AAF-2022

2022

What will the year 2022 bring to us …? Naturally, we all hope that the vaccines will be effective against the coronavirus and that this, together with all the necessary precautions in the various countries, will gradually result in our return to a more normal life. However, this may still take quite some time. Until then, we will have to live with some restrictions and all related inconveniences. There will be many important and interesting piano competitions in 2022. Let’s hope that the concert halls may open! In June, the 16 th Cliburn Competition will take place in Fort Worth (Texas, USA), for which 388 aspiring pianists applied. The jury, chaired by conductor Marin Alsop, has some new names. At the same time, the competition in Sendai (Japan) is being held and an international piano competition in Honolulu (Hawai)! Also in June 2022, a brandnew Rachmaninoff Competition is launched in Moscow, open for pianists, conductors and composers, in anticipation of the 150 th anniversary of his birth in 2023. In February 2022, Amsterdam will have the inauguration of the European edition of the YPF Piano Competition Grand Prix Youri Egorov . In March, the competition in Epinal (France) will continue, after having had the 1 st round online in 2021. Hopefully, Japan will be more open to foreign visitors, so that the competition in Takamatsu can take place as planned (second half of March). Meanwhile in Europe, the 67 th edition of the Maria Canals Competition will be held in Barcelona (March/April). It overlaps with the 20 th and 21 st Century Music Competition in Orléans (France) and the Schumann Competition in Lamporecchio (Italy). The end of April, 10 selected pianists are invited to take part in the International Piano Festival in Rio de Janeiro, specially dedicated to Nelson Freire. The first week of May, pianists of all ages can compete with entirely free choice of repertoire in Ferrol (Spain). A bit later in May, the competition in Dublin promises to be a festive event with 67 pianists who already passed the preselection. In July/August, Santander (Spain) will celebrate the 20 th edition of the international piano competition, founded by Paloma O’Shea in 1974. During the 2 nd week of August, the well known competition for young pianists in Ettlingen will return with several new jury members. The end of August, the Grieg Competition takes place in Bergen (Norway). September also looks busy with the ARD Competition in Munich, the Casagrande Competition in Terni (Italy), Mozart for Young Musicians in Zhuhai (China) and the final phase of the Enescu Competition in Bucharest. This month, the 2 nd international AAF Conference will be held in Utrecht (Netherlands) in conjunction with the Liszt Utrecht Festival/Competition. In October, selected pianists will compete in Tbilisi, Hong Kong, Helsinki ( Maj Lind ) and Geneva. Before the year is over, the “Glocal” competition is organised as first phase of the Busoni Competition in Bolzano, and we will know the winner of the Honens in Calgary, and the results of the Paderewski Competition in Bydgoszcz and Shenzhen (China).

Alink-Argerich Foundation 2022