06/06/2002

Preliminaries: Monday through Wednesday, 1-5 p.m. and 7:30-10:30 p.m.
Schedule of preliminary performances

Semifinals: Friday, 2-5:30 p.m. and 7:30-11 p.m. Finals and awards ceremony: Saturday, 3-7:45 p.m.

1 to 5 p.m. session

1:00 Lawrence Porter, piano technician, Santa Fe, N.M.

1:15 Stephen Hubbard, professor of electrical engineering, Clemson, S.C.

1:30 Richard Jorgensen, architect, New York City

1:45 David Hibbard, railroad manager, Fort Worth

2:00 Stephen Fierros, systems analyst, Houston

2:30 Eric Gustafson, parish administrator, Vienna, Va.

2:45 Linda Poligono, homemaker, Greenbrae, Calif.

3:00 J. Russell Wilson, higher education administrator, Leawood, Kan.

3:15 Lauren Carter, homemaker, Huntsville, Ala.

3:30 Janice Bates, retired business owner, Garden Grove, Calif.

4:00 John Blasdale, retired patent agent, Whippany, N.J.

4:15 Victor Alexeeff, composer, Groveport, Ohio

4:30 Yoshiko Tamai, homemaker, Rowland Heights, Calif.

4:45 John Gardecki, private investor, Middleburg, Va.

7:30 to 10:30 p.m. session

7:30 Miho Fisher, retired cardiologist, Denton

7:45 Glenn Mallory, consultant, Dallas

8:00 Ann Herlong, homemaker, Rock Hill, S.C.

8:15 Thomas Shepard, recording producer and composer, New York City

8:30 J. Michael Brounoff, attorney, Irving

9:00 Chuifun Poon, administrative assistant, Fort Worth

9:15 Michael Moore, retired court reporter, Tucson, Ariz.

9:30 Greg Fisher, Web developer, Denton

9:45 Mark Horowitz, cantor and educator, Buffalo, N.Y.

10 Viktors Berstis, software engineer, Austin

10:15 Jon Morgan, physician, Lee’s Summit, Mo.

1 to 5 p.m. session

1:00 Janie Leatherman, professor of international relations, Normal, Ill.

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Details: The Third International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs takes place June 3-8 at Ed Landreth Auditorium, Texas Christian University, University and West Cantey in Fort Worth. Tickets: Complete packages: $105 Semifinals, finals and awards: $60 Individual sessions: $10 for preliminaries, $20 for semifinals and $35 for finals and awards. Call Central Tickets, 817-335-9000 or 1-800-462-7979. Format: Preliminary round (June 3-5): Seventy-five applicants will each present a program not to exceed 12 minutes. • Preliminary round schedule Semifinal round (June 7): Eighteen semifinalists will each present a program not to exceed 20 minutes. Final round (June 8): Six finalists will each present a program not to exceed 30 minutes. Participants The Competitors The Jurors Awards First prize: $2,000 Second prize: $1,000 Third prize: $500 Other prizes: Press jury award; audience award; awards for the best performance of a work from the baroque, classical and romantic eras; best performance of a modern work; most creative programming award; and jury discretionary awards. On the Web Video: Amateurs attracting more attention International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs Cliburn Foundation official site

1:15 Dave Duebendorfer, hedge fund manager, Westport, Conn.

1:30 Franz Mantini, electrical engineer, Tampa, Fla.

1:45 Lori Gilbert, radio sales representative, Wexford, Pa.

2:00 Robert Finley, electrical engineer, Northboro, Mass.

2:30 John Markey, certified public accountant, Raleigh, N.C.

2:45 Allan Blumenthal, psychiatrist, New York City

3:00 Rocky Nevin, biophysicist and program developer, Berkeley, Calif.

3:15 Linda A. Gilbert, accountant, Baltimore, Md.

3:30 Cynthia Riley, registered nurse, Fort Worth

4:00 Logos Hall, business owner, Alhambra, Calif.

4:15 Yat-Lam Hong, piano technician, Kalamazoo, Mich.

4:30 Ellen Dodson, business consultant, Lexington, Mass.

7:30 to 10 p.m. session

7:30 Milton Farbstein, clinical microbiologist, Prescott, Ariz.

7:45 Carl Tait, computer scientist, New York City

8:00 Edward Rosser, librarian and publisher, Leverett, Mass.

8:15 Karen Bush Purpero, missionary, Longwood, Fla.

8:30 Debra Saylor, sales associate, Omaha, Neb.

9:00 Victoria Bragin, professor of chemistry, Barboursville, W.Va.

9:15 Lauren Green, news anchor, New York City

9:30 Scot King, mortgage broker, Lake Forest, Calif.

9:45 Darin Tysdal, sheet music salesman, Richfield, Minn.

10:00 Michael Collier, sales consultant, Canaan, N.Y.

10:15 J. Todd Spangler, attorney, Middlesboro, Ky.

1 to 5 p.m. session

1:00 Stephen Burg, substance abuse counselor, Tucson, Ariz.

1:15 Darius Bägli, pediatric urologist, Toronto, Canada

1:30 David Earl, composer and sales manager, Cambridge, England 1:45 Hiroko Ohtani, chemist, Dearborn Heights, Mich.

2:00 Suzanne Fremon, childbirth professional, New York City

2:30 Marie-Claude Montplaisir, senior economist, Laval, Canada

2:45 Charles Chien, flight attendant purser, Manhattan Beach, Calif.

3:00 Cary Adams, dentist, Chicago

3:15 Richard Katz, physician, Clayton, Mo.

3:30 Jit-Seng Khoo, plastic surgeon, Carmichael, Calif.

4:00 Karoline Fink-Gostner, sales manager, Bolzano, Italy

4:15 Renée Lampe, orthopedic surgeon, Munich, Germany

4:30 Howard Southern, marketing consultant, London

4:45 Henri Delbeau, doctor of internal medicine, Jackson Heights, N.Y.

7:30 to 10:30 p.m. session

7:30 Kenneth Roe, business owner, Bay City, Mich.

7:45 Nancy Futrell, neurologist, Salt Lake City

8:00 Michael Hawley, director of special projects, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

8:15 Paul Romero, CD-ROM game composer, Los Angeles

8:30 Jonathan Hanks, emergency department physician, Prescott, Ariz.

9:00 Nathan Srebernik, veterinary surgeon, London

9:15 Christoph Ewers, physician, Altdorf, Germany

9:30 Louis Dalaveris, ophthalmologist, New York City

9:45 Eberhard Zagrosek, retired business administrator, Germany

10:00 Virginia Lum, attorney, Bethesda, Md.

10:15 Mark Cannon, psychiatrist, New York City