~~~~ Check out our feature in the Rivard Report detailing the press conference last Wednesday at the Tobin Center! ~~~
This past Wednesday, we announced via press conference our 12 contestants chosen for the 2020 competition set in January. 76 pianists, from the following 21 nations, vied to take part in this quadrennial “Olympics” of piano:
Australia | Belarus | Brazil | Canada | China | France | Germany | Hungary | Indonesia | Italy | Malaysia | Peru | Portugal | Russia | Slovenia | South Korea | Spain | Ukraine | United Kingdom | United States of America | Uzbekistan
An esteemed panel of preliminary judges worked all summer to select the top 12 of these applicants!
Leonardo Colafelice | Italy Jiale Li | China
Anna Gershtein | Russia Nikita Lukinov | Russia
Anna Grot | Russia Alexander Malikov | Canada
Jongyun Kim | Korea Alexey Sychev | Russia
Yedam Kim | Korea Alan Woo | US
Artem Kuznetsov | Russia Joon Yoon | Korea