This week, Introductions returns with the finalists from the 2022 International Young Artist Concerto Competition, with performances from Sunday January 30. Formerly known as the New Music School Concerto Competition, WFMT covered this event in 2020 and in 2021.
First-Place Winner: Esme Arias-Kim.
Runner-Up Tie: Kimiko Darcy and Zarin Mehta.
Third Place: Luis Villa.
Esme gave a solo recital on Introductions in November 2020, and Zarin also gave a solo recital in November 2020. Esme’s performance of the Korngold was also part of a recent Bach to School Virtual Assembly focusing on Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative.
Playlist
Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat:
I. Allegro maestoso (short excerpt)
Kimiko Darcy, piano; Chicago Arts Orchestra; Conner Gray Covington, conductor
NB: Introductions will broadcast a different Kimiko Darcy performance of this movement in full: tune in to next week’s episode covering the 2022 Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition.
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30:
I. Allegro ma non tanto
Luis Villa, piano; Chicago Arts Orchestra; Conner Gray Covington, conductor
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, Op. 26:
I. Andante-Allegro
Zarin Mehta, piano; Chicago Arts Orchestra; Conner Gray Covington, conductor
George Gershwin arr. Jascha Heifetz: It Ain’t Necessarily So (excerpt)
Esme Arias-Kim, violin; Milana Pavchinskaya, piano
First broadcast November 21, 2020.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35:
I. Moderato nobile
Esme Arias-Kim, violin; Chicago Arts Orchestra; Conner Gray Covington, conductor
Camille Saint-Saëns: Havanaise, Op. 83
Esme Arias-Kim, violin; Milana Pavchinskaya, piano
First broadcast November 21, 2020.
