{"id":7585,"date":"2012-11-10T11:47:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T16:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=7585"},"modified":"2012-11-10T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T16:47:23","slug":"online-viewing-this-weekend-marks-start-of-8th-hamamatsu-international-piano-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/11\/10\/online-viewing-this-weekend-marks-start-of-8th-hamamatsu-international-piano-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Online viewing: This weekend marks start of 8th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7587\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7587\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/simon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7587\" title=\"simon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/simon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian Simon Larivi\u00e8re<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 8th triennial Hamamatsu International Piano Competition is underway, and features a lone Canadian, University of Montreal doctoral candidate Simon Larivi\u00e8re, among its 80-some competitors. All rounds are streamed live on the web and then stored for video on demand.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Larivi\u00e8re has already made the rounds of several Canadian competitions, and is evidently hoping to do well in a contest that has a history of attracting great young talents.<\/p>\n<p>Olga Kern took third prize in Hamamatsu in 2000, a year before winning the Van Cliburn competition. David Fray earned an honourable mention a year ahead of his second-place finish at the Montreal International Piano Competition in 2004. And Alessio Bax, who won the Leeds competition in 2000, won the Hamamatsu contest in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The first round consists of a 20 minute recital of pieces from the classical canon, including a work by J.S. Bach. The second round requires no more than 40 minutes of solo performance, while the third round requires a 70-minute programme that includes a piece of chamber music. The finalists get to perform with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>The prizes for this year&#8217;s competition are being awarded on Nov. 24. The cash portion of the first prize amounts to approximately $35,000. As far as I can see there is no record deal or other career-development aids included with any of the prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Hamamatsu founded the competition in 1991 to raise its international profile as the home city of both of Japan&#8217;s major piano manufacturers, Yamaha and Kawai.<\/p>\n<p>For all the details, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hipic.jp\/eng\/8th\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 8th triennial Hamamatsu International Piano Competition is underway, and features a lone Canadian, University of Montreal doctoral candidate Simon Larivi\u00e8re, among its 80-some competitors. All rounds are streamed live on the web and then stored for video on demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,17,36,39,42,47,1],"tags":[1510,2654,3021,3483],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/simon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-1Yl","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7585"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}