Survivors of the Tchaikovsky competition
mainThe following pianists have got through round 1:
Sergei Redkin; Maria Mazo (pictured); Reed Tetzloff; Ilya Rashkovsky; George Li; Lucas Debargue; Lukas Geniušas; Daniel Kharitonov; Julia Kociuban; Mikhail Turpanov; Nikolay Medvedev; Dmitry Masleev.
The lone UK competitor, Alexander Ullman, was eliminated.
These are the violinists who made it into round 2: Christopher Tun Andersen; Alexandra Conunova; Yoo Jin Jang; Clara-Jumi Kang; Haik Kazazyan; Bomsori Kim; Younguk Kim; Mayu Kishima; Pavel Milyukov; Sergei Pospelov; Stepan Starikov; Yu-Chien Tseng
And cellists: Fedor Amosov; Alexander Buzlov; Tristan Cornut; Leonard Elschenbroich; Pablo Ferrández-Castro; Andrei Ionuț Ioniță; Seung Min Kang; Anastasia Kobekina; Bruno Philippe; Alexander Ramm; Jonathan Roozeman; Valentino Worlitzsch.
It’s a big surprise that German violinist Stefan Tarara did not advance to round 2. Tarara was obviously audience’s favorite in round one.
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Tarara is 8th in the, not very representative, poll here:
http://tchaikovskycompetition.moscow/polls
The poll’s (and, I guess, the female Medici TV pano competition presenter’s) piano favorite (Korobeinikov) did not make it to round 2 either. For me about 25 could have made it to round 2. I had 2 or 3 top candidates, they are all through, after that it would have been very tough.
those are the rulls. The facts that some of the fantastic talents did not make the cut did not diminish their future opportunities at all. The Tchaikovsky com-petition is only one of the many important opportunities.
Thanks for the link to the poll. Although it took me several rounds of google translation to finally get to the right poll page, it’s nice to know such a poll exist. Seeing that Russian lady with 1/3 of the total votes, I wouldn’t call that “representative” either. As a matter of fact, she was on my elimination list, and apparently the jury was with me. (:
The “audience’s favorite” I mentioned was based on live audience’s responses from what I see on medici.tv: Tarara’s performances inarguably had the loudest and longest applaud from the audience. In my opinion, that is a lot more convincing than something like a web poll which can be easily manipulated.
Lucas Debargue,pianist, gave an incredible finalist recital at Moscow today, June 21. On Medici TV’s Competition site, ” Replay ” .