June 2, 2024 In the present day at 10:52
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The commonly disappointing efficiency of the final two finalists of the Queen Elisabeth Competitors, the Ukrainian Dmytro Udovychenko and the American Joshua Brown, didn’t dampen the keenness of the jury. An inventory extra political than musical.
That is the picture that can stay of this violin session of Concours Reine Elisabeth 2024. He had barely been topped first prize winner, amidst thunderous applause, and had he begun, as custom dictates, to greet every of the members of the jury, put in on the stage of the Palais des Beaux- arts of Brussels, that the Ukrainian Dmytro Udovychenko stops in entrance Vadim Repina former first prize winner like him, crosses his fingers behind his again, appears at him for a second, earlier than transferring on to the following juror, beneath the shocked gaze of the Russian.
Full display view Dmytro Udovychenko, the First Prize, refusing to shake the hand of juror Vadim Repin, this Sunday, June 2, on the Queen Elisabeth Competitors. ©All rights reserved
This Sunday, at 12:30 a.m., the conflict in Ukraine entered the competitors. It needs to be famous that Udovychenko, born June 1, 1999, spent his complete youth in Kharkivcommon goal of the Russian military for the reason that begin of the battle, and once more in latest days with an assault on a grocery store on Could 25, killing 19 folks, and 9 extra this Friday, in response to the regional governor, Oleg Synegoubov , after a brand new salvo of missiles.
However is it actually the Russian nationality (he additionally has Belgian nationality) of Vadim Repin that posed an issue for the Ukrainian winner? Did not the latter greet one other Russian juror usually, Dmitry Sitkovetsky? Maybe we should always then attribute his response to the assist proven for Vladimir Putin by Repin’s spouse, the Bolshoi star dancer. Svetlana Zakharova.
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On the Queen Elisabeth Competitors, a high-flying last View in full display The primary winner, the Ukrainian Dmytro Udovychenko, greeting this Sunday, in Bozar, the second winner, the American Joshua Brown. ©BELGA
Zakharova has recurrently concerned herself in Russian politics, generally even straight, studies Yonhap Information Company: member of the United Russia get together, Vladimir Putin’s get togethershe was a deputy of the Duma, the Federal Meeting of Russia, between 2007 and 2011. In 2014, she joined different cultural figures to signal a letter of assist for Russian coverage in direction of Ukrainetogether with the annexation of Crimea.
The ballerina is at the moment a member of the Russian Council of Nationwide Arts, studies Yonhap, which reported, on March 15, the cancellation of one in all her ballets, scheduled for April on the Seoul Artwork Middle, exactly “due to his pro-Putin positions”.
A political file?
Did Dmytro Udovychenko’s Ukrainian nationality work in his favor? Not that the latter didn’t show to be a totally extraordinary musician through the competitors exams. He even had our favor after his inhabited Mozart concerto within the semi-final. Udovychenko was as if crossed by music and ingenious at each second, pushed by an incomparable expressiveness which left no observe, no phrasing behind.
Mozart Concerto n. 2 in D main KV 211 | Dmytro Udovychenko – Queen Elisabeth Competitors 2024
However, through the last, this Saturday night, after a obligatory concerto by Thierry Escaich which promised the most effective, he obtained his brushes combined up in Shostakovich’s “First Concerto”. Carried away by the demonic dance of the scherzo, he misplaced the orchestra, which was working half a measure behind him, inflicting an enormous mess.
There have been in fact moments of highly effective emotion, beginning with this lengthy face-to-face with the viewers between these two actions, then within the Dantesque finale the place he took all of the dangersreminding us of this phrase from the late musicologist Harry Halbreich: “This music of Shostakovich is primitive, poor, gaunt, tells us a few hell the place we’re chilly, hungry, and above all afraidit’s a music of scarcity, rationing and distress, which the capitalist enjoyers that we’re, devour (I emphasize) effectively sheltered.”
“For me, the image of this music lies above all in its subject material. It’s Soviet music which speaks to us of solitude and tragedy. And it’s, greater than another, near what I really feel at the moment. ”
Dmytro Udovychenko
Responding to Pierre Solot (RTBF)
To Pierre Solot, who questioned him after his efficiency on RTBFthe Ukrainian violinist replied: “For me, the image of this music lies above all in its topic. It is Soviet music that speaks to us of loneliness and tragedy. And he or she is, greater than anybody else, near what I really feel at the moment.”
Nonetheless, it was not the triumph introduced, any greater than with the efficiency of the opposite favourite of the competitors, the American Joshua Brown, which closed the ultimate. As a lot as Udovychenko took all of the dangers, Brown doesn’t try any, displaying in Brahms’ “Concerto in D main” an plain solidity and a really clear studying of the rating, however with out surprises and with an equal sound from begin to end.
“Ah, if artwork may very well be an instrument of peace!”had dreamed of Reine Elisabeth by providing the world a contest that may make magnificence and concord triumph. Unsure it is this time.
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Ethics and sponsors in tradition: time to take inventory Full display view The primary three 2024 winners: Elli Choi, Dmytro Udovychenko and Joshua Brown. ©BELGA
Prize record of the 2024 violin session
Dmytro Udovychenko – Premier prix. Queen Mathilde Prize (€25,000)
Joshua Brown – Second prize. Prize from the Belgian federal authorities (€20,000). He additionally obtained the Musiq3 Public Prize (€2,500)
Elli Choi – Third Prize. Comte de Launoit Prize (€17,000)
Kevin Zhu – Fourth Prize. German-speaking Neighborhood Prize (€12,500)
Julian Rhee – Fifth Prize. Brussels-Capital Area Prize (€10,000)
Minami Yoshida – Sixth prize. Prize from the Metropolis of Brussels (€8,000)
The winners not listed in alphabetical order are: Hana Chang, SongHa Choi, Anna Im, Karen Su, Ruslan Talas, Dayoon You. They are going to every obtain €4,000 due to the assist of the Nationwide Lottery.
→ From June 5 to 21: a number of concert events and recitals of the 2024 laureates in Belgium.
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