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International Piano Competition of Orléans

The International Piano Competition of Orléans (French: Concours International de Piano d'Orléans) is an international piano competition dedicated exclusively to music of the XXth-XXIst centuries that is held biannually in Orléans, France. The only of its kind as of 2022.,[1] the competition has been founded in 1994 by French pianist and pedagogue Françoise Thinat, is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions[2] and a partner of Busoni Competition.[3]

La Salle d'Institut, the hall of Conservatoire of Orléans where the competition takes place.

For every edition, a piece is commissioned from one of internationally established composers as an obligatory piece for the competitors. Those who have written for the competition up till 2022 are Eric Tanguy, Patrick Burgan, Thierry Escaich, Pierre Jodlowski, Edith Canat de Chizy, Philippe Hurel, Jacques Lenot, Jérôme Combier, Philippe Hersant, Hèctor Parra, Pascal Dusapin and Philippe Manoury.[4] The jury has included, over the years, such names as Idil Biret, Claude Helffer, François-Frédéric Guy and Unsuk Chin.[5]

History edit

In 1989 Francoise Thinat has founded an association which was supposed to promote piano music of the XXth century, and the first edition of the competition took place in 1994. She imagined

«an ideal competition, with a unique programme, an open repertoire, a collegial jury ... an age limit which would encourage «a second breath», without discouraging very young talents...».[6][7]

Starting 1998, every participant should include a work by a young composer of choice, and a composition prize is awarded to the composer of the piece deemed best by the jury. Six years after, in 2004, the first edition for children «Brin d'herbe» took place[8]

Laureates edit

Year 1st Prize 2nd Prize 3rd Prize Composition Award

André Chevillion – Yvonne Bonnaud

1994 Shinji Urakabe   Japan Hideki Nagano   Japan Ananda Sukarlan   Indonesia
1996 Fabio Grasso   Italy

Thomas Hell   Germany

Rita Kinka   Hungary
1998 Toros Can   Turkey

Ami Fujiwara   Japan

Ami Fujiwara   Japan Maria Stembolskaya   Russia Unsuk Chin   South Korea

Franck Krawczyk   France

2000 Saori Mizumura   Japan Andrea Corazziari   Italy Alexandre Pirojenko   Russia Muhiddin Dûrrûoglu-Demiriz   Belgium
2002 Winston Choi   Canada Nino Jvania   Georgia Makoto Ueno   Japan Vykintas Baltakas   Lithuania
2004 Francesco Schlime   Luxembourg Reto Reichenbach    Switzerland Ya-Ou Xie   China Kenneth Hesketh   UK
2006 Wilhem Latchoumia   France Prodromos Symeonidis   Greece Ermis Theodorakis   Greece David Rakowski   USA[9]
2008 Florence Cioccolani   France Antal Sporck   Netherlands Adam Marks   USA Mayoko Fukami   Japan

Vera Ivanova   Russia  USA

Thierry Huillet   France[10]

2010 Christopher Falzone   USA Yejin Gil   South Korea Anaël Bonnet   France Adam Roberts   USA[11]
2012 Christopher Guzman   USA Andrew Zhou   USA Christopher Stark   USA[12]
2014 Imri Talgam   Israel Aline Piboule   France Kathrin Isabelle Klein   Germany Didier Rotella   France

Nicolas Mondon   France[13]

2016 Takuya Otaki   Japan Marianna Abrahamyan   Armenia Philippe Hattat   France Philippe Hattat   France

Matthias Krüger   Belgium[14]

2018 Maroussia Gentet   France Hyeonjun Jo   South Korea Miharu Ogura   Japan Miharu Ogura   Japan[15]

Hyeonjun Jo   South Korea

2020 Mikhaïl Bouzine   Russia   Germany Dmitry Batalov   Russia Chae-Um Kim   South Korea Tetsuya Yamamoto   Japan
2022 Lorenzo Soulès   France Chisato Taniguchi   Japan Chi Ho Han   South Korea Matthieu Acar   France

Miharu Ogura   Japan

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ International Piano Competition of Orléans 2022 | GFPA
  2. ^ "Member Competitions". World Federation of International Music Competitions. 20 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Il Busoni fa esordire la "Junior Jury"" (in Italian).
  4. ^ Commissioned pieces – Orléans Concours International
  5. ^ Adult competition – Orléans Concours International
  6. ^ "La lettre du Musicien" (in French).
  7. ^ Attitude. "Concours d'Orléans : Françoise Thinat tourne la page". www.lalettredumusicien.fr (in French). Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Concours junior – Orléans Concours International" (in French). Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  9. ^ "Concours international de piano d'Orléans 2006 – Orléans Concours International" (in French).
  10. ^ "Florence Cioccolani, lauréate du Concours international de piano d'Orléans". Qobuz (in French) (published 1 October 2022). 5 March 2008.
  11. ^ admin (2 March 2010). "Le parcours sans faute de Christopher Falzone – Concours international de piano d'Orléans". Concertclassic (in French). Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  12. ^ "Christopher Guzman lauréat 2012 du Concours d'Orléans". Qobuz (in French). 5 March 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  13. ^ "Imri Talgam remporte le 11e concours international de piano d'Orléans". France Musique (in French). 17 March 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  14. ^ Tosi, Michèle. "Finale du 12e Concours international de piano d'Orléans « Concours « La Scène « ResMusica" (in French). Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  15. ^ Anastasio, Sofia (20 March 2018). "Palmarès du Concours international de piano d'Orléans 2018". France Musique (in French). Retrieved 1 October 2022.

External links edit

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