Competition Diary Entry: 5 June 2009


Competitor Jinjoo Cho (Korea).
Photo credit: Sheena Haywood

Round II runs today and tomorrow where all 18 competitors perform a Paganini Caprice, Gareth Farr's Wakatipu, at least 2 contrasting movements of a Romantic-era sonata, and a show piece of their own chosing.


Hyunjoo Choo (Korea).
Photo credit: Sheena Haywood


Hyunjoo Choo (Korea) with her pianist, Bernadette Balkus, perform the Ravel Sonata.
Photo credit: Sheena Haywood


And whilst the music plays indoors at Memorial Hall, the central Otago landscape continues to be breathtaking outdoors.

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