Canada’s prestigious Honens Worldwide Piano Competitors has introduced the three pianists who’ve been chosen for its 2022 closing.
Following 5 intense days of semi-finals, pianists Rachel Breen (age 26, from the US), Sasha Kasman Laude (27, additionally US) and Illia Ovcharenko (21, Ukraine) will now compete for the title of 2022 Honens Prize Laureate. The prize package deal, that includes $100,000 Canadian {dollars} (CAD) in prize cash plus an artist growth programme valued at $500,000 CAD, is among the many largest for a contest of this kind.
The three finalists have been chosen by the competitors jury, which options some world-renowned pianists. These embody Michel Béroff (our alternative for a finest Prokofiev piano concertos set), Stewart Goodyear and up to date BBC Music Journal interviewee Imogen Cooper. Different jury members includeEarl Blackburn, Katherine Chi, Ick-Choo Moon and Orli Shaham.
The ultimate rounds of the 2022 competitors happen on Thursday, October 27 and Friday, October 28. On the primary night time of finals, the three finalists will every carry out a chamber music recital. This can embody a Mozart work with The Viano String Quartet and Sam Loeck (bass), plus a collection of Schubert lieder with mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó.
On the second night time of finals, every finalist will carry out a concerto with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and visitor conductor Jeffrey Kahane.
Each closing rounds will stream stay at honens.com/livestream-2022. You could find additional particulars at honens.com.
Endowed by philanthropist Esther Honens in 1991, the Honens Worldwide Piano Competitors takes place each three years and is taken into account one of many world’s most prestigious occasions of its type. Competitors winners are ready for the rigours {of professional} careers in music, whereas the annual Honens Pageant is certainly one of Canada’s premier classical music occasions.
