Mrs Idith Zvi, Artistic managing Director of the Arthur Rubinstein international competition arrived in Moscow 3 days ago for the final rounds.
Mrs Idith Zvi has hosted both Daniil Trifonov and Yeol Eum Son in her competitions, last month Daniil won 1st prize and 6 years ago Yeol won 3rd prize. Idith said she felt very proud to see these two in this stage in this competition.
Mrs Idith Zvi was asked to compare between the two competitions, the requirements, participant’s age, repertoire, number of rounds, and number of participants. There were 173 applicants for the last Rubinstein competition, 32 were selected to start the 1st round. According to the press there were nearly 600 applicants for the Tchaikovsky competition in total which also includes cello, violin and vocal. There were over 160 applicants for piano. The age range at Rubinstein is 18-32. The average in the last competition was 26, 27. With that said, the winner is 20 years old. Tchaikovsky competition age range is 16-30 years old. So in general, including the rounds and repertoire they are very similar but with slight difference.
At the end of today’s performance Alexander Dimitriev, the conductor of the Russian National Orchestra was saying that this is his first time conducting on this orchestra! While I’m watching the rehearsals I’m wondering how much does he actually listen to the pianists when they have a different view on some parts of the orchestra? He was asked this question during the interview on which he replied in Russian and I didn’t get the translation of it… but I expect the interview to be on the webcast archive soon as was posted on Facebook by the competition’s organisation.
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