Shreveport Symphony presents MW 3 January 8, 2011 - Go for the GOLD

This Saturday evening The Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, Michael Butterman Music Director, presents the three finalists from the 2010 Wideman Piano Competition held this past December. The Competition is held annually in Shreveport at Centenary's Hurley School of Music. Lester Senter Wilson is the Director.

The competition finale accompanied by the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra will be held at FBC, Shreveport, Saturday December 8, 7:30 PM and tickets can be purchased online or at The Symphony offices downtown. SSO Music Director Michael Butterman will be conducting. Compositions will be Prokofiev Concerto No. 3 in CM, Chopin Concerto No.1 in Em and the Saint-Saens concerto No.2 in Gm

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Finalists are

Ko-Eun Lee - Saints-Saens

Jannie Sing-Yen Lo - Prokofiev

Soyeon Park - Chopin

If you love piano music and the sounds of your symphony orchestra, we hope to see you there where you can also vote for your favorite pianist.

NEWSFLASH 

update

The Gold Medal winner of the 2010 Nena Wideman Piano Competition is Ko-Eun Lee who played the Saint-Saen Piano Concerto No. 2 in Gm.

After Concert audience chat with the the three finalists and SSO Music Director Michael Butterman

while awaiting vote tabulation


Ko-Eun Lee - the Gold Medal winner

Soyeon Park - Silver medalist

Jannie Sing-Yen Lo - Bronze Medal winner

An eager audience awaiting the vote tabulation after the concert participates in a question and answer series for the three contestants narrated by Michael Butterman

And the question is "How do you prepare for memorization of your music?"

Other questions were:

At what age did you begin taking piano lessons?
How many hours a day do you practice?
How do you like Shreveport?
What are you thinking about when you play the music?
Does the music make you think of anything in particular?
What would you like to do with your life?

SSO Music Director Michael Butterman



I apologize for the lack of photos of the Wideman Competition's Director Lester Senter Wilson whom I have known since the early 1970's, but my camera battery died and although a friend of mine who also has a Nikon offered to lend me one of her extra batteries, alas the batteries were not compatible.

Photo of me taken at the first intermission by my friend Galina who has graciously consented to my posting a few of her photos from the concert (the ones I missed)! Look for more photos this week of the Wideman winners.

Photos by Galina with editing by sjwr

Dan

Jason

Wideman competition judge Santiago Rodriguez
whom I first met when he played with the SSO in 1971. He is a former Wideman and Van Cliburn competition winner

Lester Senter Wilson with the winners of the 2010 Wideman Competition