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.
The draw for the participants of the Rachmaninoff International Youth Piano Competition took place March 20 at the Novgorod Regional Philharmonic named after A. Arensky.
The contestants will perform in the following order:
01. Nguen Kien
02. Ji Qinyaoyao
03. Knyazev Alexander
04. Mazurov Georgy
05. Semenov Gleb
06. Bakirov Lev
07. Wu Yifan
08. Diaz Padilla Daniel
09. Ming Rui
10. Li Tianyu
11. Shadrina Airis
12. Iskorostensky Artur
13. Orlov Fedor
14. Li Junjie
15. Wu Xuanxiang
Please be reminded that online broadcasts of all the stages of the Competition will be held with the support of the largest Russian social network Vkontakte. All the events of the music contest will be available live on the official website of the Competition, as well as in its official VKontakte community in March 21-26.
The competition is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. The organization and holding of the competition are carried out by ROSCONCERT with the support of the Government of the Novgorod Region.
The International Youth Piano Competition named after Sergei Rachmaninoff will be held in March 21-26, 2023 – the year of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff – in Veliky Novgorod, in the composer’s native region.
The Novgorod Regional Philharmonic named after A. Arensky will host a concert “Towards the International Youth Piano Competition named after Sergei Rachmaninoff” on March 21 at 19:00. Soloist – Ivan Bessonov, the First Prize laureate of the International Competition of Pianists, Composers and Conductors named after Sergei Rachmaninoff, which was very successfully held in Moscow in 2022 on the eve of the anniversary of the great musician. An Honored Artist of Russia Yuri Tkachenko will conduct the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra. The concert program includes works by Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 and Rhapsody on Paganini Theme.
The concert as well as all the stages of the Competition will be broadcast online with the support of the largest Russian social network Vkontakte.
All the events of the music contest will be available live on the official website of the Competition, as well as in its official VKontakte community in March 21-26.
The competition is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. The organization and holding of the competition are carried out by ROSCONCERT with the support of the Government of the Novgorod Region.
The entire current musical year, declared the Year of Rachmaninoff on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the composer, is a marathon of concerts, homages, festivals to be held in all Russian halls.
The new International Youth Piano Competition named after Sergei Rachmaninoff, which will be held for the first time in Veliky Novgorod from March 21 to 26, will become the exclusive event of the year.
Denis Matsuev, the head and “engine” of major youth musical projects and international competitions, including the Grand Piano in Moscow and the Astana Piano Passion in Kazakhstan, the Rachmaninoff Competition and the piano nomination of the Tchaikovsky Competition is the Artistic director of the new competition.
In an exclusive interview to “RG” Denis Matsuev spoke about the format of the new youth competition, about the new centers of “power” of the Russian piano school, about the phenomenon of Rachmaninoff’s pianism.
The largest Russian social network VKontakte has become a partner of the International Youth Piano Competition named after Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Online broadcasts of all stages of the music competition will be available live on the official website of the Competition https: https://rachmaninoff-youth.com as well as in its official VKontakte community https: https://vk.com/rachmaninoff_youth.
In addition to live broadcasts of the competition events the viewers will see interviews with guests and participants, diaries of the competition events, reports about the competition and other exclusive videos.
Cooperation with VKontakte will allow all lovers of musical art to join the Competition from anywhere in the world – this does not require registration on the VKontakte social network.
“We’ve already had the first and very successful experience of cooperation at the International Competition of Pianists, Composers and Conductors named after Sergei Rachmaninoff which took place in the summer of 2022 in Moscow. And we are happy to continue and develop our cooperation with VKontakte,” says Denis Matsuev, artistic director of the Competition.
The International Youth Piano Competition named after Sergei Rachmaninoff will be held in March 21-26 in Veliky Novgorod – the homeland of the famous composer. The competition is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
On February 28 the acceptance of applications for participation in the All-Russian drawing competition “The World of Rachmaninoff” was completed. In total, 224 works from 40 regions of Russia were sent to the competition: 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.
Based on the results of the selection, the experts from the Russian National Museum of Music will choose 40 finalists, 5 of which will become the winners. As a result of the art competition, during the days of the International Youth Piano Competition named after Sergei Rachmaninoff, an exhibition of the works -finalists “The World of Rachmaninoff” will be held at the Children’s Music School No. 1 named after Sergei Rachmaninoff, which was reopened after a large-scale renovation at the end of 2022.
And five young winners of the All-Russian drawing competition “The World of Rachmaninoff” will be invited to the Grand Opening of the International Youth Piano Competition in Veliky Novgorod.
The results of the selection will be published on March 6, 2023.
We would like to remind you that a special project – the All-Russian drawing competition “The World of Rachmaninoff” – was launched on the eve of the International Youth Piano Competition named after Sergei Rachmaninoff, which will be held for the first time in March 21 -26, 2023 in Veliky Novgorod on the stage of the Novgorod Regional Philharmonic. Artistic director and chairman of the Competition – Denis Matsuev.
The organization and holding of the competition are carried out by ROSCONCERT with the support of the Government of the Novgorod Region.
15 pianists have been invited to the first round of the International Youth Piano Competition named after Sergei Rachmaninoff: Lev Bakirov Lev (Russia), Diaz Padilla Daniel (Colombia), Artur Iskorostensky (Russia), Alexander Knyazev (Russia), Li Junjie (China), Georgy Mazurov (Russia), Nguyen Duc Kien (Vietnam), Min Jui (China), Li Tianyu (China), Fedor Orlov (Russia), Gleb Semenov (Russia), Wu Xuanxian (China), Wu Yifan (China), Ji Qingyaoyao (China) and Shadrina Iris (Belarus).
We would like to remind you that acceptance of the applications for participation in the International Youth Piano Competition named after Sergei Rachmaninoff was completed on February 22. In total 120 applications from 8 countries of the world were submitted for the competition: Russia, Belarus, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, China, Colombia, Norway and Uzbekistan. The largest number of applications came from Russia and China.
The International Youth Piano Competition named after Sergei Rachmaninoff will be held for the first time in March 21-26, 2023 – the year of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff – in Veliky Novgorod, the composer’s native region.
The competition consists of a qualifying round (video), as well as live I and II (final) rounds. 15 pianists are allowed to participate in the live rounds. According to the results of the competition, the finalists will be awarded 5 prizes of a laureate of the competition in the amount of 350 thousand rubles and 10 prizes of a competition diploma holder of 100 thousand rubles each. The Grand Prix winner will be determined according to the results of the performance of the laureates in the final gala concert.
The organization and holding of the competition are carried out by ROSCONCERT with the support of the Government of the Novgorod Region.
On February 22 we completed the acceptance of applications for participation in the International Youth Piano Competition named after Sergei Rachmaninov. In total, 120 applications from 8 countries of the world were submitted for the competition: Russia, Belarus, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, China, Colombia, Norway and Uzbekistan. The largest number of applications came from Russia and China.
“I am very glad that our competition aroused interest not only in Russia but also in other countries. And I am happy that the hometown of this great Russian pianist, composer and conductor will become the center of attraction for fans of the piano art in the anniversary Year of Rachmaninoff,” said Denis Matsuev, artistic director of the competition.
Upon completion of all technical procedures for processing applications, the next stage will begin: the jury members will conduct a virtual selection of participants based on the submitted videos. The results of the qualifying round will be announced in the coming days.
The International Youth Piano Competition named after Sergei Rachmaninoff consists of an absentee qualifying round as well as live I and II (final) rounds. No more than 15 pianists will be allowed to participate in live rounds. According to the results of the competition the finalists will be awarded 5 prizes of a laureate of the competition in the amount of 350 thousand rubles and 10 prizes of a diploma holder of the competition in the amount of 100 thousand rubles each. According to the results of the performance of the laureates in the final gala concert, the Grand Prix winner will be determined.
The organization and holding of the competition is carried out by the ROSCONCERT with the support of the Government of the Novgorod Region.
The International Youth Piano Competition named after Sergey Rachmaninoff extends the acceptance of applications for a week, until February 22, 2023. Musicians aged 10 to 18 inclusive at the time of the start of the contest are invited to participate. The results of the qualifying round will be announced on March 1, 2023.
The skill of the participants of the competition will be judged by a professional jury, which includes outstanding cultural figures, famous musicians from Russia, Kazakhstan, Great Britain Germany, Belguim and Vietnam – Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Frederic Kempf, Victor Yeresko, Zhania Aubakirova, Ta Quan Dong, Maxim Mogilevsky, Vladimir Tropp and Valery Pyasetsky. The Artistic director and chairman of the jury – Denis Matsuev.
You can send an application and get acquainted with the conditions of the competition on the official website: www.rachmaninoff-youth.com
The International Youth Piano Competition named after Sergey Rachmaninoff will be held for the first time in March 21-26, 2023 in the composer’s homeland Veliky Novgorod, in the year of his 150th birthday. The competition is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. The organization and holding of the competition will be carried out by the Federal State Budgetary Cultural Institution ROSCONCERT (http://rosconcert.ru/) with the support of the Government of the Novgorod Region.
For the first time the International Youth Piano Competition named after Sergey Rachmaninoff will be held in March 21-26, 2023, the year of his 150th birthday, in the composer’s homeland Veliky Novgorod.
The skill of the participants at all stages of the competition will be judged by a professional jury, which includes famous artists, teachers and cultural figures from Russia, Kazakhstan, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium and Vietnam – Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Frederic Kempf, Victor Eresko, Zhania Aubakirova, Ta Quang Dong, Maxim Mogilevsky, Vladimir Tropp and Valery Pyasetsky. The Artistic director and chairman of the jury of the competition – Denis Matsuev.
The official opening of the competition will be held on March 21 in the Novgorod Regional Philharmonic.
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