{"id":33301,"date":"2016-01-18T17:22:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T22:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=33301"},"modified":"2016-01-18T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T22:25:09","slug":"the-scoop-the-search-for-canadas-piano-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2016\/01\/18\/the-scoop-the-search-for-canadas-piano-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | The Search For Canada&#8217;s Next Piano Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33304\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/Piano_Hero.jpg\" alt=\"Piano_Hero\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/Piano_Hero.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/Piano_Hero-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The search is on for\u00a0Canada&#8217;s next Amateur piano hero.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"CBC Music\" href=\"http:\/\/music.cbc.ca\/\">CBC Music<\/a> and <a title=\"ICI Musique\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icimusique.ca\/\">ICI Musique<\/a>\u00a0are looking for pianists muster up their courage and send in a video of themselves playing for a chance to win Canada&#8217;s Piano Hero competition. According to the rules, pieces must be in the public domain and sent in by the <strong>January 21st, 2016<\/strong> submission deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The public will vote on submitted videos and narrow them down to 1o finalists. The jury will vote om the final winner, and includes\u00a0<strong>Angela Cheng<\/strong>, <strong>Jan Lisiecki<\/strong> and <strong>Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The top prize is a new piano by Boston professional, a trip for two to Montreal where the winner will film a professional music video, a private piano lesson with\u00a0<strong>David Jalbert<\/strong>, and a VIP treatment at a <strong>l\u2019Orchestre M\u00e9tropolitain<\/strong> concert where they will also perform a pre-show solo performance.<\/p>\n<p>Readers can browse submissions\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/piano2016.strutta.com\/entries\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rules and regulations can be found\u00a0<a title=\"View contest rules\" href=\"http:\/\/piano2016.strutta.com\/rules\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>#LUDWIGVAN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Want more updates on Toronto-centric classical music news and review\u00a0before anyone else finds out? 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If so, CBC Music and ICI Musique want to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":33304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5723,39],"tags":[5809],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/Piano_Hero.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-8F7","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33301"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33313,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33301\/revisions\/33313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33301"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}