TWENTY-FIRST BARTOK-KABALEVSKY- PROKOFIEV INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION APRIL 7, 2001

2001 Competition Winners

Jorge Ilich Aguilar-Mexico Anne Marie Nunez-Tallahassee, Florida WINNERS OF THE ADULT LEVEL I Soyoung Cho-Cincinnati, Ohio (Second) Josely Maria Machado Bark-Sao Paolo, Brazil (Honorable Mention) Svitlana Syrtsova-New York, New York (Honorable Mention)

Brian Christian-Oakland, California WINNER OF THE COLLEGIATE LEVEL II Bethany Brooks-Houghton, New York (Second) Anna Khaydarova-Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Second) Charles Lahan-Lexington, Virginia (Honorable Mention)

John William Boonenberg-Dearborn, Michigan Aaron Daniel Shmookler-Gahanna, Ohio WINNERS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL GRADES 10-12 LEVEL III Jerry Huang-Fremont, California (Second) Igor Rapinchuk-Charlottesville, Virginia (Honorable Mention)

Andrew Nguyen-Mt. Laurel, New Jersey WINNER OF THE GRADES 7-9 LEVEL IV Eniko Gorog-Subotica, Yugoslavia (Second) Sonya Grace Schumann-Blacksburg, Virginia (Honorable Mention) Elizabeth Schwartzman-Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (Honorable Mention)

Daisy Chei-Rochester, New York Aleksei Fedorov-Woodlands, Texas WINNERS OF THE GRADES 4-6 LEVEL V John Choi-Closter, New Jersey (Second) Kenneth Tsang-Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Honorable Mention)

Olivia Ly-Laurel, Maryland Michael Tsang-Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania WINNERS OF THE GRADES K-3 LEVEL VI

SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS Aaron Daniel Shmookler-Gahanna, Ohio (Level III), Andrew Nguyen-Mt. Laurel, New Jersey(Level IV) - The Marion S. Gray Awards for Outstanding Young Musician Aleksei Fedorov-Woodlands, Texas - The Levin Houston Award Svitlana Syrtsova-New York, New York (Second Place), Joo-Soon Lee-Valkenburg, Netherlands (Third Place) - The Kathryn G. Obenshain Awards for Pianists 35 Years and Older Erin Weber-Hickory, North Carolina (First Place), Wakako Nagayama-Okinawa, Japan (Second Place) - The Kathryn G. Obenshain Awards for Radford University Students

Dr. Kathryn G. Obenshain, Competition Founder and Director Emeritus