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correction---
Best chamber award ($6,000): Joyce Yang
Best performance of new piece($5,000): Joyce Yang
Jury Discretionary awards ($4,000 each):
Maria Mazo
Gabriela Martinez
Jie Chen
Sodi Braide

Haha.. just looking through the past winners at the Cliburn:

Was this because of the Cold War or something, or were the US competitors actually good enough to clean house? If so, good show.

That was the year the Russians boycotted the Cliburn because the US boycotted the Moscow Olympics because Russia had invaded Afghanistan.

Hey, have they said which contestant won the audience's electronic voting award?

it was Kobrin- he got a 60 gig ipod for it!

Haha...cool. Have you guys checked out the prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc; they're pretty "hefty".

And I think it's really cool how all the finalists get the "International concert tours and career management for the three concert seasons".

Ahhh...interesting. Thanks.

I couldn't be more pleased with the results. Kobrin was the flipping energizer bunny. While the rest of them started flagging in the stamina/nerves department, he just kept going and going. And not just that; he got better and better.

Sadly, I did not see the gold medalist perform. My internet was down during the streaming video of his performance. But I did see Joyce perform, and thought that she deserved to win (of the five I saw). So, being that she took second, I cannot argue for first place, since I did not get the chance to see him play.

But I thought Joyce was superb, and even if she missed a few notes, they all did.

These are passages where octave runs or arpeggios are played by alternating the two hands. One can play these runs or arpeggios much faster than if played by one hand alone and they are thus flashier and more exciting.

Let me know if that makes sense to you.

I thought I heard that everyone got US tours except the gold medal winner who got an international tour.

So, is there a list yet of all the concert the finalists are going to play?

I wish that I could find Stephen Beus's email somehow.


this sucks. I want to tell him he did well....and maybe ask for advice

So when's the next competition starting? Chopin isn't it?

Guess who has all of Kobrin's performances recorded + many others?

Yep, me!!! *hint hint*

Has anyone been able to get the audio files on the dfw.com multimedia section to work? If so, what software and what version # were you using to open it?

The files are listed as being Realmedia files when I try and open them, but then I get a message saying that Realplayer doesn't have the software available to play them and that no downloads of the required software are available.

The audio files on that site are just mp3. I downloaded most of them. You can open them using iTunes.

Could anyone direct me as how to find these mp3s? Thanks

Here is the one for the semifinal recital of Chu Fang Huang.
http://www.dfw.com/multimedia/dfw/news/cliburn/files/cliburnAudio/huangSemiRecital.mp3
The others have similar names, eg. saChenFinal.mp3, kobrinPrelim.mp3, etc.

Alternatively, it looks like their streaming multimedia page is up again at

http://www.dfw.com/multimedia/dfw/news/cliburn/cliburn.html

(click at the bottom left where it says "listen to every note of each performance", though as of yet only the recitals are up there). It seems to be working much better than last week.