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Post by tufta on Oct 7, 2010 20:06:38 GMT 1
THe 16th international Fryderyk Chopin piano competition is taking place in Warsaw, an hour ago a 4-day long first stage was concluded. Poles are so crazy about Chopin that there is a transmission live of the whole 3 week-long event on one of Polish TV channels -TVP Kultura. And on the radio of course- PR II The list of candidates qualified for stage 2 will appear in an hour. konkurs.chopin.pl/en/edition/xvi/competition/auditions/stage/1/day/5
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Post by tufta on Oct 17, 2010 21:14:48 GMT 1
The competition is in the final stage. Which means there are just 10 pianists left. And each will play just one composition of Chopin... a piano concerto. The funny thing is there are only two E-minor and F-minor and most finalists choose E-minor. Strange? Maybe a little but at the same time it allows to see teyh best differences between each performer for the jury. And for the listener to learn a lot. If you want to watch and listen to the first part of the finals, at 18 pm Warsaw time point yoru browsers here konkurs.chopin.pl/en/edition/xvi/competition/auditions/stage/4/day/1and click on ONLINE BROADCASTING
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Post by tufta on Oct 21, 2010 7:55:47 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 21, 2010 16:20:58 GMT 1
And that stirred huge controvercy and upheaval among specialists who claim that all the 4 remaining candidates were better. I am not able to figure out the truth.
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Post by tufta on Oct 21, 2010 16:58:48 GMT 1
And that stirred huge controvercy and upheaval among specialists who claim that all the 4 remaining candidates were better. I am not able to figure out the truth. Yes, while obvioulsy the majority of specialists who were members of the jury were of the opinion that Avdeeva was better. My """personal truth""" is that at the finals level the pianists are so good that only individual 'taste' matters who is 'better'. And I personally liked Avdeeva's moving way of interpretation a lot!
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 21, 2010 17:41:09 GMT 1
And that stirred huge controvercy and upheaval among specialists who claim that all the 4 remaining candidates were better. I am not able to figure out the truth. Yes, while obvioulsy the majority of specialists who were members of the jury were of the opinion that Avdeeva was better. My """personal truth""" is that at the finals level the pianists are so good that only individual 'taste' matters who is 'better'. And I personally liked Avdeeva's moving way of interpretation a lot! There are always arguments, since times immemorial. I remember how a Croatian pianist, Ivo Pogorelic, was turned down in 1980 and that even caused a resignation of a jury member who supported him. However he became famous for the prize he didn't win. In 1980 he entered the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and was eliminated in the third round. One of the adjudicators, Martha Argerich, proclaimed him a "genius" and resigned from the jury in protest.[2]Ivo Pogorelic in 1980, playing a very demanding concert by Chopin: Another one:
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Post by tufta on Oct 21, 2010 17:47:37 GMT 1
Yes, while obvioulsy the majority of specialists who were members of the jury were of the opinion that Avdeeva was better. My """personal truth""" is that at the finals level the pianists are so good that only individual 'taste' matters who is 'better'. And I personally liked Avdeeva's moving way of interpretation a lot! There are always arguments, since times immemorial. I remember how a Croatian pianist, Ivo Pogorelic, was turned down in 1980 and that even caused a resignation of a jury member who supported him. Exactly! And this same genious pianist Martha Argerich was in the jury this year and was one of the supporters of Julianna Awdiejewa as the winner
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 21, 2010 20:18:20 GMT 1
Russian shock winner of Chopin competition 21.10.2010 00:30
Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva is the surprise winner of the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw.
Avdeeva was announced as the best from the ten finalists late Wednesday night. Eighty one contestants began the competition three weeks ago.
Yuliana, who was educated in Russia and Switzerland and has now won ten international piano competitions, received a gold medal and a cash prize of 30,000 euros.
The jury’s decision came as a shock to some in the audience at the Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw, after it was expected that the Austrian Ingolf Wundar would walk away with the top prize.
Wundar was eventually awarded joint second prize alongside Lithuania’s Lukas Geniušas.
In third place was the Russian Daniil Trifonov, Bulgarian Evgeni Bozhanov was fourth and Frenchman François Dumont was fifth.
No sixth place was awarded, which meant Poland’s entry Paweł Wakarecy missed out on a prize.
The winners are to perform at gala concerts on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
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Controversial Chopin competition verdict stuns music lovers 21.10.2010 11:54
Yulianna Avdeeva last night at Chopin Compeition; photo - Chopin2010.pl - below right: Ingolf Wundar
Most Polish critics and professional musicians reacted to the news that Yulianna Avdeeva won the International Chopin Piano Competition last night with disbelief and astonishment, in one of the most controversial jury decisions in years.
The consensus before the verdict was announced late last night was that Ingolf Wunder of Austria, who eventually shared the Second Prize with Lucas Geniusas of Russia/Lithuania, was the more worthy of the top award than Avdeeva of Russia.
Musicologist Marek Dyżewski, a former rector of the Music Academy in Wrocław, told Polish Radio that the Russian pianist failed to communicate the beauty of Chopin’s music in her interpretations.
In his view, the result could be harmful for the future of the Warsaw Chopin Competition as the best pianists may feel reluctant to take part in the event, anticipating an unfair verdict.
Kacper Miklaszewski of the Ruch Muzyczny periodical says that Avdeeva has all the makings of a classical music star who is able to attract the crowds, but her interpretations lack the spirit of Chopin’s music.
Lidia Kozubek, a prominent pianist of the older generation, describes the verdict as “terrifying”.
In an interview for the news.pl, jury member Kevin Kenner, Second Prize winner at the Warsaw Competition in 1990, justified the decision.
“Avdeeva has a very deep understanding of the score, the kind of relationship to the score which no other pianist in this competition had. She looked into the score for her creative ideas. It was the source of virtually everything she did and she was also one of the most consistent competitors throughout the event,” he said.
Wundar robbed?
Jury Chairman Andrzej Jasiński admitted that if the jury had taken into account solely the interpretation of the concerto in the final round Ingolf Wunder would have been the winner.
In addition to the Second Prize, Wunder received special prizes for the best performance of a concerto and of the Polonaise-Fantasy.
A graduate of the Universitat fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Wunder is currently continuing his studies under the guidance of the eminent Polish pianist Adam Harasiewicz, the winner of the Chopin Competition in 1955 and for many years a resident of Vienna.
In an exclusive interview for the news.pl, Wunder said: “I owe Harasiewicz my way to understanding Chopin. Life, and also playing Chopin, is a guest, and I am just at the beginnings and I have much to learn. Harasiewicz definitely led me in the right way and made me understand Chopin’s music, something I did not have five years ago.”
Commenting on Wunder for the news.pl, Polish pianist Pawel Kowalski said: “His playing is a mixture of technical perfection and a very Polish spirit. You can hear he was spending hours with Adam Harasiewicz who won the Warsaw Competition 55 years ago. People were saying at the time that Harasiewicz played like Rubinstein. Wunder’s playing is in the same category. He has no technical problems whatsoever. There is simplicity in his phrasing. His pianism is absolutely perfect. [Polish composer] Witold Lutosławski once said: ‘the music begins where the words end’.”
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 21, 2010 20:23:27 GMT 1
Russia's Yulianna Avdeeva has won the 2010 International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition, the first woman to win the prestigious award in the past 45 years.
Avdeeva, 25, triumphed on Wednesday after a three-week marathon of music by the Romantic composer held in Warsaw.
"Chopin's music is so very special," she said. "I was enjoying every performance, because I was not thinking about the competition but was thinking about the music only."
Avdeeva, who claims a $41,500 Cdn cash prize with her win, studied in Moscow and is now working as an assistant to a Russian professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Zurich. However, her win should open doors to concert halls around the world.
She drew a standing ovation for her performance of Chopin's Concerto in E minor, one of dozens the performances at the competition followed by classical music lovers around the world.
The runner-up prize was shared between Ingolf Wunder, 25, of Austria, and Moscow-born Lithuanian Lukas Geniusas, 20. Russia's Daniil Trifonov came third and Bulgaria's Evgeni Bozhanov fourth.
Of the 81 finalists in this year's Chopin Competition, 16 were from Japan and 13 from China, but no Asian players made it into the top 10, who perform with a classical orchestra.
The competition is held every five years and is notorious for the toughness of the judging. In 1990 and 1995, no winner was declared.
This year's competition fell on the 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth to a Polish mother and French father in a village near Warsaw.
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 6, 2015 23:02:24 GMT 1
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Chopin_Piano_CompetitionThe International Chopin Piano Competition (Polish: Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina), often referred to as the Chopin Competition, is a piano competition held in Warsaw, Poland. It was initiated in 1927 and has been held every five years since 1955. It is one of few competitions devoted entirely to the works of a single composer,[1] in this case, Frédéric Chopin.I am listening to this year`s edition of the Competition. Critics say that all performers are technically perfect. What matters, then, to win the competition, is this sublime impalpable atmosphere they create with their music.
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Post by pjotr on Oct 8, 2015 11:23:08 GMT 1
This is a wonderful competition. I remember visiting the Chopin museum in Warsaw in that beautiful building, built on a Hillside. I bought two cd's there of the Chopin competition. I wondered why there are so many Asian pianists. The Japanese, Chinese or Korean concert pianists often won the competition of the music of this Western, European, Polish-French composers. I am a romantic and melancholic person and therefor I love the music of Chopin, Rachmaninov and List.
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 21, 2015 19:39:35 GMT 1
This is a wonderful competition. I remember visiting the Chopin museum in Warsaw in that beautiful building, built on a Hillside. I bought two cd's there of the Chopin competition. I wondered why there are so many Asian pianists. The Japanese, Chinese or Korean concert pianists often won the competition of the music of this Western, European, Polish-French composers. I am a romantic and melancholic person and therefor I love the music of Chopin, Rachmaninov and List. This is the first time that a South Korean pianist won the competition. Experts suggest he combined Asian diligence with Western style of learning as, born in Korea, he studied in Paris. Not only technically perfect, he also rendered Chopin`s musical concepts with an outstanding touch of extreme sensitivity. He said he had dreamt about winning the competition as a 10 year old boy. It was the time when he started playing, quite late. Look at his fingers, he is virtually caressing the keys Slow Fast Good luck, young man, let it be a nice introduction to worldwide hall of fame as a unparralleled pianist. Actually, 4 out of 6 top pianists are Asian. I nagroda (30.000 €) i złoty medal – SEONG-JIN CHO (Korea Południowa) II nagroda (25.000 €) i srebrny medal – CHARLES RICHARD-HAMELIN (Kanada) III nagroda (20.000 €) i brązowy medal – KATE LIU (Stany Zjednoczone) IV nagroda (15.000 €) – ERIC LU (Stany Zjednoczone) V nagroda (10.000 €) – YIKE (TONY) YANG (Kanada) VI nagroda (7000 €) – DMITRY SHISHKIN (Rosja) Those Asians...
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Post by pjotr on Oct 21, 2015 22:58:28 GMT 1
Wonderful play. A great talent this Korean chap!
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 8, 2015 0:20:47 GMT 1
Wonderful play. A great talent this Korean chap! But when I showed my students the video with Kate Liu, third place winner, they liked her much more than the Korean pianist. She looks so ...romantic when she is playing... Almost like Chopin. The boys were enthralled...
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Post by pjotr on Nov 8, 2015 22:23:15 GMT 1
I have to admid that I am a little bit like your boy students. Kate Liu is a very good pianist, very beautiful and nice to look at. She has a delicate touch, very smoothly and refined, like Chopin should be played. I know that classical music making is a very intense thing from the classical branch of my family. I am a layman, but have learned a lot from that classical music branch of my family.
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Post by Bonobo on Apr 9, 2017 17:23:22 GMT 1
Polish pianist gets standing ovation in New York 27.03.2017 13:10 Polish pianist Rafał Blechacz received a standing ovation for his Sunday recital at the 900-seat Kaufmann Concert Hall in New York’s Manhattan. Photo: Facebook.com/Rafał Blechacz.Photo: Facebook.com/Rafał Blechacz. The recital, which included a selection of works by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin, was held as part of a series of events called ‘Masters of the Keyboard’. Hanna Arie-Gaifman, the director of the 92nd Street Y Tisch Center for the Arts, which is home to the Kaufmann Concert Hall, said that she had been following the achievements of the Polish pianist for some time. “I wanted him to perform at our venue because he is a wonderful artist, with a perfect command of the instrument," she said, adding: “He has fulfilled all my expectations.” In 2014, Blechacz appeared in New York's Carnegie Hall. He said he was delighted to be able to play for the city’s audience again. “The reception I got was enthusiastic indeed”. The recital was co-organized by the Polish Cultural Institute in New York. In 2005, Blechacz won the 15th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. At 31, he is now among the world’s most sought-after pianists, with many prestigious honours to his credit, including the Gilmore Artist Award which he received in 2014. His discography, under an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, includes CDs featuring works by Chopin, Karol Szymanowski, Debussy, Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart and Bach.
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