Juries
Marcella
Crudeli (Italy)
 She is
considered one of the most distinguished Italian concert performers.
Significant contributions to her artistic formation were made by
celebrated Maestros B. Seidlhofer, A. Cortot and C. Zecchi.She
graduated with Honors cum laude and with special mention at the
Milan Conservatorium“G.Verdi”,at the Salzburg Mozarteum and Vienna
Academy.
For many years she has most successfully pursued an intense career
as soloist and as a member of world-renown chamber music ensembles,
for major concert societies, radio and TV networks and with the most
prestigious orchestras directed by famous conductors. Overall, she
has performed over two thousand concerts in more than eighty
countries on all five continents and recorded many CDs. She has held
seminars, master classes, advanced courses on interpretation in many
countries and published in Ed. Carish(Italy) revised works of old
Italian masters (Cimaroza, Galuppi et al). She has been headed of
juries for numerous International and National piano competitions.
Currently, she is holding an advanced piano course at the Ecole
Normale de Musique de Paris “A.Cortot”. She is a professor of piano
at the Conservatorium “S.Cecilia” in Rome and served as a Director
of the Pescara Conservatorium from 1988 to 2004.She was awarded
“Professor Emeritus” at the Sakuyo College Tsuyama in Japan.
Consolidating her world-wide level acquired artistic status, a
highly-qualified International jury conferred upon her Prize of the
8th Edition of “Il Saggitario d’Oro”, never before granted to the
Italian concert pianist. Among other significant awards and honors
granted to her – the “Palestrina” Prize; the “A.Ristori” Prize,
reserved to Italian and foreign women for distinguished achievements
in the field of arts; the “Cimento d’Oro dell’Arte e della Cultura”
Prize; “Europa 1989”(awarded in the Promoteca Hall of Rome’s City
Hall); “Progetto Donna” Prize in Pescara; the DISMA “A life for a
music instrument” Prize at the Bocconi University of Milan; “Lions
d’Oro” Prize for High Artistic and Humanistic merits; “Cavaliere al
Merito” of the Italian Republic and in 2003 she has received the
gold medal and First Class Diploma for “Praiseworthy in the field of
Education and Art” by the President of the Republic. Rotary Club
International granted her the notable “Paul Harris Fellow Two
Rubies” Award for her exceptional contribution in the field of Arts
and Humanity.
She is a
founder and President the “F.Chopin” Association and the
International Piano Competition “Rome”since 1990. She also
repeatedly was elected as a Council President of the European Music
Teachers Association
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Stanislaw
Tichonow (Austria)
 Stanislaw Tichonow received his professional training in the
Novosibirsk State M.I.Glinka Conservatory (M.A. in Piano Performance
with prof. I. Slonim) and in Moscow State P.I.Tchaikovsky
Conservatory (D.M.A. in Piano Performance with prof. R. Kehrer and
Ph.D. in Musicology with prof. Mstislav Smirnov). Among his
scientific publications is the book “Leschetizky und sein Wiener
Kreis”. Dr. Tichonow has been intensively performing with piano solo
recitals and with established by him Leschetizky Trio of Vienna
throughout Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, France,
the United States of America,Ukraine. He recorded two CDs with
Preiser Records, Cascavelle VEL 3104. Prof. Tichonow taught at the
Vienna Conservatory and recently serves on the piano faculty of the
Eisenstadt Conservatory. His students are first prize winners of the
International and National piano competitions.
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Thomas Osuga
(USA)
Dynamic Pianist Thimas Osuga embraces works from established and
emerging concert repertories. Inagural curator for 2006-2007 On the
Rise concert series featured in the NJ Record at Puffin Cultural
Forum, www.puffinfoundation.org, nominated by the Cleveland JACL as
Japanese American of the Biennium in 2004, current co-chair/liason
of the Mannes Preparatory Piano Department, www.mannes.edu, Mr.
Osuga brings a fresh outlook to the repertory he engages. Chamber
performances of Eleanor Cory’s “Pas de Quatre” with St.Luke and
Cabrini Quartet members, recent premiere of Marc-Antonio Consoli’s
piano trio Collected Moments II with Aurista Chamber Music, at
Frederick Loewe Theatre, which was recently named resident chamber
ensemble at NYU. Solo concerts featuring works of Japanese-American
premieres, Argentineans, contemporary and Terezin/Holocaust
repertory. Solo and collaborative concerts include performances for
Pianists for the New Millennium, Composers Collaborative’s Solo
Flights Series, Trinity Church’s Noon-day Concerts, NY State Art
Council, Ohio Arts Council, Concerts-to-Go, Music for All Seasons,
and Center for Women in Music. Mr. Osuga has recordings on the
Capstone label “Expanding Horizons”, and also on Legacy and Coronet
labels. He is a Ph.D. candidate at NYU and Pi Lambda Theta member.
Mr.Osuga is also faculty member of Pianofhoria!
www.pianophoria.home.att.net.
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