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Archives for July 2009

Arrival Day: They’re here!

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When thirteen is your lucky number. Evgeny Brakhman (Russia) gets to put off his first round performance until Wednesday afternoon. Behind (L-R) WCLV's president, Robert Conrad, CIPC board president Rand Curtiss, jury chairman Peter Frankl and CIM president Joel Smirnoff. Photo: Sam Hubish

CIPC executive director Karen Knowlton looked relieved a few minutes after five o’clock on Monday when thirty-two of the thirty-three contestants were neatly arranged on chairs on the Mixon Hall stage at CIM, ready to draw for their slots in the competition schedule.

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Ladies and Gentlemen of the 2009 Juries: Cleveland International Piano Competition

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Don’t expect instant results from the eight judges on the jury of the Cleveland International Piano Competition after each pianist finishes his or her set. Analogies to sports competitions like figure skating begin to break down a bit here. You won’t know who’s going to advance to the eight spots in the semifinals until the first two rounds are completed on August 2nd, but in the meanwhile, lots of notes are going to be taken on all of the notes that are going to be played.

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The Contestants – Cleveland International Piano Competition

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Ty_cobbIn Wednesday’s post, we took an analytical look at the repertory with which this year’s contestants plan to dazzle us and win over the jury during the first two rounds. Today, we’ll run some stats on the contestants themselves. Since pianists don’t have world rankings like tennis players, batting averages like baseball players or other significant measurements of their status coming into a competition like this one, we’ll go for a bit of a demographic overview instead.

Ages

The contest is open to pianists between 18 and 30. None of the contestants come in at the lowest end of that range; the youngest is Chun Wang (China) at 19. Two performers, Dmitri Levkovich (Canada) and Martina Filjak (Croatia) qualify as CIPC’s  senior citizens, each competing this year at the outer age limit of 30. In between, the age spread is evenly distributed with five 20 year-olds, four each at 25 and 26, three each at 21, 22 & 24 and pairs of competitors are 23, 27, 28 and 29 [Read more…]

Cleveland International Piano Competition: Lots of Repertory for Rounds I and II

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CPH_ext_day-lrgWhether you plan to follow the proceedings of the Cleveland International Piano Competition as an attendee, as a listener over WCLV, through CIPC’s webcast or via written reports in the Plain Dealer or on ClevelandClassical.com’s blog, be advised: a tsunami of piano music is about to wash over you in the next two weeks.

Today we’ll take a look at the scheduled repertory for the first two rounds, when all 34 contestants will be performing. The playlist includes an impressive total of 145 works by 37 composers. [Read more…]

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