Keep an eye on the Frenchwoman in the Joachim finals
mainSix contestants have reached the final of Hannover’s self-styled biggest-prize violin competition.
They are:
Rennosuke Fukuda
Cosima Soulez Larivière
Timothy Chooi
Youjin Lee
Leonard Fu
Dmytro Udovychenko
For reasons that may become apparent, the French finalist is the one to watch.
Maybe she is, but I’ll keep mine on Canadian Timothy Chooi, who has vast concert experience despite still being at Juilliard.
That leaves three Asians out of six — wasn’t this the same comp you were slagging the other day for being almost all-Asian? I know Chooi is of Chinese stock but he was born in B.C. and unless you are of the anti-Windrush type, which I do not for a moment suppose you are, I am sure you do not characterise people descended from immigrants as foreigners.
Timothy Chooi is an real artist and a joy to listen to! I did not know of him before this competition, he defintely would deserve to win but unfortunately, he is no student of anyone in the jury ..
Having watched the other competetors, it’s not very apparent to me.
It’s not about quality of playing but quality of patronage
Teacher = Krzysztof Wegrzyn = Competition Founder = Sketchy = 1st Prize
Don’t tell me….her teacher chairs the competition jury. Right?
she aight
The whole jury are friends, associates, colleagues and ex-students of Wegrzyn. Hannover has always been very swampy. Cosima (Wegrzyn student) 1st. Rennosuke (Juror Vernikov student) 2nd. Why do people even bother entering this farce?
Yeah, not clear why Timothy Chooi bothered to enter, when he had no chance to win. Oh, wait…
i hear many gossips Prof. Wegrzyn told must leave after this competition time. Fired for very shameful actions. This last chance for his student win. Goodbye!!!
And the winner is Timothy Chooi, who does not study with any of the jury members…
Look at today’s newspaper Hannoversche Allgemeine: http://www.haz.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Krzysztof-Wegrzyn-bislang-an-der-Spitze-vom-Joseph-Joachim-Violinwettbewerb-in-Hannover-soll-die-Leitung-abgeben
thanks