The Wideman Piano Competition 2007 - 2008

57th WIDEMAN PIANO COMPETITION
Dr Lester Senter Wilson, Executive Director


Winners of the 2007 Competition



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

   
Janice Ingrid Fehlauer
University of North Texas
Bartok, Piano Concerto No 2

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

   
Christopher Falzone
Curtis Institute
Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op 18

THIRD PRIZE - BRONZE MEDAL
The Martha Jones Rice Award

   
Alex McDonald
The Juilliard School
Rachmaninoff, Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini

HONORABLE MENTION
The Dr Jack E & Carroll Bright Carlisle Award

   
Zsolt Bognár
The Cleveland Institute of Music
Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No 2 in G, Op 44

HONORABLE MENTION
The Glenda Lee Harrison Award

   
Jonathan Korth
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 16

SPECIAL RECOGNITION
The Raymond S Morris Awards

                         
Kris Eugene Becker
Rice University
Beethoven, Piano Concerto No 4 in G, Op 58		 Stephen Wayne Jones
Moores School of Music, University of Houston
Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op 18		 Viktor Valkov
The Julliard School
Mozart, Piano Concerto No 25 in C, K 503

The Competition Winners

 

The First Row (front)
Viktor Valkov; The Julliard School, Special Recognition
Zsolt Bognár; The Cleveland Institute of Music, Honorable Mention
Janice Ingrid Fehlauer; University of North Texas, Gold Medal
Kris Eugene Becker; Rice University, Special Recognition
Christopher Falzone; Curtis Institute, Silver Medal

The Second Row (rear)
Stephen Wayne Jones; Moores School of Music, University of Houston, Special Recognition
Jonathan Korth; State University of New York at Stony Brook, Honorable Mention
Alex McDonald; The Juilliard School, Bronze Medal

The Competition Jury

 

From Left to Right
Nelita True - The Eastman School of Music
Mark Carrington - The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Dr Claire Fox Hillard - Conductor, Meridian (MS) and Albany (GA) Symphonies
Alfred Mouledous - Southern Methodist University
Jeffrey Rink - Conductor, Northwest Florida Symphony
Stanislav Ioudenitch - Cliburn Gold Medalist, Park University

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.