"Piano Island" Gulangyu Held Piano Festival Jiang Xia and Chen Hao won the championship

Source: China News Network

According to the report of China News Network on January 19, the 10th Gulangyu Piano Festival and Gulangyu Double Piano Competition came to a successful conclusion on the 18th in Xiamen Gulangyu Island, the "Piano Island". After fierce competition, young pianist and Steinway artist Jiang Xia and Shanghai Conservatory of Music piano student Chen Hao won the crown of this double piano competition.

On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Gulangyu Island's listing as a World Cultural Heritage, this year's piano festival was held with 11 experts participating in the judging, 6 groups of players and 12 piano talents participating in it, and jointly staged a peak duel on the black and white piano keys.

Well-known music academies across the country have sent a strong lineup to participate, and there are many young pianists, Steinway artists, and young performers who have won awards in various important competitions after returning from studying in famous music colleges in Europe and the United States.

The organizers said that the finalists must play no less than 40 minutes and no less than 50 minutes, and the repertoire is self-selected but all are double piano works, and there must also be three different musical works. The repertoire selected by the contestants in 6 groups includes classic works by Mozart, Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Chopin and Rachmaninoff.

The competition also invited 11 pianist authorities to form an expert jury, including Bao Huishuang, a famous pianist and former vice chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association, and Li Weiming, a music educator and former vice dean of the School of Arts of Xiamen University, as art consultants.

Professor Wei Danwen, a judge of this piano festival competition and director of the piano department of the Central Conservatory of Music, said that this double piano competition is one of the few academic and normative display platforms provided for double piano players in China, the players are very professional, the standard is very high, and the competition is international, "I hope that through this competition, I will improve the importance of domestic double piano teaching, improve the overall quality of double piano students, and further improve everyone's recognition and love for double piano competition." ”

Professor Jiang Chen, head of the piano department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, who is also a judge, commented that the whole piano festival was wonderful, and Gulangyu Island was full of artistic inspiration and sparks. In this competition, we all heard about very high-quality ensembles and met many groups of very talented double pianists.

Through the unique form of double piano performance, this competition shows the Confucian way of music and art of "resonance of qinser, unity of beauty and goodness", attracts the majority of piano players to "resonate with qinser", Yale Xianghe, while building a platform for piano art exchange, carry forward the characteristics of Gulangyu music culture, highlight the public welfare of Gulangyu music culture, and show a certain historical significance in the history of the development of China's piano industry, especially in the history of the development of Gulangyu music culture. (Yang Fushan, Huang Han)