Members of the Jury at the grave-side of Arthur Rubinstein in the Jerusalem Forest. This Competition opened the celebrations honouring the 100th anniversary of our Patron’s birth. International Jury: Marcello Abbado (Italy), Michael Boguslavsky (Israel), Pierre Colombo (Switzerland), Halina Czerny-Stefanska (Poland), Dean Elder (U.S.A.), Gary Graffman (U.S.A.), Gerhard Oppitz (W. Germany), Pnina Salzman (Israel), Michal Smoira-Cohn (Israel), Takahiro Sonoda (Japan), Joaquin Soriano (Spain), Fanny Waterman O.B.E. (England), Arie Vardi (Israel). Laureates: First Prize: No First Prize awarded. Second Prize: Thomas Duis, West Germany - Competition Gold Medal and $5,000. Programme performed: Bach - Ricercare from the Musical Offering; Mozart - Sonatensatz (Allegro) K400 (372a); Chopin - The last Mazurka in F Minor; Ravel - Alborada del Gracioso; Chopin - Etude in C Major, op. 10 no. 1; Liszt - Transcendental Etude no. 10 in F Minor; Liszt - Mephisto Waltz; Beethoven - Sonata in F Minor op.57 (Appassionata); Chopin - Fantasy in F Minor, op. 49; Prokofiev - Sonata no. 6 op. 82; Beethoven - Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, op. 30 no. 3; Mozart - Concerto in D Minor, K466; Brahms - Concerto no. 1 in D Minor, op. 15. Third Prize: Angela Cheng, Canada - Competition Gold Medal and $3,000.

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