COMPETITION with a difference
Becoming a rounded musician of any description is about so much more than getting your hands around the notes. We all know that, which is why one of the most popular parts of Pianist is the Scores section in the middle. We’ve all made our own discoveries thanks to the ever-questing appetite of the Editor for unfamiliar repertoire to delight our minds and our ears as well as our fingers, whatever our technical standard. I’m thinking here of the Scandinavian treasures unearthed in recent years, the likes of Peterson-Berger and Backer Grondahl, as well as left-hand pieces by Nicolai von Wilm and Geza Zichy and the new music commissioned by the magazine’s annual composing competition.
What if there was a performing competition which rewarded such curiosity, which judged the entrants not only on how they played, but the
