London International Music Competition 2001: 2nd Prize

Piano solo, duo, string and wind ensemble.

Programme:

London International Music Competition
Prizewinners Concert
24 August 2001

Jane Ford piano

Mathilde Carré	Chopin Scherzo op.20 no.1
Olga Belostotskaya	Chopin Nocturne in C Sharp Minor op. posth. Rendo Valse Triste
Ayako Harada	Debussy Prelude No. 12 – Feux d’artifice
Maya Malafeeva	Mozart Sonata in C major K. 545
Natalia Joukova Irina Bogomolova	Milhaud Scaramouche Suite

I N T E R V A L

Jane Ford	Stevenson Peter Grimes Fantasy
Oleksandr Semchuk Anna Seredenko	Szymanovsky Capriccio Paganini
Fazliddin Husanov	Ravel Scarbo – from Gaspard de la nuit Lizt Transendental Study in F minor

Excert from the Derby Evening Telegraph, August 2001:

Pianist elated at competition place

A DERBY musician has come second in a top class piano competition which attracted players from across the world.

Jane Ford (26), who teaches the piano from her home in Manchester Street, had to play five times in three days last week to impress the judges in the London International Music Competition.

She was the only British person out of 20 people to be chosen to take part in the event at the St John's, Smith Square, concert hall in London.

Miss Ford was then one of eight people in the final on Friday and won £350 when she came second in the senior section with her solo perfomance.

She said: "It's the best I have ever done and I'm absolutely elated."
She added: "It was very tense and everybody who was there was of an incredibly high standard."

Miss Ford, who has been playing the piano since the age of six, performs recitals around the country and hopes to become a full-time concert artist.

She was awarded £3,000 by the Foundation for Sports and the Arts in 1998 so that she could buy a piano, to practise for six hours a day to enable her to remain at concert level.

Derby Evening Telegraph | August 2001