Marcin Parys won the Grand Prize at the 24th Annual International Music Competition & Festival held in Ibla-Ragusa, Sicily (Italy) on July 6-16, 2015. The prize included concerts in The Netherlands and Italy and a spring tour of the United States with fellow winners, which culminated in a May 11, 2016 performance at Carnegie Hall.
Arsentiy Kharitonov performed at Carnegie Hall on May 20, 2016 playing a program of Scriabin (Prelude in B Major, Op. 11, No. 11), Rachmaninoff (Variations on a Theme by Chopin, Op. 22), and Tchaikovsky (Méditation, Op. 72, No. 5) to rave reviews. “Kharitonov, who has a rich imagination and seems able to do anything technically, was at liberty to reach the limits of both technique and emotion with ease,” according to reviewer Raymond Beegle. “His dynamic range had an astonishing breadth and the lyric passages were especially captivating.” Read more at http://observer.com/2016/05/arsentiy-kharitonovs-piano-magic-enraptures-a-packed-carnegie-hall/
Myung-Ji Lee won 1st Place in the American Protégé International Piano Competition for Romantic music and performed at Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall on March 28, 2015.
Éva Polgár performed by invitation Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 with the Vác Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Tamás Vásáry on May 14, 2015, at the Danube Palace in Budapest, Hungary and the same piece with the Akademisches Orchester Leipzig conducted by Hors Foerster on May 18, 2015, at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany. (http://www.dunapalota.hu/concert/szonyi-zsuzsa-emekkoncert) and (www.akademisches-orchester-leipzig.de/Konzerte14-15.htm). Éva Polgár and Sándor Vály have released a CD entitled Die Toteninsel with Ektro Records.
Ludmilla Georgievskaya's CD of Beethoven and Schumann, released on the Odradek Label, won the Bronze medal from the Global Music Awards as well as the Silver medal in the Instrumental Performer Category in 2015.
