COMPETITORSe TADASHI IMAI Address: 2522Park Hill Way South Fort Worth, TX 76110 Competitions and Awards: 2000 InternationalChopin Piano Competition,Corpus Christi, First Prize 2000 MTNA CollegiateArtist Piano Competition,National Finalist 1996 Takahiro SonodaAward Piano Competition. SecondPrize ProfessionalTraining: 1998TexasChristian University 1986-95 Toho GakuenSchoolofMusic, Tokyo Teachers:
19981993-98 t99r-93 1987-91 nat iv e o f F u k u s h i ma , J a p a n , 1986-87
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A Tadashi Imai made his official debut in Tokyo in 1997 under the auspices of t he V an C l i b u rn In te rn a ti o n a l Piano CompetitionJapan Committee. He has performedwith the Fort Worth and Osaka syrnphony orchestrasand recently made his recital debut in CarnegieHalls Weill RecitalHall. He is enrolled in the Artist Diploma Program at Texas Christian University'sSchool of Music in Fort Worth on a scholarship in honor of Lili Kraus, the late TCU Artist-in-Residenceand Cliburn Competition.juror.In his free time, Mr. lmai likes to read,jog, and play tennis. He is also a composer.
TamdsUngdr Hidemitsu Hayashi Hiroshi Tajika Mieko Nakagawa Kazuyo Ueda
PRELIMINARY ROUND Bartok Takemitsu Liszt Chopin Berg
Three Etudes,Op. 18 Litany lI BalladeNo. 2 in B minor ScherzoNo. 3 in C-sharpminor, Op. 39 Sonata,Op. I
SEMIFINAL ROUND Recital Program Brahms Lowell Liebermann Chopin Bernstein Bartok
Rhapsodyin B minor, Op. 79, No. I Three Impromptus SonataNo. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 Touches Sonata(1926)
Chamber Music Brahms
PianoQuintet in F minor, Op.34
FINAL ROUND Mozart Tchaikovsky
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PianoConcertoNo. 23 in A major, K. 488 PianoConcertoNo. I in B-flat minor, Op. 23