Jury
PIANO 2024: Jury
International Jury
The internationally renowned jury members will bring a unique and invaluable expertise to our competition, attracting candidates of the highest artistic level. At the conclusion of the competition, they will have the task of selecting the laureates and winners of special prizes, who will share prizes and grants valued at over $200,000.
The international jury will be chaired once again by the cultural manager, Zarin Mehta. The members of the jury are :Dmitri Alexeev, Lydia Artymiw, Louise Bessette, Jan Jiracek von Arnim, Robert Levin, Hélène Mercier, Ronan O’Hora and Minsoo Sohn.
Xian Zhang, Guest Conductor
For the first time at the CMIM, the Guest Conductor of Piano 2024, Xian Zhang, will cast a vote in the Final, following the concerto performances with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.
The Piano 2024 jury is housed at the Ritz-Carlton – Montréal
PRELIMINARY JURY
Agnès Grossmann (conductor), David Jalbert (University of Ottawa), Henry Kramer (Université de Montréal), Sara Laimon (McGill University), Angela Park (Western University), Brigitte Poulin (pianist), Richard Raymond (Conservatoire de musique de Montréal) and Serhiy Salov (Grand Laureate Piano 2004 and Improvisation Prize winner, Piano 2014).
The preliminary jury evaluated the applications of 388 pianists hailing from 38 countries. This is the highest number of applicants the CMIM has seen for any edition in its history.
