THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC,
announces

THE FIRST BERKELEY PIANO COMPETITION

and the winners are...
1st prize Jared Redmond
2nd prize Tony Lin

Preliminary Round, Session 1: Wednesday, April 2nd, 7:30PM, Hertz Hall
Preliminary Round, Session 2: Saturday, April 5th, 3:00pm, Hertz Hall
FINALS: Sunday April 6th, at 7:30 pm, Hertz Hall
All Sessions are open to the public, free admission

FIRST PRIZE: A Steinway grand piano (model L, six foot; 1930)
The piano, a bequest by Leone S. McGowan, is to be donated to a
“worthy student of piano at the University of California, Berkeley”

SECOND PRIZE: $500

How to apply

1. The competition is open to all current students of the University of California, Berkeley, and all UCB students who graduated within the 24 months prior to the competition date. (Students who graduated before May 2006 are not eligible.)
2. The discussions of the jury will be secret, but the votes caste by each member of the jury will be made public after the results have been announced.
3. The jury reserves the right not to award either of the prizes.
4. Playing from memory is not obligatory.
5. In the event of there being a large number of candidates, the competition may start on the evening of Wednesday April 2nd, and may also continue on the evening of Sunday April 6th. Candidates should therefore be prepared to play on any of these three dates.
   Update:
   Preliminary Round, Session 1: Wednesday, April 2nd, 7:30PM, Hertz Hall - see 6.
   Preliminary Round, Session 2: Saturday, April 5th, 3:00pm, Hertz Hall- see 6.
   Please note: All applicants must be present for the announcement of finalists on Saturday, April 5, Hertz Hall at 7:30pm
   FINALS: Sunday April 6th, at 7:30 pm, Hertz Hall
   All Sessions are open to the public, free admission
   
6. The order in which candidates will play will be decided by lottery.
7. The competition will be open to the public.

REPERTOIRE:
All candidates should prepare four pieces, of which three will be played:

1. Johannes Brahms: Intermezzo in A major, Op 118 no. 2.
2. One piece (or movement, or movements from a larger work) chosen by the candidate. This work should not be by Brahms and should not correspond to any of the repertoire categories listed below.

Candidates should also be prepared to play two more works from the following list, chosen to show their performance of music from different periods. Their two chosen pieces must be listed on the application form. At the competition the jury will choose to hear one of these two works.

3. Johann Sebastian Bach: one Prelude and Fugue from Book 1 of The Well tempered Clavier (1722);
4. Either Ludwig van Beethoven, or Franz Schubert: the first movement of any piano sonata;
5. Fryderyc Chopin: two mazurkas;
6. Arnold Schoenberg: two movements from either the Drei Klavierstücke op. 11 (1909) or the Suite, op. 25 (1923);
7. A piece (or pieces) by a living composer, lasting in total at least five minutes.

Important note: the total amount of music played at the competition by each candidate — pieces (a), (b), and one of (c), (d), (e), (f), or (g) — should not exceed a total of 25 minutes. In the interests of keeping within time constraints, the jury reserves the right to stop any candidate who exceeds 25 minutes.

How To Apply

Please apply in writing, using the Department’s Piano Competition Application Form to: Professor Davitt Moroney, Department of Music, Morrison Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1200 (dmoroney@berkeley.edu). The Piano Competition Application Form can be downloaded from the above link (in .pdf format) or can be picked up in the Music Department Office in room 104 Morrison Hall.

Applications must be submitted by 5 pm, 15 February 2008. Any applications sent by mail must be postmarked by that date. No applications will be accepted after that date.

Last updated: 4/7/2008