Replacement Jury Duetoillnes,Mr Ernest Fleischmann and Professor John Painter have had to withdraw as members of the Jury for the 2000 Competition. The Competition Board is pleased to have secured the services of two eminent people as substitutes They are:
FRANK WIBAUT Frank Wibaut was born in London and attended the Royal College of Music on both junior and senior scholarship. He then gained awards from both the Leverhulme Trust and the Countess of Munster Trust. Throughout his studiesS his teachers have included John Barstow, Cyril Smith, Gordon Green, Ilona
Kabos and Andre Tchaikovsky. to In additionChandos, extensive concert career, Wibaut has recorded for EMI Hugo, Bongiovanni and HNH, many of which Hyperion. Polydor, He has also made recordings for radio. have received awards.the national radio of the BBC Austria. an
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France. Denmark, Italy and including and As member of the Dartington Piano Trio Wibaut toured and recorded extensively, and currently performs in duo partnerships with some of the world's foremost musicians.
Over the last decade Frank Wibaut has had invitations to perform regularly in Italy. Holland. Czech Republic, France, Greece. Spain, Finland, Malta. Japan, China., Korea, Malaysia, America and Australia. During his last tour of China, he was soloist with the Wuhan and Shanghai Symphony Orchestras, and on the same tour was the first western pianist to be made an Honorary Professor at the Wuhan Conservatory. He also holds two honorary professorships in Greece.
Highly sought after as a teacher. Frank Wibaut has served as Professor of Piano at both the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music in London and in 1996 was appointed as Head of Postgraduate Studies at the Royal Academy. He is currently Director of the Australian National Academy of Music, and is also founder and artistic director of the Salzkammergut International summer course for advanced performers in Austria.
TIMOTHY CALNIN Timothy Calnin was born in Melbourne and is a graduate of the University of Melbourne where he studied
music and modern languages. His career as a music administrator began with the State Orchestra of Victoria the Spoleto Melbourne Festival and The Australian Opera. In 1990. after two years as Music Administrator of
the Australian Chamber Orchestra (which included the management of many nationaltours and tours to South America and Europe). he moved to London where he became General Manager of The Academy of Ancient Music, managing this baroque and classical orchestra's extensive recording program for the Decca Record
Company and several international tours, including major concerts in Japan and North America. On his return to Australia in 1993, Timothy managed ABC Concerts' Young Artists Program, including the direction of the ABC Young Performers Awards and the establishmernt of the ABC's Young Conductors Program, before joining the Sydney Symphony Orchestrain 1997 in the role of Artistic Administrator. Hisworkwith Edode Wart and the Sydney Symphony has inciuded the artistic planning of the 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 concert seasons, the programming and planning of severalinternational tours and the casting of the operas Siegfried and Gotterdämmerung as well as frequent pre-concert talks and public lectures.
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Dr John Gregory-Robert's name was regrettably omitted from the list of the Competition Executive on Page 15.