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21-May-2021
58th International Klingenthal Competition - Germanyby Dr Herbert Scheibenreif Manager of Friedrich Lips Productions |
Video 2. Category IV 1st Tian Jianan (China) Finale
Video 3. Symmetry 1st Category V (Russia)
Video 4 Danijel Piller 2nd Category VI (Austria)
 The 58th Klingenthal International Accordion Competition was held online from May 2nd to 8th, 2021.As the traditional (since 1963) International Accordion Competition Klingenthal had to be canceled due to the pandemic last year, the organizers under Jörg Künzl did not want to take this risk again, so changed the format early on: a face-to-face event became an online competition. Klingenthal set high standards once again! A heartfelt thank you goes to all participants who have prepared themselves with a lot of commitment and diligence for this traditional musical highlight in the accordion world, which the many successful and artistically very valuable video submissions impressively prove. The jury, chaired by Prof. Stefan Hussong, consisting of Andreas Nebl, Prof. Claudia Buder, Ulf Seifert (all from Germany), Prof. Jacques Mornet (France), Maciej Frackiewicz (Poland), Sergey Osokin (Russia), Prof. Ivano Battiston (Italy), Dr. Veli Kujala (Finland), Prof. Geir Draugsvoll (Norway) and Mgr. Ladislav Horák (Czech Republic), were presented 84 candidates from 17 countries. So the new format was quite attractive and opened up the opportunity to participate for more candidates from more countries. Of course, the new possibilities of the digital world presented new challenges, but the results were consistently promising. In any case, there was no doubt about the dominance of China and Russia, both in terms of the number of participants and the number of award winners. Nevertheless, there are always individual young artists from other countries who simply do not come from a well-developed state training system, but rather can keep up on their own initiative. The level of interpretation is anyway so high internationally that it often depends very much on a juror's individual assessment of which cultural environment he himself was shaped by. As an Austrian, I was very gratified that Danijel Piller (see video above) was successful in the category for light music achieving a 2nd placing, following on from successes in previous years at Castelfidardo and CMA. His sophisticated technique, his feeling for different musical styles and his now very extensive competition experience has led to these successes. Download competition results: 2021KlingResults.pdf |