Masterclass by Antonio Pompa-Baldi
Masterclass with Antonio Pompa-Baidi
with Tania Rivers-Moore
Mr. Mustakimov was a prizewinner at the Russian Piano Competition (Ufa, Russia), the International Piano Competition (Kiev, Ukraine), and the Jacob Flier Piano Competition (New Paltz, NY). In 2006 he entered the Kazan State Conservatory, and during his first year he represented the conservatory at the International Conservatory...
Gold Medal: Timur Mustakimov (Russia)
Joseph Choi is a graduate of the Juilliard School under Jerome Lowenthal and Matti Raekallio and the University of Texas at Austin (BM). Joseph Choi was born in Hawaii. His family moved to Austin, Texas where he has been a student of the great piano artist and pedagogue Anton Nel since the age of 15...
Silver Medal: Joseph Choi (USA)
FINALISTS
Anton Smirnoff, head of the piano department at the Pascale Music Institute, began his piano studies at age of seven in Novosibirsk, Russia. After graduating from Novosibirsk State Conservatory with a Bachelor’s Degree, Anton came to United States in 2006 to pursue further education. He graduated from Oberlin Conservatory with an Artist Diploma in 2010...
Bronze Medal: Anton Smirnov (Russia)
Born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Wesley has been playing piano since the age of three. At age five, he completed grades 1 to 10 of the RCM Examinations, and at ten, had completed his ARCT, making him the youngest pianist who has ever achieved this. Wesley composes and has performed in many venues around the world. He has performed with the Calgary...
Outstanding Performance Award:
Wesley Chu (Canada)
Praised for her “poetic and electric, warm and seductive” playing, Indonesian Chinese-American pianist Aileen Gozali (20) made her concerto debut at the age of 10, and has since been performing on stages all over the world, including China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea...
Honorable Mention Award:
Aileen Gozali (USA)
Pianist Tania RiversMoore is a senior at Harvard College, where she is finishing a degree in Neurobiology and preparing to enter a graduate program in Piano Performance. She takes lessons weekly from Professor Alexander Korsantia of the New England Conservatory, as well as Sasha Starcevich in Seattle...
Honorable Mention Award:
Tania Rivers Moore (France)
MASTER CLASSES
ARCHIVE VIDEOS
Gold Prize Winner
Timur Mustakimov Finals
Silver Prize Winner
Joseph Choi Finals
Bronze Prize Winner
Anton Smirnov Finals
Outstanding Performance Award
Wesley Chu Finals
Honorable Mention Award
Alieen Gozali Finals
GALLERY
26 contestants from 11 countries had been qualified to join the live rounds of the 2014 NTD Internal Piano Competition. After two days of intense competition at Baruch College‘s Ingleman Hall, the judges selected six finalists to move on to the final round. On October 5th, the six finalists performed at the Rising Stars Concert, held at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall.
After the concert, the competition award ceremony took the stage, Timur Mustakimov of Russia took home the gold medal and a prize of $10,000 U.S. dollars. NTDTV president Tang Zhong and renowned pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi were the award presenters.
