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KOTKA
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIST COMPETITION
21.-30.11.2002
Kotka Organ Music
Week 2002 provides the venue for the first Kotka
International Organist Competition, where young
organists of diverse musicianship will be
sought. This competition is open to organists
born in 1967 or thereafter.
The competition is being organised by Sibelius
Academy, the Town of Kotka, and the Kotka
Lutheran Congregation. The competitors will be
required to play the baroque organ of the Church
of Kotka; this organ was built in 1998 at
Urkurakentamo Martti Porthan, a firm of Finnish
organ makers. The disposition, tonal and
structural properties, of the organ are based on
Gottfried Silbermann's organ, which is to be
found in the Cathedral of Freiberg.
The preliminary
selection of competitors will be conducted with
recordings as the basis. Registration for the
competition ends on Mayl 31, 2002. Twelve
competitors will be selected for the preliminary
competition, which is due to be played in the
Church of Kotka between November 21- 23, 2002.
Final
to be held between November 28- 29, 2002.
The selection
based on recordings will be done by Kati
Hämäläinen, Kari Jussila and Olli Porthan.
The jury of the competition proper will include
Jean Boyer (France), Pieter van Dijk
(Netherlands), Felix Friedrich (Germany), Kari
Jussila (Finland), Jacques van Oortmerssen
(Netherlands), and Olli Porthan (Finland). The
chairperson of the jury, without voting rights,
will be Kati Hämäläinen.
Kotka
International Organist Competition's 1st prize
will be EUR 10,000, a concert at Kotka Organ
Music Week 2003 and in Alkmaar's Groote St.
Laurenskerk. The 2nd prize is EUR 5,000, and the
3rd prize is EUR 2,500.
The press meeting
connected to the organist competition will be
held in the Church of Kotka on Tuesday,
September 18, 2001 starting at 11 am, which will
also be the occasion for making public the
organist competition's website. Jyrkilä Oy's
coach transportation to the press meeting will
depart from Helsinki (Finlandia Hall's parking
area at 8.30 am. Coffee will be served during
the trip. Following the press meeting, lunch
will be served at Kotkan Klubi (address:
Kirkkokatu 2, tel. +358 5 215 020). After lunch,
the coach will make the return trip to Helsinki.
The organisers would like to have press
representatives register for the press meeting
and lunch via fax to +358 5 212 108 or by email
to: antti.nuorivuori@kotka.fi by September 17.
For further
information regarding the organist competition,
please contact Jouko Koivukoski, competition
secretary, on +358 40 5850 256 or Antti
Nuorivuori, information officer, on +358 400 50
1909.
Press
release 13.06.2002
The first Kotka
International Organ Competition 2002 will be
organized during the annual organ week in Kotka,
Finland. The organizers are the City of Kotka,
the Kotka Parish and the Sibelius Academy. The
competition will take place 21.-30.11.2002 in
the Kotka church.
The organizers
wish to promote young organists with wide and
solid professional skills. The winners should
have a strong artistic profile,excellent organ
technique,ability to compose interesting recital
programmes, and ability to lead a baroque
ensemble. The competition is open to all
organists born in or after the year 1967.
By dead line the
end of May 2002 the organizers received 18
applications from 13 different
Asian,European,African and Northern American
countries.
The preliminary
selection ofcompetitors was done on 12.6.2002
based onrecordings by professor Kati
Hämäläinen,professor Olli Porthan and
professor Kari Jussila from Sibelius-Academy.
The preliminary jury
selected 12 competitors as follows:
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Cristian
Ahlskog (Finland)
Jukka Aro (Finland)
Georg Friedrich (Germany)
Herman Jordaan (South Africa)
Arno Kerkhof (Holland)
Sang- Hwa Lee(Republic of Korea)
Markku Mäkinen (Finland)
Hye-Sun Park (Republic of Korea)
Soomi-Hidemi Park (Japan)
David Szanto (Canada)
Erich Türk (Romania)
Paul M. Weber (USA) |
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