WORLD PIANO TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
(WPTA) SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION 2025
Recital Studio @
Missing out on Mikhail Pletnev and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra has its compensations. Getting to hear talented young pianists perform is one of them. The 7th edition of the World Piano Teachers Association Singapore International Piano Competition has unearthed more new talent from different age groups and nations - children and adults - for an encouraging and enjoyable show at its annual gala concert.
A small list of piano teachers' names was read out to represent the pianists on show this evening, and it was staggering. Christopher Elton, Armen Babakhanian, Iryna & Kseniia Vokhmianina were among them, and just imagine how much talent that meant. The youngest ones were beginners but showing immense promise, while the oldest ones were performing repertoire to be heard in major international piano competitions. All were rewarded Gold or Platinum awards for their efforts. Some of them had also travelled long distances to perform here.
The pianists and performances were as follows:
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| Jexin Zion Lin crossed his hands many times in Gillock's impressionistic Fountain in the Rain |
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| Luke Warren Winardi (Indonesia) was the littlest pianist but created a gospel vibe in Hartsell's Sunsets in Savannah |
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| Charlotte Olivia Mantiri (Australia) gave a spirited account of the 1st movement from Kuhlau's Sonatina in C major |
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| Liang Ziyang displayed some rubato in Chopin's Mazurka in A minor (Op.17 No.4) |
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| Amelie Chloe Mantiri (Australia) gave a fluent account of Miriam Hyde's Woodland Sketch |
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| Sophie Chua Ming Rui was measured in tempi for Liszt's Eclogue from Annees de pelerinage (Suisse) |
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| Foo Ming En was confident and technically secure in the 1st movement from Beethoven's Sonata in D major (Op.10 No.3) |
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| Lin You Ming brought out the melancholy of Chopin's Nocturne in B flat minor (Op.9 No.1) |
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| Hillary O'Sullivan worked the 2nd movement from Grieg's Sonata in E minor to a suitably rousing climax.
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| Adjudicator Olena Bulatova (Ukraine) playing New Zealander Yuri Serikov's Chopinesque Revelation Fantasia. |
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| Cherry Wei Ge displayed vast contrasts in a selection of Beethoven's Bagatelles Op.119 and Rachmaninov's Etude-tableaux Op.39 No.1 |
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| Taeksu Oh (South Korea) fully realised the Romantic impulses in the 1st movement from Beethoven's Sonata Op.109 and romped through the pentatonic fantasy that is the Finale from Bartok's Sonata. |
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| Taeksu Oh received his awards from Ukrainian pianist Kseniia Vokhmianina. |
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| Cherry Wei Ge won the Best Classical Award from Iryna Vokhmianina. |
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| All the major prizewinners and performers. |
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| WPTA Singapore President Kseniia Vokhmianina with the Artist Award winners Taeksu Oh & Cherry Wei Ge. |
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| A well-deserved supper at MakanSutra Gluttons Bay after Pletnev & Co had long gone home. |
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