Rafal Blechacz HANDS DOWN. I don't know what you mean by most underrated as he is thought of VERY highly by those who have discovered him, but IMO he doesn't get mentioned around here enough. Well he doesn't get mentioned at all.
Sean Chen is fantastic. I mean I know he got third at the Cliburn but he's really great. Vadym Kholodenko won the cliburn and he's amazing. So I guess neither of them are technically "underrated", but they don't get any chatter.Pascal Roge is excellent.Anatol Ugorski has some creative ideas.
Emily won the Grand Prix at the Van Beethoven compettion and also the Not-so-grand Prix at the Cliburn COmpetition. We will remember you, Emily.
I'm surprised that rubensteinmad hasn't replied yet
I'm not going to waste my time on a racist loser like Kyle.
1) Yeol eum son2) Sukyeon Kim
The late Eric Parkin. He specialized in a number of very diverse composers, like Poulenc, Ireland, Granados, Mayerl, Bax, and truly excelled in all of them. An immensely idiomatic and likeable pianist, especially endearing for blithely hitting a wrong note every now and then.
Who the heck is Sukyeon Kim???
Ha, that was funny. Here she is:
do you have a youtube channel? because I've heard of stevensk b4
-No, I dont. Must be someone else
Boom. Josh is my teacher, such a kind and insightful person as well as being incredible at the piano!
Skype, but I met him in June for some live lessons.
Sergei Babayan for sure.Paul Barton needs more mainstream attention.Josh Wright is also amazingly good, but he's gotten lots of attention here in the states if I recall correctly, especially in our musically deaf culture where musical kids are an almost extreme minority. Still though, I wouldn't mind seeing him play
https://www.opus3artists.com/artists/sergei-babayan
^ LOLFou Ts'ong is GREAT. In China he's thought of as one of the "OGs" - the first great Chinese classical pianists- except he "fled" China and became much more cosmopolitan, and thereby kinda frowned upon Listen to his Scarlatti thoughor Chopin Mazurkasor Debussy, as you posted (Danseuses de Delphes)
We should make a list of great musicians who were killed themselves, or had close family who were killed/died/stopped short of their career by the Chinese Communist Party.I'll start:Fou T'song (3rd place of Chopin Competition)Chen Gexin (composer of Rose Rose I Love You)Chen Gang (Composer of Sunshine on Taxkorgan)Ming Qiang-Li (4th prize at Chopin Competition)
Meanwhile Yin Chengzong learned how to "play the system" and didn't get killed, or tortured...
way underrated. super consistent, better quality than a lot of other pianists that get more chatter. i enjoy a bunch of his recordings.https://www.naxos.com/person/Jeno_Jando/339.htm
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