Playing specific ossias

[stravinskylover]

Hello. I was just wondering whether the judges at piano competitions cared if you chose specific ossias in this piece to play. I was hoping to do Grainger's In Dahomey in a few years, and anything I learn will eventually be used in a piano competition. I would only do one (or two) of the ossias. Some of my previous teachers were stubborn about ossias. They said to never do them (unless I have to or if I do the Rach 3 cadenza, which is probably only learnable for me in 10 years). Any advice?

[j_menz]

Ossias basically come in three flavours: simplifications (easier), elaborations (as hard or harder) or ones to overcome possible limitations of the instrument (not common these days).

For competitions, and possibly more generally if you can, the elaborations are OK, but the others should be avoided.

[stravinskylover]

Ossias basically come in three flavours: simplifications (easier), elaborations (as hard or harder) or ones to overcome possible limitations of the instrument (not common these days).

For competitions, and possibly more generally if you can, the elaborations are OK, but the others should be avoided.

Thank you for responding. The ossias I was talking about were elaborations, so I should be fine.