{"id":11722,"date":"2023-07-10T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=11722"},"modified":"2023-07-10T15:09:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:09:44","slug":"war-ukraine-makes-impact-tchaikovsky-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2023\/07\/10\/war-ukraine-makes-impact-tchaikovsky-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"War in Ukraine Makes Major Impact on Tchaikovsky Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11723\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/07\/Tchaikovsky-Competition.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Russia\u2019s renowned Tchaikovsky Competition has <a href=\"https:\/\/tchaikovskycompetition.com\/en\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> winners from a much smaller competition this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Tchaikovsky Competition, founded in 1958, is one of classical music\u2019s most prestigious competitions. It began with piano and violin before expanding to include cello, voice and woodwind categories. Held every four years in Moscow and St. Petersburg, it is described as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/tchaikovskycompetition.com\/en\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">landmark of national musical culture<\/a>.\u201d Enrollments in the competition this year were down over twenty percent, with larger than usual numbers of competitors from Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s going on:<\/strong> As Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine, international competitors poured into Moscow last week, even as the Wagner mercenary group\u2019s armed rebellion edged towards the same city. Most judges were local with a<a href=\"https:\/\/tchaikovskycompetition.com\/en\/jury\/#piano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> few notable exceptions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC) expelled the competition from its organization in solidarity with Ukraine. Broadcasts of the competition, usually held on Medici.tv, were also cancelled.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digging deeper:<\/strong> The WFIMC called the competition a promotional tool by the Russian regime, which hoped to make Russians forget the war their country was waging next door. Foreign jurors were accused of supporting Putin on a jury that included the Russian president\u2019s good friend and daughter\u2019s godfather, the cellist Sergei P. Roldugin. Competitors<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/29\/arts\/music\/tchaikovsky-competition-putin-war.html\"> were warned<\/a> that competing could negatively affect their careers.<\/p>\n<h3>The winners?<\/h3>\n<p>Gyehee Kim from South Korea took home the 100,000 USD violin Grand Prize and Lee Youngeun, also of South Korea, won the cello category. Russia\u2019s Sergei Davydchenko and Zinaida Tsarenko won the piano and voice categories, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>A full list can be found<a href=\"https:\/\/tchaikovskycompetition.com\/en\/contestants\/#piano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s renowned Tchaikovsky Competition has announced winners from a much smaller competition this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":11723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[86,3],"tags":[296],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/07\/Tchaikovsky-Competition.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11722"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11736,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11722\/revisions\/11736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11722"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}