Kushnir steers Spivakov prize to his pupil
mainThe winner of the Vladimir Spivakov international competition is Ufa is María Dueñas, 15, a Spanish pupil of the influential Boris Kushnir, who sat on a jury of six. Another jury member was Kushnir’s student, Sergey Dogadin.
The result was said to be unanimous.
Kushnir wins again.
Probably well deserved, she’s a wonderful player.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwDwYBF7F8I&frags=pl%2Cwn
You’re not kidding!
She obviously knows how to play with incredible ease.
Could Paganini play it better….?
Who knows?
A real virtuoso temperament
Absolutely fabulous.
What a talent !
U R right. I think that we’ll hear a lot more from her. She is certainly not the typical competition violinist.
Wow. Miss Dueñas has an exceptional gift and a Rubinstein-like serenity while executing hair-raising technical passages. I’m not a violin pedagogue nor did I hear the other competitors, but what I’ve heard from her certainly merits winning major competitions. Do we have to cast a shadow over her because her teacher was on the jury? Obviously that shouldn’t happen, but is it her fault at 15?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg3dwjVwOF8 Absolutely electrifying playing here from Miss Dueñas at the Leonid Kogan competition earlier this year.
And because of this youtube video, you mean that one can be confident that the other contestants of the Spivakov Competition did not deserve winning
A unanimous decision, and Kuschnir and his sidekick Dogadin are only 2 of 6 members of the jury. How do we know that any arm-twisting was required?
No, obviously not. Because many people don’t even apply when they see certain names on the jury panel…she is playing well though
This kind of event with jury’s students should not be called competition.