The 2004 winners of The World Piano Competition, held each summer in Cincinnati, include Gold Medalist Ekaterina Mechetina, 26 who received The Robison Foundation/B. Robison Sporck-Stegmaier Award of a recently made known York Recital at Alice Tully Hall, valued at $35000 and The Claire Phillips Award of $10000 Mechetina, from Moscow is a postgraduate learner at the Moscow State Conservatory and studies with Sergey Dorensky.
The Silver Medal winners are Anastasia Terenkova, 23 of Russia, and Clara Jung-Yang Shin, 30 of southerly Korea. They each received The Frank A Benus Endowment & The Lucille B Duncan Endowment Awards, taking domestic circle $4,000 each.
All three artists will be making Cincinnati appearances in the 2004-2005 concord season. The fourth-, fifth- and sixth-place winners were Jei-yern Ryu 26 southern Korea; Pavel Petrov, 22, Russia; and Klara Min, 29 southern Korea, respectively.
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