I am very happy to announce that this year's piano auditions are completed!
Our auditions started in June and were completed end of August 2013.
The students performed either a gold medal 10-piece program (National-10) or a gold medal 15 piece program (International-15). Both Adam Ghilarducci and Cynthia Nguyen Phan performed two programs successfully giving credit for two years auditions.
All students performed 1 - 5 musicianship phases; most performed were scales, chords/cadences and arpeggios, sight-reading and ear-training was also tested.
Here are our 20 gold medals earned in this year's Piano GUild auditions:
June 19, 2013 Judge: Deborah Mele
1. Sai
Sivapalan I-15 PD
– Regular High School Diploma, 11th gold medal audition
July 16, 2013 Judge: Karen L. Webster
2. Kelly
Rausch N-10 IS, 7th gold medal audition
July 29, August 4, August 9 and 10, 2013 Judge: Judith
Cataldo
3. Nubia
Adelaine Gonzalez N-10 EC, 2nd gold medal audition
4. Thulasi
Yogarajah I-15 IE, 7th gold medal audition
5. Adam
Ghilarducci N-10 PA, 2nd gold medal audition
6. Eduardo
Dominguez N-10 ID, 2nd gold medal audition
7. Trisha
Leungsikul N-10 EC, 2nd gold medal audition
8. Emika
Saito N-10 IC, 1st gold medal audition
9. Adam
Ghilarducci Advanced
Bach Plaque PBM I-15 PS, 3rd gold medal audition
10. Jim Powers N-10 ED, 2nd gold medal audition
11. Cynthia Nguyen
Phan (program 1) N-10 PS, 7th gold medal audition
11. Cynthia Nguyen
Phan (program 2) N-10 PS, 8th gold medal audition
12. Kathleen
Nguyen Phan N-10 IS, 7th gold medal audition
13. Stacey
Nguyen Phan N-10 IE, 7th gold medal audition
14. Sebastian
Gonzales N-12 ID, 5th gold medal audition
15. Kianna
Ocasla N-10 EC, 1st gold medal audition
16. Anais
Perkins N-10 PA, 5th gold medal audition
17. Odelia Nadira
Herabadi N-10 EA, 2nd
gold medal audition
18. Ophelia Chiara
Herabadi N-10 EB, 2nd gold medal audition
19. Tara
Romero N-10 IC, 2nd gold medal audition
August 31, 2013 Judge: Coralee Gaytan
20. Patrick Xu I-15 PS, 4th
gold medal audition