Anna Tcybuleva
Twenty-five-year-old Russian pianist Anna Tcybuleva won the Leeds International Piano Competition, announced on Saturday 12 September 2015, playing Brahms' Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat with Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra. Her prize consists of 20,000 pounds, plus a gold medal and a recording award, enabling her to record her first solo CD at Champs Hill in West Sussex. The other prize-winners were Heejae Kim, twenty-eight, from South Korea (second prize and Terence Judd-Hallé Orchestra Prize), Vitaly Pisarenko, twenty-eight, from Russia (third prize), Drew Petersen, twenty-one, from the USA (fourth prize), Tomoki Kitamura, twenty-four, from Japan (fifth prize) and Yun Wei, twenty-one, from China (sixth prize). The prizewinners also receive performing opportunities at various UK venues, including with the Hallé Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and at Steinway Hall and the Wigmore Hall. Previous prize-winners and finalists have included Dimitri Alexeev, Peter Donohoe, Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia, András Schiff and Mitsuko Uchida. Fanny Waterman, who founded the compeitition in 1961 with Geoffrey de Keyser and Marion Thorpe, is now standing down, at the aged of ninety-five, following her last competition as artistic director. The next competition will take place in 2018.
Information: www.leedspiano.com
Posted: 16 September 2015
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