Schedule for Round III of the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition (solo singing) 2022


Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra

30 pianists, 27 violinists, 25 cellists, 20 female singers and 20 male singers will compete in this year’s International Tchaikovsky Competition, to take place between June 14th and July 2nd in Moscow and St Petersburg under the chairmanship of Valery Gergiev. The musicians, aged between 16 and 32, come from 25 countries, and were selected by the distinguished judging panels from the 583 entrants who made an initial submission of a recital on DVD (50 minutes for instrumentalists, 20 minutes for singers). For this year’s landmark competition, revised procedures have been introduced for voting and online applications, as has a new set of rules and regulations.

The exceptional standard of the competitors – aspiring to a share of the 300,000 Euro prize money and the assurance of prestigious engagements in Europe, the USA and Asia – becomes clear from their track record to date.

Among them are laureates of such competitions as the:

PIANO Tchaikovsky, Busoni, Chopin, Cliburn, Dublin, Queen Elisabeth, Hamamatsu, Horowitz, Iturbi, Leeds, Long-Thibaud, Paderewski, Rachmaninoff, Rubinstein;

VIOLIN ARD, Heifetz, Menuhin, Oistrakh, Paganini, Sarasate, Varga, Wieniawski;

CELLO Beijing, Brahms, Cassado, Davidov, Janigro, Johansen, Lutoslawski, Mravinsky, Penderecki, Rostropovich, Unisa;

VOICE Callas, Glinka, Houston Grand Opera, Metropolitan National Council, Montreal, Obraztsova, Rimsky-Korsakov, Vishnevskaya.

They have performed with conductors such as Ashkenazy, Conlon, Fedoseev, Gilbert, Neeme Jarvi, Maazel, Pletnev, Rostropovich, Michael Sanderling, Simonov, Sinaisky and Spivakov, with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Deutsche Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic and Vienna Radio Symphony, and in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Washington Kennedy Center, Barbican, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonie, Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris Auditorium du Louvre, la Fenice Venice, Auditorio Nacional Madrid, Oslo Opera, Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, Tokyo Opera City and Shanghai Concert Hall.

“I was extremely pleased to learn from our screening jurors how excited they were to have heard the many wonderful talents they have selected to participate in the competition,” says Competition Chairman Valery Gergiev."They achieved remarkable consensus in their choice of the most outstanding musicians."

This view was reflected by David Geringas, who chaired the screening jury for the cellists: “I believe that our jury was able to identify 25 musicians of a very high artistic level. I'm looking forward to June, when they will play, and we can expect a thrilling competition in 2011.”