Dave Fields wrote: >One word: Wow! What beautiful music making this is, and what great stage >presence, from what I can tell! Is he really 20? He looks younger, but his >maturity is amazing. What more do you know about him? Is there a bio or >website? Has he won other contests? Will he play again in the US anytime >soon? Does he have an agent who might know? Doug, apologies for not getting back to you sooner. Yes, he's really 20. Is Russian, from Sweden currently. His prize includes a performance of the Prokofiev 3rd with orchestra in San Jose this December. That's all I know for now. No website yet, and the Scarbo you saw/heard had some errors that may have kept him 'merely' a finalist a year ago in the Jaen compeittion. For more, you can write [log in to unmask] who is representing him here now, after the competiton, until they can find him major representation in the U.S. Here are video links to a San Jose reheasal of the Tchaikovsky (a full movement) which I think is better than the competition performance, but then that's not surprising. Also listed is a rehearsal segment of a solo portion of the Prokofiev 3rd piano concerto which he played, but that's very short. For cablemodem/DSL/lan - high speed, higher fidelity http://www.kvod.com/jby/demiashkin_reh_tchai_hi_res.wmv http://www.kvod.com/jby/demiashkin_rehearses_prok3_hi_res.wmv For Slow normal modems, low speed, low fidelity http://www.kvod.com/jby/demiashkin_reh_tchai_lo_res.wmv http://www.kvod.com/jby/demiashkin_rehearses_prok3_lo_res.wmv In either case you can, with Internet Explorer 5.x, right-click on a URL and choose "Save Target As" and download it to play on the computer direct. With Netscape, you can press concurrently left-shift and left-mouse-click to save the file to a specific directory. - Andrys http://andrys.com