The winners have been introduced for the Eighth Cliburn Worldwide Novice Piano Competitors, whose finals wrapped up in Fort Value, Texas on October 18.
After seven days of performances by 39 of the perfect newbie pianists from across the globe, the Richard Rodzinski First Prize was awarded to Jon Lee, a 41-year-old software program engineer from the US. Jon scooped the $2,000 money prize with a final-round efficiency of the final motion of Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto.
The second prize went to Michael Slavin (pictured), a retired neuro-ophthalmologist from the US, who completed with a rendition of the primary motion of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto. Third place went to Xavier Aymonod, a advertising and marketing director from France. His final-round efficiency, just like the winner, featured the ultimate motion of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.3. Clearly an important showpiece for proficient pianists.
Inaugurated in 1999, the Cliburn Worldwide Novice Piano Competitors was the primary occasion of its variety in the US. It offers a discussion board for musicians age 35 and older who don’t carry out, educate, or compose piano music for his or her main skilled pursuit or monetary profit.
Held each 4 years, the competition brings collectively the perfect newbie pianists from all over the world for seven days of performances, symposia, and social occasions. The competitors is all the time staged, just like the skilled Van Cliburn Worldwide Piano Competitors from which it developed, in Fort Value – residence city of the nice American pianist Van Cliburn.
Opponents for this 12 months’s occasion hailed from all around the world, representing 16 nations from Argentina to Indonesia.
Pic: Ralph Lauer
