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		<title>The Busoni Piano Competition &#8211; When the Jury doesn&#8217;t find the Winner&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ferruccio Busoni / Source: Wikipedia The 58th Ferruccio Busoni piano competition in Bozen just concluded. This was a good opportunity for me to think about different outcomes of the competition. As usual the most interesting aspect of this event was &#8230; <a href="http://www.thepianist.com/2011/09/special-edition-the-busoni-piano-competition-when-the-jury-doesnt-find-the-winner/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<em>Ferruccio Busoni / Source: Wikipedia<br />
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The 58th Ferruccio Busoni piano competition in Bozen just concluded. This was a good opportunity for me to think about different outcomes of the competition. As usual the most interesting aspect of this event was the decision of the jury. This year I noticed again that the members of the jury expressed a vote which was weird and totally out of any kind of quality, intended in both pianistic and artistic sense. Let us look more inside the competition. Antonii Barishevskyi, Anna Bulkina, Tatiana Chernichka were the three finalists of the last competition evening. By listening very carefully to their performance of piano concertos by Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Prokofieff I had enough material to be able to create a profile of each single artistic personality.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The Finalists</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Antonii Barishevskyi</strong> &#8211; The young competitor from Ukraine played Liszt&#8217;s piano concerto No.1 for his first final performance with orchestra. I immediately noticed a particular artistic individuality in his playing, when performing Liszt and later also Rachmaninoff piano concerto No.3. He demonstrated to understand the polyphonic structure of the musical score, but his technical skills were not developed enough to use them with a better knowledge for the interpretation. We come to the conclusion that Barishevskyi is still looking for his own pianistic identity, but his approach to a polyphonic playing could guide him to a good development according to the good old German-Russian piano tradition.</p>
<p><strong>Anna Bulkina</strong> &#8211; The young Russian lady showed her pianistic character right after performing Liszt&#8217;s piano concerto No.1. I missed a certain long-vibrating piano sound, her playing was generally too dry, nevertheless her technique could perfectly fit to Prokofieff&#8217;s concerto No.2.<br />
Conclusion: Bulkina&#8217;s performance was too accurate, no musical shaping of the Prokofieff&#8217;s concerto, her musical expression was just based on a technical aspect. Appropriate to Prokofieff&#8217;s style, not for the other works of the wide piano literature.</p>
<p><strong>Tatiana Chernichka</strong> &#8211; Clear technique, appropriate pedalizing, a good team-work with the orchestra. Chernichka performed well both with Liszt&#8217;s piano concerto No. 2 and Rachmaninoff concerto No.3. Sometimes her playing was too &#8220;nice&#8221;. Rachmaninoff Concerto No.3: her interpretation was not creative enough, her playing remained closed but not intrinsic, which is actually a demanding character particularly by Rachmaninoff.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The &#8220;other&#8221; prize winners</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Three further participants were not admitted to the great final stage of the Busoni competition: Alessandro Taverna, Min Soo Hong, Sun-A Park. It was not difficult to guess their artistic profile just by listening to the orchestral performance with Liszt&#8217;s piano concertos. Each of them presented a very personal interpretation of the work, according to a romantic Franz Liszt&#8217;s style. Particularly Alessandro Taverna showed sometimes polyphonic playing.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The jury&#8217;s decision</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>The international jury at the last Chopin piano competition in Warsaw 2010 (Martha Argerich was joining the jury), expressed an absolutely incompetent vote by awarding Evegeni Bozhanov only fourth prize. His playing was brilliant, of a high-professional polyphonic technique and a maturity in his interpretations.<br />
We have a similar combination at Busoni competition: the jury, with Argerich as a president and other members as Mrs. Stephanovich, showed again their limited art of voting, especially when they did not recognize the polyphonic signs in Barishevskyi&#8217;s or even Taverna&#8217;s playing. This led finally to a not-awarded first prize.<br />
Ferruccio Busoni was acclaimed and recognized as the most polyphonic pianist all-time. Right for the Busoni competition I would have wished  a jury with a deeper pianistic knowledge.</p>
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		<title>Busoni-Wettbewerb &#8211; Wenn die Jury keinen Sieger findet&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ferruccio Busoni / Quelle: Wikipedia Der 58. internationale Klavierwettbewerb &#8220;Ferruccio Busoni&#8221; in Bozen ist gerade zu Ende gegangen. Dies gab mir wieder eine gute Gelegenheit, um über verschiedene Facetten des Klavierwettbewerbs nachzudenken. Das brisanteste und immer noch aktuellste Thema rund &#8230; <a href="http://www.thepianist.com/2011/09/special-edition-busoni-piano-competition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<em>Ferruccio Busoni / Quelle: Wikipedia</em></p>
<p>Der 58. internationale Klavierwettbewerb &#8220;Ferruccio Busoni&#8221; in Bozen ist gerade zu Ende gegangen. Dies gab mir wieder eine gute Gelegenheit, um über verschiedene Facetten des Klavierwettbewerbs nachzudenken. Das brisanteste und immer noch aktuellste Thema rund um den Wettbewerb ist und bleibt die Jury-Entscheidung.<br />
Auch in diesem Jahr scheint es mir so, dass die Jury, in pianistischer und künstlerischer Hinsicht , eine ziemlich eigenartige und überaus qualitätsfremde Entscheidung getroffen hat. Fragen und Hintergründe dazu betrachten wir nun unter der Lupe. Antonii Barishevskyi, Anna Bulkina, Tatiana Chernichka &#8211; diese drei jungen Pianisten waren die Protagonisten der entscheidenden Finalrunde. Das Anhören und Beobachten ihrer Darbietungen, mit den jeweils präsentierten Klavierkonzerten von Liszt, Rachmaninoff und Prokofieff, haben mir ausreichendes Material geliefert, um ein umfassendes Bild ihrer pianistischen Persönlichkeit zu erörtern.</p>
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<blockquote><p>Die Finalisten</p></blockquote>
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<p><strong>Antonii Barishevskyi</strong> &#8211; Der junge Ukrainer spielte in der ersten Finalrunde das Klavierkonzert Nr.1 von Liszt. Schon nach dieser Darbietung war mir klar, was sich auch in seinem Rachmaninoff (Klavierkonzert Nr.3) gezeigt hatte: deutlich erkennbare künstlerische Eigenständigkeit, kleine Ansätze von Verständnis der polyphonischen Struktur in der Partitur. Da aber seine technischen Fähigkeiten noch nicht vollständig ausgereift sind, war ebenfalls ein fundiertes Einsetzen der technischen Mittel für die Werkinterpretation nicht möglich (sowohl bei Liszt als auch bei Rachmaninoff).<br />
Fazit: Barishevskyi vermittelte mir den Eindruck, dass er sich als &#8220;Pianist&#8221; noch sucht, jedoch spricht sein angedeutetes polyphonisches Spiel für eine weitere pianistische Entwicklung im Sinne der guten alten deutsch-russische Klaviertradition.</p>
<p><strong>Anna Bulkina</strong> &#8211; Die pianistischen Merkmale der Russin waren nach ihrer Liszt-Darbietung (Klavierkonzert Nr. 1) sofort klar: ein gewisse Tragweite ihres Tones hat mir gefehlt , das Spiel war generell zu trocken. Da aber ihre technischen Mittel durchaus einwandfrei sind, konnte sie diese beim 2. Klavierkonzert von Prokofieff perfekt einsetzen.<br />
Fazit: Eine zu korrekte Spielweise, keine wirkliche Werkgestaltung, der musikalische Ausdruck wird auf ein nüchternes, technisches Kalkül fokussiert. Dies mag für Prokofieff sehr wohl geeignet sein, jedoch nicht für die weitere Bandbreite der Klavierliteratur.</p>
<p><strong>Tatiana Chernichka</strong> &#8211; Ein technisch klares Ausspielen, eine angemessene Pedalisierung, gutes Zusammenspiel mit dem Orchester. Sowohl mit dem 2. Klavierkonzert von Liszt, als auch mit dem 3. Klavierkonzert von Rachmaninoff gab die Russin eine gute Darbietung, teilweise fast &#8220;zu brav&#8221;. Besonders bei Rachmaninoff hätte sie interpretatorisch mehr gestalten können, jedoch blieb ihr Spiel verschlossen aber nicht intrinsisch, ein Nachteil, aus meiner Sicht, für den verlangenden Werkcharakter bei Rachmaninoff.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Die Preisträger am Rande</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Drei weiteren Kandidaten wurden nicht zum großen Finale zugelassen: Alessandro Taverna, Min Soo Hong, Sun-A Park. Somit blieb mir als einzige Möglichkeit ihre Darbietung der Liszt-Klavierkonzerte, um daraus ihr pianistisches Profil zu erkennen. Das fiel mir nicht besonders schwer. Jeder einzelne hat seine persönliche Gestaltung des Werkes dargelegt, sehr romantisch und dem listzschen Stil absolut gemäß. Insbesondere bei Alessandro Taverna konnte ich wiederum Ansätze eines polyphonischen Spiels erkennen.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Die Entscheidung der Jury<br />
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<p>Die internationale Jury, zu der auch Martha Argerich gehörte, hat schon beim letzten Chopin-Wettbewerb in Warschau 2010 ein  &#8211; pianistisch &#8211; absolut inkompetentes Urteil in der Preisvergabe gegeben, indem man einem überlegenen Evgeni Bozhanov, welcher mit ausgereiftem polyphonischen Spiel und interpretatorischer Reife brillierte, nur den 4. Platz zukommen ließ. </p>
<p>Auch beim diesjährigen Busoni-Wettbewerb gab es eine ähnliche Jurykonstellation. Wieder haben Frau Argerich, diesmal sogar als Juryvorsitzende, Frau Stefanovich, und auch die restlichen Mitglieder gezeigt, dass das polyphonische Klavierspiel ausserhalb ihrer pianistischen Reichweite ist. Ansätze beim Spiel von Antonii Barishevskyi oder auch bei Alessandro Taverna wurden von der Jury nicht erkannt, und so führte dies schlussendlich zur nicht-Vergabe des ersten Preises.<br />
Gerade bei einem Wettbewerb dem Ferruccio Busoni gewidmet, der als polyphonischster Pianist aller Zeiten gilt, hätte ich mir eine hochkarätigere, bzw. pianistisch kompetentere Jury gewünscht. </p>
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		<title>Being a competitive pianist</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Competitions, competitions, competitions. Almost every piano student has tried to participate at least in one piano competition during his music education. A motivating piano teacher is mostly the first impulse to prepare a specific program of different piano works to &#8230; <a href="http://www.thepianist.com/2009/11/being-a-competitive-pianist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Competitions, competitions, competitions.<br />
Almost every piano student has tried to participate at least in one piano competition during his music education.<br />
A motivating piano teacher is mostly the first impulse to prepare a specific program of different piano works to perform in front of a jury. The more &#8220;pressure&#8221; the student is receiving from his teacher, the more he will get his adrenalin pumping for the competition. In other words preparing the program for a high-level performance will create the strong feeling of being compared with other competitors&#8217; playing.<br />
Setting those goals as &#8220;I want to be the best pianist&#8221; truly chracterizes the striving for a perfect performance to show the achieved abilities on the piano. It happens very often in piano competitions that not the best prepared pianist is the winner, but the one who wants to be the winner. The pianist who is able to reflect his strong winning desire through his most expressive playing and interpretation of the selected works will be probably be awarded first prize by the jury.</p>
<p>Do piano competitors want to simply impress the jury, or are they seeking for attention in order to get upcoming engagements through artist&#8217;s management, or do they even want to verify their level of stage-fright while performing before an audience?<br />
Each of them will certainly have different personal purposes to decide to go to a competition.</p>
<p>This kind of competitive thinking can be also turned as profitable for the further development as a musician. In fact we can create our own competition in mind to spread the wings of a unique maturing process.<br />
A concert career inevitably involves the performing pianist into a competition with other concert pianists. So we never stop to be compared with our colleagues. But who is the jury in this case? The audience, of course, and maybe the critics as well. </p>
<p>Finally, the true path of this challenge for pianists seems to be only one: being competitive with themselves, working every day to play better and better, searching and researching for new inspiration, improving the communication with the composer, producing an individual standard of excellence.<br />
Pianists! Never be happy of your achievements today, but set them as the essential step to build up your mastery for tomorrow.</p>
<p><strong>2008 A. Rubinstein Competition &#8211; Final Round &#8211;<br />
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Uri Segal at Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, Israel &#8211;<br />
Roman Rabinovich, pianist</strong><em></p>
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