Pogorelich Winners Get Extra Prizes : Music: Recording contracts and cash awards are given to the semi-finalists and finalists of the piano competition.

In addition to gold and silver medals and cash awards of $160,000 announced at the conclusion of the first Ivo Pogorelich International Solo Piano Competition, further awards to nine semi-finalists and finalists in the contest were given at a ceremony Thursday night at Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena.

Recording contracts, worth an unspecified cash amount, were awarded to all eight of the finalists--Edith Chen, Michael Kieran Harvey, Irina Plotnikova, Evgeny Zarafiants, Sergei Babayan, Olivier Cazal, Eteri Andjaparidze and Avo Kuyumjian--by the Naxos Marco Polo label, based in Hong Kong.

Chen and Harvey, who took twin first prizes of $75,000, also received professional engagements from the San Sebastian (Spain) Assn. of Musical Culture ($10,000 apiece) and the Braunschweig Festival in Germany (a joint appearance--$5,000, plus travel and expenses). Chen has also been engaged by the Zagreb Management of Dubrovnik for the Zagreb Festival--a fee of $2,500, plus travel and expenses.

Two additional $5,000 awards from arts patron Maria Filimonova were given by the donor to Zarafiants and Kuyumjian, and a $1,000 award from Annarosa Taddei was given by the donor to Michael Injae Kim, 25, of Canada, a semi-finalist who did not advance to the final stage of the competition.

As already announced, the four runners-up in the finals--Andjaparidze, Babayan, Cazal and Kuyumjian--will each take home a $2,000 cash award. This award from outside sources was decided by Pogorelich and David Hulme, the Ambassador’s director of performing arts, and will be administered through the Ambassador Foundation.