Five Belgions and no Americans in the finals. Interesting.
Nikolaas Kende is a good pianist. His father is a teacher in a Belgian conservatory. I think it's just luck that there are 5 belgian in the finals. It never happened before. Also, most of those belgians studied not in Belgium or had international teachers.
Major international competitions these days are designed to be impartial.
Evgeny Brakhman (Rusland)Jae-Won Cheung (Korea)Ilya Rashkovskiy (Rusland)Mu Ye Wu (China)are top candidates for me
You know them?
Ilya Rashkovskiy (Rusland) played the Brahm's Paganini Variations - he is my favourite so far!
...otherwise known as Russia (for those who don't speak German).
From today's competitiors: Jae-Won Cheung (Korea) played a mean Gaspard.
I saw that, the Scarbo was amazing!
one of them personally
I really can't understand why Brakhman didn't reached the finals. Someone can explain me??
I just saw Anna Vinnitskaya playing... F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-CShe played 2nd pianoconcerto of Prokofiev on a faboulous way.How can I contact her???
Maybe Brakhman will surprise.
Y E S !!! Anna Vinnitskaya has won the Queen Elisabeth Competition Piano 2007 !!!What a fantastic woman, a thrumendeous pianist, and a beauty...1. Vinnitskaya2. Mangova3. Piemontesi4. Rashkovskyi5. Hong-Sun Lim6. Van Beckevoort
what no her Prok2 was awful imo :\ , the first movement was way too sluggish, as was the third movement . Too many stops and wrong notes in the cadenza, no risk taking at all , I was really annoyed with her Prok2 . Vanbeckevoorts Prok3 was way better than her prok2.
You are such a stupid cow. Go away from this forum.
No.
Than please stop with saying such a stupid things. Watch and listen again to her Prok2, and even to Prok3 from Van Beckevoort. She won diserved, she's a fantastic pianist.
Her Prokofiev was very well played, with a lot of power and energy, I liked it very much! The Beethoven sonata (nr. 13 'quasi una fantasia') wasn't the best, though. It lacked some sensitivity and was too fast imo.I hope she still can grow and show the audience, besides a great technique, also some interesting, meaningfull, mature interpretation in the future.My personal favourite was Mangova (second prize). Very musical and warm personality and...a ex-student of my own teacher
I like Mangova the most too. Her Appassionata is really good.Who is your teacher by the way?W
OK I TAKE EVERYTHING BACK I ACTUALLY LIKE HER PROK2 Listened to it in a bad mood or something, sorry Franz_ for making the stupid comments, I take them all back.!!!!