The 6th Hong Kong International Piano Competition and Joy of Music Festival 2022

HKIPC 2019

The Hong Kong International Piano Competition
/The HK Joy of Music Festival – 2022,
presented by The Chopin Society of Hong Kong in partnership with
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts -Vienna
is firmly on its track !!!

We are pleased to announce that the pre-selection round of the 6th Hong Kong International Piano Competition has been successfully completed.

Our office received 71 complete applications, three of which from First prize-winners of Competitions members of the World Federation of International Music Competitions who automatically go on to participate in Round I – Quarterfinals of the Competition.

From the then 68 video recordings received, the members of the Jury in charge of the pre-selection Round, individually voted for up to 35 Quarter finalists.

The results of the voting from each member of the Jury were processed by the Chairman and the Executive Secretary of the Society, administrative, non-voting members of the Panel of the Jury.

33 Quarter-finalists were so selected, number which has been augmented by the three First prizewinners of Competitions members of the World Federation of International Music Competitions who, as mentioned above, were automatically accepted to participate in Round I – Quarterfinals of the Competition.

We are now pleased to welcome the following 36 Quarter-finalists of the 6th Hong Kong International Piano Competition: (in the order in which their applications were received).

LIST OF CONTESTANTS


QF 01	Mr.	NIKIFOROV Osip
QF 02	Ms.	MA Ke
QF 03	Mr.	STARK Jonas
QF 04	Ms.	WANG Xinran
QF 05	Mr.	LYNOV Philipp
QF 06	Mr.	ZHOU Noah Fangzhou
QF 07	Mr.	LIN Zhiye
QF 08	Ms.	KIM Sunah
QF 09	Mr.	LAU Shing Ho (Alexander)
QF 10	Mr.	LEE Beor
QF 11	Mr.	RATINOV Anthony
QF 12	Mr.	KHAIRUTDINOV Vitaly
QF 13	Mr.	TAM Chun Him (Charles)
QF 14	Mr.	MICIELI Ruben
QF 15	Mr.	CHEN Junhui
QF 16	Mr.	RYAN Randy
QF 17	Mr.	LEUNG Edward
QF 18	Ms.	LIU Hao
QF 19	Mr.	PARK Youngho
QF 20	Mr.	KOZIN Ruben
QF 21	Mr.	ZHANG Boao
QF 22	Mr.	XIE Lingfei (Stephan)
QF 23	Mr.	PARK Kyoungsun
QF 24	Ms.	ONODA Arisa
QF 25	Ms.	WU Natasha Hou
QF 26	Mr.	OTAL Josquin
QF 27	Mr.	YANG Yuanfan
QF 28	Ms.	WONG Victoria Yi Lin
QF 29	Mr.	YE Zifan (Peter)
QF 30	Mr.	LEE Jaeyoung
QF 31	Mr.	TARASEVICH-NIKOLAEV Arsenii
QF 32	Mr.	DOLYA Timofey
QF 33	Mr.	OH Yeontaek
QF 34	Mr.	CHEN Han
QF 35	Mr.	KHACHIKYAN Konstantin
QF 36	Ms.	SU Szuyu

Participation in Round I – Quarterfinals of the competition, will be achieved by each of the contestants sending us a recording of their up to 70 minutes performances of a programme which each one of them will have selected (as directed) from a given list accompanying the application form and marked as: QUARTER-FINALS.

See repertoire to choose from in ANNEX 2.

1st ROUND (Quarterfinals) video recordings to be received by our Office by the 20th July 2022.

Please, send your video recordings digitally, NOT BY POST (this can take a long time to arrive nowadays).

We would like to make the following clarifications given the many inquiries we are receiving from quarter-finalists as they are preparing their video recordings to participate in Round I: You can send previous recordings you might have of your performance of some of the pieces you are presenting to participate in Round I. Each piece should have been recorded as if you were presenting it in a recital.

What we mean is that Editing is not accepted. The different pieces could, however, have been recorded at different times.

You can repeat some of the pieces you sent us for the Preliminary Round, provided the pieces are listed in ANNEX 2.

And YES, when preparing the programme to be played in the recital you will be invited to give if selected as a semi-finalist, you will be able to play some of the pieces you already presented to participate in the preliminary and first rounds.

Please, clearly mark the name of each piece and the timing of commencement in the video recording as well as its movements. This facilitates the work of our IT engineer who will be preparing the files that will be sent to each one of the 10 members of the Jury who will be selecting the 15 semi-finalists.

Once we receive the video recordings from the 36 quarter-finalists which, we repeat, should be received by our Office by the 20th of July 2022, our IT engineer will then upload all the recordings onto a “cloud” and a password will be given to each of the 10 members of the Jury for them to listen to all the recordings at their own pace.

The Members of the Jury will be given a date by which each one of them has to return to us a list of his/her choice of 15 contestants to go on to Round II (semi-finals) of the Competition.

The Chairman and the Executive Secretary of the Society, administrative, non-voting members of the Panel of the Jury, will be in charge of processing the results of the voting of the members of the Jury.

Nobody else, apart from the Chairman and the Executive Secretary of the Society, will know the voting results received from each individual member of the Jury.

20th August 2022 – Expected date to announce the 15 Contestants (Semi-finalists) who will be participating in Round II – Semi-finals of the Competition.

The 15 Semi finalists of the 6th Hong Kong International Piano Competition will be publicly announced in the official Website of our Competition: www.chopinsocietyhk.org as soon as possible after the 20th Aug 2022, and after having contacted the Contestants and the Members of the Jury individually to let them know of the results of Round I – Quarterfinals.

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We understand the incredibly hard times the entire world has been having to deal with during the past two years plus. We have received a large number of requests from potential applicants asking for an extension of the deadline to send their applications to participate in the 6th Hong Kong International Piano Competition. We think it is only fair to extend the deadline to send applications to everybody who might be interested to participate. So, we are pleased to announce that the new deadline for applications is now the 20^th May 2022. The Members of the Jury in charge of the Preselection have agreed to work hard to process all applications received and be able to announce the list of Quarter-finalists by the 15th June. We hope then to continue with the schedule as originally announced.
We have one more important announcement: As you are all aware of, different countries have been and are adopting different policies to fend off the COVID pandemic. It is a fact that Hong Kong is going through the worst face of the pandemic as we talk. The anti-COVID policy which has been adopted means that the movement of people in and out of Hong Kong is greatly impaired, Trying to put everybody involved in the best possible situation in this time of the pandemic, we have decided to hold the Semi-finals and Finals of the Competition in Austria (Vienna or nearby) and streamed live, in real-time and point to point to the Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, thanks to a partnership established with mdw-University of Music and Performing Arts – Vienna. We will be using state-of-the-art technology in streaming which will be a game-changer when it comes to putting into practice the presentation of an event in two places as far apart as Vienna and Hong Kong, at the same time. We expect such a high quality of streaming that the three local Members of the Jury are going to be judging the performances from their usual seats at the Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, while the other eight Members of the Jury will be judging the performances in Vienna, being in continuous communication between the two parts and the organizers. The Rules and Regulations of the Competition will remain unchanged and as published in our site.
We are not only establishing a cultural bubble but also a technology bubble that we hope will make Hong Kong and Vienna proud of. More details will be posted in due course. We look forward to sharing with all of you this exciting development in the presentation of a Competition / Festival.



TIMELINE OF THE COMPETITION
* 15^th Nov. 2021	Announcing the HK International Piano Competition and calling for applicants. We are inviting Pianists from all over the world, whose dates of birth are on or later than the 1^st January 1992, to apply to participate in the 6^th Hong Kong International Piano Competition
* 20^th May 2022	Deadline for applications accompanied by a Digital Video Recording of Preliminary Audition as specified in Annex 1 of the “Guide for Applicants”
* 15^th June. 2022	Announcement of 35 Contestants (Quarter-finalists) who will be participating in Round I – Quarter-finals of the Competition (by sending a Digital Video Recording of their performance as specified in Annex 2 of the “Guide for Applicants”
* 20^th Jul. 2022	Deadline to receive the Digital Video Recordings – Round I – Quarter finals
* 20^th Aug. 2022	Announcing the 15 Contestants (Semi-finalists) who will be participating in Round II – Semi-finals.
* 30^th Aug. 2022	Deadline to receive the additional documentation needed from the Semi-finalists to travel to Austria as detailed in the “Guide for Applicants”
* Mon. 10^th Oct. 2022	Semi-finals start: two full recitals per day, starting at: 10:00 and 14:00 VIENNA TIME 16:00 and 20:00 HONG KONG TIME respectively on: Mon. 10^th, Tue. 11^th, Wed. 12^th, Thu. 13^th, Fri. 14^th, Sat. 15^th, Sun. 16^thand Mon. 17^th (last recital, at 16:00, after which there will be a Jury Deliberation and announcement of the 6 Finalists)
* Mon. 17^th Oct. 2022	Announcement of 6 Finalists.
* Tue. 18^th Oct. 2022 14:00 VIENNA TIME 20:00 HONG KONG TIME	Day Free of Competition Performances The Hong Kong Joy of Music Festival 2022. Programme TBA
* 19^th Oct. 2022 14:00 VIENNA TIME 20:00 HONG KONG TIME	Day Free of Competition PerformancesWed. The Hong Kong Joy of Music Festival 2022. Programme TBA
* Thu. 20^th Oct. 2022	Finals – Part 1 - Chamber Music Performances, starting at: 14:00 VIENNA TIME 20:00 HONG KONG TIME (streamed live, in real time and point to point at the Hong Kong City Hal Concert Hall) Finalists 1, 2 and 3 will perform as follows: Finalist 1 - Compulsorypiece for piano and guitar (to be announced in due course) to be played with Alvaro Pierri at the guitar, followed by the contestant’s choice of a piano trio, quartet or quintet, played with the LOGOS Chamber Group. Intermission of 15 minutes. Performances by Finalist 2 Intermission of 15 minutes. Performances by Finalist 3
* Fri. 21^st Oct. 2022	Finals – Part 1 - Chamber Music Performances, starting at: 14:00 VIENNA TIME 20:00 HONG KONG TIME (streamed live, in real time and point to point at the Hong Kong City Hal Concert Hall) Finalists 4, 5 and 6 will perform as follows: Finalist 4 - Compulsory piece for piano and guitar (to be announced in due course) to be played with Alvaro Pierri at the guitar, followed by the contestant’s choice of a piano trio, quartet or quintet, played with the LOGOS Chamber Group. Intermission of 15 minutes. Performance by Finalist 5 Intermission of 15 minutes. Performance by Finalist 6
* Sat. 22^nd Oct. 2022 14:00 VIENNA TIME 20:00 HONG KONG TIME	Day Free of Competition Performances – The Hong Kong Joy of Music Festival 2022. Programme TBA
* Sun. 23^rd Oct. 2022 14:00 VIENNA TIME 20:00 HONG KONG TIME	Day Free of Competition Performances – The Hong Kong Joy of Music Festival 2022. Programme TBA
* Mon. 24^th Oct. 2022	Finals – Part 2 - Concerti Performances, starting at: 14:00 VIENNA TIME 20:00 HONG KONG TIME (streamed live, in real time and point to point at the Hong Kong City Hal Concert Hall) Finalists 1, 2 & 3 will perform as follows: Finalist 1 – Piano Concerto played with the official Orchestra of the Competition (TBC), conducted by: (conductor TBC) Intermission of 15 minutes Performance by Finalist 2 Intermission of 15 minutes Performance by Finalist 3
* Tue. 25^th Oct. 2022	Finals – Part 2 - Concerti Performances, starting at: 14:00 VIENNA TIME 20:00 HONG KONG TIME (streamed live, in real time and point to point at the Hong Kong City Hal Concert Hall) Finalists 4, 5 & 6 will perform as follows: Finalist 4 – Piano Concerto played with the official Orchestra of the Competition (TBC), conducted by: (conductor TBC) Intermission of 15 minutes Performance by Finalist 5 Intermission of 15 minutes Performance by Finalist 6 after which Jury Deliberation and

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WINNERS OF THE 6^th HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION

* Wed. 26^th Oct. 2022 14:00 VIENNA TIME 20:00 HONG KONG TIME	Day Free of Competition Performances – The Hong Kong Joy of Music Festival 2022. Programme TBA
* Thu. 27^th Oct. 2022 14:00 VIENNA TIME 20:00 HONG KONG TIME	Day Free of Competition Performances – The Hong Kong Joy of Music Festival 2022. Programme TBA