{"id":70517,"date":"2021-03-03T15:09:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=70517"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:09:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:09:43","slug":"scoop-honens-international-piano-competition-moves-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/03\/03\/scoop-honens-international-piano-competition-moves-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Honens International Piano Competition Moves To 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70518\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70518\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Honens-2021.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Kimura Parker, Artistic Director of Honens\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Honens-2021.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Honens-2021-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Honens-2021-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Honens-2021-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Kimura Parker, Artistic Director of Honens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Initially scheduled for October 2021, the Honens International Piano Competition will be postponed for a year.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s finals were to have taken place in Calgary following Quarterfinal rounds in New York and Berlin in June.<\/p>\n<p>Artistic Director Jon Kimura Parker released a video explaining the decision was due to ongoing concerns surrounding COVID-19, especially considering international competitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, we could not guarantee the quarterfinals would take place in a manner that served all 50 quarterfinalists fairly and in a way that lived up to our very high expectations,\u201d said Parker in a video statement released today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/518266296\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is less of a decision than it is the acceptance of an inevitability,\u201d said President &amp; CEO Neil Edwards. \u201cWe have explored every option and determined that the current world situation makes it impossible for us to present a Competition worthy of Honens\u2019 high international standard and reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chosen quarterfinalists, juries, and collaborating artists will all remain for 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Honens will announce the new dates for events in Calgary, Berlin, and New York as soon as they become available.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>#LUDWIGVAN<\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily\u00a0\u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bowtie.mailbutler.io\/tracking\/hit\/583e6ce0-dfd0-48be-8a33-61256b3c58e3\/a01723d1-1d1d-44ee-9d0c-779ed93a798c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HERE<\/span><\/i><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initially scheduled for October 2021, the Honens International Piano Competition will be postponed for a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":70518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38476,17,35839,39,47],"tags":[1571,1774],"yst_prominent_words":[9008,11623,8417,14600,7781,23033,6985,27937,10857,20681,7508,7505,20682,7507,7059,7518,9949,7743,7448,10515],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Honens-2021.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-iln","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70517"}],"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=70517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70519,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70517\/revisions\/70519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70517"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=70517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}