Leeds International Piano Competition announces semi-finalists

The Leeds International Piano Competition has announced the ten pianists going through to the semi-finals of the competition, held between 12-14 September.

They are:

Alim Beisembayev (23, Kazakhstan)

Dmytro Choni (28, Ukraine)

Thomas Kelly (22, United Kingdom)

Elizaveta Kliuchereva (22, Russia)

Kaito Kobayashi (25, Japan)

Ariel Lanyi (23, Israel)

Yuzhang Li (22, China)

Priscilla Navarro (27, Peru)

Hyunjin Roh (20, South Korea)

Xiaolu Zang (21, China).

Adam Gatehouse, artistic director of The Leeds International Piano Competition, said: ‘We have been blown away by the quality of the contestants taking part in the second round this year. As our first round was done digitally, it has been thrilling to have the opportunity to watch these young pianists perform live in the University of Leeds Great Hall over the past few days.

'I want to congratulate all of the pianists who have performed and I’m looking forward to welcoming the 10 semi-finalists back to the Great Hall from Sunday for three days of semi-final performances.’

The Semi-Finals and Finals of The Leeds will take place at the University of Leeds and Leeds Town Hall between 12-14 Sept and 17-18 Sept respectively. All rounds have so far been streamed worldwide by medici.tv, with the semi-finals and finals broadcast by BBC Radio 3 and the Finals aired live on BBC Four from 7pm BST.

The Concerto Final performances take place at Leeds Town Hall with The Leeds’ new orchestral partners, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Manze.

Watch replays of the first and second round performances here: https://leedspiano.medici.tv/en/replays/ 

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