OTS - Zurich Festival: The 2018 Concours Géza Anda - A challenge and an opportunity for exceptional young pianists
2018. June 01. 08:00
Zurich, 1 June, 2018 (APA/OTS) - The 14th Concours Géza Anda, to be
held from 3 to 12 June 2018 in Zurich and Winterthur, will this
year be held as part of the Zurich Festival. Internationally
renowned artists will make up the Jury, which will be chaired by
the German pianist and conductor Christian Zacharias. He will be
joined in his deliberations by the pianists Andrea Bonatta (I),
Peter Lang (A), Prof. Dr Robert Levin (USA), Aleksander Madzar
(SER) and Alexei Volodin (RUS), and by Nathalie Wappler (CH),
Programme Director of MDR.
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120 pianists from 23 countries auditioned to participate in the
Concours. After consulting their video submissions, 40 of them were
invited to take part in the First Round in Zurich. They come from
countries as diverse as Armenia, China, Germany, England, Estonia,
Italy, Japan, Norway, Austria, Russia, Spain, South Korea, Ukraine,
Hungary and the USA.
Hortense Anda-Bührle, the widow of the Hungarian-Swiss pianist
Géza Anda, founded the Concours in Zurich in 1979, in memory of her
husband. Over the course of the past 39 years, the Concours has
established itself as one of the most challenging competitions on
the international piano scene. Thanks to its long-established
network and partnerships, the 2018 prize winners can expect not
just money prizes to the tune of CHF 70,000.-, but also numerous
concert engagements as part of their prize. It was especially
important to Hortense Anda-Bührle that young pianists should be
enabled to grow into their profession, and be given the opportunity
to nurture their career carefully. Former Géza Anda prize winners -
such as Dénes Várjon, Pietro De Maria, Alexei Volodin, Varvara
Nepomnyashchaya, Dasol Kim and Andrew Tyson - have followed up
their success in Zurich with performances in concert halls all over
the world, and they also hold important teaching positions at
leading conservatories.
All four rounds of the Concours are open to the public. The six
semi-finalists will perform in the Mozart Round on the weekend of
9/10 June 2018 in the Stadthaus in Winterthur, accompanied by the
Musikkollegium Winterthur under the direction of Theodor
Guschlbauer. The Final Concert and Award Ceremony will be held at 7
p.m. on Tuesday 12 June 2018 in the Tonhalle-Maag in Zurich, where
the three finalists will be accompanied by the Zurich Tonhalle
Orchestra conducted by Christian Zacharias. They will perform piano
concertos chosen from works by Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt,
Tchaikovsky and Bartók.
The Concours can be watched as a live video stream on the
Internet from the Second Round onwards (6 June). Swiss Radio SRF2
will record the Final Concert and broadcast it live.
For more information and the results of the competition, please
go to:
www.geza-anda.ch -
https://de-de.facebook.com/concoursgezaanda/
Contact:
Géza Anda-Stiftung, Bleicherweg 18, 8002 Zürich -
info@geza-anda.ch / Tel. +41 44 205 14 23
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