The Infanta Leonor Theater in Jaén has filled its seats to delight in front of the finalist musicians of the Jaén Prize Piano organized by the Provincial Council. The young pianist South Korean Jooyeon Ka has won the 65th edition, thanks to her interpretation of the concerto for piano and orchestra no. 2 in F minor Op. 21, by Chopin. The performance of this performer has been, in the opinion of the jury chaired for yet another year by the Barcelona pianist Albert Attenelle, the best of those performed by the three young musicians who have competed in this final, in which they have been accompanied by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Málaga, directed this year by Salvador Vázquez.
The first prize of the contest is endowed with 20.000 euros provided by the provincial Administration, in addition to the Gold Medal and diploma, the recording and editing an album with the prestigious Naxos label and a five-concert tour. The third vice president of the Provincial Council and deputy for Culture and Sports, África Colomo, has been in charge of granting this award.
With this recognition, Jooyeon Ka becomes the third South Korean musician to inscribe his name in the list of winners of this competition, thus succeeding his compatriot Jinhyung Park, who won last year, in the list of winners. In this way, this performer born in 1995 adds this important distinction to her resume, which until now included other international recognitions such as those she obtained at the Henle Piano Competition, New York International Piano Competition or Troisdorf International Piano Competition (Germany), among others.
Second and third prize
The second recital highest valued by the jury was the one offered by the Bulgarian Roberto Rumenov, who has played the concerto for piano and orchestra no. 3 in C major Op. 26 by Prokofiev. a performance for which he has obtained the second award of this contest, endowed with 12,000 euros contributed by the UNED of Jaén, to which he has added the Audience Awardawarded by the spectators attending this final test, for which he has received a bronze sculpture allusive to a piano given by the Association of Friends of the Piano Prize. The third prize, valued at 8.000 euros and sponsored by the Unicaja Jaén Foundation, has gone to the Chinese Deren Wang, who has performed the concerto for piano and orchestra no. 2 in C minor Op. 18 by Rachmaninov.
special prize
Along with the three main awards of this international competition, the names of the winners of the special prizes of this competition have also been announced at this awards ceremony. In this way, the award dedicated to chamber music and endowed with 8,000 euros contributed by the International University of La Rioja, it was awarded to the Spanish Alberto Menjón; the award “Rosa Sabater”which is awarded to the best performer of Spanish music and has a prize of 6,000 euros paid for by the City Council of the capital of Jaén, and a organized concert and sponsored by the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country, has been awarded to also Spaniard Pedro López.
For his part, the Contemporary Music Award, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, which is awarded to the best performer of the competition’s commissioned work – this year it was “Twilight in the Jabalcuz Gardens.” The legend of the old Jabalcuz tree”, by the Girona composer Iluminada Pérez Frutos, has fallen to the Chinese Kaiwen Zhao. This recognition has a financial award of 6,000 euros, in addition to the record record in the recording for the Naxos label of this edition.
The granting of these awards, which total 60,000 euros in prizeshas put the culmination of the successful 65th edition of this piano competition organized by the Provincial Council, which was held in the capital of Jaen from April 4 to 13, 2024 with a new record of participants.
Along with África Colomo, the mayor of Jaén, Agustín González, also participated; the subdelegate of the Government of Spain in Jaén, Manuel Fernández; the director of the UNED in Jaén, Manuel Valdivia; the president of the Unicaja Jaén Foundation, Carmen Espín; the deputy dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of La Rioja (UNIR), Víctor Padilla, and the president of the Association of Friends of the Jaén de Piano Prize, Juan José Mudarra.
2024-04-13 21:09:55
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