Final YPF European Piano Competition 2025
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Sun 9 Mar 202514:15 - 18:10Interval 16:00Grote Zaal
Program
Jan-Peter de Graaff Lock, Stock and Barrel (world premiere)
Finalist’s choice:
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
Credits
Brecht Valckenaers piano
Paul Salard piano
Viviana-Zarah Baudis piano
Phion, Orkest van Gelderland & Overijssel
Benjamin Levy conductor
Juan Pedro García Oliva piano
Severin von Eckardstein, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, Edith Fischer, Nino Gvetadze, Ronan O’Hora, Hannes Minnaar, Malcolm Singer, Marcel Baudet and Einav Yarden jury
Christiaan Kuyvenhoven presentation
The exciting final of the YPF European Piano Competition 2025, in which three young pianists will perform with orchestra. The finalists will play one of Beethoven’s five piano concertos or Schumann’s piano concerto with the Phion Orchestra. In addition, they will all play a new commissioned composition for piano solo, composed by Jan-Peter de Graaff. The young pianists will be accompanied by Phion, the orchestra of Gelderland and Overijssel, in the piano concertos. During the jury’s deliberations, the audience will be treated to a performance by pianist Juan Pedro García Oliva, winner of the YPF European Piano Competition 2022.
The jury of the competition is made up of eight luminaries from the piano world: Severin von Eckardstein, Jean Claude vanden Eynden, Edith Fischer, Nino Gvetadze, Ronan O’Hora (chairman), Hannes Minnaar, Malcolm Singer, and Einav Yarden. They will decide who will follow in the footsteps of previous winners such as Hanna Shybayeva, Nino Gvetadze and Thomas Beijer.
The jury concert 'A Tribute to Youri Egorov' (March 8) and the FINALE of the YPF European Piano Competition (March 9) will be recorded by NTR and can be heard in the NTR Evening Concert on NPO Klassiek on Sunday evening, March 9, from 8 p.m. onwards.
The FINALE can be followed live
