Jury

Jury

Jury of the YPF European Piano Competition 2025

Severin von Eckardstein
Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden
Edith Fischer
Nino Gvetadze
Ronan O’Hora (non-voting Chair)
Hannes Minnaar
Malcolm Singer
Einav Yarden

Ronan O’Hora

Ronan O’Hora (1964) studied piano at the Royal Northern College of Music in the United Kingdom. He has regularly appeared in solo, chamber, and concerto

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Severin von Eckardstein

Severin von Eckardstein, one of the leading German pianists of his generation, has an already lengthy record of solo concerts and concerto performances on major

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Nino Gvetadze

Born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze leads an active international music life as a soloist and a chamber musician. Her performances have been

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Hannes Minnaar

Performing on the 33rd season of the renowned piano series, Serie Meesterpianisten, 2019 in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw a review headlined his debut as “Hannes Minnaar proves

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Einav Yarden

Pianist Einav Yarden is praised for her “imagination and exceptionally vivid playing…sense of immense majesty, tempered by gentleness and quiet grace” (The Washington Post, USA),

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Malcolm Singer

Malcolm is Director of Music at the Yehudi Menuhin School, and a professor of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

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Edith Fischer

A whole life devoted to music, constantly searching for a deeper understanding and rendering of a vast repertory, have been the leading factors of an

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