117 As a chamber musician, he enjoys many long-standing collaborations with musicians such as David Geringas, Erika Geldsetzer, and the Mandelring Quartet, performing in concerts and festivals throughout Europe, Japan, and Korea. Future plans include performances at major festivals in New York, Duszniki (Poland), Prague, Siena, and Shenzhen. Ian Fountain has made several critically acclaimed recordings, including for EMI (20th Century Piano Sonatas), CRD (Beethoven Diabelli Variations), and for Sony and Haenssler Classics the complete works for cello and piano of Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Rachmaninov with the cellist David Geringas. In 2015, he won an ECHO gramophone prize in Germany. In 2008, he collaborated in the preparation of the present editions of Beethoven's Sonatas and Variations for Piano and Cello published by Henle Verlag, Munich. In January 2019, his fingerings for the complete Beethoven Variations for piano were published in the new Henle edition. Since 2001, Ian Fountain has been a piano professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London. His students have won many competitions and awards. He holds an annual summer masterclass in Cervo, Italy, and further masterclasses, in Beijing, Berlin, Hanover, Budapest, and Jerusalem. He has served on the juries of many international piano competitions, including the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in 2011. Since 2022, Ian Fountain has been Artistic Director of the International Schubert Piano Competition in Dortmund, Germany. Pavel Gililov Pavel Gililov was born in 1950 in Ukraine. As a musical prodigy, promoted by Dimitri Kabalewsky, Gililov completed his piano studies at the Leningrad Conservatory with honors. Whilst still a student, Pavel Gililov won the National Piano Competition in Moscow in 1972. He is the winner of the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw and the International Viotti Piano Competition in Vercelli (1st prize). In 1978 Pavel Gililov emigrated to the West and continued his concert and teaching activities. From 1979 to 2013 he taught as Professor of Piano at the Cologne University of Music and since 2007 until today he is Professor for Piano at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. His engagements with leading orchestras and numerous performances in the most important cultural metropolises of the world, were enthusiastically received by the audience and critics. The CD recordings for Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, RCA Victor, Toshiba EMI, Orfeo and others consolidated his reputation. Jury Members
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