The participants of the Rachmaninoff International Youth Piano Competition chose grand pianos on March 20 in the evening after the draw.
Instruments presented at the competition: Yangtze river, Yamaha CFX and Steinway.
Wu Xuanxiang (China) and Li Junjie (China) will play the Yangtze river piano.
The Yamaha CFX grand piano was chosen by: Fedor Orlov (Russia) and Lev Bakirov (Russia).
The rest of the contestants chose Steinway.
ROSCONCERT FGBUK
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Belarus
Born in 2004 in Minsk (Belarus).
A student of the Republican College of Music at the Belarus State Academy of Music.
Already at the age of 7 she gave her first solo concert performing 11 pieces of the “Children’s Album” by P. Tchaikovsky.
A laureate of numerous competitions and a winner of special prizes, including: the X International Competition for Young Pianists named after T. Nikolaeva (the Grand Prix and a special prize for the best performance of a piece by T. Nikolaeva, Bryansk), a three times laureate of the International Children’s Competition “Music of Hope” (Belarus, Gomel), the XXI International Competition for Young Pianists named after Maria Yudina (I prize. St. Petersburg), the XXVIII International Competition for Young Musicians maned after D. Kabalevsky (I prize. Samara).
A scholarship holder of the Yuri Rozum International Charity Foundation.
Along with improving her piano skills, Iris also tries herself as a composer of piano music.
Program
I round
Chopin. Ballade №4 in F minor, Op.52
Rachmaninoff. Etude-tableaux in D minor, Op. 33, №4
Rachmaninoff. Etude- tableaux in G minor, Op. 33, №8
Rachmaninoff. Etude-tableaux in D major, Op. 39, №9
II round
Chopin. Piano Concerto in E Minor, Movement I