Second International Piano Competition for Outstanding
Amateurs
June 5-10, 2000
Jury Award: First
Prize
Christopher Basso (Assistant Store Manager, USA)
Jury Award: Second Prize
Steven Ryan (Computer Consultant, USA)
Jury Award: Third Prize
Debra Saylor (Private Voice Instructor, USA)
Press Jury Award
Christopher Basso (Assistant Store Manager,
USA)
Audience Award
Christopher Basso (Assistant Store Manager, USA)
Best Performance of a Work from the Baroque
Era
Christopher Basso (Assistant Store Manager, USA)
Best Performance of a Work from the Classical
Era
Steven Ryan (Computer Consultant, USA)
Best Performance of a Work from the Romantic
Era
Debra Saylor (Private Voice Instructor, USA)
Best Performance of a Modern Work
Christopher Basso (Assistant Store Manager, USA)
Most Creative Programming Award
Michael Hawley (Professor of Media Technology, USA)
Third Stage (Finalists)
Christopher Basso (Assistant Store Manager, USA)
Charles Chien (International Flight Attendant Purser, USA)
Michael Hawley (Professor of Media Technology, USA)
Michael Moore (Tour Manager, USA)
Steven Ryan (Computer Consultant, USA)
Debra Saylor (Private Voice Instructor, USA)
Second Stage
(Semifinalists)
Gregory Adams (Restaurateur, USA)
Melinda Baird (Homemaker, USA)
Robert Finley (Electrical Engineer, USA)
Miho Yamada Fisher (Retired Pediatric Cardiologist, Japan)
Joey Freeman (Massage Therapist, USA)
Allan Fuller (Director of Table Games, USA)
Stephen John Hubbard (Electrical Engineer and Professor,
USA)
Scot King (Mortgage Loan Officer, USA)
Hiroko Ohtani (Chemist, Japan)
Chui-fun Poon (Administrative Assistant, China)
Ronald Roberts (Cyber-Librarian, USA)
Carl Tait (Computer Scientist, USA)
First Stage
Arthur Aitkens (Retired Attorney, USA)
Mary Wai-Yin Au (Accountant, USA)
John Berkstresser (Commercial Airline Pilot, USA)
Viktors Berstis (Software Engineer, USA)
Allan Blumenthal (Psychiatrist, USA)
Milton K. D. Bosch (Retired Physician, USA)
J. Michael Brounoff (Attorney, USA)
Stephen Burg (Supervisor of Health Crisis Unit, USA)
Mark Cannon (Psychiatrist, USA)
Edward Carpp (Consultant, USA)
David Cornell (Professor of Physics, USA)
Louis Dalaveris (Ophthalmologist, USA)
Henri-Robert Delbeau (Physician, USA)
Paul Doerrfeld (Office Manager, USA)
Thomas Donahue (Dentist, USA)
David Earl (Sales Representative, England)
Milton Farbstein (Microbiologist, USA)
Alwyn Farey-Jones (Investment Banker, England)
Maria Fawcett (Physician, USA)
Greg Fisher (Manager and Glass Installer, USA)
Suzanne Fremon (Midwife and Computer Programmer, USA)
John Gardecki (Accountant, USA)
Kira Gilbert (Attorney, USA)
Barbara Goldsmith (Astrologer, England)
Joel Goodman (Professor of Pharmacology, USA)
Mark Gordon (Legal Assistant, USA)
Lauren Green (News Anchor, USA)
Eric Gustafson (Instructor in Comparative Arts, USA)
M. Catherine Hayden (Attorney, USA)
David Hibbard (Railroad Manager, USA)
Donelle Patton Higbee (Realtor, New Zealand)
Len Horovitz (Physician, USA)
Steve Hyman (Physician, USA)
Gertrude Jonas (Retired String Teacher, USA)
Nathan Jones (Director of Market Research, USA)
Richard Jorgensen (Architect, USA)
Daniel Kandelman (Dentist and Professor, Canada)
Renée Lampe (Physician, Germany)
Dan Lansdown (Engineer, USA)
Doohi Lee (Radiologist, USA)
David Leehey (Physician and Professor, USA)
Franz Mantini (Electrical Engineer, USA)
John Markey (Certified Public Accountant, USA)
Vernon McCart (Retired Librarian, USA)
Richard Olsen (Retired Business Executive, USA)
Edward Parsons (Attorney and Consultant, USA)
José Mauro Peixoto (Financial Advisor, Brazil)
Guilherme de Almeida Quintaes (Dermatologist, Brazil)
Mark Riggleman (Music School Director, USA)
Anne-Marie Rouchon (Tennis Coach, France)
Richard Sogg (Neuro-ophthalmologist, USA)
Howard Southern (Management Consultant, England)
Michelle Steffers (Physician, USA)
Judy Thomas (Homemaker, USA)
Graeme Wilkinson (Flight Attendant, Canada)
David Winn (Business Executive, USA)
Constantin Woelki (Bank Executive, Germany)
Jury
All Three Rounds
John Giordano (Chairman); Jon Aaron; Frederic Chiu; Monte Hill
Davis; Jack Roberts
Preliminaries Only
Jon Nakamatsu
Semifinal and Final Rounds
John Ardoin; Diane Hidy; David Karp; Michael Kimmelman; Carol
Leone; Evans Mirageas; John Owings; Paul Pollei; Alina Rubinstein;
Adam Wodnicki
Press Jury
Semifinal and Final Rounds
William Littler (Chairman); Scott Cantrell; Daniel Cariaga;
Richard Dyer; Stuart Isacoff; Donald Rosenberg
Chairman of the Board: Alann Bedford Sampson
President: Richard Rodzinski
In collaboration with the Concours des Grands Amateurs de
Piano
