The World of Piano Competitions – issue 1 2024

The World of Piano Competitions is a magazine initiated by PIANIST Magazine (Netherlands and Germany) and its Editor-in-Chief Eric Schoones. Here we get a rich insight into the world of international piano competitions through the eyes of its producers and participants.

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Contributing Editors: Gustav Alink (Alink-Argerich Foundation), Patrick Jovell (Piano Street), Christo Lelie, Adjeiwaa Woodman

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Contents

Interviews
Philipp Lynov: Musical voyager
Jan Jiracek von Arnim: Open your heart
Alexey Shor: Composer in residence
Professor Christopher Elton: Master of masters

News
WFIMC Piano Competitions on five continents
3rd Alink-Argerich Foundation International Conference announced

Competition Report
International Piano Competition – Istanbul Orchestra’ Sion
Grotrian-Steinweg Competition
International Piano Competition for Young Musicians

In Profile
The Queen Elisabeth Competition
The Young Pianist Foundation
The International Franz Liszt Competition Weimar – Bayreuth
International Beethoven Piano Competition Vienna
International Piano Competition Pierre Barbizet
International Competition Piano Neuchâtel – Val de Travers
The International Schimmel Piano Competition
The Ljubljana Festival International Competition
International Piano Competition for Young Pianists Kronberg
New Orleans International Piano Competition

If music be the food of love, play on!

Background

The piano enjoys a tremendous popularity worldwide and has the universal quality to be able to communicate through cultures, history and geographical borders. The value of piano competitions cannot be overestimated in terms of focus on the piano as an instrument and piano playing. The competition industry engages a multiplicity of concerns including hi-end piano manufacturing, media coverage and broadcast, repertoire spotlight and pedagogy, concert and lecture production and not least, career opportunity and exposure for laureates and non-laureates. All this contributes to a richer cultural life and can powerfully promote the aim we all share: to spread the joy and riches of the art of piano playing.

”Piano music, especially live, is incomparable and can be a great source of joy for players and listeners. We all should strive to allow as many people benefit from it as possible. For that, this edition of The World of Piano Competition is an excellent form of encouragement. I hope its message spreads widely! I wish everyone much joy reading it and, later on, attending a concert!”
— Guido Zimmermann, President Steinway & Sons Europe

THE WORLD OF PIANO COMPETITIONS
is published twice a year by PIANIST, as a part of the regular edition, and also worldwide as a separate magazine.

PIANIST (regular edition) is published four times a year in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands and Belgium.
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