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2017 Competition

Aaron Shorr (Chairman of Jury)

Since settling in the United Kingdom in 1984, Aaron Shorr has established an international career as soloist, chamber musician and educator. As well as appearing as soloist at London’s South Bank in over thirty concertos, he has toured extensively as a recitalist and chamber musician worldwide.

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More recent performances have included tours of Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Holland, Turkey, Australia, China, Japan, Korea, Mexico and the United States. He has performed extensively in the United Kingdom appearing in concerti, solo recitals and chamber music concerts at the Wigmore Hall, St. Martins in the Field and St. John’s Smith Square and festivals throughout Britain. He has also appeared in major European Festivals including the BBC Proms, Menuhin Festival, Munich Biennale, Hanover Expo, Paganiniana in Genoa, Venice Biennale,Instrumenta Festival Mexico, the Skopje Days of New Music, Cyprus International Contemporary Music Festival and the Istanbul Biennale. He has broadcast frequently for radio, including BBC Radio 3, BBC Scotland, Classic FM, Bavarian Radio, Swiss Classical Radio, ABC Australia, and WQXR New York.

Aaron Shorr has recorded for Naxos, Mettier, Olympia, NMC and Meridian. His recordings of Beethoven with duo partner, Peter Sheppard Skaerved, have won universal acclaim. Research on composers in Beethoven’s inner circle of friends and contemporaries has yielded modern recording premieres of works by Mayseder, Ries and Archduke Rudolph as well as unknown chamber version of Beethoven’s Third Symphony. He has also enjoyed close associations with composers and has given countless premieres and performances of works, including those by Hans Werner Henze, George Rochberg, Sadie Harrison, David Matthews, Paul Moravec, Elliott Schwartz, Jorg Widmann, Michael Alec Rose, Jeremy Dale Roberts, Judith Bingham, Rory Boyle, Marek Pasieczny, and SidikaOzdil.

Aaron Shorr studied at the Manhattan School of Music in New York and the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he received their most prestigious prizes for performance. His teachers have included Alexander Kelly, Solomon Mikowsky, Gary Graffman, André Watts, John Browning and chamber music with Joseph Seiger, former duo partner of legendary violinist Mischa Elman.

Aaron Shorr was a professor and researcher at the Royal Academy of Music in London since 1992. His students have gone on to win major prizes at international competitions including the Munich, St. Petersburg, Tokyo, Redding-Piette and the Schubert Competition in the Czech Republic. His students have also won prizes in major UK competitions, including the Royal Overseas League, Park Lane Debut Series and the Moray Piano Competition. He is also artistic director and chair of the jury for the 2014 Scottish International Piano Competition

Aaron Shorr is currently Professor and Head of Keyboard and Collaborative Piano at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

The following distinguished jurors are confirmed:

Ingo Dannhorn – Germany

Boris Slutsky – USA

Carole Presland – UK

Idil Biret – Turkey

 Dr. Marc Silverman – USA

SIPC 2017 Awards:

Special prize:

The Glasgow UNESCO City of Music Prize for the best performance of the commissioned piece – Florian Mitrea

Semi finalists:

The Barcapel Foundation Prize – Hin Yat Tsang
The J.R Gibbs Trust Prize – Vivianne Cheng
The Hugh Fraser Foundation Prize – Robertas Lozinskis
The William Brown Prize – Antonina Suhanova
The AMW Charitable Trust Prize – Svetlana Andreeva
The W.A Cargill Foundation Prize – Sung Soo Cho
The Syson Foundation Prize – Andrei Dubov

Finalists 

Third Prize –The Douglas McKerrell Memorial Prize – Luka Okros

Second Prize – Lawrence Glover Silver Medal – Florian  Mitrea

First Prize – Sir Alexander Stone Memorial Trophy, Frederick Lamond Gold Medal – Can Cakmur

SIPC Finalists announced:

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall – RSNO – Sunday 10 September 3pm

Florian Mitrea – Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5

Can Cakmur – Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4

Luka Okros – Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 2

Programme – Final Sunday 10 September 3pm

Final to be broadcast on Classic FM  – Tuesday 19 September at 8pm

Semi-Finalists Announced:

Wednesday 6 September

2.00pm Hin Yat Tsang

3.15pm Vivianne Cheng

4.30pm Florian Mitrea

7.30pm Robertas Lozinskis

8.45pm Antonina Suhanova

Programme Wednesday 6.9.17

Thursday 7 September

2.00pm Can Cakmur

3.15pm Svetlana Andreeva

4.30pm Sung Soo Cho

7.30pm Andrei Dubov

8.45pm Luka Okros

Programme Thursday 7.9.17

Competitors for the 2017 competition

Piotry Alexewicz, Poland
Svetlana Andreeva, Russia
In-Ju Bang, South Korea
Sung-Soo Cho, South Korea
Ludovica de Bernardo, Italy
Can Cakmur, Turkey
Vivianne Cheng, USA
Andrei Dubov, Russia
Anna Geniushene, Russia
George Harliono, UK
Yixiang Hou, China
Luke Jones, UK
Nejc Kamplet, Slovenia
Kang Tae Kim, South Korea
Marina Koka, Japan
Ilya Kondratev, Russia

Siqian Li, China
Robertas Lozinskis, Lithuania
Martin Malmgren, Sweden
Florian Mitrea, Romania
Federico Nicoletta, Italy
Luka Okros, Georgia/UK

Akihiro Sakiya,  Japan
Anna Szalucka, Poland
Antonina Suhanova, Latvia

George Todica, Romania
Hin Yat Tsang, Hong Kong
Yuliya Yermalayeva, Belarus

SIPC Youth Competition

Saturday 29 July 2017 10 am Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Held in conjunction with RCS Piano Summer School.

12- 14 age group

1st Pia Oetheimer

2nd equal Shakira and Jenny Xu

15-17 age group

1st Elias Ackerley

2nd Jean-Marc Fabri

3rd Shayndel Goo

Performances

You may view the 2017 competition performances here:

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