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When exactly are results announced?

Probably in 2 hours?

I'm hearing elsewhere that it should be in around an hour. I imagine that whoever that gets to play at 1pm tomorrow would like to know about it ASAP, heh

I guess the Mozart concerto round got eliminated because of adding all the windy people to the competition. Or since one of the Russians had a bad memory slip in Mozart last time (but I'll get into trouble posting that sentiment). 😆

Results soon. Semis start in 11 hours, my god. I don't envy semifinalists 1-3...

14 semifinalists and Malofeev and George Harolino out? Very surprising.

Nonetheless, some of my top picks got in. Good luck to Kenny Broberg and Sara Daneshoour.

IMO the jury did a good job.

Where's the full list?

I agree. Also, the lack of a Mozart Concerto round makes it plausible for two more contestants in the semis, which is fair given this level.

Competition is definitely on the right track, IMO!

Yemelyanov
Shishkin
An
Gugnin
Gadjiev
Kopachevsky
Melnikov
Kantorow
T-N
Fujita
Broberg
Daneshpour
Geniushene
Kim

Good to see some pianists I felt positively about passing. Out of those I heard, I personally am unsure about Melnikov, T-N and Gadjiev. Curious about Broberg, Kantorow, Yemelyanov and Gugnin.

But there's a whole bunch I haven't heard yet. Time to catch up!

Just watched Malofeev and although I've rooted for him he didn't have the musicality I was hoping he'd exhibit. Clearly astounding technique beyond the other contenders but I already knew that. There's a YouTube video of him at 13yo playing the Lutoslawski variations with Matsuev and one can see it's easier for him. I still have a few more of today's players to watch and I liked Sara D. but I can't get how beautiful Fujita's Mozart was yesterday out of my mind.

Yeah, I'd say that Fujita and Sara are the most special for me. Good to see that the jury is favoring Music over brute force technique.

Another tidbit - it seems that everyone who DIDN'T play Appassionata or Waldstein passed. Be brave about Haydn and Mozart, people!

I just checked the programs for the semi-finals. The only rep requirement is at least one work by a Russian composer from a list of around 10 composers. The rest of the program is the choice of the pianist.

Total number of Classical pieces=0, total Baroque pieces=2, total pieces by Debussy/Ravel=1. To some extent I have noticed this kind of programming in other competitions but perhaps not to such a great extent.

Can someone explain why you think the pianists chose such few works in these three groups? There are MANY works by Scriabin, Rachmaninov, and Prokofiev. Is it assumed that the jury may favor works by Russian composers or just considered correct form to play Russian works in the Tchaikovsky Competition?

Also only one contemporary work on any of the semi-finalist programs.

Russian audiences, no matter how generally knowledgable, prefer late-romantic literature? I know that was said to be an issue Feltsman battled when he first returned there to give concerts after coming to the US.

Contemporary music seems to have been massively underrepresented in this competition, even by normal competition standards. Peter Donohoe did program a Tippett sonata when he took part, but overall, it's really rare in Tchaik with modern music.

But the jury who decides the winners should be more open to non-Russian music I would think, and only three of eleven jurors are Russian.

I'm speculating that because the audience is so large and potentially enthusiastic that the competitors and their teachers take that into account. But, you're right, the jury is probably not so easily swayed.