miss Minnesota in 1984 and was the third runner-up in the 1985 Miss America contest. |
I thought that was Lauren Green playing the piano on Cal's new Saturday night show. She is excellent!
Cal's half-hour show on Fox News - After Hours with Cal Thomas - on Saturday nights at 11PM ET is very good, BTW.
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