The winners and finalists of the All-Russian Art Competition “The World of Rachmaninoff” announced.

The All-Russian drawing competition «The World of Rachmaninoff» was held on the eve of the Rachmaninoff International Youth Piano Competition

The experts of the Russian National Museum of Music chose 40 works to be the finalists and 5 works to be the winners of the competition.

The winners

Klimova Valeria
(17 years old, Lipetsk)

The above winners of the All-Russian drawing competition “The World of Rachmaninoff” have been invited to the Grand Opening of the International Youth Piano Competition in Veliky Novgorod.

The finalists

To get acquainted with the works of the finalists and winners of the art competition was possible during the days of the Rachmaninoff International Youth Piano Competition in Veliky Novgorod. The exhibition “The World of Rachmaninoff” was held at the Children’s Music School No. 1 named after S. Rachmaninoff, which reopened after a large-scale renovation at the end of 2022.

Let us remind you that in total 224 works from 40 regions of Russia were sent to the All-Russian drawing competition “The World of Rachmaninoff”: Donetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Sverdlovsk, Kaluga, Kemerovo, Lipetsk, Ulyanovsk, Omsk, Vologda, Tambov, Belgorod, Leningrad, Volgograd, Moscow, Orenburg , Saransk, Murmansk, Tver, Novosibirsk, Rostov, Sakhalin, Tula, Kirov, Bryansk, Krasnoyarsk, Tyumen, Novgorod, Samara, Pskov regions; Stavropol, Altai, Primorsky and Krasnodar Territories; Republics of Bashkortostan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Komi, Tatarstan, Crimea, Chuvashia, as well as from the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – YUGRA.

The Rachmaninoff International Youth Piano Competition was held from March 21 to 26 in Veliky Novgorod on the stage of the Novgorod Regional Philharmonic named after A. Arensky. Artistic director and Chairman of the jury – Denis Matsuev.

Shadrina Airis

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