Modartt video contest 2022 - the winning entries

Congratulations to all winners!
And congratulations to everyone who made it to the twelve to vote for. Fantastic!
And thanks to all the other participants with fantastic entries.

You are all skilled pianists/musicians with fine technique and have such a fine artistic touch to the playing.
The jury always have a hard time, but after listening to entries/winners ten years back, I can see clearly that at least these criteria, (skill, technique, artistic touch, among other of course) weigh a lot in the jury.Thanks to everyone on the jury, a tough one this year, maybe the toughest. Glad you got it done.

Sorry if I'm taking up space here but a short explanation why I participate year after year even though friends are saying you never win, why do you participate…you won't make it among those experts….

Ever since my first entry 2013 I didn't think I would be able to win a prize in this competition because there are so many fine pianists and expert participants, but I participate every year because it gives me more and more experience and playing skills and it's fun to be together among all these wonderful people and competition entries. The best forum on the internet.

I have learned so much during ten years in this fantastic forum and contests, discovered things about myself, (sometimes we don't know our resources), I have become more creative with my playing, got friends......thank you all.

And a special Thank you to Modartt for existing, for giving my life change and variation with these wonderful instruments every day, I have often hectic days in my life, and a sense of isolation, as a caregiver for my wife. When playing I can relax.

I'm eternally grateful. You have all my deepest thanks.

I'm looking forward to this year's Contest    And I hope my enthusiasm can help someone else to continue as well. I never give up.       

Best wishes,

Stig

Thank you very much for your votes. I've been using Pianoteq for a short time and I didn't expect to be among the award winners!
At the same time, I congratulate all participants on great performances and very interesting ideas, especially the winners of the 1st and 2nd prizes. Great experiments with Pianoteq's sounds reveal big possibilities of the technology of modeling not only the sounds of an acoustic piano. And the performance as well as the sound of organ piece is simply impressive!
Of course, I am a pianist and being able to get such a good expression of the sound of real pianos on a virtual instrument is a real discovery for me.

Congratulations to all the winners, well done! I had so much fun entering this competition. I will definitely enter again this year

Congratulations miiindbullets, rumburak, and MaurizioP, on your winning entries! I very much enjoyed your submissions.

Congrats to everyone else who participated and thanks to everyone who voted.

Are the results available, Niclas? This link only shows me the list of all entries.

My entry isn't the first recording I've done with Pianoteq -- I'll take this opportunity to share two of my other Pianoteq recordings.

The New York Steinway D sings and is one of my absolute favorites:

https://youtu.be/y6rJvdodNfM

More recently, I recorded with the Steingraeber E-272, which has a very pure tone, quite suitable for Bach:

https://youtu.be/q9h1RxYRx8k

Thanks all!

Thank you everyone for your kind feedback. We are so happy that these events are appreciated this much.

Oops, that was sort of a typo from my side (corrected now). Hopefully, we should be able to present more detailed results after the next contest.
Navindra, your entry ended up on 6th place. So, very close and well deserved. Thanks again for participating.

If anyone else of you who competed in the final would like to know your final placement, please send me a private message.

Phew, this one was certainly the toughest competition I've known, with so many excellent entries before we even got to the final 12 - and then it was really hard to eliminate any of them! Many congratulations to the winners and all participants.
The competition always challenges me to try something a bit different, and once again I had a lot of fun with my entry.

Yes indeed, the Pianoteq /Organteq community is something very special - the internet at its best IMHO!