Chairman wins another competition for his students
NewsRemember this headline: Beethoven Competition is won by chairman’s pupil?
Well, Pavel Gililov has done it again.
The winner of the Hummel Piano Competition, Russia’s Anastasiia Kliuchereva, studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Gililov. So does one of the two runners-up.
The Hummel Competition takes place in Slovakia, one of the more corrupt members of the EU, so nobody’s really bothered. But the presiding body is the International Federation of Music Competitions, and they really ought to pay more attention. Slippedisc has been tracking this so-called impartial judge for 11 years.
Actually, all three finalists study with members of the jury.
Yuki Amako (3rd) studies with Pavel Gililov at Mozarteum
Harrison Herman (2nd) studies with Leonel Morales (member of the jury)
Leonel Morales is actually a shameless joke…
Talking about mafia, what about the most recent ARD Cello competition? President of the jury Frans Helmerson is or was one way or another taught many of the competitors?
Please correct it: Mr. Amako and Mr. Herman are tied for 2nd prize, just like the last contest in 2021. A fun fact is that the jury member Leonal Morales’ son has studied at Mozarteum with Pavel Gililov. Do you see any connection? I can’t.
There’s probably more corruption in Brussels and Paris than in the whole of Slovakia.
It sounds like he might be keeping himself in a job by ensuring his pupils get prizes – it’s a racket and everybody in the know is in the know. It’s just the public who might not have such in-depth knowledge of this alleged corrupt behaviour when reading puffed up CVs for recent graduates that could be taken in by it.
Billy: ‘He must be a very good teacher.’
Oh, you mean that Billy? who plays only Dutilleux’s piano sonata, Carl Vine’s bagatelles,the first movement of Debussy’s Images,Rachmaninoff prelude in D and Piano sonata no.21 by Beethoven in every international competition for more than ten years?
Norman can you report on Mr. Domingo and his friend (manager) Alessandro Ariosi who are currently dragging many of artists in this agency into winning positions in Operalia and have been doing so since many years?
The Hummel Competition is not a member of the World federation of International Music Competitions… for good reasons apparently.
Its website claims it is.
Does anyone give a damn about who wins the International Hummel Piano competition? I mean, really….