Major piano series is declared unsustainable

The Concertgebouw’s Masterpianists series, which has run for 33 years, has been called off by the organisers for a simple reason:

‘A maximum of 350 visitors, in a Large Room designed for 2,000 creates a problem we cannot overcome,’ says organiser Marco Riaskoff.

This is the 33-year roll of honour:
Behzod Abduraimov, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piotr Anderszewski, Leif Ove Andsnes, Martha Argerich & Stephen Kovacevich, Martha Argerich & Alexander Rabinovich, Martha Argerich & Lilya Zilberstein, Kit Armstrong, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Emanuel Ax, Daniel Barenboim, Boris Berezovsky, Lazar Berman , Jonathan Biss, Rafał Blechacz, Jorge Bolet, Ronald Brautigam, Alfred Brendel, Yefim Bronfman, Gianluca Cascioli, Shura Cherkasky, Seong-Jin Cho, Aldo Ciccolini, Roberto Cominati, Bella Davidovich, Severin von Eckardstein, Till Fellner, David Fray, Nelson Freire, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Bruno Leonardo Gelber, Jonathan Gilad, Boris Giltburg, Nelson Goerner, Richard Goode, Hélène Grimaud, Horacio Gutiérrez, Marc-André Hamelin, Michael Kieran Harvey, Stephen Hough, Lucas & Arthur Jussen, Cyprien Katsaris, Evgeny Kissin, Zoltán Kocsis, Evgeny Koroliov, Denis Kozhukhin, Anna Kravtchenko, Anton Kuerti Katia & Marielle Labèque, Marc Laforet, Lang, Alicia de Larrocha, Igor Levit, Paul Lewis, Yundi Li, Louis Lortie, Andrea Lucchesini, Nikolai Lugansky, Radu Lupu, Denis Matsuev, Hannes Minnaar, Joseph Moog, Ivan Moravec, Olli Mustonen, Enrico Pace, Enrico Pace & Igor Roma, Murray Perahia, Maria João Pires, Maria João Pires & Ricardo Castro, Mikhail Pletnev, Ivo Pogorelich, Maurizio Pollini, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Jorge Luis Prats, Beatrice Rana, Dezsö Ránki, Igor Roma, Alexander Romanovsky, György Sándor, Sir András Schiff, Grigory Sokolov, Yevgeny Sudbin, Alexandre Tharaud, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Maria Tipo, Alexander Toradze, Daniil Trifonov, Simon Trpceski , Nobuyuki Tsujii, Mitsuko Uchida, Anatol Ugorski, Elisso Virsaladze, Alexei Volodin, Arcadi Volodos, Yuja Wang, Earl Wild, Christian Zacharias, Lilya Zilberstein, Krystian Zimerman.