The XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition has announced the competitors that have made it through to the first live rounds. The categories are piano, violin, cello and voice.
The most interesting tidbit from the competitors lists is that former Seattle Symphony principal cellist Joshua Roman has made the cut. It will be interesting to see how he does.
It’s also interesting to see how the nationality breakdown works out – here are my findings:
For the sake of readability, I’ve made the charts with only the top three or four nations for each category (excluding voice). After the charts you can see the breakdown for each country represented by instrument [click each chart/table to enlarge].
6 replies on “tchaikovsky competition announces competitors”
That competition has never been fair. Politics are still involved as was the case during the Cold War. Secondly, how can one rate artistic individualism versus mechanical accuracy and speed?
That’s long been a problem in the ‘sport’ of figure skating, which tries to provide judging based upon technical merit and degrees of difficulty in addition to the vagaries of artistic impression scores. If that is a sport, then so is a musical competition, which I feel it decidedly is not!
That lone “Austrian” is Canadian David Eggert, from Edmonton.
Yes, thanks for that – here’s the link you provided via email:
http://www.artsontour.com/artist_detail.php?Genre_id=%205&listing_id=158
Haven’t musical competitions always been treated as a sport (with winner/loser) for centuries? Mozart vs Clementi. Beethoven vs Steibelt.
http://www.madaboutbeethoven.com/pages/people_and_places/people_patrons/people_patrons_steibelt.htm
these competitions are poison.
wake me up when it’s ooooooover.