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News / Current Events International Kurt Leimer Piano Contest 2005 The International Kurt Leimer Piano Contest conducted on 10 through 14 October was a huge success and resonated well among the general public. The long term support of young piano talents is the main goal of the contest which is conducted by the non-profit Kurt Leimer Foundation in cooperation with the Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich. The Kurt Leimer Piano Contest is the focal point of the foundation’s work which is dedicated to the care of the outstanding legacy of the piano professor, concert pianist and composer Kurt Leimer (1920-1974). The jury was comprised of Professor Klaus Linder (Basel) who chaired the jury, and professors Lucy Revers-Chin (Salzburg), Peter Feuchtwanger (London) and Michael Schäfer (Munich). Five of the 14 participants of the Kurt Leimer Piano Contest 2005 advanced into the final round. The winner out of this outstanding selection was the 24 year old Belgian Lucas Blondeel. Lucas Blondeel who is currently studying at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin – just like Kurt Leimer in his day – demonstrated exceptional talent for both the solo and the chamber music repertoire. The second and third places went to two outstanding students of the Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich. The 23 year old Russian Dmitri Demiashkin won second place while the third prize went to the only 20 year old Yulianna Avdeeva, also from Russia. Lucas Blondeel was born on 29 July 1981 in Antwerp, Belgium. He studied under Jean-François Heisser in Paris, Levente Kende and Heidi Hendrickx in Antwerp and has been Klaus Hellwig’s student at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin since 2004. Lucas Blondeel took master courses by Dimitri Bashkirov, Lazar Berman and György Kurtag to name a few. Lucas Blondeel completed his studies of the modern concert piano by studying the forte piano (among others under Jos van Emmerseel) and song accompaniment (among others under Jozef de Beenhouwer, Rudolf Janssen and Hartmut Höll). Blondeel was awarded first prize during the International Emanuel Durlet Contest in Antwerp in 2002. With a broad repertoire at his disposal including works by Mozart, Beethoven, Bartók, Shostakovich, Ravel and Prokofiev, Lucal Blondeel regularly performs at recitals and concerts throughout Europe and Asia. Because of his convincing overall performance during the Kurt Leimer Piano Contest 2005, the jury awarded Lucas Blondeel a first prize scholarship worth 25,000 CHF. Blondeel’s first-round-program consisted of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata in A Major op. 101, Heinz Holliger’s Elis and Frédéric Chopin’s Etude in A flat Major op. 10. For the second round, Blondeel chose Béla Bartók’s Dance Suite and Frédéric Chopin’s Ballade in F Minor op. 52. For the final round, Blondeel and Liesbeth Devos performed the Liederkreis op. 39 by Robert Schumann. At the award ceremony Lucas Blondeel performed the first three parts of Béla Bartók’s Dance Suite and Frédéric Chopin’s Etude in A flat Major op. 10 Dmitri Demiashkin was born on 12 January, 1982 in Russia and began his studies at the Central School of Music in Moscow. In 1999, he continued his studies at the Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich, first under Konstantin Scherbakov and currently under Homero Francesch. Dmitri Demiashkin has won several piano contests, among others the Concertino Prague Competition and the Russian Music Piano Competition (San Jose, California). For the first round of the Kurt Leimer Piano Contest 2005, Demiashkin played Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in A Major op. 101, Hans Werner Henze’s Cherubino and Frédéric Chopin’s Etude in F Major op. 10. In round two, Demiashkin performed Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata in B Major D 960 and Frédéric Chopin’s Scherzo No. 4. In round three, Demiashkin played the Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor op. 67 by Dimitri Shostakovich. For his great achievement, Dmitri Demiashkin was awarded second place with a scholarship of 12,000 CHF. At the award ceremony Demiashkin played the Andante moderato from Peter Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite op. 71a, arranged by Mikhail Pletnev. Yulianna Avdeeva was born on 3 July, 1985 in Moscow and is currently studying at the Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich. She received first prizes at the Carl Czerny Piano Contest in Prague in 1997, at the Arthur Rubinstein in memorian piano contest in 2002 (Bydgoszcz, Poland) and at the AMA Calabria piano contest in 2002 (Lamezia Terme Nicatro, Italy). Yulianna Avdeeva was awarded second prizes, among others, at the Bremen Piano Contest in 2003, and at the Città di Cantú contest in 2005. In 2005, she was awarded a recognition prize at the Landolt-Contest. For her performance at the Kurt Leimer Piano Contest 2005, Yulianna Avdeeva was awarded third a prize scholarship of 10,000 CHF. During the first round, Avdeeva performed Joseph Haydn’s Piano Sonata in E flat Major Hob. XVI:52, Sofiya Gubaydulina’s Chaconne for Piano and Frédéric Chopin’s Etude in C Major op. 10. For the second round, she presented Sergej Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 7 in B Major op. 83 and Johannes Brahms’ Fantasien op. 116. In the final round, she performed Dimitri Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor op. 67. At the award ceremony Yulianna Avdeeva played Alfred Grünfeld’s concert paraphrases Soirée de Vienne on waltz motives by Johann Strauß.
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