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MOSCOW,
RUSSIA – 30 pianists, 27 violinists, 25 cellists, 20 female singers and 20
male singers will compete in this year’s International
Tchaikovsky Competition, to take place between June 14th and July 2nd in
Moscow and St Petersburg under the chairmanship of Valery Gergiev. The
musicians, aged between 16 and 32, come from 29 countries, and were selected by
the distinguished judging panels from the 583 entrants who made an initial
submission of a recital on DVD (50 minutes for instrumentalists, 20 minutes for
singers). For this year’s landmark competition, revised procedures have been
introduced for voting and online applications, as has a new set of rules and
regulations.
The exceptional standard of the competitors – aspiring to a
share of the 300,000 Euro prize money and the assurance of prestigious
engagements in Europe, the USA and Asia – becomes clear from their track record
to date.
Among them are laureates of such competitions as the:
PIANO
Tchaikovsky, Busoni, Chopin, Cliburn, Dublin, Queen Elisabeth, Hamamatsu,
Horowitz, Iturbi, Leeds, Long-Thibaud, Paderewski, Rachmaninoff,
Rubinstein;
VIOLIN ARD, Heifetz, Menuhin, Oistrakh, Paganini,
Sarasate, Varga, Wieniawski;
CELLO Beijing, Brahms, Cassado, Davidov,
Janigro, Johansen, Lutoslawski, Mravinsky, Penderecki, Rostropovich,
Unisa;
VOICE Callas, Glinka, Houston Grand Opera, Metropolitan
National Council, Montreal, Obraztsova, Rimsky-Korsakov,
Vishnevskaya.
They have performed with conductors such as Ashkenazy,
Conlon, Fedoseev, Gilbert, Neeme Järvi, Maazel, Pletnev, Rostropovich, Michael
Sanderling, Simonov, Sinaisky and Spivakov, with orchestras such as the Bavarian
Radio Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Deutsche Symphony Orchestra, Moscow
Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Saint
Petersburg Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic and Vienna Radio Symphony, and in
venues such as Carnegie Hall, Washington Kennedy Center, Barbican, Royal Albert
Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin
Philharmonie, Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris Auditorium du Louvre, la
Fenice Venice, Auditorio Nacional Madrid, Oslo Opera, Teatro Municipal de
Santiago de Chile, Tokyo Opera City and Shanghai Concert Hall.
“I was
extremely pleased to learn from our screening jurors how excited they were to
have heard the many wonderful talents they have selected to participate in the
competition,” says Competition Chairman Valery Gergiev. “They achieved
remarkable consensus in their choice of the most outstanding
musicians.”
This view was reflected by David Geringas, who chaired
the screening jury for the cellists: “I believe that our jury was able to
identify 25 musicians of a very high artistic level. I’m looking forward to
June, when they will play, and we can expect a thrilling competition in
2011.”
Prize dates
Among the engagements awaiting the
winners of the XIV International
Tchaikovsky Competition are: concerts conducted by Valery Gergiev – with the
London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican (September 2011) and on a visit to the
Vienna Konzerthaus (May 2012), and with the Mariinsky Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
(October 2011) and in Baden-Baden (September/October 2011) – and further dates
in Paris at Salle Pleyel (January 2012), in Bonn at the Beethovenfest (September
2011), in Austria at Grafenegg (June 2012), and a tour of the Netherlands
(October 2011) with Het Gelders Orkest and Nikolai Alexeev, including the
Concertgebouw; in Italy, concerts in Milan with the Verdi Orchestra (Autumn
2011), in Florence with the Maggio Musicale (January 2012), and recital
appearances around the country in the 2011/12 season); in Poland, appearances at
the Chopin Festival (August 2011) and the Warsaw Beethoven Festival (April
2012). Russian engagements are scheduled for Autumn 2011 with the Russian
National Orchestra and Mikhail Pletnev (September), the Saint-Petersburg
Academic Symphony Orchestra (October) and the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia
(November). Dates are also scheduled for Jerusalem (2011), Istanbul (2012) and
Athens (2012/13). In Japan, there will be a gala concert at Suntory Hall in
Tokyo (September 2011) and recital tours around the country (Spring 2012), while
US plans include orchestral dates and appearances in a number of major recital
series in 2011/12, among them the La Jolla Music Society and the Houston Society
for the Performing Arts (both February 2012).
THE
COMPETITORS:
PIANO
• Arseny Aristov (Russia)
• Evgeny
Brakhman (Russia)
• Yulia Chaplina (Russia)
• Yunjie Chen (China)
•
Seong Jin Cho (South Korea)
• Sara Daneshpour (USA)
• Andrey Dubov
(Russia)
• Boris Giltburg (Israel)
• Georgy Gromov (Russia)
• Ching-Yun
Hu (Taiwan)
• Shinnosuke Inugai (Japan)
• Stanislav Khristenko
(Russia)
• Dinara Klinton (Russia)
• Pavel Kolesnikov (Russia)
•
Jianing Kong (China)
• Filipp Kopachevskiy (Russia)
• Eduard Kunz
(Russia)
• Alexander Lubyantsev (Russia)
• Mamikon Nakhapetov
(Georgia)
• Jong-Hai Park (South Korea)
• François-Xavier Poizat
(Switzerland)
• Alexander Romanovsky (Ukraine)
• Ekaterina Rybina (Russia)
• Timur Scherbakov (Belarus)
• Alexander Sinchuk (Russia)
• Yeol Eum
Son (South Korea)
• Maria Tretyakova (Russia)
• Daniil Trifonov
(Russia)
• Andrew Tyson (USA)
• Lukas Vondrá?ek (Czech Republic)
VIOLIN
•
Christopher Tun Andersen (Norway)
• Nigel Armstrong (USA)
• Hrachya
Avanesyan (Armenia)
• Andrey Baranov (Russia)
• Sergey Dogadin
(Russia)
• Yoo Jin Jang (South Korea)
• Dalibor Karvay (Slovakia)
•
Fabiola Kim (USA)
• Mayu Kishima (Japan)
• Tessa Lark (USA)
• Jehye Lee
(South Korea)
• Marisol Lee (South Korea)
• Sergey Malov (Russia)
•
Albrecht Menzel (Germany)
• Pavel Milyukov (Russia)
• Ivan Pochekin
(Russia)
• Aylen Pritchin (Russia)
• Fedor Roudine (France)
• Oleksii
Semenenko (Ukraine)
• Elena Semenova (Russia)
• Eric Silberger (USA)
•
Lev Solodovnikov (Russia)
• Yu-Chien Tseng (Taiwan)
• Julia Turnovsky
(Austria)
• Xiang Yu (China)
• Nancy Zhou (USA)
• Itamar Zorman
(Israel)
CELLO
•
Narek Akhnazaryan (Armenia)
• Norbert Anger (Germany)
• Paolo Bonomini
(Italy)
• Attilia Kiyoko Cernitori (Italy)
• Jacqueline Choi (USA)
•
Umberto Clerici (Italy)
• David Eggert (Austria)
• Hans Kristian Goldstein
(Norway)
• Woo Lee Jang (South Korea)
• Seung Min Kang (South Korea)
•
Ivan Karizna (Belarus)
• Jakob Koranyi (Sweden)
• Ruodi Li (China)
•
Anna Maria Litvinenko (USA)
• Bingxia Lu (China)
• Edgar Moreau
(France)
• Samuli Vilhelmi Peltonen (Finland)
• Valentin Radutiu
(Germany)
• Alexander Ramm (Russia)
• David Joshua Roman (USA)
• Janina
Ruh (Germany)
• Stéphane Tetreault (Canada)
• Matthew Zalkind (USA)
•
Alexey Zhilin (Russia)
• Xian Zhuo (China)
VOICE
Female
•
Maria Bayankina (Russia)
• Oksana Davydenko (Kazakhstan)
• Aude Extremo
(France)
• Ekaterina Ferzba (Russia)
• Gelena Gaskarova (Russia)
•
Maria Gorelova (Russia)
• Elena Guseva (Russia)
• Alfiya Karimova
(Russia)
• Veronika Koval (Ukraine)
• Nadine Koutcher (Belarus)
•
Alexandra Martynova (Russia)
• Evgeniya Morozova (Russia)
• Angelina
Nikitchenko (Russia)
• Yannick-Muriel Noah (Canada)
• Olga Pudova
(Russia)
• Julia Savrasova (Russia)
• Sun Young Seo (South Korea)
•
Elena Terentyeva (Russia)
• Jung Nan Yoon (South Korea)
• Jing Zheng
(China)
Male
•
Migran Agadjanyan (Russia)
• Vadim Chernigovsky (Ukraine)
• Enkhtaivan
Chimed (Mongolia)
• Dmitry Demidchik (Belarus)
• Amartuvshin Enkhbat
(Mongolia)
• Mikhail Geine (Russia)
• Andriy Goniukov (Ukraine)
•
Gevorg Grigoryan (Russia)
• Byambajav Jargalsaikhan (Mongolia)
• Mikhail
Korobeinikov (Russia)
• Viktor Korotich (Ukraine)
• Jong Min Park (South
Korea)
• Boris Pinkhasovich (Russia)
• Victor Ryauzov (Russia)
• Artem
Safronov (Latvia)
• Nikolay Shamov (Russia)
• Konstantin Shushakov
(Russia)
• Grigory Somov (Russia)
• Alexey Tatarintsev (Russia)
•
Azamat Zheltyrguzov (Kazakhstan)
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Good. It’s general clean up time.
Aude Extremo gets my vote on the basis of her name alone.