By Mike Winter

In the interests of time, here’s whom I hope the jury will choose, in order of appearance.

Ran Dank - Eduard Kunz - Soyeon Lee - Di Wu - Zhang Zuo - Lukas Vondracek -Evgeni Bozhanov - Ang Li - Andrea Lam  - Haochen Zhang - Yoonjung Han - Mayumi Sakamoto

This is always crunch time.  The cut from 29 (or from 35 in 2005) to 12 is brutal.  There is a hierarchy, of course, in a general vague consensus, but decidng where to draw the line is like severing a limb.

I have five more pianists to review, and that will be forthcoming, but I wanted to get this published before the jury speaks, just for fun (one year I got 10 out of the 12).  Anyone they choose will be wonderful.

Mike Winter

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