Competition 2006
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Location
Venue: Prince Theatre, Blackpool Holiday Centre, Clifton Drive North, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire FY8 2SX
Our original date and venue for Final 2006 was 23rd April 2006, at Pakefield Holiday Centre. But the Final 2006 will now be held as detailed above. This is because Blackpool Centre provides us better facilities and increased capacities for future programmes.
Competition 2006 finalists
The Competition is divided into two categories based on contestants' performance experience. Requirements for entry to category Venus include electronic organ performance experience of 2 to 3 years, while that for category Jupiter is 4 or more years.
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| Luke Smith (England) Nathalie Yiqun Wang (China) Liang Qi (China) Jingwei Zhao (China) Wenchun Jiang (China) Shupeng Lai (China) Alicia Desiré García Álvarez (Spain) Raquel Lucía Afonso Rodríguez (Spain) |
Silvia Corona González (Spain) Yoshiki Kawamoto (Scotland) Xiaowei Wang (China) Hayley Gibbs (England) Xuefei Ren (China) Ikuko Yokoyama (England) Zhe Ni (China) Hui Cai (China) |
Winners of Competition 2005 had direct entry to Final 2006, they are Carlos Valbuena Martón and Silvia Corona González. Carlos is unable to participate this year. Claire Chapoule-Bard (France), who won third place last year, was successful in entering Final 2006 but unfortunately not able to come. Contestants who performed in the Open Concert and Workshop in London in September 2005 also had direct entry to Final 2006. They are Luke Smith and Yoshiki Kawamoto, both also entered Final 2005 where Yoshiki won the Senior section runner-up. The names above are not listed in any particular order.
Finalists will play their competition piece on Yamaha organs, either the EL900 or the Stagea ELS-01C.
Blackpool Festival 2006
The UK Open Competition 2006 is held as an independent event of Sceptre Promotion's Blackpool Festival. The Festival takes place at Blackpool Holiday Centre.
The map on the left shows the location of Blackpool, please click on it to see more maps of the Centre - but note information may be out of date since our event there in 2006.
Sceptre Promotion has their own web sites here, you may also want to check this link. Be sure to check out some photos of Blackpool on this page (click Blackpool Centre Photos).
