Aug 20 Grand Finals!
Aug 20 Grand Final and results
Sunday evening featured a concert of first prize winners with the Jeju Symphony. These performers competed for the overall Grand Prize of the 2006 Competition. During the concert, the following performers competed:
Hiroyuki Kurogane, Bass Trombone performed Eugene Bozza's 'New Orleans'
Sergey Akimov, Horn , performed Malcomb Arnold's Horn Concerto No. 2?
Kent Eschelman, Tuba, performed Eugene Bozza's 'Concertino'
After a very close score, Hiroyuki Kurogane was awarded the Grand Prize.
Prize winners for the week were:
Trumpet
Kazuaki Kikumoto (Japan), 2nd prize
Chung-Mom Ho (Taiwan), 3rd prize
Horn
Sergy Akimov (Belarus), 1st prize
Andras Chlebovics (Hungary), 2nd prize
Jano Benyus (Hungary), 3rd prize
Tenor Trombone
Mattieu Dubray (France), 2nd prize
Jozsef Voros (Hungary), 3rd prize
Bass Trombone
Hiroyuki Kurogane (Japan), 1st prize
Matyas Veer (Hungary), 2nd prize (tie)
Nando Nemeti (Hungary), 2nd prize (tie)
Euphonium
Ayano Iwakuro (Japan), 2nd prize
Ryunosuke Abe (Japan), 3rd prize
Tuba
Kent Eshelman (US), 1st prize
Mun Zee-woong (Korea), 3rd prize
Brass Quintet
Lituus Quintet (Hungary), 3rd prize
Congratulations to all participants! It was a week of wonderful musical performances in every round of every competition!
The next International Brass Competition in Jeju will be in August of 2008.