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This week is the Young Artists Division. I do notice quite a few big names in this division. Anna Han seems to be winning about everything lately, and Aimi Kobayashi who seems to be gaining a pretty big performing and recording career over in Japan, as well as many many others.

Young Artists Gina Bachauer Competition Live Streaming:
http://new.bachauer.com/competitors/performances-streaming-video.html


Schedule (Mountain Standard Time):
YOUNG ARTISTS COMPETITION | JUNE 25-30, 2012

TUESDAY Round One
11:00AM—12:45PM & 1:15PM—4:40PM & 7:00PM—9:30PM

WEDNESDAY Round One
11:00AM—12:45PM & 1:15PM—4:40PM & 7:00PM—9:30PM

THURSDAY Round Two
9:00AM—12:30PM & 1:30PM—5:20PM & 7:00PM—10:30PM

FRIDAY Round Two
9:00AM—12:30PM & 1:30PM—5:20PM & 7:00PM—10:30PM
10:30PM Alink-Argerich Competitor Celebration & Announcement of Finalists

SATURDAY Final Round and Closing Gala
7:00PM—10:00PM


Competitors:
http://new.bachauer.com/competitors/competitors/young-artists.html

Watch out for my friend Tom Hicks

He is great as well! They all are. I had the privilege of watching them all warm up yesterday as they tested out the piano. Great playing!!

They just posted a more accurate list in case anyone wanted to watch anyone specific--here are their exact times for first round.

http://new.bachauer.com/component/c...titior-performance-schedule-round-i.html

I'm particularly looking forward to his performance of Prokofiev 1st sonata. He's a demon in that piece :p.

I believe this piece is on his programme too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOtHu6BktQ

It's not that often anymore that I hear a piece I never heard before and am almost overwhelmed by its beauty. I can only remember that happening a handful of times in the last decade. So thanks for posting that Ireland piece. Sounds very Debussyish to me.

It's a shame that the video for the competition is so horrible. Might as well just be an audio transmission.

Ireland is often called the english impressionist

That's what I stated in the other thread too... I am listening right now, but it is impossible to see anything. The camera is very far and the light on the stage too bright... Still... it is nice to listen.

Hicks just played left hand Chopin/Godowsky op. 10, no. 3. It seems odd that one would play this left hand piece in a competition. It is very difficult to voice it beautifully with only one hand.

His piano concerto used to be popular at The Proms, long before my time. For shame: it is a wonderful piece of music, and hardly known at all outside of the UK.

His setting in F of the Anglican canticles is done frequently at Evensong, but that seems to be about it.

He told me that it's easier, because the thumb always has the melody. It's one of the few Godowsky etudes I really like. He played it in a competition last month that I was also in, and he won haha.

Wish him the best.

Your friend is amazing, debrucey! I have to say I personally thought the Godowsky/Chopin was his weakest piece, but what do I know :P The Ireland and Prokofiev were great, especially because I haven't heard either piece performed often. The level of this competition is really high though, and much more consistently so than the Junior competition last week IMO. I liked Aimi Kobayashi's Appassionata too, though it's true her "Youtube reputation" is probably overblown. I wasn't blown away by Anna Han, but that probably has a lot to do with the fact that I don't like the Liszt Danse Macabre transcription.

I only saw the girl who was on before Tom so far, and I wasn't impressed at all lol.
It does seem to be a very high standard though. I really hope he gets through.

Tom did great! I was kind of bored by Anna's Haydn, and Aimi did pretty well on the Appasionata. I felt her second movement she had a hard time counting, but then again, most people do, so I guess we'll see how it plays out! They cut from 32 straight down to 6, so who knows how this will play out for the finals.

Here's the live UStream page where you can post comments like the Van Cliburn had at the Amateur's Competition last year.

The camera is now on the stage and you can actually see the performers.

The son of one of our members played this afternoon!

Does anyone have the link to the schedule of individual performances for today? Is there a list of the semi finalists somewhere?

What was the last piece played 2 minutes ago?(It sounded like a transcription of some of a jazz song)

You'll need both of these links open and cross-reference them:

http://gina.bachauer.com/component/...itior-performance-schedule-round-ii.html

http://gina.bachauer.com/competitors/competitors/young-artists.html

Find out who's playing at any given time, then head over to the bios for their repertoire.