REPERTOIRE

SEMIFINAL ROUND (40 competitors)

Each pianist will perform a short recital program not to exceed 20 minutes in length. The repertoire for this recital will consist of works chosen by the pianist and must include one or more works by George Gershwin. Gershwin work(s) can be composer's original composition, or it can be a transcription on a composition by George Gershwin. One work only chosen from the repertoire of the Preliminary Round may be repeated in the Semifinal Round.

FINAL ROUND (12 competitors)

Each pianist will perform a recital program between 25 and 35 minutes in length. The repertoire for this recital will consist of works chosen by the pianist. The program should demonstrate the candidate’s ability to present a stylistically diverse program. Works from the previous rounds may NOT be repeated.

SEMIFINAL ROUND

Each pianist will perform a short recital program between 15 and 20 minutes in length. The repertoire for this recital will consist of works chosen by the pianist and must include one or more works by George Gershwin. Gershwin work(s) can be composer's original composition, or it can be a transcription on a composition by George Gershwin. Two works chosen from the repertoire of the Preliminary Round may be repeated in the Semifinal Round.

FINAL ROUND

Each pianist will perform a recital program between 20 and 25 minutes in length. The repertoire for this recital will consist of works chosen by the pianist. The program should demonstrate the candidate’s ability to present a stylistically diverse program. Works from the previous rounds may NOT be repeated.

Each pianist will perform a program between 10 and 15 minutes in length. The repertoire will consist of works chosen by the pianist and must include one work by George Gershwin.

G.Gershwin Music Competition 2017
PIANO JURY

Michael Bulychev-Okser (United States)
Competition Artistic Director & Chairman

A top prizewinner of many international competitions in USA, Italy, Andorra, Spain and Mexico, pianist Michael Bulychev-Okser was born in Moscow, Russia in a family of distinguished musicians. He composed and played music since the age of seven. Because of Michael’s early and extraordinary talent […]

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Daniel Pollack (United States)

Audiences across five continents – North America, Europe, Asia, South America and Africa — recognize the pianism of Daniel Pollack for its signature colors in sound, coupled with over-the-edge thrilling virtuosity, giving his performances an electrifying element that catches the imagination of concert audiences. Critics speak about “his astonishing pianism,” Washington Post; “his dramatic […]

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David Dubal (United States)

David Dubal is internationally known as a pianist, teacher, writer, and broadcaster. An acknowledged authority on the piano literature, Mr. Dubal’s highly acclaimed books include The Art of the Piano, Evenings with Horowitz, Reflections from the Keyboard, and Conversations with Menuhin.
Mr. Dubal’s video, The Golden Age of the Piano, has been seen worldwide in four languages, and won him […]

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Leonel Morales (Spain)

Professor at the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts at the University “Alfonso X el Sabio” (Madrid). Professor in the Sommerakademie Mozarteum of Salzburg and Professor for 13 years in the Conservatorio Superior of Castellón. Academic Member of the “Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría”, in Seville (Spain). He worked as “teacher in residence” in the University of Music […]

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Gerardo Estrada Martínez (Venezuela/Belarus)

Gerardo Estrada Martínez was born in Caracas in August, 1980. He began his musical studies learning to play the violin and percussion. As a conductor, underwent brilliant training under maestros Rodolfo Saglimbeni and Francisco Navarro Lara. He worked as a musician in various orchestras of Venezuela, and also is the founder of musical groups and ensembles playing both popular and academic music. Conductor, the founder of the Bolivarian Symphony Orchestra of the state of […]

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Richard Glazier (United States)

Every artist has an epiphany. For classically-trained, award-winning pianist Richard Glazier, it happened at age nine, when he saw the film “Girl Crazy” with a score by George & Ira Gershwin. He was so excited by the music he heard, he was prompted to write a fan letter to famed lyricist Ira Gershwin. After corresponding with each other for three years, Gershwin invited his young friend, then 12, to meet him in Beverly Hills.
During their visit, Ira asked Glazier to play […]

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Min Kwon (South Korea)

Steinway Artist, Min Kwon, has been acclaimed as one of the most versatile and charismatic pianists of her generation. In demand as a pianist, teacher, and administrator, her professional activities has taken her to over 60 countries and all 50 States in the United States. Min holds a DMA from The Juilliard School, where she has won all honors available to pianists (Gina Bachauer International Piano Award, Concerto Competition that led to a debut at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center with the Juilliard Orchestra, and she was taught Chamber Music and Piano Minor, while still a student, as well as […]

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Merab Ebralidze (Georgia/United States)

by Howard Reich Wynton Marsalis long ago established his fluency in multiple musical languages, jazz and classical chief among them. But blues, gospel, spirituals, tango, African chant and other idioms also course through Marsalis’ large works, such as the symphonic-choral “All Rise,” the sanctified “In This House, On This Morning” and the vocal-orchestral epic “Blood […]

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Dorian Leljak (Serbia)

Dorian Leljak has won several international piano competitions (including the Rachmaninov Competition - Belgrade, Novi Sad Piano Competition) and been awarded numerous prizes, including a University of Novi Sad Merit Award, Yale University Mary Clapp Howell, Irving Gilmore and Parisot Prizes. He enjoys successful career worldwide as a pianist and has appeared in recital and with orchestras including the Windstrings Orchestra, Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, Yale Philharmonia […]

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