When, in 2015, Isabella Vasilotta took over the direction of the Orléans International Piano Competition, succeeding its founder, the indispensable Françoise Thinat, she had two dreams: to commission a work from Pascal Dusapin and to bring in the Ensemble intercontemporain, the Formula 1 of modern music.
She has just completed both, the same year that no one would have bet on the feasibility of the contest.
This real feat says a lot, both about the particular spirit that blows through this unique event in the world, and on the faith in moving mountains of the Milanese musicologist, who relies on a team of… two people!
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The 2020 edition is scheduled for spring.
Sensing confinement coming in the light of the Milanese experience, Isabella Vasilotta prefers to cancel, while immediately starting to prepare a postponement in the fall.
The 28 candidates of 21 nationalities are pre-selected online, on video: too complicated to bring them to Orléans,
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