4th International piano competition of Orléans 2000

Lauréats 2000 © DR

The 4th International piano competition of Orléans took place from February 21st to February 29th in 2000 and has consecrated Saori Mizumura, Andrea Corazziari and Alexandre Pirojenko as the 3 finalists of this year.

In 1999, the competition began with a prefiguration concert at the Espace Fleuret of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris with 1998 laureates. Among the works proposed: Cage, Ravel, Ohana. For the first time in the competition history, a commissioned piece appeared in the program: in 2000, Eric Tanguy created one played by the finalists with the support of the Banquet Orchestra conducted by Olivier Dejours.

Dates:

From February 21st to February 29th 2000.

Rules & Regulations:

All information regarding the organisation of the rounds and contest procedures are available in the Contest Program and Rules.

Members of the Jury:

• Jean-Marc Cochereau – Orchestra conductor, France – President of the Jury
• Nicolas Bacri – Composer, France
• Jean-Jacques Balet – Pianist, Switzerland
• Mieko Harimoto – Pianist, Japan
• Frank Madlener – Artistic director, Belgium
• Dominique Merlet – Pianist, France
• Avi Schönfeld – Pianist and composer, Netherlands / Israel

Prize List 2000:

You can find the Prize List and laureates 2000 HERE

Commissioned piece:

Title: Passacaille

Composer: Eric Tanguy

First official commissioned piece. Eric Tanguy composed Passacaille to reply to a competition request on which he heaps praise on it: “This action is admirable, it’s an extraordinary open-mindedness“. Concerning Passacaille a piece imagined on obstinated motif he wanted to compose for a long time after created etudes, sonatas, preludes, concertos and fantasies:

“It is the first time that one of my pieces is created for a competition and i’m going to listen to the candidates. I suppose this work must be a little frightening for them because there aren’t references, no recordings but an unknown land for everyone. I wanted to create a good work and emotion will certainly be present. The piece is hard, I compose neither a tonal music nor an atonal music but a consonant one. Either we love the esthetics, score architecture or not. It’s a dynamic generator work and will highlight interpreters“.

Eric Tanguy – composer

The Composer: Eric Tanguy

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