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Mao Fujita in the spotlight

He participated in the Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Piano Competition in 2016 and won 3rd prize.

Fujita won the Second Prize and Silver Medal at the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition piano category in 2019.

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Maurice Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte M 19 (1899)

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Yulianna Avdeeva in the spotlight

Awards

  • 2003 – 9th European Piano Contest Bremen – 2nd prize.
  • 2006 – 61st Geneva International Music Competition (Geneva) – 2nd prize.
  • 2007 – 7th International Ignacy Jan Paderewski Piano Competition (Bydgoszcz) – 2nd prize.
  • 2010 – XVI International Chopin Piano Competition (Warsaw) – 1st prize and best performance of a sonata

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Frédéric Chopin Mazurkas Opus 41 (1839)

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Franz Liszt Ouvertüre zu Tannhäuser von Richard Wagner – Konzertparaphrase S 442 (1848) (Wagner)

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Dix-huit Morceaux Opus 72 (1893) 5. Meditation (Andante mosso) in D major

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Fanny Azzuro in the spotlight

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Frédéric Chopin Etudes Opus 25 (1836) Etude No. 10 in B minor

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Sergei Rachmaninov Preludes Opus 32 (1910) 2. Allegretto in B-flat minor

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Maurice Ravel Miroirs (1906) 3. Une barque sur l’océan

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La Roque d’Anthéron : les concerts de juillet

La Roque d’Anthéron Piano Festival : July concerts

The 42nd edition of the international piano festival of La Roque d’Anthéron will open its doors on July 18th. This year, after two complicated years due to the Covid 19 pandemic, a lavish program awaits festival aficionados.
Pianists Corner wants to echo this great festival and gives you the program for the month of July.

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Abdel Rahman El Bacha (with Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, Kaspar Zehnder) :  MONDAY, 18. JULY 2022 (Ravel)

Vanessa Wagner : TUESDAY, 19. JULY 2022 (Ciani – Budd/Dalibert – Dessner…)

Kotaro Fukuma : THURSDAY, 21. JULY 2022 (Chopin – Scriabin)

Aline Piboule : FRIDAY, 22. JULY 2022 (L’œuvre au noir)

Imogen Cooper, Lars Vogt (with Orchestre de chambre de Paris) : FRIDAY, 22. JULY 2022 (Mozart)

Marie-Catherine Girod : SATURDAY, 23. JULY 2022 (Mendelssohn)

Lars Vogt (with Orchestre de chambre de Paris) : SATURDAY, 23. JULY 2022 (Mendelssohn)

Gaspard Dehaene : SUNDAY, 24. JULY 2022 (Schubert – Liszt)

Anna Fedorova : SUNDAY, 24. JULY 2022 (Beethoven – Chopin – Mussorgsky)

Nathanaël Gouin : MONDAY, 25. JULY 2022 (Schubert – Brahms)

Alexander Gadjiev : MONDAY, 25. JULY 2022 (Chopin – Schumann)

Bruce Liu : MONDAY, 25. JULY 2022 (Chopin – Ravel – Liszt)

Fanny Azzuro : TUESDAY, 26. JULY 2022 (Rachmaninov)

Guillaume Bellom (with Renaud Capuçon, Manon Galy, Raphaëlle Moreau, Paul Zientara, Maxime Quennesson) : TUESDAY, 26. JULY 2022 (Franck – Chausson)

Alexander Malofeev : WEDNESDAY, 27. JULY 2022 (Scriabin – Rachmaninov – Prokofiev)

Nikolaï Lugansky : WEDNESDAY, 27. JULY 2022 (Beethoven – Medtner – Rachmaninov)

Yulianna Avdeeva : WEDNESDAY, 27. JULY 2022 (Chopin – Weinberg – Rachmaninov)

Célimène Daudet : THURSDAY, 28. JULY 2022 (Debussy – Chopin)

Mikhaïl Pletnev : THURSDAY, 28. JULY 2022 (Scriabin – Chopin)

Lucas Debargue : THURSDAY, 28. JULY 2022 (Franck/Debargue – Ravel…)

Anna Geniushene : FRIDAY, 29. JULY 2022 (Brahms – Verdi/Liszt – Prokofiev)

Jean-Marc Luisada : FRIDAY, 29. JULY 2022 (Au cinéma ce soir…)

Lukas Geniusas : FRIDAY, 29. JULY 2022 (Schubert – Liszt)

Aimi Kobayashi : SATURDAY, 30. JULY 2022 (Schumann – Schubert – Chopin)

Grigory Sokolov : SATURDAY, 30. JULY 2022 (Beethoven – Brahms – Schumann)

Mao Fujita : SATURDAY, 30. JULY 2022 (Chopin – Brahms – Wieck – Schumann)

Martin James Bartlett : SUNDAY, 31. JULY 2022 (J.S. Bach/ Busoni – J.S. Bach/ Hess…)

Benjamin Grosvenor : SUNDAY, 31. JULY 2022 (Schumann – Albéniz – Ravel)

Dmitry Masleev : SUNDAY, 31. JULY 2022 (Tchaikovsky – Ravel – Khachaturian…)

Alexander Gadjiev in the spotlight

He won first prize at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in 2015. Then won second prize, ex aequo, as well as the Special Prize for the Best Performance of a Sonata at the XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition in 2021. Also in 2021, he first prize and six other prizes in the 2021 Sydney International Piano Competition.

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Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata No. 7 Opus 10 n°3 in D major (1798) 4. Rondo (Allegro)

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Igor Stravinsky Trois mouvements de Petrouchka (1921)

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Ferruccio Busoni Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 for Violin (BWV 1004) BV B 24 in D minor (1893) (Bach)

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Kotaro Fukuma in the spotlight

 Second Prize at the Maj Lind Competition in Helsinky in 2001, he won the 1st Prize and the Chopin Prize at the age of 20 at the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 2003.

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Johann Sebastian Bach Partita No. 2 BWV 826 in C minor (1726)

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Mily Balakirev Islamey Opus 18 (1869)

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Leslie Howard Réminiscences de l’opéra Turandot de Puccini Opus 39

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International Piano Competition “Samson François”

The International Piano Competition “Samson François”

On Piano Kawai

The 1st edition of the International Samson François piano competition was held from July 3 to 6. No less than 120 candidates were auditioned for this first edition. They had the pleasure of playing on a Shigeru Kawai concert piano at the Hippodrome de la Côte d’Azur in Cagnes-sur-mer.

You will find below the winners and the jury of this event.

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The Winners :

1st Prize, awarded unanimously by the jury

Ryan Wang – Canada

Second Prize

Simon Karakulidi – Russia

Third prize

Elia Cecino – Italia

The additional Awards

Cesari prize, for the interpretation of Barcarolle by Antoine Cesari

Miku Arizono – Japan

Special mentions from the jury, accompanied by concerts

Elžbieta Liepa Dvarionaitė – Lithuania

Nicolas Comi – Switzerland

The Jury :

Olga Monakh, Ukraine / Germany (president of the jury)

Nicolas Bringuier, France

Vahan Mardirossian, Armenia

Julia Mustonen-Dahlkvist, Sweden

Pierre Réach, France

Christine Gastaud, France

Olivier Bellamy, France

Gaspard Dehaene in the spotlight

 

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Joseph Haydn Fantasia Hob. XVII n°4 in C major (1789)

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Franz Liszt Zwölf Lieder von Fr. Schubert S 558 (1838) 2. Auf dem Wasser zu singen (D774)

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Alexander Scriabin Fantaisie Opus 28 (1901)

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Bruce Liu in the spotlight

 In 2021, Liu was named the winner of the XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. He scored the highest marks in the first three stages and was the only competitor to be unanimously selected by the jury to progress from each round.

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Frédéric Chopin Mazurkas Opus 33 (1838) 1. Mesto in G-sharp minor

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Frédéric Chopin Mazurkas Opus 33 (1838) 2. Vivace in D major

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Frédéric Chopin Mazurkas Opus 33 (1838) 3. Semplice in C major

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Klavier Festival Ruhr – 2022 JUNE 27-JULY 7

Hailed as “the most important piano festival in the world” FonoForum

Pianists Corner echoes this great musical event by listing the dates of the guest pianists’ concerts.

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Evgeny Kissin :  27. JUNE 2022

Bruce Liu : WEDNESDAY, 29. JUNE 2022

Olga Scheps : THURSDAY, 30. JUNE 2022

Olli Mustonen : SATURDAY, 02. JULY 2022

Ronald Brautigam : MONDAY, 04. JULY 2022

Arcadi Volodos : WEDNESDAY, 06. JULY 2022

Grigory Sokolov : THURSDAY, 07. JULY 2022

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