Second Competition, April 1977

The Maestro addressing the audience and prizewinners of
the second Competition (left to right): D. Kacso, G. Oppitz and E. Terada.

International Jury
Arthur Rubinstein, Guido Agosti (Italy), Jan Ekier (Poland), Jacques Fevrier (France), Martin Filar (U.S.A.), Rudolf Firkusny (U.S.A.), Akiko Iguchi (Japan), Nikita Magaloff (Switzerland), Andre-Francois Marescotti (Switzerland), Robert Ponsonby (England), Michal Smoira-Cohn (Israel), Hugo Steurer (W. Germany), Josef Tal (Israel), Arie Vardi (Israel), Ilona Vincze (Israel)

 

Laureates

First Prize
Gerhard Oppitz, West Germany - The Arthur Rubinstein Award - Competition Gold Medal and $5,000.

 

Programme performed

• Bach - Prelude & Fugue in C sharp Minor (Book II)
• Chopin - Etudes op. 10 no. 8 and op. 25 no. 11
• Liszt - Etude d’Execution Transcendente no. 10
• Debussy - Etude "Pour les Degres Chromatiques"
• Mozart - Fantasy in C Minor K 475
• Shulamit Ran - "Hyperbolae"
• Scriabin - Sonata no. 5 Op. 53
• Beethoven - Sonata in C Minor op. 111
• Bartok - Sonata 1926
• Brahms - Piano Quintet in F Minor op. 34
• Chopin - Sonata in B Minor - op. 58
• Beethoven - Concerto in E flat Major no. 5
• Brahms - Concerto in D Minor no. 1

 

Gerhard Oppitz

 

Second Prize:
Diana Kacso, Brazil - Competition Gold Medal and $4,000

 

Third Prize:
Etsuko Terada, Japan - Competition Gold Medal and $3,000