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February 19, 2021
On Sunday, Feb. 14, the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra (LSO) Concerto Competition winners’ performances began streaming. The concert still available for viewing on the Lawrence Vimeo account, accessible through the events calendar featured the winners’ final performances as well as discussions of each of their pieces with Associate Professor of Violin Samantha George.
First in the concert’s lineup was freshman pianist Johnathan Bass playing the
allegro con brio movement of Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor,” which tied for second place with senior Hung Phi Nguyen’s entry. In his discussion with George, Bass shared that the process of preparation for the competition was challenging but illuminating as he pushed his limits as a musician. Bass confessed he had originally wanted to perform Beethoven’s fourth concerto, which George described as more “dramatic and angular” compared to the serenity of the third, but his teacher, Proess
Pianist/Composer Nicolas Namoradze
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Nicolas Namoradze was “in retreat” as he puts it for several years before his 2018 triumph at the Honens International Piano Competition. “I hadn’t done any competitions and I wasn’t concertizing actively for several years,” he explains over Zoom from his parents’ home in Berlin where he’s riding out the latest European lockdown. “I wanted to step away from the limelight, to find my voice as a musician and find the repertoire I really wanted to focus on. When I was ready to do a competition, I thought, I would have everything I would need to sustain a career and not be playing catch up.”