Prize Winners in Utrecht Celebrate Franz Liszt
To celebrate Franz Liszt’s 200th birthday, the Liszt Competition Utrecht organized a unique concert at the Vredenburg Concert Hall. The organization made a huge effort to bring out the best of 25 years of Liszt Competition history: all nine 1st prize winners were gathered here to play some of their beloved composer’s less familiar works. Some pianists shared the stage […]
Chopin Piano Competition 2010 – Repertoire List, Scores and Videos
Listen to 809 performances of Chopin pieces while following along in the scores! One of the highlights of Chopin‘s 200th anniversary has been the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. As a final tribute this year to Frédéric Chopin and the participants in the competition we have put together a page with all the pieces performed in the competition. It […]
Finals in the XV Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition
The Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition began in 1976 as the Brigham Young University Summer Piano Festival. In 1978 the name of Gina Bachauer was given to the competition in honor of the great Greek pianist who was a celebrated favorite of Utah audiences and often appeared with Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony. In 1980, the Gina Bachauer International […]
Qualifications to the 16th International Chopin Competition in October 2010
After initial selection based DVD recordings of the compulsory repertoire, the jury chose 215 contestants to take part in further auditions in Warsaw. The group features 24 Poles, 23 Chinese representatives, one person from Hong Kong, five pianists representing Taipei, 22 from Russia and 20 from the USA. The most numerous group – 40 pianists – comes from Japan. The […]
Cliburn Competition 2009 – Repertoire List
The 2009 edition of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition has now come to an end. Those of you who have been following the competition’s live webcasts have been able to enjoy an extensive amount of interesting performances of great piano music. If you haven’t been watching, the great news is that all performances are now available for on demand streaming […]
The 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and a 50th Anniversary
Starting May 22, all performances will be streamed live eleven hours per day and then archived for “on-demand” viewing. http://www.cliburn.tv/ The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas. It was created by Fort Worth area teachers in honor of Van Cliburn, who had won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition four years prior with […]