Third International Piano Competition for Outstanding
Amateurs
June 3-8, 2002
Jury Award: First Prize
(TIE)
Victoria Bragin (Professor of Chemistry, USA)
Michael Hawley (Director of Special Projects, MIT, USA)
Jury Award: Second Prize
Paul Romero (CD-ROM Game Composer, USA)
Jury Award: Third Prize
Not awarded
Press Jury Award
Michael Hawley (Director of Special Projects, MIT,
USA)
Audience Award
Victoria Bragin (Professor of Chemistry, USA)
Best Performance of a Work from the Baroque
Era
Ellen Dodson (Business Consultant, USA)
Best Performance of a Work from the Classical
Era
Charles Chien (Flight Attendant Purser, USA)
Best Performance of a Work from the Romantic Era
Victoria Bragin (Professor of Chemistry, USA)
Best Performance of a Modern Work
Victoria Bragin (Professor of Chemistry, USA)
Most Creative Programming Award
Michael Hawley (Director of Special Projects, MIT, USA)
Jury Discretionary Awards
Charles Chien (Flight Attendant Purser, USA)
Henri Delbeau (Doctor of Internal Medicine, USA)
Debra Saylor (Sales Associate, USA)
Special Recognition Awards
Miho Fisher (Retired Cardiologist, Japan [U.S. Resident])
Mark Horowitz (Cantor and Educator, USA)
Yat-Lam Hong (Piano Technician, USA)
Fort Worth Piano Teachers Forum Award
Karen Bush Purpero (Missionary, USA)
Third Stage (Finalists)
Victoria Bragin (Professor of Chemistry, USA)
Charles Chien (Flight Attendant Purser, USA)
Henri Delbeau (Doctor of Internal Medicine, USA)
Michael Hawley (Director of Special Projects, MIT, USA)
Paul Romero (CD-ROM Game Composer, USA)
Debra Saylor (Sales Associate, USA)
Second Stage (Semifinalists)
J. Michael Brounoff (Attorney at Law, USA)
Ellen Dodson (Business Consultant, USA)
Dave Duebendorfer (Hedge Fund Manager, USA/Switzerland)
Milton Farbstein (Clinical Microbiologist, USA)
Robert Finley (Electrical Engineer, USA)
John Gardecki (Private Investor, USA)
Franz Mantini (Electrical Engineer, USA)
John Markey (Certified Public Accountant, USA)
Marie-Claude Montplaisir (Senior Economist, Canada)
Hiroko Ohtani (Chemist, Japan [U.S. Resident])
Linda Poligono (Homemaker, USA)
Darin Tysdal (Sheet Music Salesperson, USA)
First Stage
Cary Adams (Dentist, USA)
Victor Alexeeff (Composer, USA)
Darius Bägli (Pediatric Urologist, Canada/USA)
Janice Bates (Retired Business Owner, USA)
Viktors Berstis (Software Engineer, USA)
John Blasdale (Retired Patent Agent, England [U.S.
Resident])
Allan Blumenthal (Psychiatrist, USA)
Stephen Burg (Substance Abuse Counselor, USA)
Mark Cannon (Psychiatrist, USA)
Lauren Carter (Homemaker, USA)
Michael Collier (Sales Consultant, USA)
Louis Dalaveris (Ophthalmologist, USA)
David Earl (Composer and Sales Manager, England)
Christoph Ewers (Physician, Germany)
Stephen Fierros (Systems Analyst, USA)
Karoline Fink-Gostner (Sales Manager, Italy)
Greg Fisher (Web Developer, USA)
Miho Fisher (Retired Cardiologist, Japan [U.S. Resident])
Suzanne Fremon (Childbirth Professional, USA)
Nancy Futrell (Neurologist, USA)
Linda A. Gilbert (Accountant, USA)
Lori Gilbert (Radio Sales Representative, USA)
Lauren Green (News Anchor, USA)
Eric Gustafson (Parish Administrator, USA)
Logos Hall (Business Owner, China [U.S. Resident])
Jonathan Hanks (Emergency Department Physician, USA)
Ann Herlong (Homemaker, USA)
David Hibbard (Railroad Manager, USA)
Yat-Lam Hong (Piano Technician, USA)
Mark Horowitz (Cantor and Educator, USA)
Stephen Hubbard (Professor of Electrical Engineering, USA)
Richard Jorgensen (Architect, USA)
Richard Katz (Physician, USA)
Jit-Seng Khoo (Plastic Surgeon, USA)
Scot King (Mortgage Broker, USA)
Renée Lampe (Orthopedic Surgeon, Germany)
Janie Leatherman (Professor of International Relations, USA)
Virginia Lum (Attorney at Law, USA)
Glenn Mallory (Consultant, USA)
Michael Moore (Retired Court Reporter, USA)
Jon Morgan (Physician, USA)
Rocky Nevin (Biophysicist and Program Developer, USA)
Lawrence Porter (Piano Technician, USA)
Karen Bush Purpero (Missionary, USA)
Cynthia Riley (Registered Nurse, USA)
Kenneth Roe (Business Owner, USA)
Edward Rosser (Music Librarian and Publisher, USA)
Thomas Shepard (Recording Producer and Composer, USA)
Howard Southern (Marketing Consultant, England)
J. Todd Spangler (Attorney at Law, USA)
Nathan Srebernik (Veterinary Surgeon, Israel [U.K.
Resident])
Carl Tait (Computer Scientist, USA)
Yoshiko Tamai (Homemaker, Japan [U.S. Resident])
J. Russell Wilson (Higher Education Administrator, USA)
Eberhard Zagrosek (Retired Business Administrator, Germany)
Jury
All Three Rounds
John Giordano (Chairman); David Karp; Gabriel Kwok; Harold
Martina; Antonio Pompa-Baldi; Alina Rubinstein
Preliminaries Only
Shields-Collins Bray
Semifinal and Final Rounds
Phillip Kawin; John Owings; Carol Leone; Jack Roberts
Press Jury
Semifinal and Final Rounds
William Littler (Chairman); Scott Cantrell; Daniel Cariaga;
Richard Dyer; Stuart Isacoff; John von Rhein; James Roos; Charles
Ward
Chairman of the Board: Alann Bedford
Sampson
President: Richard Rodzinski
In cooperation with the Concours des Grands Amateurs de
Piano
