11.   It is the best piano competition in the world.

12.   Lev Vinocour is remarkably relaxed for someone in the biggest piano competition of his life.

13.   Nagel says piano competitions are microcosms of a professional career.

14.   Nineteenth-century romantic music is always in at a piano competition.

15.   On two occasions, Ioudenitch won minor piano competitions, allowing the family to pay their rent.

16.   One of the biggest challenges for an international piano competition is the logistics of screening applicants.

17.   She served as a judge in many piano competitions as well as giving lectures and master classes around the country.

18.   The granddaddy of competitions, the Tchaikovsky in Moscow, is not strictly a piano competition, either.

19.   It is considered one of the most prestigious piano competitions in the world, and winners have often gone on to major careers.

20.   Two costly concert grand pianos were stolen on their way to a national piano competition.