Announcing the Piano Competition Winners

[Garritan]

I am pleased to announce the winners for Jack's (Rhap2) Piano Competition. It was a fun contest and there were 19 people who entered - many of them excellent!

Listed below is the GRAND PRIZE winner and the two runners-up.



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GRAND PRIZE: Paul Robbins for "Wall Street Hoedown"
(This entry was so unique, it broke a 3-way tie)

RUNNERS-UP: Louis Dekker (LouisD) for "Theme and Variations"
Anousone Kitisa for "Waltz" (in the style of Chopin)


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Paul Robbins will receive an Authorized Steinway Professional library and Lous Dekker and Anousone Kitisa will receive a Basic version of the Authorized Steinway library. We're looking forward to hearing their entries re-rendered with the Steinway library.

Jack Cannon was a "Listener Award" winner for his helpful comments and attentiveness in the Listening Room. Jack already owned the library so he graciously offered his library to a worthy person "not able to purchase the Steinway for one reason or another, but would love to have one"
So Jack started a contest, posted it on the forum (http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63050) and dedicated his Garritan Authorized Steinway Piano to the winner of a "private" piano solo composition contest.

What a great idea! :) Jack was so generous and gracious and he let others share in his fortune. We need more people in the world like Jack.

Thanks so much Jack for doing this. Thanks to all those who entered and congratulations to the winners! Lets do this again some time.

All the best,

Gary Garritan

[Jon Bryson]

Congratulations to Paul, Louis and Anousone! I hope to be able to hear each of these pieces soon. "Wall Street Hoedown" sounds like an entry for the Halloween contest! )(~

Thanks again to Jack and Gary for making this possible!

Jon

[jaynkate01]

Congrats to the winners. You have won a beautiful sounding piano. I am looking forward to the opportunity to hear all of your pieces. Thanks to Gary and Jack for this great and generous offer.
-Jay

[Rhap2]

To All who entered:

It was a pleasure to hear the many, varied Piano Composition Contest
entries. The 3-minute limitation posed a special restriction as far as
composing anything was concerned, but its intention was to provide an
additional challenge for the composer. The winners overcame this
obstacle with careful planning and, much to my surprise, forwarded
very meaningful piano pieces. I hope the winners will submit their
entries using their new Steinway libraries. I can guarantee all
listeners will be surprised.

We must always remember too, that all of this would not have been
possible without the gracious generosity of Gary Garritan. His support
of music students and professionals throughout the world is unparalled
and I don't have to prove that to anyone familiar with this Forum. Thank
you Gary for your leadership, motivation and for creating sample music
libraries that do so much to advance education in the field of music
composition.

Again, it was a real pleasure for me to hear the music created for
this contest and I congratulate everyone who entered.
For our winners, special kudos for preparing awesome piano solos.
Good luck to all.

BRAVO,

Jack

[AlanPerkins]

This is why I love this forum!

Well done Jack and Gary!

[Sonare Coeli]

Congratulations! I really look forward to hearing your pieces rendered with the Steinway!

[RichR]

Congratulations to all and thanks to Jack for setting this up!)(~)(~)(~

[DPDAN]

Congratulations to everyone who entered this competition!

Even though you may have entered, and were not chosen as a winner,
keep making music every chance you get.

Dan

[Andrea Maria Ottavin]

Congrats to the winners!!! )(~)(~)(~)(~)(~)(~)(~)(~

Looking forward on hearing the winner entries re-rendered.

Best Regards,

Andrea.

[sunbird]

Congratulations to the winners!! )(~

Looking forward to hearing your creations with the Grand D... :p

I would be interested to hear all other entries as well!


Yudit

[Aziraphal]

Congrats to the winners, to all fellow participants, and to Jack whose generosity inspired us all!

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[mrkeyboard]

Congratulations to the winners and to Jack too for this excellent and generous initiative!

Victor

[LouisD]

Congratulations to Paul and Anousone. As for myself, I can only say that it is very unexpected. All the thanks go to Jack for being such a kind person and of course to Gary for being so generous. This forum is so full of surprises:). I have to say that I have been a little absent the last couple of months because I'm both studying and working 7 days a week~|. So little time I have to devote to music at present.

Congratulations to all who composed for this competition. :)

[PaulR]

Wow! That's great and it was a while ago so I had a senior moment there when I saw my name come up. :D

American generosity is very much appreciated and well known over here - especially on a day like today. This piano piece was a sort of a joke because when I put it together, Wall Street was going up and down like a yoyo - still is as a matter of fact - so I tried to get the music to sound like that in a minimalist sort of way. It's just Patch 1 on the Kurzweil and Patch 24 on the reverb I think.

Well done to everyone who participated, especially Loius and Anousone, in what I assume was a lot of fun just to play a single instrument for a change. Music should always be fun and never taken too seriously in my view.

Great generosity shown by Gary and Jack with regard to this piano competition and I just thought I should have a go since I come round here fairly frequently spouting off about most things.

I said to a very good friend of mine in America, who just got married, that if I was lucky enough to win this Steinway Piano, I would like to give it to him and of course, that still stands. He is a far better, hard working musician than I could ever be - mostly due to time constraints - and well, basically, he's just got more talent.

He will do some great things with this Steinway Piano that's for sure. So once again, and with that in mind, many thanks for voting for Wall Street and I am very grateful. I will be grateful if you could let my Yank friend have this and of course, I will give you his address details soon.

Many thanks to everyone once again. :)

[Jon Bryson]

Wow, talk about the gift that keeps on giving!

This just highlights once again the reason I love this forum and Garritan products. You won't find a better group of people anywhere.

Jon

[wrayer]

Congrats guys, good job.

[etLux]

Congratulations, Paul and Louis and Anousone!

My best,


David
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David Sosnowski
www.DavidSosnowski.com

[PaulR]

Congratulations, Paul and Louis and Anousone!

My best,


David
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David Sosnowski
www.DavidSosnowski.com

Thanks David. Very nice of you to say.

[Leaf]

Congrats and applauds to Paul Robbins, Louis Dekker (LouisD), and Anousone Kitis.

and to Jack!
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David

[Rhap2]

Thanks David.

My last wish now is to have all of our winners
post their winning entries using their new
Steinway libraries.

fulfilling this request will be an enjoyable experience for
all listeners.

Jack

[wrayer]

Will the compositions be posted so all can hear?

Bill

[PaulR]

Robbins Dekker & Kitis - sounds like a firm of accountants or lawyers..or makers of ice cream or doughnuts.

Yeah - RDK Doughnuts - have you tried them?

I can make this work!!!!

[p0chacco]

lol! Robbins Dekker & Kitis... it does have a cool sound to it. ;)

I just found out my waltz got the runner-up prize!! )(~
How cool! and what a surprise! ~|

Thanks to Jack and Gary for their generosity and for making this contest possible. And congratulations to Paul and Louis, and also to all who have entered in the competition.

I'll post my waltz as soon as I get the Steinway. I hope we could listen to the other entries as well.

Thanks again!
Anousone

[germancomponist]

Congratulations to the winners!)(~)(~)(~