Judith Lang Zaimont's Impronta Digitale Performed By Van Cliburn
International Competition Gold Medalists

American Composer Judith Lang Zaimont's "Impronta Digitale" has been
honored by having been selected and performed by Stanislav Ioudenitch and
Olga Kern, co-Gold Medal Winners of the 11th Van Cliburn International
Competition.

Ms. Zaimont was recognized as an Honored Composer and awarded $2,500
as one of the two prize winners in the inaugural American Composers
Invitational program sponsored by the Van Cliburn Foundation.  Her prize
was awarded on the stage of Bass Hall in Forth Worth, Texas and was
accompanied by a kiss from Van Cliburn himself.  Information about the
historic American Composers Invitational competition, and the multi-stage
competitors' selection process can be found at
http://www.cliburn.org/competition/prcomposers.html.

"Impronta Digitale" ("Fingerprint") was performed in recital by a total
of five of the twelve solo piano round semi-finalists in the competition:
Italy's Maurizio Baglini, Japan's Masaru Okada, China's Wang Xiaohan and
the two Gold Medalists.  More information about the two Silver Medal
winners and other finalists can be found at
http://www.cliburn.org/competition/winners.html

These performances are archived on the web and can be seen and heard at

   http://www.webcasting.com/vc/

Stanislav Ioudenitch, age 29, is a native of Uzbekistan, and currently
pursuing a doctorate at the University of Missouri Kansas City as a
student of Robert Weirich.  His orchestral and solo engagements have
taken him throughout Europe and the U.S.  He has won top prizes in several
international piano competitions, including the 1994 Kapell Competition,
and was the first prize winner at the 1998 Palm Beach Invitational and the
New Orleans International Competitions.  He has studied with, among others,
Leon Fleisher, Murray Perahia and Rosalyn Tureck..

Olga Kern, age 26, is Russian and was born into a family of musicians.
A laureate of several international competitions, she has toured throughout
Europe and the United States, as well as Japan, South Africa and Korea,
performing in many of the world's great concert halls.  Ms. Kern is
currently a postgraduate student at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
and the Accademia Pianistica Incontri col Maestro in Imola, Italy, where
she studies with Boris Petrushansky.

The Gold Medal First Prize awarded to each of the pianists includes a
$20,000 cash award; international and national concert tours and career
management for two concert seasons following the competition; a compact
disc recording by harmonia mundi, usa; performance attire worth $10,000;
and contribution towards domestic and international air travel.

More information about the Gold Medal Winners can be found at

   http://www.cliburn.org/competition/winners.html

For more information about the 11th Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition, visit their website at:

   http://www.cliburn.org/competition/

"Impronta Digitale" is an eight and a half minute perpetuum mobile in
fast, shifting compound meters.  Its single-strand of pitch ranges across
the entire keyboard, changing moods from whirlwind virtuosity to romantic
lyricism, while layering its complex harmonies across time.  The title
-- translated into English as "fingerprint" -- refers both to technical
aspects of the music and to the fact that it spotlights certain of Ms.
Zaimont's characteristic or "fingerprint", sound-structures.  In addition
to standing alone as an independent composition, "Impronta Digitale"
also serves as the third movement of her 1999 Sonata for Piano Solo,
which was cited as the most important piano piece of 1999 on Piano &
Keyboard magazine's 20th century timeline.

Judith Lang Zaimont, a Tennessee native who grew up in New York, and now
teaches at the University of Minnesota, is an internationally recognized
composer whose music is characterized by its expressive strength,
dynamism, and rhythmic vitality. Her musical language is coloristic, and
she has contributed to virtually every genre in a style featuring clear
pulse, intricate surfaces and an almost centrifugal shift of tonal
pivots.

Ms. Zaimont's music is widely performed (Connecticut Opera, Philadelphia
Orchestra, Women's Philharmonic, Kremlin Chamber Orchestra, Czech Radio
Symphony) and has been recorded for the Koch International Classics,
Arabesque, Milken Family Foundation, Albany, Jeanne, Leonarda,
Northeastern, and 4Tay labels. She was awarded the 1995 Recording Award
- First Prize awarded by the International Alliance for Women in Music
(for the Arabesque CD Neon Rhythm). "All American Appeal", an article
about her piano music, was featured in the November/December 1998 issue
of Piano & Keyboard magazine. Several other Zaimont compositions have
been honored by selection for competition repertoire lists, including
works for the Carnegie - Rockefeller competition for interpreters of
American vocal music, and the General Motors-Seventeen Magazine
competition.

Among her many composition awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship (1983-84)
and commission grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (1982)
and Minnesota Composers Forum (1993), First Prize - Gold Medal in the
Gottschalk Centenary Composers Competition (1971), First Prize in the
Chamber Orchestra Composition contest to honor the Statue of Liberty
Centennial (1986); and First Prize in the international 1995 McCollin
Competition for Composers (for Symphony No. 1, performed by the
Philadelphia Orchestra in season 1995-96). She has offered masterclasses
at many institutions, and has also been featured Composer at the 1995
Society of Composers International American meeting; Scholar in Residence
with a consortium of Atlanta-area colleges (1995), and Filene Artist in
Residence at Skidmore College (1997-98).  Her music appears on two Century
lists (Chamber Music America; Piano & Keyboard Magazine), and is the
subject of many articles, book chapters and several dissertations.

A Spring 2001 Electronic Dialogues interview with Judith Lang Zaimont can
be read at the Internet Classical Music Magazine Sequenza 21 -
http://www.sequenza21.com/index.html.

More information about Ms. Zaimont is available at her website
http://www.joblink.org/jzaimont/ and at http://www.jamesarts.com.  She
is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting, who can be contacted
at 516-797-9166 and at [log in to unmask]

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