Ukrainian pianist Illia Ovcharenko (21) has been named Prize Laureate of the 2022 Honens Worldwide Piano Competitors. He wins one of many world’s largest prizes for piano: 100,000 Canadian {Dollars} (CAD) and an artist improvement programme valued at $500,000.
Finalists Rachel Breen (United States, 26) and Sasha Kasman Laude (United States, 27) every acquired Finalist Prizes of $10,000.
This yr’s Honens Piano jury included Michel Béroff (our alternative for a finest Prokofiev piano concertos set), Stewart Goodyear and up to date BBC Music Journal interviewee Imogen Cooper. Different jury members included Earl Blackburn, Katherine Chi, Ick-Choo Moon and Orli Shaham.
‘Over the previous two weeks, our jury and devoted audiences have skilled world-class pianism of the very best doable degree,’ provides Jon Kimura Parker, Honens’ inventive director. ‘The Honens Worldwide Piano Competitors has introduced artistry, emotion, virtuosity, and creativity to Calgary and to the world. We provide our warmest congratulations to the entire pianists and particular congratulations to the 2022 Honens Prize Laureate, Illia Ovcharenko.’
At the moment pursuing a bachelor’s diploma on the Buchmann-Mehta College of Music in Tel Aviv below the tutelage of Arie Vardie, Illia Ovcharenko has already carried out with main orchestras together with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Pomeranian Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland), Nationwide Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Nationwide Radio of Ukraine, and the Versailles Conservatory String Orchestra.
Illia’s improvement programme will embrace debut recitals in among the world’s main live performance homes, plus live performance alternatives with main orchestras, skilled administration, residencies, and recordings.
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The Competitors’s mission is ‘to determine expertise that’s uncommon, imaginative, and knowledgeable—an artist not restricted to shows of virtuosity however one who’s able to considerate, expressive music-making, and is prepared for an expert profession’. ‘The world is within the throes of change and whereas Honens continues to adapt because it strikes ahead in its mission, we’re happy to stay constant and true in our seek for the whole artist,’ says Neil Edwards, Honens’ President & CEO.
Honens sees the whole artist as ‘a consummate communicator and collaborator, a risk-taking explorer, a dreamer. By way of efficiency and programming selections, he / she expresses and interprets concepts from a large cultural context with eager creativeness, knowledgeable and seasoned by a fascination for all times exterior the apply studio. The Full Artist conjures up the center and engages the mind.’
Archived video recordings of your complete 2022 Honens Worldwide Piano Competitors may be considered at honens.com/livestream-2022.
