by Richard Ashby | Apr 24, 2018 | EVENTS, NEWS
After a week of whirlwind travel to witness 68 of the best young pianists in the world, the First Round has officially come to an end. With heats in Berlin, Singapore, and New York, the Leeds International Piano Competition took the First Round to the competitors and...
by Richard Ashby | Feb 5, 2018 | NEWS
The global reach of one of the world’s leading piano competitions is being significantly extended thanks to a renewed partnership with the University of Leeds. The Leeds International Piano Competition and the University have worked together since the earliest days of...
by Richard Ashby | Jan 18, 2018 | NEWS
The personal archive of the woman who founded one of the world’s most famous piano contests has been presented to the University of Leeds. And the achievements of Dame Fanny Waterman DBE, co-founder of Leeds International Piano Competition, will be celebrated with an...
by Richard Ashby | Dec 18, 2017 | NEWS
The Leeds International Piano Competition selects more pianists than planned for First Round of 2018 Competition because of ‘extraordinarily high quality of applicants’ Sixty-eight pianists, aged between 20 and 29 and representing 28 countries, chosen to compete in...
by Richard Ashby | Oct 28, 2017 | NEWS
We talked with the winner of the 2015 Competition, Anna Tsybuleva, about her life, The Leeds, and her advice for the 2018 competitors. How did you choose the piano? When I was 6 years old, my mother put me into a music school and became my first teacher. I was...
by Richard Ashby | Oct 3, 2017 | NEWS
The Leeds International Piano Competition is delighted to announce that The Yaltah Menuhin Award will be presented to the 2018 Competition pianist who demonstrates the greatest collaborative and empathetic qualities in the chamber performance of the semi-final....
