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Contestant 5: Seldom one comes across a talent as exciting as Belarus’s Maya Irgalina. Her mind-blowing technical capabilities and show-womanship has made quite a furore around the globe, [...]

Contestant 4: We are continuing our countdown to the Top of the World International Piano Competition, and have got to one of the World’s most merited performers – Russia’s Alexander Ghindin. [...]

Contestant 3: Today we’d like to introduce you to an incredible talent from Top of the World’s neighboring country, Finland – Julia Dahlkvist. You have to start early if you want to make it to [...]

Contestant 2: We are continuing our countdown to Top of the World International Piano Competition, and would like to introduce you to another favorite to win – the super-talented Taiwanese [...]

Contestant 1: In the days leading up to the Top of the World International Piano Competition, we will present one contestant daily, to give you a better insight into what talent we are dealing [...]

Tori Stødle, professor of piano at the Music Conservatory, Faculty of Art, Tromsø University Tori has given masterclass and concerts in USA, Russia and several other European countries. In New [...]

Ten years ago, Paul Pollei, the founder and director of the Gina Bachauer Piano Competition in USA, came up with the idea of a piano competition in Tromsø, “the most exotic place in the world!” [...]

Competition prizes prize €30.000 prize €20.000 prize €10.000 Age limit 17-35 years old Participants must be born between 01.01.1976 – 01.01.1994 The Jury South-Korea Hyoung-Joon Chang Russia [...]

The contestants for the 1st round of the competition have been announced. We look forward to hearing them all in Tromsø in June. The complete list is available here. Ashot, Khachatourian Armenia [...]

Here are our Artistic Director Tori Stødle’s thoughts and dreams about the realisation of an International Piano Competition in Tromsø: When I moved to Tromsø in 1972 to take up the position as [...]