„The winner of the 18th Chopin Competition!
2021-10-21
The final auditions of the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Competition are over. The jury composed of 17 international personalities of the piano world chaired by Professor Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń awarded the following prizes.
MAIN PRIZES:
- 1st Prize – Mr Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu, Canada
- 2nd Prize ex aequo – Mr Alexander Gadjiev, Italy/Slovenia
- 2nd Prize ex aequo – Mr Kyohei Sorita, Japan
- 3rd Prize – Mr Martin Garcia Garcia, Spain
- 4th Prize ex aequo – Ms Aimi Kobayashi, Japan
- 4th Prize ex aequo – Mr Jakub Kuszlik, Poland
- 5th Prize – Ms Leonora Armellini, Italy
- 6th Prize – Mr J J Jun Li Bui, Canada
SPECIAL PRIZES:
- The Polish Radio Prize for the best performance of mazurkas – Mr Jakub Kuszlik, Poland
- The Warsaw Philharmonic Prize for the best performance of a concerto – Mr Martin Garcia Garcia, Spain
- The Krystian Zimerman Prize for the best performance of a sonata – Mr Alexander Gadjiev, Italy/Slovenia
The auditions of the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition began on 2 October 2021. Twelve best of the original number of 87 participants representing 17 countries qualified to the Finals to perform one of Fryderyk Chopin’s two piano concertos, accompanied by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrzej Boreyko. Nine pianist selected the Concerto in E minor Op. 11, and the remaining three – the Concerto in F minor Op. 21
According to the Rules and Regulations of the Competition, only pianists born in 1990–2004 were eligible to participate. To do so, contestants were required to send their applications with a video recording of the 1st Stage programme by 1 December 2019. Having opened the call for applications, the Chopin Institute obtained a record number of over 500 entries from the most distant corners of the world. The recordings submitted were used to winnow the artists and admit 164 of them to the Preliminaries. Finally, 151 pianists presented programmes set in the rules and regulations competing for admission to the competition proper before the Jury and the Warsaw audience. Of their number, the Jury admitted 87 to the main competition.
Nine winners of major piano competitions worldwide secured themselves places in the October competition without the need to go through the Preliminaries. The most numerous group of participants were the Chinese, as the country was represented by no fewer than 22 artists. With 11 out of 16 pianists selected by the Preliminary Round Jury and five more qualified on the grounds of their achievements in other competitions, the second most numerous group were Poles. The Warsaw Philharmonic stage was also graced by 14 pianists from Japan, seven from South Korea, six from Italy, as well as representatives of Canada, Armenia, Chinese Taipei, Cuba, Latvia, Russia, Spain, Thailand, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam.“
QUELLE:
https://chopin2020.pl/en/news/article/437/the-winner-of-the-18th-chopin-competition!
) - wobei die Bekanntgabe der Gewinner sich extrem verzögerte (offenbar konnte die Jury sich nicht einigen - gut nachvollziehbar, die waren alle so wahnsinnig gut. Ich wüsste aber nur zu gern, wie dann letztlich doch entschieden wurde) und ich um halb eins dann doch das Licht ausgemacht und sie letztlich verpasst habe.
Habe kein Fakkebokke und dachte zuerst, das sei was Japanisches...
