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Shean Strings Competition announces finalists

By Newswire on 27 April 2021 Music Competition, Strings

Edmonton, AB – On Friday, May 21 and Saturday, May 22, 2021, six string players from across Canada will vie for the $8,000 top prize in The Shean Strings Competition and the opportunity to play with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at a later date. Due to COVID-19, the Competition will be held virtually this year with competitors submitting videos for the adjudicators to watch. Competitors’ performances, if we are given permission to share them, will be posted to our website and social media after the Competition and the results announced. (see attached programme information) This year’s competitors (with hometowns in…

Canadian Tony Yike Yang makes semifinals of Leeds International Piano Competition

By Newswire on 22 April 2021 Music Competition, Piano

Despite the logistical challenges posed by the global pandemic, The Leeds International Piano Competition’s First Round jury was able to view and listen online to the 62 First Round pianists performing in identical conditions from 17 cities across the world. The Semi-Finals and Finals of The Leeds will take place at the University of Leeds and Leeds Town Hall this September. All rounds will be streamed worldwide by medici.tv, with the Semi-Finals and Finals broadcast by BBC Radio 3 and the Finals aired on BBC Four. The Concerto Final performances take place at Leeds Town Hall with The Leeds’ new orchestral partners, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra,…

Joon Yoon, South Korea

CMIM 2021: Predictions

By Justin Bernard on 9 April 2021 Music Competition, Piano

By way of briefing you fully on the 2021 edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM), we have listened to all 27 candidates and established a list of potential winners. In the previous piano edition in 2017, 28 pianists competed and six reached the final. In addition to the first, second and third prizes, which reward the best of the best, seven special prizes were awarded during this competition, including a Bach Prize and a Chopin Prize. Here are my predictions for the 2021 edition. Finalists Among the six finalists, we could find both experienced pianists such as…

CMIM 2021: Participants

By Justin Bernard on 8 April 2021 Music Competition, Piano

CANADA KEVIN AHFAT NÉ EN / BORN IN 1994 PROFESSEURS / TEACHERS Joseph Kalichstein Stephen Hough PRIX / PRIZES 2018 Concours OSM-Manuvie 2e prix, prix de la meilleure interprétation de l’œuvre canadienne imposée, prix Orford Musique 2017 Juilliard Concerto Competition – 1er prix RÉPERTOIRE • Berg Sonate op. 1 • Schumann Kinderszenen • Beethoven Sonate op. 110  • Szymanowski Variations sur un thème populaire polonais op. 10 ALICE BURLA NÉE EN / BORN IN 1996 PROFESSEURS / TEACHERS Oxana Yablonskaya Dmitri Bashkirov PRIX / PRIZES 2020 Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Music – prix Collard 2020 Prix Schenk Foundation 2019 Concours…

Susan Wadsworth: “The way young pianists play is just phenomenal”

By Jacqueline Vanasse on 8 April 2021 Music Competition, Piano

The sudden closing of international borders last year had an immediate and inevitable effect on the 2020 edition of Concours musical international de Montréal. But rather than cancel the event, the CMIM invited the competitors to come back in 2021 – digitally. Susan Wadsworth, one of nine judges, listened to the preliminary round last year and is looking forward to hearing the candidates again. “I think the competition attracts a very, very high level,” she says. “I was amazed that there were at least 10 pianists in the preliminary round who I thought were outstandingly fantastic.” What makes a musician…

Merkin Hall, New York City

CMIM 2021: A competition like no other

By Arthur Kaptainis on 7 April 2021 Music Competition, Piano

“It’s the biggest logistical challenge of my career,” Christiane LeBlanc, executive and artistic director of the Concours musical international de Montréal, said about the prospect of organizing a competition from the end of April through the middle of May.   This statement might seem odd, since none of the contestants or jurors have to be flown to Montreal and suitably housed. Nor is there any need to book the Maison symphonique or the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. The competition this year, devoted to the piano, is entirely solo and entirely online. And available free to enthusiasts around the world. The 26…

Dr. John Burge

Works by Canadian composer John Burge on the program of the 19th CMIM

By Newswire on 18 March 2021 Music Competition, Piano

Montréal, March 18th 2021 – Canadian composer John Burge will be on the program at the 19th edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal John Burge – Compulsory Canadian Work All competitors taking part in the 2021 Piano edition must prepare to perform three of the Canadian composer’s Twenty-four Preludes as part of the final round. These three pieces have been selected from John Burge’s work entitled Twenty-four Preludes, inspired by Chopin’s Opus 28, as well as Debussy’s two books of Preludes. The first piece, “Allegro energico” produces an effect of continuous movement with its incessant 16th-note passages. The…

Honens postpones 2021 competition

By Newswire on 3 March 2021 Music Competition, Piano

CALGARY March 3—Owing to the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19, Honens has postponed its 2021 International Piano Competition to 2022. This year’s event was to have taken place from Oct. 14 to 22 in Calgary following quarterfinal rounds in New York and Berlin in June. “This is less of a decision than it is the acceptance of an inevitability,” says Honens president and CEO Neil Edwards. “We have explored every option and determined that the current world situation makes it impossible for us to present a competition worthy of Honens’s high international standard and reputation.” The 50 quarterfinalists, representing 18 countries, chosen to participate…

CMIM adds two new members to its jury

By Newswire on 2 March 2021 Music Competition, Piano

The Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM) is proud to announce the addition of two new members of the jury for its 19th edition. Pianists Charles Richard-Hamelin (Canada) and Till Fellner (Austria), both laureates of international competitions, will join the other members of the jury announced earlier. On the strength of their international experience, they will bring a perspective that is both youthful and seasoned to the competition this year. For the very first time at the CMIM, a competitor is making the big leap from the stage to the judges’ stand. After successfully making his way through the rounds to…

The prix d’Europe: a force in Canadian musical life for 110 years

By Jacqueline Vanasse on 28 January 2021 Art Song, Music Competition, Piano, Violin

The Prix d’Europe will celebrate its 110th anniversary this year. Since its beginning, the scholarship offered by the Prix d’Europe has enabled winners to study abroad. The competition offers what might be called a sabbatical year for further development after musical studies and before embarking on a professional career. “We are always transformed by studying abroad,” comments Vincent Boucher, vice-president of the Académie de musique du Québec and organist at St. Joseph’s Oratory. “I think that the Prix d’Europe was an important cultural driving force in Quebec in the sense that a Quebec musician who went to Vienna or Paris…

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