Anderszewski wins 2002 Gilmore Artist Award April 26 2002   
The 33-year-old Polish-Hungarian pianist Piotr Anderszewski
has received the 2002 Gilmore Artist Award. The award is
bestowed by the Gilmore Keyboard Festival in Kalamazoo,
Michigan, once every four years to an exceptional pianist who
desires a major international concert career.

`I am extremely honoured to be named the 2002 Gilmore Artist
and grateful for the recognition given to me by The Gilmore,' said
Anderszewski.

`To be rewarded for making music makes this honour even
more meaningful.' Anderszewski will receive US$300,000 – an
initial US$50,000 in cash and an additional US$250,000 over the
next four years in support of his musical and career goals.

Winners of this year's Gilmore Young Artist Awards were the
American pianists Jonathan Biss and Kirill Gerstein. The award,
given every other year to promising pianists under 21, offers
US$15,000 to each winner. All three pianists will participate in
this year's Gilmore Festival, which opens on April 27.

In addition to this weekend's performance, where Anderszewski
will perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No 24 and Bartok's Piano
Concerto No 3 with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, the
pianist will perform an all-Bach recital on May 3. His season also
includes performances with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra,
the BBC Symphony and recitals at the Lucerne Festival and
Tokyo's Opera City Hall. He will also replace Daniel Barenboim
at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Piano Rectial Series on
June 2. He received the Royal Philharmonic Society's Best
Instrumentalist Award last May for his concerto and chamber
music performances around the UK, in particular at the 2000
Cheltenham Festival, where he was artist in residence.

The Gilmore Awards and Festival, which began in 1989 as the
legacy of Kalamazoo businessman and arts patron Irving S.
Gilmore, has been called the `anti-competition', where prizes are
awarded not through direct comparisons but by an extended
evaluation by a six member advisory committee. Nomination
comes anonymously through a wide-ranging group of music
professionals, and candidates do not know that they are being
evaluated.

Previous recipients of the Gilmore Artist Award have been David
Owen Norris (1991), Ralf Gothóni (1994) and Leif Ove Andsnes
(1998). Sixteen young pianists have received the Gilmore Young
Artist Award, which can be given to up to four pianists at a time.

In addition to Gilmore director Dan Gustin, this year's Artistic
Advisory Committee included pianist Gilbert Kalish, Ravinia
Festival president and CEO Welz Kauffman, Classical Public
Radio Network artistic director Evans Mirageas, Boston
Conservatory president Richard Ortner, and New England
Conservatory associate provost (and former Gilmore artistic
director) Irma Vallecillo.

Ken Smith, Gramophone Online US East Coast correspondent
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