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Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition
The Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition was founded in 2002 by Alexander Braginsky in collaboration with the Yamaha Corporation. It took place every two years in Minneapolis–Saint Paul before the 2008 edition was delayed to 2009 due to the arrangement of a junior edition of the competition. The ''-e-'' refers to the competition's focus on Internet and Disklavier technologies. The e-competition is one of the biggest, most significant competitions available for young artists. Many of its past competitors have gone on to achieve significant success on the global competition/concert stage. Prize winners Senior competition Junior competition References "Winners of First e-Piano Junior Competition Revealed" press release, Reuters Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters Corporation. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency was est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Braginsky
Alexander Iosifovich Braginsky (russian: Александр Иосифович Брагинский, ''Aleksandr Iosifovič Braginskij''; May 29, 1944) is a Russian-born pianist and pedagogue, currently living in the United States. Life and career He studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, and, after Goldenweiser's death in 1961, with Theodore Gutman. In the early 1970s, he left Russia with his wife, Tatiana Remenikova, never to visit again until 2004. After first spending a couple of years in the United Kingdom he then moved to the USA. He is on the piano faculty at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and at the Hamline University, St. Paul, where he works with a select group of piano students from around the world. In addition to his teaching schedule, Braginsky continues to perform, mostly as a soloist and a chamber musician (with his cellist wife). He has recorded a number of works, including Shostakovich's 24 Preludes (op.34), Pian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélène Tysman
Hélène Tysman (born 30 December 1982, Paris, France) is a prizewinning French classical pianist. She studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Pierre-Laurent Aimard and later with Oleg Maisenberg in Vienna. She obtained her master's degree at Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar under the guidance of Grigory Gruzman. Since becoming a laureate of the XVI International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Tysman has emerged as one of the leading French pianists of her generation. Awards and prizes *Maestro Award from the French Magazine ''Pianiste'' for her Chopin release vol.2 (2013) *New York Mackenzie Award / IKIF (2012, 1st Prize) *Warsaw XVI International Chopin Piano Competition (2010, Finalist & Distinction Prize) *Minneapolis International Piano-e-competition (2009, 3rd Prize) *Hong-Kong International Piano Competition (2008, 5th Prize) *Poznan European Piano Competition (2008, 6th Prize) *Darmstadt International Chopin Piano Competition (2006, 1st Prize) *Laureate of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Lee
Nathan Lee (born September 26, 2001) is a Korean-American pianist. Described by ''The New York Times'' as a "prodigiously talented" pianist with "musical insight and sensitivity", Lee was a winner of the 2016 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Career Lee was born in 2001 and began playing the piano at the age of six. At the age of 15, Lee was one of four winners in the 2016 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and won a record fourteen additional concert prizes (opportunities to perform). Lee was later named to the Mortimer Levitt Piano Chair of Young Concert Artists and has since appeared as soloist with major American orchestras such as the Seattle Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Buffalo Philharmonic. Lee has collaborated with such conductors as Jorge Mester, JoAnn Falletta, Teddy Abrams, Jahja Ling, and Ludovic Morlot Ludovic Morlot (born 11 December 1973) is a French conductor. Earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Lu
Eric Lu (born December 15, 1997) is an American classical pianist. Hailed by ''The Guardian'' as a pianist with "the magic touch of...Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu", he won the gold medal at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2018 at age 20. He records for Warner Classics under an exclusive contract, and has performed with many of the world's major orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, and Orchestre national de Lille; upcoming debuts include appearances as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. Early life and education Eric Lu was born on December 15, 1997, in Massachusetts to a father from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and a mother from Shanghai, China. He grew up in Bedford, Massachusetts, and started piano studies at age six with Dorothy Shi () in the Boston area. Later on, he enrolled at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, where he studied with Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristo Sham
Aristo Sham () (born 12 March 1996) is a pianist born in Hong Kong. He has won numerous prizes and awards in Hong Kong and overseas, and has performed in several countries. He has been featured in the Channel 4 programme, The World's Greatest Musical Prodigies. Education Sham attended Diocesan Boys' School (Primary) in Hong Kong before attending Harrow School in London. He began piano lessons at the age of three, and since then, has captured an impressive array of awards on the international stage. Sham has been a laureate at the Gina Bachauer International Junior Piano Competition, Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition, PianoArts Competition, and many others. He has collaborated with numerous orchestras, including the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestral at Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Sham has also performed for numerous heads of state, including the Queen of Belgium and former Chine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Lisiecki
Jan Lisiecki (; born March 23, 1995) is a Canadian-born classical pianist of Polish ancestry. Lisiecki performs over a hundred concerts annually and has worked closely with the world's leading orchestras and conductors, his career at the top of the international concert scene spanning over a decade. He has been a recording artist with Deutsche Grammophon since the age of fifteen. Early life and education Lisiecki was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and began piano lessons at the age of five, making his orchestral debut at the age of nine. At thirteen, Lisiecki was invited to the 2008 edition of the "Chopin and his Europe" festival in Warsaw, Poland, to perform Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 21 with Sinfonia Varsovia and Howard Shelley. Instantly hailed as the sensation of the festival, he returned in 2009 to perform Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 11 in the same constellation. He was brought to international attention the following year when the Fryderyk Chopin Inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Friis Johansson
Peter Friis Johansson (born 1983) is a Swedish classical pianist who also holds citizenship of Denmark. He won first prize in the Alaska International Piano-e-Competition in 2014. profile at Alaska International Piano-e-Competition, University of Alaska
The University of Alaska System is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was created in 1917 and comprises three separately accredited universities on 19 campuses. The system serves nearly 30,000 full- and part-time stud ...
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Eric Zuber
Eric Zuber (born June 9, 1985) is an American virtuoso pianist and pedagogue. A native of Baltimore, Zuber has won prizes at many international piano competitions, including the Honens International Piano Competition, Cleveland International Piano Competition, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, Seoul International Music Competition, Sydney International Piano Competition, Dublin International Piano Competition, Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition, Bösendorfer and Yamaha USASU International Piano Competition, and the Hilton Head International Piano Competition. He made his debut at age 12 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and has since then gone on to perform with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Korean Symphony, and Ireland's RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra among many others. He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Juilliard School, and the Pea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Taverna
Alessandro Taverna (born 1983 in Portogruaro, Venice) is an Italian pianist. He trained at the Accademia Pianistica "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola with Franco Scala, Leonid Margarius and Boris Petrushansky; he later specialized with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and at the International Piano Academy Lake Como working with Dmitri Bashkirov, Malcolm Bilson, Fou Ts'ong, and Stanislav Ioudenitch. He has been a "Lieven Scholar" at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano) pursuing his master's degree in Advanced Performance Studies with William Grant Naboré. Competition record * 2003 – A. Scriabin, Grosseto Grosseto () is a city and ''comune'' in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the Province of Grosseto. The city lies from the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Maremma, at the centre of an alluvial plain on the Ombrone river. It is the ...: 1st prize * 2009 – London International Piano Competition, London: 2nd priz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamaha Corporation
is a Japanese multinational corporation and conglomerate with a very wide range of products and services. It is one of the constituents of Nikkei 225 and is the world's largest musical instrument manufacturing company. The former motorcycle division was established in 1955 as Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd., which started as an affiliated company but later became independent, although Yamaha Corporation is still a major shareholder. History Nippon Gakki Co. Ltd. (currently Yamaha Corporation) was established in 1887 as a reed organ manufacturer by Torakusu Yamaha (山葉寅楠) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture and was incorporated on 12 October 1897. In 1900, the company started the production of pianos. The first piano to be made in Japan was an upright built in 1900 by Torakusu Yamaha, founder of Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. — later renamed Yamaha Corporation. The company's origins as a musical instrument manufacturer are still reflected today in the group's logo—a trio of interloc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IV Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition
The Fourth Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition took place in Minneapolis–Saint Paul from June 29 to July 10, 2009. Jury * Alexander Braginsky (nonvoting chairman) * David Dubal * Akiko Ebi * Gabriel Kwok * Nikolai Petrov * Jerome Rose * Jeremy Siepmann * Arie Vardi Awards Competition results, by rounds Preliminary round ''February 12–15, Yamaha Artist Services Inc. (Piano Salon), New York City''. 1st round ''June 30-July 4, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis''. * China Chao-yin Cai * Russia Elmar Gasanov * Russia Vyacheslav Gryaznov * China Ran Jia * Ukraine Germany Andrej Jussow * South Korea Grace Eunhae Kim * Russia Eduard Kunz * Taiwan Hanchien Lee * USA Howard Na * Poland Piotr Rozanski * Japan Yukiko Sekino * Canada Alexander Seredenko * China Rui Shi * USA Andrew Staupe * Russia Konstantin Soukhovetski * South Korea Young-Ah Tak * Italy Alessandro Taverna * Russia Anastasya Terenkova * France Hélène Tysman * China Clara Hui Yang * Belarus Pavel Yeletskiy * Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Shybayeva
Hanna Shybayeva (born 16 March 1979 in Minsk) is a Dutch pianist. Early life and studies Born into a family of musicians, Hanna Shybayeva began her piano education at the age of six. In 1995, she got a piano degree at the Belarus National College of Music. After graduating school she studied at the Belarus Academy of Music Minsk until 1998. From 1998 to 1999, she studied at Hochschule für Musik Dortmund (Germany) and at the International Music Academy "Ivo Pogorelich" Lovran (Croatia). In 1999, she began her studies with Naum Grubert at the Royal Conservatory The Hague in the Netherlands where she got her Bachelor of Music degree in 2003 and also received her Master of Music degree "with distinction" two years later. Under patron of Rudolf Jansen she specialized in lieder accompaniment from 2008 to 2010. Artistic activities Hanna Shybayeva had appearances with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, the Belarus State Symphony Orchestra, the Dortmund Chamber Orchestra, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
