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Evgeny Kissin to play a Tribute Recital

 

The 17th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition will take place this year on March 14-31, at the Tel Aviv Museum and the Charles Bronfman Auditorium in Tel Aviv.

The competition will open with two Gala concerts marking the 150th/80th anniversary of Rachmaninov's death/birth, with Rachmaninov's complete works for piano and orchestra, played by the winners of the last Rubinstein Competition, Juan Perez Floristan, Shiori Kawahara and cunmo Yin, Noriko Ogawa (who is also a Juror in the competition), and Alexander Korsentia, the winner of the 8th competition The 8th and a judge in the 14th competition, with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paweł Przytocki (Poland).

39 competitors from 18 countries were selected to compete in the competition. The age of the competitors is 18 - 32 and the average age is 24.

As always, the jury will be headed by the well-known pianist and teacher, Prof. Arie Verdi, and with Noriko Ogawa (Japan), Ronan O'Hora (UK), Taiseer Elias (Israel), Xiaohan Wang (China), Asaf Zohar (Israel ), Robert Levin (United States), Émile Naoumoff (Bulgaria), Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń (Poland/Bulgaria), Janina Fialkowska (Canada) and yoheved Kaplinsky (USA/Israel).

Artistic Director Ariel Cohen with the Jury of the 2021 Rubinstein Competition

Alongside the jury will be a team of Junior Jury, seven in number, who will vote and choose at each stage, independent of the selection of the senior judges. The Junior Jury is comprised of music students and pianists at the beginning of their careers, studying at the higher music schools in Israel.

Kissin

A Tribute to Arthur Rubinstein and the Rubinstein Competition

Evgeny Kissin will perform a special Recital, held on March 28th, just before the two final concerts with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

“Arthur Rubinstein has always been one of my heroes, both as one of the greatest pianists in history whose art is very close to my heart and as an outstanding human being: a true man of the world and at the same time a proud Jew and supporter of Israel. Even though I have never taken part in any competitions myself, I have a long relationship with the Arthur Rubinstein Competition. The very first solo recital I played in Israel back in 1994 was for the benefit of this Competition. For many years I was good friends with the Competition’s founder and long-time Director Jan (Jasha) Bistritzky. We spent lots of time together all over the world, and I’ll always cherish those moments. It is wonderful that the Arthur Rubinstein Competition continues to exist and flourish, and I am very happy to play another concert as a tribute to it”.   Evgeny Kissin

The artistic director of the competition, Ariel Cohen: "Approximately 300 candidates began the registration process for the competition, about 200 completed the registration, and from among them we had to choose only 35. We found it too difficult, so we decided to admit 39. The decision this year was more difficult than ever due to the extraordinary level of the candidates. I have never encountered such concentration until today of high-quality participants, so the competition this time is expected to be particularly fascinating."

The entire competition will be available also on livestream at www.arims.org.il

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