The results are in for the 2024 Seoul International Piano Competition, sponsored by LG.
All six prize winners are Korean.
We checked the results of the last competition, in 2020.
Guess what? All six prizewinners were Korean.
The ‘international’ judges on the jury, under a Korean chair, were no more than rubber-stamps.
Most piano competitions are rigged. This one looks more rigged than most.
The post The international competition where only Koreans get prizes appeared first on Slippedisc.
Ten years ago, the musicians and people of Nuremburg capture the spirit of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Forty million people watched the video. It was an innocent, trusting time. The post Remember flashmobs? […]
The London Symphony Orchestra has notified us of the death of Brian Clarke, its co-principal viola from 1970 to 1999. Brian, who was 92, came from a mining family in Rotherham, Yorkshire. He won his […]
A concert has been arranged on July 27 at the Royal Palace of Caserta in which Valery Gergiev will conduct ‘soloists of the Mariinsky Orchestra of St Petersburg’. This will be Gergiev’s first appearance in […]
