Original sentence: At age 16, he came to international attention when the jury at the 1966 International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition awarded him the gold medal.Despite his Tchaikovsky Competition success, Sokolov's international career began to develop only towards the end of the 1980s.He is among the most esteemed of living pianists , spanning composers from the baroque period such as Bach, Couperin or Rameau up to Schoenberg and Arapov
Edited sentence: At age 16, he came to international attention when the jury at the 1966 International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, headed by Emil Gilels, unanimously awarded him the gold medal.Despite the international prestige of his Tchaikovsky Competition success, Sokolov's international career began to flourish only towards the end of the 1980s.He is among the most esteemed of living pianists and is widely admired as a pianist of uncompromising technical perfection, visionary interpretations and broad repertoire, spanning composers from the baroque period such as Bach, Couperin or Rameau up to Schoenberg and Arapov