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Judges didn't like my "misfits" - I'm only batting .500

Posted by Chris from Lafayette (A) on June 20, 2015 at 15:43:54

In Reply to: Tchaikovsky Competition Round I (Piano): Predictions posted by Chris from Lafayette on June 20, 2015 at 11:48:09:

So here are the twelve pianists that the jury passed into the second round (with some comments I can't resist making):

Lucas Debargue (France - Yamaha)
Lukas Geniusas (Russia/Lithuania - Steinway)
Daniel Kharitonov (Russia - Steinway)
Julia Kociuban (Poland - Steinway)
George Li (USA - Steinway)
Dmitry Masleev (Russia - Steinway)
Maria Mazo (Germany - Fazioli)
Nikolay Medvedev (Russia - Steinway)
Ilya Rashkovskiy (Russia - Yamaha)
Sergey Redkin (Russia - Yamaha)
Reed Tetzloff (USA - Steinway)
Mikhail Turpanov (Russia - Steinway)

So. . . no scandal: both Geniusas and Kharitonov are into the second round! BTW, I didn't know that Kharitonov has been known in Russia as "The Prodigy" - there are some YouTube videos of him playing when he was 11. I thought the US competitors were not that special or memorable, but see my "political" theory about Kociuban in my OP - it may also apply to US competitors. ;-)

Some of the Russians (Rashkovsky, Turpanov) were ones I hadn't heard. Madeline and I plan to do spot checks of these folks tonight. In general though (perhaps with the exception of Kociuban), I can understand why the jury chose the candidates they did.

The second round starts tomorrow - no rest for the weary! ;-)

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