Saint Paul Trois-Chteaux International Piano Competition ended with great winners from Japan.
| Ivana Marija Vidović from Dubrovnik in the prestigious jury in France Saint Paul Trois-Chteaux International Piano Competition ended with great winners from Japan May 1st, 2024 Last week, the Dubrovnik pianist Ivana Marija Vidović was a member of the prestigious expert jury of the International Piano Competition Saint Paul Trois-Chateaux. Vidović was in the jury alongside maestro Marc Moncus from Barcelona, pianist Sabrina Dente from Italy, pianist and organist Christoph Ewers from Germany, and pianist and director Pierre-Laurent Boucharlat from France. Throughout the week, there were excellent and brilliant interpretations in the Masters category, and in one day, the commission listened to Juniors, Teenagers and those in the ‘Challengers’ category. The most difficult task was in the finals, when three great young Japanese pianists were on stage with the Amplitude Orchestra from Paris, each of them interpreting the Piano Concertos by E. Grieg, F. Chopin (no. 1 in E minor) and the Third Concerto by L. van Beethoven each of them in their own superb way. In the end, the jury chose the interpretation of Edward Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor and with that also chose the winner among the three stars, twenty-four-year-old Shion Ota.  Ivana Marija Vidović with Saya Ota, Japan, winner of the third prize.
The second prize went to the superb and sublime performance of the First Concerto in E minor for Piano and Orchestra by F. Chopin Nagino Maruyama (25th), and the interpretation of Beethoven’s Third Concerto went to Saya Ota (30th) for the third place.
 Christoph Ewers, pianist with PhD in Medical Sciences
Žiri je na kraju odabrao interpretaciju Klavirskog koncerta Edwarda Griega u a molu te s time odabrao i pobjednicu među trima zzvijezdama, dvadesetčetverogodišnju Shion Otu. Druga nagrada pripala je vrhunskoj i sublimnoj izvedbi Prvog koncerta u e molu za Klavir i orkestar F. Chopina Nagino Maruyama (25.) a interpretacija Beethovenovog Trećeg koncerta pripala je Saya Oti (30.) za treće mjesto.  Ivana Marija Vidović with maestro Marc Moncusi, Catalonian conductor
U drevnom gradiću koji seže u doba Rimskog carstva s ostacima na Tri dvorca (Trikastium) orile su se klavirske delicije a Vidović je postala prva Dubrovačka i Hrvatska pijanistica koja je imala čast odlučivanja pobjednica koje su tek na početku vjerojatno dobrih karijera i koje će još dugo briljirati i nizati uspjehe diljem svijeta. |
