Back in Toronto!
In case you didn’t hear:
1st Prize (Shared) – Beka Gochiashvili (13 year old from Georgia)
1st Prize (Shared) – Isfar Sarabsky (Azerbaijan)
2nd Prize – Franz Von Chossy (Germany)
Encouragement Prize – Claude Diallo (Switzerland)
Encouragement Prize – Kuba Pluzek (Poland)
Public Prize – Isfar Sarabsky (Azerbaijan)
The judges:
Chucho Valdés (Cuba) – presiding judge
Al Copley (USA)
Moncef Genoud (Switzerland)
André Manoukian (France)
Denis Matsuev (Russia)
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh (Azerbaijan)
Leo Tardin (Switzerland)
I’ll be posting a blog about this in the next few weeks. In the meantime, I’ve posted my performance of Bill Evans’ Very Early on the post page (Link). Hope you enjoy, stay tuned!