World of Piano Competitions – issue 2 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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Contents

Spotlight Chopin
Bruce Liu: Shaping the Inner Force
100 years of the Chopin Competition
Chopin or no Chopin
Majorca: Myths and Reality

News
WFIMC Piano Competitions on five continents
Alink-Argerich Foundation 3rd International AAF Conference, Cleveland 2024
The Puzzling World of Piano Competitions
Two Competitions and a new Exchange Network led by Youth
Pearl River names Ed Bazel Kayserburg Worldwide Brand Ambassador
Competition Report: 16th Concours Géza Anda, 30 May – 8 June 2024

Competition Profiles
Telekom Beethoven Competition 2025
Honens International Piano Competition
Scherzo International Piano Competition
International Paderewski Piano Competition
The Young Pianist Foundation
Ljubljana Festival International Competition – Piano 2026
Young Pianists in Kronberg
12th International Piano Competition of Fribourg
Contributing Editors: Gustav Alink (Alink-Argerich Foundation), Patrick Jovell (Piano Street), Aleksander Laskowski, Emanuel Overbeeke, Michel Runtz

Piano Street contributed to the current issue with a score of the newly discovered Chopin manuscript as well as the cover artist interview with Bruce Liu by Patrick Jovell.

To the right: Liu is happy to see the freshly printed issue brought by the magazine’s editor Eric Schoones.

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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