The Ibla Foundation of New York will present their 2007 International Grand Prize Competition Winners in concert on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 6 PM at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, 154 West 57th Street in Manhattan.


  Ibla Foundation Prize-Winners who will perform on the concert include pianists, singers, and violin virtuosos as well as a cellist, a cimbalom virtuoso and a flute and guitar duo. These prize-winners are from Russia, the U.S., Croatia, Italy, Japan, Germany, Poland, Norway, Hungary and Montenegro.

Musical selections will include a presentation of Messiaen’ s l’Esprit de Joie  from Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jesus performed by Italian American pianist Salvatore Moltisanti the New York Premiere of Pulse for cello solo by contemporary Italian composer Gabriele Vanoni, a special presentation of an aria from the opera Maruzza by Sicilian composer Pietro Floridia, as well as works by Bach, Mozart, Grieg, Liszt, Schumann, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Piazzolla and others.


The Ibla Foundation in New York City organizes an annual music competition for pianists, singers, instrumentalists and composers which takes place during the first two weeks of July in Ragusa Ibla, in the southeastern corner of Sicily. Winners are presented the following year in such venues as Carnegie Hall in New York, Tokyo Opera City Hall and other prestigious venues in Canada, Europe and the U.S.

The 2008 Competition is scheduled to take place from July 3 to July 13 in the magnificent baroque quarters of Ragusa Ibla. Visit the Foundation online at http://www.ibla.org/ [2].

Tickets for the April 29 concert are $200 and may be purchased by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, online at http://www.carnegiehall.org [3]or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office. For press tickets or more information, please contact the Ibla Foundation at 212-387-0111 or visit them online at http://www.ibla.org. [2]

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Monday, April 28 at 6pm

A preview at NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli_Marimò [4]

IBLA GRAND PRIZE Winners Gala,  Lecture Monday, April 28 at 6pm

Dr. Salvatore Moltisanti, pianist, Music Director


Sopranos, pianists, violinists, flutists, guitarists, cimbalist from all over the world perform at Casa Italiana prior to their Carnegie Hall Debut.


They will perform music by Joan Sebastian Bach, W. Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederick Chopin, Pietro Floridia, Vincenzo Bellini, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Bela Bartok, Astor Piazzolla, Olivier Messiaen, Synne Skouen


Katsiarina Anokhina, cimbalist, Russia


Elesin Fedor, cellist, Russia

Martina Filjak, pianist, Croatia

Cara Hesse, pianist, South Africa

Masako Iwamoto-Ruiter, soprano, Japan

Alina Kabanova, pianist, Russia

Krzysztof Kaczka, flute, Poland

Elena Kawazu, violinist, USA

Kristian Lindberg, pianist, Norway

Adrienn Miks, soprano, Hungary

Esther Muradov, violinist, USA

Laura Pauna, pianist, South Africa

Vladana Perovic, pianist, Montenegro

Alessio Quaresima, pianist, Italy

Chie Sato Roden, pianist, Japan

Perry Schack, guitar, Germany

Anna Rutkowska Schock, pianist, Poland

Konstantin Soukhovetsky, pianist, Russia

Emrecan Yavuz, pianist, Turkey

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West 12th Street

New York, NY 10011-8604


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