It can be considered bad luck to enter a competition twice, but Evangeliya Delizonas-Khukhua had no qualms about entering the 6th NTD International Piano Competition (NIPC) after having made it to the semi-finals round in the 5th NIPC.
An alum of the renowned Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Delizonas-Khukhua had heard positive things about the competition from Russian pianist friends. “It’s a very small community,” she said.
Honored to have made it to the finals and happy to have performed all the works she programmed for the competition, Delizonas-Khukhua said, “I’m very honored to be selected as one of six finalists, because the level of the competition was very high … everybody played so beautifully.”…