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Alright, go ahead, list 'em.

Yundi Li
Lang Lang
Valentina Lisitsa
Freddy Kempf
Sa Chen
Joyce Yang
Alexander Kobrin
Helene Grimaud

hamelin

Yundi Li
Lang Lang
Helene Grimaud
Sa Chen
Valentisa Lisitsa
Severin von Eckhardstein

Woohoo, finally Valentina Lisitsa gets some well deserved recognition in this forum. Yay.

Hanna Shybayeva is pretty good aswell.

How do you define a term "21st century"?

Duchable
Zimerman
Sokolov
Yundi
Blecharz
Libetta
Hamelin
Berezovsky

I've seen the webcast of his Prokofiev PC 2 performance at the Elisabeth comp; needless to say:

I think the formidable Russians (Kissin and Volodos) should be mentioned. Kissin, in my mind, takes the top spot, but I think at least a mention is warranted regardless.

Am I missing something here or was that a stupid question?

I'm harshly offended.

I think Kritt meant to ask,

Does it classified as 21-century pianist either one of these circumstances:

1.) Born in 21 century (which most of the pianists nowadays won't be included)

2.) Debutted/popular in 21 century (which people like zimerman, pogorelich, kissin won't be included) (while Yundi Li, Lang Lang will be considered the 21 century pianists)

3.) Still alive in 21 century (then a lot of pianists who were considered as the great 20th century pianists will overlap into the 21 century.)


And yea, a little bit clarification won't hurt right? No need to get all hostile.

Steinway Model D,

I think your number 3, is correct. Meaning those still playing. It cannot include anyone born in this century.

Alan

And you can't count Lang Lang under "debuted in the 21st century" because his debut was in 1999 (and I think Yundi Li debuted before Lang Lang, but don't know that for certain). (And if you're counting "popular", then Kissin et al ARE still in. )

I actually think that #2 is probably the best way to judge it...but what does that matter.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by SteinwayModelD:
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1.) Born in 21 century (which most of the pianists nowadays won't be included)

not wishing to appear pedantic here SteinwayModelD but i'm pretty sure we won't have any names from pianists Born in 21 century!

Is that positive or negative ?

Aren't we a little premature, here?

I'm surprised no one mentioned Laisenia Iloilovatu from Fiji who won first prize in the 3rd International Lang-Lang Memorial Piano Competition in 2026.

memorial??? Does that mean he will die before 2026?
HOORAY!~!!!!!! :p

Evgeny Kissin

I'm sooo sorry, I forgot to mention Kissin in my list! How could I do such an awful thing?
21st century pianist is anyone with most of their career in the 21st century. Argerich would NOT count, Kissin would. Kissin lived half of half of his life in the last century. That's not too much compared to how long he will probably live in the 21st.
Also,