Musicians To Watch: Winners of the Tchaikovsky Competition - The Moscow Times

Tchaikovsky Competition winners declared

The Classical Piano Hub on Instagram: "Grigory Sokolov, age 37 performing Chopin’s Etude Op. 25 No. 12 in C minor (“Ocean”) in 1987. Note that this performance was an encore after he played Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 • Sokolov’s power and attack here is almost intimidating. The voicing, which is so often muffled, is crystal-clear, and the clarity in each arpeggio is breathtaking. Sokolov was born in St. Petersburg and began studying the piano at the age of five, entering the Leningrad Conserva