My report on the 2025 edition of the Honens Competition, which I attended in Calgary in October, has been published here by International Piano magazine.
For a few days in October two leading piano competitions overlapped. In Calgary, gateway to the Canadian Rockies, the 2025 Honens International Piano Competition reached its finale just days after the Chopin Competition in Warsaw had announced its winners. North American pianists took the top prize at both. At Honens, the spotlight fell on 29-year-old Élisabeth Pion from Quebec, who was named Gold Laureate and also took the Audience Choice Award, ahead of fellow Canadian Carter Johnson and Russia’s Anastasia Vorotnaya, who respectively took Silver and Bronze….
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MEMETERIA by Thomas May 