st<\/sup> category.<\/p>\n\u00a0 \u00a0In the 2nd<\/sup> category, there were two obligatory pieces, the Martin\u016f\u2019s Arietta and the Arabesque n.4. The Czechs are obviously happy about the two first prizes and the dispersion was fair. Therefore, there had to be the unpopular division of the first prize, but in regards of points, it came out in a way that we could not do anything else. Even the Swedish Harry Dai LIANG on the second place was just behind them! Therefore, he got the separate second prize. I liked him a lot, in my opinion, he will grow up to be a very good professional violinists. He still needs small corrections. Each of the Czech winners was slightly different in their interpretation, but it was only details. Last year, Milan KOSTELENEC won the youngest category and he already has some experiences; he played with Pavel \u0160porcl and his performance was certain. Jan NOV\u00c1K pleasantly surprised us. When it comes to the third prizes, Vil\u00e9m JIRSA, who is well-known in \u00dast\u00ed, managed another quality result; even the children\u2019s jury liked him. The Bulgarian Slavina TENEVA performed a quality performance, maybe she had the disadvantage of playing the first. The last third prize and the attractive prize for the best performance of the piece by Bohuslav Martin\u016f was gained by Al\u017eb\u011bta DUSOV\u00c1. She caught our attention with her comprehension; Martin\u016f calls for a lot of musicality, by which she appealed to us. There is still the issue with the choice of the pieces, sometimes the young violinists do not play, what is suitable for them. However, it is a problem of the teachers, not their pupils. The second category was weaker in some years, but this year, it was very good.<\/p>\n\u00a0 \u00a0When it comes to the 3rd<\/sup> category, after the success of the piece by Sylvia Bodorov\u00e1, we included a modern piece again, this time by Ond\u0159ej KUKALA with the title Aftenstud for solo violin dedicated to the Kocian\u2019s competition. All the participants managed the piece, but there was no significant performance. Nevertheless, after the end of the second round, I was satisfied more. Practically all the performances significantly increased in comparison to the first round. The performance of Daniel MAT\u011aJ\u010cA was almost professional, he could attend a competition for older violinists with it. His interpretation was flawless, musical. It is visible that he purposely goes forward, he has a quality leading. He also chose the repertoire well. The Belgian participants usually have quality, the in the end second Theodore KIM who did not appeal much to us in the first round, but he convinced us in the second round. Especially by the Wieniawski\u2019s Variations on an original theme. The Serbians usually rely on the virtuoso technique, but their comprehension often lacks order. However, Andrej BAL\u00c1\u017d also put the musicality into the technique. The choice of the repertoire maybe was not completely ideal. Another third prize went to the Bulgarian Iva MARTINOV\u00c1; she performed a playing pleasant for listening. Miss Emujin ENKHBAATAR is in my opinion the best violinists from the Mongolian delegation. She is getting better every year, she must delete small technical problems. Her professor Jargal Darizay is very caring of her pupils and she supports them a lot.<\/p>\n\u00a0 \u00a0This time, the 4th<\/sup> category did not give us the answer to the question of the laureate. Even though we had a big birthday and waited for a huge discovery, it did not appear in the fourth category. I will be honest, a significant personality was missing; therefore, we did not give the first prize or the laureate title in the fourth category. It was not ideal after the first round; the obligatory Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Mazurek was a bet in a lottery, but I am not afraid of it. It was here a few times before as an obligatory piece and the young violinists coped with it. However, this year, a little worse. David HERNYCH from Prague and Ivan VIR\u00c1G from Slovakia shared the second prize. David played very well, but for the first prize, something was missing. The performance of the Slovakian violinist Vir\u00e1g was similar. The third prize was given to Nat\u00e1lie TOPERCZEROV\u00c1 from Prague and Paula SASTRE from Spain. The violinist from Spain played very fiercely, but sometimes at the expense of the quality of the tone. But I am sure that she will appeal at the international competitions in the future. Nat\u00e1lia Toperczerov\u00e1 made a good choice by including the home Smetana into her repertoire and she performed a quality and nice playing.<\/p>\n\u00a0 \u00a0The choice of the laureate was not easy. In the jury, we kind of divided. We were choosing between the winner of the first and the third category; their performances were comparable. In the end, we decided to prefer the younger Canadian Emrik REVERMANN. I think that even this is a proof of the fairness of the purely Czech jury. Emrik played naturally, he has a great potential into the future. We do not have to be ashamed for giving the laureate title to the winner of the youngest category. After all, it is not the first nor the last time.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0When it comes to the rating of the quality of the whole competition, we were used to saying that the quality keeps on increasing, but it does not always apply in the art. That is why, for example, we did not give the first prize in the fourth round. Already when I saw the repertoire of the fourth category, I had a feeling that there is nothing extra interesting. But everything can be different in a year. The overall quality of the competition was not bad. We will surely not lower on the quality of the obligatory pieces.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0The Czechs, in the sports terminology, won three first, one second and three third prizes, which is a success with the small participation.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0When it comes to the obligatory pieces for the next year, especially the pieces by Kocian and Martin\u016f will be attractive for the young violinists because there will be a financial prize for the best performance of the pieces by these authors again.The obligatory pieces for the 61st<\/sup> year of the KVC are:<\/p>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01st<\/sup> category: MARTIN\u016e: Sonatina G dur, 1st<\/sup> movement Moderato<\/p>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02nd<\/sup> category: KREISLER: Preludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani<\/p>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a03rd<\/sup> category: FALLA (arr. Kreisler): The Spanish dance<\/p>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a04th<\/sup> category KOCIAN: Serenade in D dur<\/p>\n\u00a0 \u00a0Please, follow the website of the competition, you will surely find a variety of interesting things and news there.<\/p>\n
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MgA. Pavel H\u016fla, the chairman of the jury of the KVC<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a052 violinists from 18 countries attended the 60th year of the KVC. There were originally 62 applications, but some of them did not attend in the end. However, it was still the most we had in the last years, which made us very happy. The problem of only 21 attendants from the Czech Republic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novinky-soutez","category-soutez"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_8502-1-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9KsEQ-qS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a> year\u2019s 1st<\/sup> category was also the case. In this category, we often divide the prizes in regards of the support of the youngest ones, but this time, the three significantly differed from the others. The Canadian winner Emrik REVERMANN played Bruch like a great violinist; he was from Toronto, just like the winner from the year 2014! The second Teo GERTLER from Slovakia performed a pleasant and quality performance, he was also the best interpreter of the Kocian\u2019s piece. The Mongolian Khanui ERDENEBAT got the 3rd<\/sup> prize, she was the best from the 7 Mongolians in this category. Therefore, in this category, we lost with Mongolia 3:7\u2026 This time, our representatives were not given the highest prizes; there were more of them participating, but that is more of a coincidence than a trend. All in all, I was satisfied with the quality of the 1st<\/sup> category.<\/p>\n