Finale for HfMT pianists

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Sergey Tanin, concert exam student in Anna Vinnitskaya's class, has made it to the final of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels! There he will play "Music fort he Heart" by Kris Defoort and Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto in C major op. 26 accompanied by the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra under Kazushi Ono Momo.

The "Concours Reine Elisabeth" in Brussels is considered one of the largest and most demanding piano competitions. Anna Vinnitskaya won it in 2007, launching her international career.

Vita
Sergey Tanin was born in 1995 in Yakutia, Siberia. He began playing the piano at the age of five and performed with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra at the age of eleven. In 2011, he became a student at the Tchaikovsky Music College of the Moscow Conservatory. From 2014, he studied with Irina Plotnikova at the Moscow Conservatory. Tanin has performed as a soloist with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. He has won prizes at various music competitions in Russia and Finland. He was awarded 3rd prize at the 2016 Bremen Piano Competition. In 2018, he won 3rd prize and the audience prize at the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich.[1] In 2019, he completed his studies in Moscow with distinction and began postgraduate studies with Claudio Martínez Mehner at the Basel University of Music.[2] Tanin won 1st prize and the audience prize at the Kissinger Klavierolymp in 2020