Winners of the 2006 Competition


FIRST PRIZE - GOLD MEDAL
The William Peyton Shehee & Virginia Kilpatrick Shehee Award

   
Yoonjung Han
(Korea)
The Curtis Institute
Liszt, No 1 in E-flat

 


SECOND PRIZE - SILVER MEDAL
The F Thomas Siskron III Family Award

   
Alexey Koltakov
(Ukraine)
Texas Christian University
Rachmaninoff, No 2 in C minor, Op 18

 


THIRD PRIZE - BRONZE MEDAL
The Martha Jones Rice Award

   
Ching-Yun Hu
(Taiwan)
Cleveland Institute of Music
Prokofiev, No 3 in C, Op 26

 


HONORABLE MENTION
The Dr Jack E & Carroll Bright Carlisle Award

   
Tina Chong
(Canada)
Oberlin Conservatory
Ravel, Piano Concerto in G

 


SPECIAL RECOGNITION
The Raymond S Morris Awards

     

   

 
Ang Li
(China)
Texas Christian University
Brahms, No 1 in D minor, Op 15
Viktor Valkov
(Bulgaria)
The Julliard School
Saint-Saëns, No 4 in C minor, Op 44
Xinyu Chen
(China)
Yale
Chopin, No 2 in F minor, Op 21

 


The Glenda Lee Harrison Award

   
Min Hwan Kim
(Korea)
Eastman School of Music
Ravel, Concerto in D Major (For the Left Hand)

 

The competition this year is in honor of Dorothy Peeler Walters who was chosen in 1950 to perform
with the Shreveport Symphony in a competition which was the forerunner of the
Wideman Piano Competition.