In South Korea, where Seong-jin Cho has become a household name since winning the last Chopin Competition in 2015, news outlets eagerly reported on Lee Hyuk's performance in the final round. Vietnamese media stressed that the winner was a student of Vietnamese pianist Dang Thai Son, who was the first Asian pianist to win the competition, in 1980, and who served on the jury for this year's competition. Canadian media proudly celebrated the victory of a Canadian from Montreal. Perhaps not surprisingly, the international media covered the competition and its results differently. Audiences around the world congratulated the winners and applauded all contestants' extraordinary talent and dedication to music. Unlike previous competitions in which juror selections caused great controversy - most famously Ivo Pogorelic's elimination after the third stage in the 1980 competition, which led to Martha Argerich resigning from the jury in protest - there were no big surprises in these results. Jun Li Bui from Canada placed fifth and sixth, respectively. Italian pianist Leonora Armellini and J.J. Bottom: A sculpture of Frederic Chopin.Īimi Kobayashi, who has built a broad fan base not only in her native Japan but also globally since her last appearance in the competition in 2015, placed fourth, along with Jakub Kuszlik of Poland. Top: Seong-jin Cho became a household name in South Korea after winning the last Chopin Competition in 2015.
Warsaw time, the winners were announced, with the jurors awarding the top six prizes to eight contestants: Canada's Bruce Xiaoyu Liu won the first prize tying for second were Alexander Gadjiev of Italy and Slovenia, and Kyohei Sorita from Japan and Martin Garcia Garcia of Spain placed third. This lasted for hours as the jurors deliberated much longer than was initially scheduled.įinally, at 2 a.m. While many online viewers left to go back to work, errands or sleep, a great many continued sharing their assessments and speculations. The self-appointed "wrong note police" pointed out every missed note, while others commented on tone color and ensemble with the orchestra and debated whether or not the pianist's rendition was "really Chopin." The posts came in many languages - English, as was requested by the Chopin Institute, but also Polish, Russian, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.Īfter Bruce Xiaoyu Liu's riveting and brilliant performance of the E minor concerto concluded the entire competition, the audience was told that the winners would be announced in approximately two hours. As I watched the performances while eating breakfast, the online audience - which peaked at around 50,000 viewers - engaged in sidebar chats at a breakneck speed.
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