It’s interesting to note that the bio doesn’t mention the Chopin competition but rather the Montreal one which he won (I believe Christopher O’Riley came second).
Lol, coming from the competition that’s pretty funny actually. “Ivo has won the prestigious Montreal competition and, ehhr, participated in some other too BUT WE DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THEN”.
When is the application deadline for these things incidentally? Perhaps he had applied to the Tchaikovsky already before “losing” the Chopin?
I don’t know. If it’s summer '82, probably application (by post) was a year before? 18 months at most I assume. He was accepted and everything was printed up, so he must have changed his mind in the 6 months before it began.
Well, either way they apparently reserved 1st place for him already upon seeing his application.
@88 Erwin you once asked me about recordings of Naum Grubert. Here’s his '78 Tchai Comp booklet print
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I haven’t even heard of a couple of those composers.
I haven’t even heard of the pianist
Kazhaeva and Banschikov? I don’t know the latter but Kazhaeva I’ve heard from the video of Steven Kemper at the Tchai Comp that I uploaded. She was the celebrity-composer of choice for the comp.
I suppose the second is this guy:
http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.45575
(b Kazan′, 9 Nov 1943). Russian composer. He studied composition with Balasanian at the Moscow Conservatory (1961–4) and then at the Leningrad Conservatory under Arapov (1965–6) with whom he also undertook postgraduate work (1966–9). He joined the Composers’ Union in 1967 and in 1980 was appointed board member of the St Petersburg branch. He has taught at the St Petersburg Conservatory since 1974, was made senior lecturer in 1983 and professor
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He placed 6th in 1978, which IMO was the most competitive of all the Tchaikovsky Comps.
Laureates
I Prize – Mikhail Pletnev (USSR)
II Prize – Pascal Devoyon (France), Andre Laplante (Canada)
III Prize – Nikolay Demidenko (USSR), Evgeny Ryvkin (USSR)
IV Prize – Terence Jadd (Great Britain), Boris Petrov (USSR)
V Prize – Christian Blackshow (Great Britain)
VI Prize – Naum Grubert (USSR)
Unfortunately I haven’t heard much from him. I did find a live Paganini Rhapsody from probably a couple decades back but I don’t have a date for it.
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Naum Grubert is fantastic pianist. I’ve heard him 3 times in the last 15 years in Zagreb - all Brahms Violin Sonatas with his brother Ilya Grubert, Brahms PC 1 and Chopin-Schumann recital with amazing Symphpnic Etudes. He is very serious musician, not a trace of show-off, has big sound with some beautiful colors. I’ve worked with him two times on masterclasses and he was great as a teacher as well. Very demanding, have to say. He takes a lot of care for the quality of the every possible sound and everything is connected with music and it’s meaning. He lives and teaches in Amsterdam.
I have few of his recordings and will post them this week. One CD with Mussorgsky Pictures & Rachmaninov pieces, some BBC broadcasts with Schubert D. 960 and some Schubert-Liszt songs as well as Winterreise with Robert Holl.
Recently, he recorded Schumann disc (op. 13, op. 17) and Beethoven sonatas disc, which both got good reviews. I have somewhere that Schumann disc as well.
Also he is very nice and polite person.
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Thank you Vlad and kreso!
I also attended a masterclass with Grubert in Den Haag, where he was invited at the Conservatory, before he settled down in Holland. Maybe his career is a bit low profile, but I was very much impressed by his pianism and demanding, detailed way of teaching.
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Terence Judd was a great talent
Interesting to note a couple legends in this list.
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Btw. @vladspeedster Do you have any other booklet of Tchaikovsky competition? Those two are soo cool! (May I ask where did you get from?)
Randomly, every time I see this thread title I think of the sequel to Once Were Warriors.
Da Judd was great, tru!
Is I da only mofo here who is fond of da Ogdongah?
I iz a Ogdong fan fo sho
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Count me in as well
Needs to be fairly early though 
@kreso that’s it for now and I don’t have complete booklets. Someone I know befriended a woman (musician) who attended the comps and heard Oborin, Sofronitsky et al.
I really like the story my teacher told me about Ogdon. He was interviewing him on BBC TV some time around 1970, and as the interview drew to a close, was trying to induce him to play something for the studio audience.
“… but you must be working on something just now?”
“Uh, no…”
“… you must have something you can play for us?”
Da ogdong reaches into the bag that’s rather inelegantly made its way onto the set with him.
“Well, I bought some scores this afternoon…”
Rummages around and retrieves a salonny paraphrase type piece, and sightreads it live on air. 