Competition Results 2002

 

Including the latest update, the results of 139 international piano competitions and 1 international string competition that have been held up to now in 2002 are listed below, in chronological order. By clicking on the list on the left (alphabetical by country, city or name), you will jump to the right spot.

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Concorso Internazionale di Musica, Tollo (it)
27 - 29 December 2002

Piano - Category E

      1. (primo premio assoluto) Cetti Schinocca (it) 
      1. (primo premio) Ileana Olimea (it)
      1. (primo premio) Angela Giancristofaro (it) 

No more contestants in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Camillo Togni", Gussago (it)
12 - 15 December 2002

Category F - Pianoforte e Orchestra 

      1. Gabriele del Santo (it) 
      2. ---.
      3. Orazio Cataldi (it)

Total: 10 pianists in this highest category

 

Concorso Europeo Pianistico "Citta di Valentino", Castellaneta (it)
10 - 18 December 2002

Piano - Category G

      Winner: Viviana Velardi (it)

 Total: 4 invited participants in this highest category 

 

Concours Grand Prix Animato , Paris (f) (AAF)
8 - 10 December 2002

      1. Siheng Song (chn) 
      2. Denis Losev (Russia)

Total: 6 invited pianists

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, Marsala (it)
7 - 10 December 2002

      1. Raimon Garriga Moreno (esp) 
      2. Toomas Vana (est) 
      3. Roberto Corliano (it)

Total: 30 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale Sanremo Classico, Sanremo (it)
6 - 12 December 2002

      1. Liu Miyata (jpn) 
      2. Vanya Cohen-Aloro (f) 
      3. Atsuko Niki (jpn)

Total: 40 pianists took part

 

Alexei Nasedkin Piano Competition, Yaroslav (Russia)
6 - 12 December 2002

      1. Irina Ovsyannikova (Russia) 
      2. Ekaterina Kalatchikova (Russia) 

Total: 12 contestants in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale Ennio Porrino, Cagliari (it)
29 November - 4 December 2002

      1. Hiroko Koseki (jpn) 
      2. Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor) 
      3. Giacomo Battarino (it)

Total: 12 pianists took part

 

Konzerteum International Piano Competition, Piraeus (gr)
24 November - 1 December 2002

Grand Konzerteum

      1. Eduard Kunts (Russia) 
      2. ---.
      3. ---.
      4. (ex aequo:) Konstantin Popandopoulo (gr) 
                              Spiros Souladakis (gr)

Total: 6 contestants for the Grand Konzerteum Prize

 

Concurs Internacional de Piano, Andorra
23 November - 2 December 2002

      1. Sviatoslav Khitev (Russia) 
      2. Yumi Sato (jpn) 
      3. Varvara Miagkova (Russia) 

Other finalists:
          Plamena Mangova (bul)
          Tomomi Miyazaki (jpn)
          Makoto Yamahata (jpn)

Total: 34 participants

 

International Piano Competition "Jazeps Vitols", Riga (lat)
23 November -  1  December 2002

      1. Stanislav Solovjev (Russia) 
      2. Mikhel Poll (est) 
      3. (ex aequo:) Toms Ostrovskis (lat) 
                              Raimonds Patrauskis (lat) 

Other finalist:
          Elina Bertina (lat)

Total: 15 participants

 

Concours International pour des Jeunes Pianistes, Fribourg (ch)
23 - 24 November 2002

Category 7

     1. Viva Morand Sanchez (ch) 
     2. Yuka Oechslin (ch)

No more participants in this highest category

 

Concours Bach, Paris (f)
23 - 24 November 2002

Piano - 6eme degre

     1. Maki Kondo (jpn) 
     2. Aurelie Dornon (f)

Other finalist:
        Emmanuel Savoye (f) 

Total: 6 participants in this highest category

 

Concours de Geneve (ch) (Fed.)
20 November - 5 December 2002

Piano

     1. Sergei Kudriakov (Russia) 
     2. Akiko Yamamoto (jpn)
     3. Yuma Osaki (jpn)

Total: 42 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "M. Lysenko", Kiev (ukr)
19 - 30 November 2002

Piano

      1. Wu Tsun (chn) 
      2. Mikhail Danchenko (ukr) 

Other finalists:
          Olga Koreneva (ukr)
          Andrej Kutasevich (ukr)
          Mariya Pukhlianko (Russia)

Total: 10 pianists took part

 

Takahiro Sonoda International Piano Competition, Oita (jpn)
17 - 23 November 2002

      1. Hibiki Tamura (jpn) 
      2. Aiko Yajima (jpn) 
      3. Hiroko Suseki (jpn)

Total: 18 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Virtuosi", Usti nad Labem (cz)
15 - 17 November 2002

Category 3

      1. Darko Varga (y) 
      2. (ex aequo:) Yevgeniya Dorofeyeva (ukr) 
                              Olena Shoyket (frg) 
      3. (ex aequo:) Jan Luks (cz)
                              Soniya Yakovenko (ukr) 

Total: 23 contestants in this highest age group

 

International Piano Competition "Xavier Montsalvatge", Girona (esp)
15 - 17 November 2002

      1. Pilar Lopez-Carrasco Comajuncosas (esp) 

Spec. Prize: Junko Yamamoto (jpn)

Total: 8 contestants

 

International Piano Competition "Tomas Marco", Las Rozas (esp)
10 - 16 November 2002

      1. Federico Gianello (it) 
      2. (ex aequo:) Ekaterina Titova (ukr) 
                              Lev Vinocour (Russia)
      3. (ex aequo:) Pablo Amoros Buqueras (esp)
                              Makoto Yamahata (jpn)

Total: 15 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Dr. Luis Sigall", Vina del Mar (chl) (Fed.)
2 - 9 November 2002

      1. Eleonore Karpukhova (Russia) 
      2. (ex aequo:) Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor) 
                              Miku Omine (jpn) 

Total: 17 contestants of the 18 who were invited, took part

 

International Horowitz Competition for Young Pianists, Kiev (ukr)
2 - 7 November 2002

Category D

      1. ---.
      2. Mariya Kalugina (ukr)
      3. Olga Zadorozhnyuk (ukr)    
      4. ---.
      5. Alisa Kupriyova (ukr)
      6. Kostyantyn Tishko (ukr)

Total: 23 contestants in this highest category

 

Concours de Piano Sino-Francais "MIDO", Beijing (chn)
1 - 3 November 2002

Category 10

      1. Jun Fan (chn)
      2. Bo Hu (chn)
      3. (ex aequo:) Zheng Ma (chn)
                              Jian Sun (chn)
                              Tian-yang Wang (chn)
                              Jing-ke Yan (chn)

Total: 32 contestants for this highest category

 

Concorso internazionale pianistico "Premio Giuliano Pecar", Gorizia (it)
30 October - 3 November 2002

      1. Valentina Igoshina (Russia) 
      2. (ex aequo:) Stepan Kos (cz)
                              Luca Trasbucco (it) 
      3. Alessio Cioni (it)

Other finalist:
          Viller Valbonesi (it)

Total: 27 contestants for the "Premio Pecar"

 

Concorso Internazionale di Pianoforte "Premio Gramsci", Cagliari (it)
27 - 31 October 2002

Highest category

      1. (Primo premio assoluto) Ruben Meliksetian (arm) 
      1. (primo premio)              Eridana Jermaka 

No more contestants in this highest category

 

European Piano Competition, Treviso (it)
25 Oct. - 18 Nov. 2002

      1. Bruna Pulini (it)
      2. Lorenzo di Bella (it)
      3. Hando Nahkur (est) 
      4. Gabriele del Santo (it) 
      5. Stephanos Thomopoulos (gr) 

Total: 25 participants

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico, Pecchi (it)
24 - 27 October 2002

      1. Michele Montemurro (it)
      2. (ex aequo:) Caterina Arzani (it) 
                              Alessandro Barneschi (it) 
      3. Emi Shinzato (jpn)

Total: 11 participants

 

Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Pianistica "Premio Vanna Spadafora"
Venetico Superiore (it)
23 - 24 October 2002

      1. Fabiano Casanova (it)
      2. (ex aequo:) Gesualdo Coggi (it) 
                              Giuseppe Misaferi (it) 
      3. Vincenzo di Stefano (it)

Total: 13 participants

 

Concorso Pianistico "Premio Stefano Marizza", Trieste (it)
23 - 24 October 2002

      1. Volha Stsiashko (belo)
      2. (ex aequo:) Gyorgy Adam (hun) 
                              Emese Mali (hun) 

Total: 14 participants

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico, Agropoli (it)
22 - 27 October 2002

      1. Hiroyo Imagawa (jpn)
      2. (ex aequo:) Matej Arendarik (f) 
                              Aya Koseki (jpn) 

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Roma 2002", Rome (it)
21 - 29 October 2002

      1. Denis Gromov (Russia)
      2. Federico Gianello (it) 
      3. Elena Sadzhikova (Russia) 

Total: 18 contestants

 

Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, Xiamen (chn)
18 - 31 October 2002

Piano

      1. Haochen Zhang (chn)
      2. Eun-Taek Kim (cor) 
      3. Evgueni Andreev (Russia) 
      4. Pui-Lam Avan Yu (can) 
      5. Zhang Zuo (chn)
      6. Roman Merenkov (Russia)

Total: 63 young pianists took part

 

European Piano Competition "Luciano Gante", Pordenone (it)
16 - 19 October 2002

      1. Alberto Nose (it)
      2. (ex aequo:) Ali Hireche (f) 
                              Davide Cabassi (it) 
      3. (ex aequo:) Michelangelo Carbonara (it) 
                              Federico Lovato (it)

Total: 18 participants

 

International Piano Competition for Young Musicians, Enschede (hol) (AAF)
13 - 18 October 2002

Group B

      1. Eduard Kunts (Russia)
      2. Katharina Titova (ukr) 
      3. Mladen Colic (y)

Prix Unique: Andrej Korobeinikov (Russia) 

Total: 26 participants in this highest age category 

Group A

      1. Ji-Hye Kim (cor)
      2. Andrej Nesterenko (Russia) 
      3. (ex aequo:) Alexandre Nikolic (serb)
                              Vladimir Rumiantsev (Russia)

Total: 19 contestants in this younger age group 

 

Concorso Internazionale di Musica "Gian Battista Viotti", Vercelli (it) (Fed.)
5 - 12 October 2002

Piano

      1. Yeol-Eum Son (cor) 
      2. Ekaterina Mechetina (Russia) 
      3. Lorenzo di Bella (it)

Total: 53 participants in the piano competition

 

International Piano Competition, Bitola (mace)
5 - 9 October 2002

Highest Category

      1. Eduard Kunts (Russia) 
      2. Tatjana Bojinovska (mace) 
      3. Vesna Tasevska (mace)

No more contestants in this highest category

 

International Piano Competition, Porto (prt) (Fed.)
1 - 12 October 2002

      1. Yurino Izumi (jpn) 
      2. Matei Varga (rum) 
      3. Elena Portnaya (Russia)
      4. Makoto Yamahata (jpn) 
      5. Tamara Kordzadze (geor)
      6. Razvan-Victor Dragnea (rum)

Total: 50 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition Franz Liszt, Wroclav (pol)
1 - 11 October 2002

      1. Sergei Pashkevitch (Russia) 
      2. Sofiya Gulyak (Russia) 
      3. Masataka Takada (jpn)
      4. Lyubov Gegetchkori (geor) 
      5. Mi-Jung Park (cor)

Total: 41 pianists took part

 

Internationaler Chopin Wettbewerb, Darmstadt (frg)
1 - 10 October 2002

      1. Joanna Marcinkowska (pol) 
      2. Konstantinos Kalakonas (gr) 
      3. Slawomir Wilk (pol)
      4. Ai Matsumoto (jpn) 
      5. Galina Tshistjakova (Russia)
      6. Maki Inoue (jpn)

  Total: 45 participants

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Rina Sala Gallo", Monza (it)
28 September - 6 October 2002

      1. Beata Bilinski (pol) 
      2. Boris Feiner (isr) 
      3. Inga Kazantseva (Russia) 

  Total: 32 participants

 

A.D. Artobolevskaya Open Competition for Young Pianists, Moscow (Russia)
25 September - 6 October 2002

Festival category

      1. ---.
      2. Vladimir Ivanov (Russia) 
      3. (ex aequo:) Viva Morand Sanchez Reynozo (ch) 
                              Alexei Valerivitch Sytchev (Russia)

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Giulio Mosconi", Parma / Borgo Taro (it)
25 - 29 September 2002

      1. Michele Montemurro (it)
      2. Bruna Pulini (it) 
      3. Ali Hireche (f)

  Total: 8 participants

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, Pavia (it)
24 - 29 September 2002

      1. Gueorgui Trendafilov (bul) 
      2. Yuri Otsubo (jpn) 
      3. Alessandra Giunti (it)

Total: 11 participants

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, Sulmona (it)
24 - 29 September 2002

      1. Ekaterina Ledeneva (Russia)
      2. Rebecca Cap (irl) 
      3. Ruben Dalibaltayan (arm)

  Total: 35 participants

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Amadeus", Tolmezzo (it)
23 - 25 September 2002

      1. Caterina Arzani (it)
      2. Giacomo Miglioranzi (it) 
      3. Sebastiano Paladino (it)

  No more participants

 

Concorsi Pianistico Internazionale "V. Bellini", Caltanissetta (it)
16 - 23 September 2002

      1. ---.
      2. (ex aequo:) Hyo-Jee Kang (cor) 
                              Marc-Pierre Toth (can) 

Other finalist:
          Leonardo Zunica (it)

Total: 11 participants

 

Jose Iturbi Competition, Valencia (esp) (Fed.)
7 - 20 September 2002

      1. Maria Sissi (gr)
      2. (ex aequo:) Severin von Eckardstein (frg) 
                              Maria Stembolskaya (Russia)
      3. ---.
      4. Annalisa Londero (it)
      5. Massimiliano Motterle (it) 
      6. Alexei Goulenko (mold)

  Total: 29 participants

 

Grieg Competition, Oslo (n)
6 - 8 September 2002

      1. Luiza Borac (rum)
      2. Hinrich Alpers (frg)
      3. Mayumi Ogawa (jpn)
      4. Joachim Kwetzinsky (n) 

  Total: 17 participants 

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistica "Valsesia - Musica", Varallo (it)
6 - 13 September 2002

      1. ---.
      2. (ex aequo:) Kanade Joho (jpn)
                              Eleonora Karpukhova (Russia)
      3. Young-Ah Tak (cor)

  Total: 54 participants 

 

International Music Competition - Lions Club, Brussels (b)
6 September 2002 (European Finals)

European Finals

    1. Ran Dank (isr)
    2. Mariangela Vacatello (it) 

  Total: 12 finalists

 

ARD Internationaler Musikwettbewerb, Munich (frg) (Fed.)
5 - 16 September 2002

Piano

   1. Denis Proshchaev (ukr) 
   2. Ferenc Vizi (rum) 
   3. Chiao-Ying Chang (tai)

  Total: 49 pianists took part  

 

Carl Filtsch International Music Competition, Sibiu (rum)
4 - 8 September 2002

Category C

Main prize: Federico Lovato (it) 
    1. Gabriela Ungureanu (rum) 
    2. (ex aequo:) Dragnea Razvan (rum) 
                            Renea Octavian (rum)
    3. (ex aequo:) Barba Nicolay (ukr) 
                            Mariana Jecova (mold)
                            Silvana Negrutiu (rum)

  Total: 10 participants in this highest category. 
All of them passed to the finals.

 

Internationaler MusikWettbewerb "Johannes Brahms", Pörtschach (a)
25 August - 1 September 2002

Piano

      1. Miroslav Sekera (cz)
      2. Hiroyo Imagawa (jpn)
      3. Aleksandra Mozgiel (pol)
      4. Anh Trung Sam (frg) 

  Total: 16 participants in the piano competition 

 

International Piano Competition, Vresse s/Semois (b)
25 - 28 August 2002

Category C

      1. Katharina Treutler (frg)
      2. (ex aequo:) Michal Krczlewski (pol)
                              Liebrecht Vanbeckevoorde (b)
      3. (ex aequo:) Liliana-Sinziana Alexandru (rum) 
                              Simona Gjorceva (mace) 

  Total: 12 participants in this highest category

 

Monterosa - KAWAI International Piano Competition, Varallo (it)
24 - 25 August 2002

Category E

      1. Gabriele Carcano (it)

 Only one participant in this highest category. 

(Category F was cancelled
since none of the applicants showed up)

 

Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, Bolzano (it) (Fed.)
22 - 28 August 2002 (first phase)

Results of First phase

The following 24 pianists are admitted to the second phase (August 2003):

Giuseppe Albanese (it), Olivier Besnard (f), Yuri Blinov (belo), Chiao-ying Chang (tai),
Alessio Cioni (it), Jing Du (chn), Leonid Egorov (Russia), Lyubov Gegetchkori (Russia),
Alberto Ferrari (it), Roberto Giordano (it), Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor), Denis Losev (Russia), 
Jong-Hwa Park (cor), Daria Rabotkina (Russia), Masaya Tanaka (jpn), Bo Tong (chn),
Alexandra Trussova (frg), Mariangela Vacatello (it), Di Wu (chn),
Henry Wong Doe (nzl), Siyuan Wang (chn), Mu-ye Wu (chn), Chun-chieh Yen (tai),
and You-you Zhang (chn)

  Total: 102 pianists took part 

 

Concorso Internazionale di Musica da Camera "Palma d'Oro", Finale Ligure (it)
19 - 21 August 2002

Piano

      1. Yusuke Tagaya (jpn)
      2. Christian Chamorel (ch)

Other finalist:
          Marco Gaggini (it)

  Total: 4 participants in the piano competition

 

Wiener Pianisten-Wettbewerb, Vienna (a)
12 - 24 August 2002

Category C

      1. Ayako Eto (jpn)
      2. Yun-Jeong Cho (cor)
      3. Tayuko Nakao (jpn)

  Total: 13 participants in this highest category

 

International Competition for Young Pianists, Ettlingen (frg)
10 - 18 August 2002

Category B:

     1. Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (f) 
     2. Hibiki Tamura (jpn)
     3. Alina Pronina (Russia)
     4. Rachel Naomi Kudo (usa)
     5. Hye-Yeon Park (cor)

Total: 43 pianists played in this highest category

Category A:

     1. Misuzu Kikuchi (jpn) 
     2. Alexei Gorlatch (ukr)
     3. Harim Sandra Song (cor)
     4. Hui Wu (chn)
     5. Ryutaro Suzuki (jpn)

Total: 48 pianists played in this junior category

 

Maj Lind International Piano Competition, Helsinki (fin)
6 - 22 August 2002

      1. Alberto Nose (it)
      2. Kotaro Fukuma (jpn)
      3. Pierre Mancinelli (f)
      4. Juho Tuomas Pohjonen (fin)   
      5. Albert Tiu (phl)
      6. Sarah Tysman (f) 
      7. Joonas Ahonen (fin)
      8. Mei Yi Foo (mal)

  Total: 37 pianists took part

 

PTNA International Piano Competition, Osaka - Tokyo (jpn) (AAF)
3 - 26 August 2002

Delegate Category

     1. Hibiki Tamura (jpn)
     2. Yurino Izumi (jpn)
     3. Mizuki Satoh (jpn)

Total: 49 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Piano Competition, Santander (esp) (Fed.)
27 July - 7 August 2002


     1. ---.
     2. Boris Giltburg (isr)
     3. (ex aequo:) Ning An (usa)
                            Soyeon Lee (cor) 

Total: 19 pianists took part in Santander

 

International Chopin Piano Competition, Taipei (tai)
26 July - 4 August 2002

Youth Section

  1. Shiue-lin Day
  2. Tzu-yi Chen
  3. (ex aequo:)  Yang Chen
                          Yi-chih Lu

Total: 68 contestants in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale - Premio Sergio Fiorentino, Morcone (it)
26 - 29 July 2002


Premio Sergio Fiorentino - primo premio assoluto:
Mario Angelelli (it)

     1. (ex aequo:) Daniele Camiz (it) 
                             Angelo Miele (it)
     2. (ex aequo:) Angelo Arciglione (it)
                             Hyo-Lm Lim (cor)
                             Yasuhito Watanabe (jpn)
     3. (ex aequo:) Luca Bruno (it)
                             Salvatore Pezzotti (it)

Total: 11 participants

 

International Piano Competition, New Orleans (usa)
20 - 28 July 2002

     1. Hee-Sung Joo (cor) 
     2. Lev Vinocour (Russia)
     3. Esther Jung-A Park (cor) 

Total: 13 pianists invited, of whom 12 actually participated

 

Klavierpodium, Muenchen (frg)
12 - 14 July 2002

Category V

No first prize.

Finalists:
    Elitza Dzambasova (bul)
    Parida Wali (chn)

Total: 5 participants
in this highest category

 

Glenn Gould International Piano Competition, Ostra (it)
11 - 18 July 2002

     1. Tatjana Michko (Russia) 
     2. Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor)
     3. Stefano Greco (it)
     4. Marc Toth (can)
     5. Saule Tlenkiyeva (kzk)

Total: 31 participants

 

A.M.S.A. World Piano Competition, Cincinnati (USA)
3 - 10 July 2002

Finalists Artists section

     1. Eun Joo Chung (cor) 
     2. Daria Rabotkina (Russia) 
     3. Oxana Mikhailoff (Russia)

Total: 10 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Young Artist Piano Competition, Washington (usa)
29 - 30 June 2002

Group 6 - Young Professionals

  1. Wenqing Zhang (tai)
  2. Eunice Pascua Quinones (phl)

Honorable Mention:
      Kevin Hobbs (usa) 

Total: 130 pianists took part
of which 5 entered this highest category

 

J. S. Bach International Music Competition, Leipzig (frg) (Fed.)
25 June - 6 July 2002

Piano

  1. Martin Stadtfeldt (frg)
  2. (ex aequo:) Andrew Brownell (usa) 
                          Eric Fung (hk)
  3. ---.
  4. Aya Tominaga (jpn)  
   5. Herbert Schuch (frg)
  6. Marianna Nevolovitch (Russia) 

Total: 55 pianists took part

 

Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Salt Lake City (USA) (Fed.)
17 - 29 June 2002

  1. Cedric Pescia (ch)
  2. Vasily Primakov (Russia) 
  3. Lev Vinocour (Russia)
  4. Nicolas Stavy (f)
  5. Hae-Jung Cho (cor)
  6. Albert Mamriev (isr)

Total: 32 invited pianists
of whom 29 took part

 

International Music Competition, Val Tidone (it)
13 - 16 June 2002

Premio Silvio Bengalli

  1. ---.
  2. (ex aequo:) Miroslav Dacic (y)
                          Takashi Fujii (jpn)
  3. Erno Feher (hun)

Total: 31 participants in this category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, Minerbio (it)
12 - 21 June 2002

  1. (ex aequo:) Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor) 
                         Yuliya Smolskaya (Russia) 
  2. Viller Valbonesi (it)
  3. (ex aequo:) Natalia Salikharevitch (Russia) 
                         Massimiliano Valenti (it)

Total: 24 participants

 

Naumburg International Music Competition - Piano, New York (USA)
Finals on 11 June 2002

1. Gilles Vonsattel (ch)
2. Konstantin Sukhovetsky (Russia) 
3. Lev Vinocour (Russia)
4. Yael Weiss (isr)

 

Tchaikovsky International Music Competition, Moscow (Russia) (Fed.)
6 - 23 June 2002

Piano

 1. Ayako Uehara (jpn)
 2. Alexei Nabiulin (Russia)
 3. (ex aequo:) Ju Jin (chn)
                        Andrej Ponochevny (belo)
 4. ---.
 5. (ex aequo:) Dong-Min Lim (cor)
                        Dmitry Onishchenko (ukr)
 6. ---.

 Diplomas:
     Pavel Dombrovsky (Russia)
     Dmitri Teterin (Russia)

Total: 55 contestants in the piano competition

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Pausilypon-Denza", Napoli (it)
6 - 9 June 2002

Premio Pausilypon - F. Denza

 1. Eugen Mursky (uzb)
 2. Roberto Prosseda (it)
 3. Roberto Corliano (it)

Total: 28 participants in this Category

 

International e-competition, Minneapolis (USA)
4 - 16 June 2002

 1. Mei-ting Sun (usa)
 2. Viktoria Korchinskaya-Kogan (can) 
 3. ---.
 4. Edisher Savitski (geor)
 5. Tatjana Kolessova (Russia)
 6. Wu-yin Chan (tai)

Other finalist:
      Tao Lin (chn)

Total: 40 participants

 

International piano competition "Step towards Mastery", St. Petersburg (Russia)
3 - 10 June 2002

Category B

 1. (ex aequo:) Jayi Sun (chn) 
                        Alexander Lubyantcev (Russia) 
 2. Andrej Baranenko (Russia)
 3. (ex aequo:) Andrej Korobeinikov (Russia)
                        Georgi Tchaidze (Russia)

Total: 18 participants in this highest category

 

International piano competition "FLAME", Paris (f)
3 - 10 June 2002

 1. Anne-Claire Lantenois 
 2. Anna Jbanova

Total: 7 participants

 

Concorso Pianistico Nazionale* "Citta di Cesenatico" (it)
1 - 8 June 2002
(*: however open to pianists of all nationalities)

Category F

 1. Emi Shinzato (jpn)
 2. Stefania Neonato (it)

Total: 6 participants in this highest Category

 

International Music Contest, Vignola (it)
30 May - 3 June 2002

 1. Julian Riem (frg) 
 2. (ex aequo:) Luis Munoz (chl) 
                         Fabio Rosai (it)
 3. Sarah Hiller (gb)

Total: 18 participants

 

International Piano Competition "Alessandro Casagrande", Terni (it) (Fed.)
29 May - 9 June 2002

 1. Hisako Kawamura (jpn) 
 2. Hong-Chun Youn (cor)
 3. Henri Bonamy (f)

Other finalist:
     Eugenia Rubinova (uzb)

Total: 55 participants

 

International Piano Competition "Sigismund Thalberg", Napoli (it)
28 - 31 May 2002

 1. Elisabetta Mangiullo (it)

Other finalist:
     Adam Zukiewic (pol)

Total: 10 participants

 

Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Pianistica "Premio Fryderyk Chopin", Racconigi (it)
27 - 29 May 2002

 1. Alessandra Maria Ammara (it)
 2. Junko Watanabe (jpn)
 3. Nikolaj Bogdanov (Russia)

Total: 8 participants

 

Concorso Pianistico Europeo "Alfredo Speranza", Taranto (it)
22 - 25 May 2002

 1. Giuliano Mazzocante (it)
 2. (ex aequo:) Laura Clare McDonald (aus) 
                         Kiyo Wada (jpn)
 3. Cesare Castagnoli (it)

Total: 13 participants

 

International Piano Competition "AMA Calabria", Lamezia Terme Nicastro (it)
21 - 26 May 2002

 1. Yuliyana Avdeeva (Russia)
 2. Ayano Kobayashi (jpn)
 3. Stepan Kos (cz)
 4. (ex aequo:) Annalisa Londero (it) 
                        Ekaterina Bajenova (Russia) 
 5. Federico Gianello (it)

Total: 47 participants

 

International Piano Competition, Sakai (jpn)
15 - 19 May 2002

General Section

 1. Runa Inaba (jpn)
 2. Noriko Sezaki (jpn)
 3. Maki Ishida (jpn)

Semi-finalists:
 4. Kazuko Nakayama (jpn) 
 5. Akemi Shiono (jpn)
 6. Masako Kaida (jpn)
 7. Sachiko Tsubomoto (jpn) 
 8. Mitsuko Omura (jpn)
 9. Asako Tejima (jpn)

Total: 75 participants in this highest category

 

International Piano Concerto Competition, Cantu (it)
11 - 19 May 2002

Classical Concerto Repertoire

 1. Plamena Mangova (bul)
 2. (ex aequo:) Nami Ejiri (jpn) 
                         Alessio Cioni (it)
 3. Davide Cabassi (it)

 Other finalist:
     Raluca Stirbat (rum)

48 pianists took part in this category 

Romantic Concerto Repertoire

 1. (ex aequo:) Roberto Corliano (it)
                         Toshiki Usui (jpn)
 2. ---. 
 3. Ekaterina Popova (belo)

72 pianists took part in this category 

 

Russian Music International Piano Competition, San Jose (USA)
11 - 17 May 2002

Advance category

1. Dmitri Demiashkin (Russia) 
2. Luis Magalhaes (prt)
3. Darrett Zusko (can)

Total: 15 contestants in this top category

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Premio Mauro Monopoli", Barletta (it)
8 - 12 May 2002

1. Kimberly Chen (tai) 
2. Chih-long Hu (tai) 
3. Albert Mamriev (isr) 

Total: 16 participants

 

Petar Konjovic International Piano Competition, Belgrade (y)
5 - 15 May 2002

Category VIII

No prizes awarded

Three pianists took part in this highest category 

 

Kaufmann European Piano Competition, Brussels (b)
Finals on 4 May 2002

Category C

1. Liebrecht Vandebeckevoort (b) 
2. Vanda Albota (rum) 

Other finalists in this highest category:
    Grant Bagrazyan (arm) 
    Candice Bricout (b)

 

Chopin Competition, Szafarnia (pol)
May 2002

Senior Category

   1. Grzegorz Glowacki (pol) 
   2. ---.
   3. Marcin Fleszar (pol)

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, Carlet (esp)
30 April - 4 May 2002

Category C

       1. Inese Klotina (lat)
       2. Angel Sancho Herrera (esp) 
       3. Takahiro Mita (jpn) 

Total: 5 pianists took part in this highest category 

 

Concours International de Piano Jean Françaix, Vanves (f)
26 - 27 April 2002

1. Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (f) 
2. Simon Zaoui (f) 
3. (ex aequo:) Misora Lee (jpn) 
                        Kaori Tanaka (jpn) 

Total: 39 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Europeo, Vasto (it)
25 April - 1 May 2002

1. ---.
2. (ex aequo:) Pablo Amoros Buqueras (esp) 
                       Davide Muccioli (it)
3. (ex aequo:) Caterina Picasso (it) 
                       Leonardo Zunica (it) 

Total: 5 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Tallinn (est)
25 - 28 April

Category B

1. Lev Terskov (Russia)
2. Liidia Ilves (est)
3. Maxim Shtshura (est) 

 

Concours International de Piano Nikolaj Rubinstein, Paris (f)
25 - 26 April 2002

Category Excellence

1. ---.
2. Dudana Mazmanishvili (geor) 
3. (ex aequo:) Yakov Ayvaz (Russia) 
                        Natalia Krokhina (Russia) 
                        Alexander Shavgulidze (geor) 

Total: 8 participants in this highest category

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano Nueva Acropolis, Madrid (esp)
24 - 26 April 2002

1. Omar Sanchez (esp)
2. Krystian Tkaczewski (pol) 
3. Ave Kruup (est)

Other finalist:
    Jelena Gurova (est)

Total: 18 contestants

 

Missouri Southern International Piano Competition, Joplin (usa)
22 - 27 April 2002

Senior Category

1. Robert Henry (usa) 
2. Li Wang (can) 
3. Young-Ah Tak (cor) 

Other finalists:
    Ran Dank (isr)
    Oxana Mikhailoff (Russia) 

Total: 20 pianists invited
to this highest category

Junior Category

1. Avan Pui-Lam Avan 
2. Jonathan Ware
3. Sun-Ho Lee 

Diplomas:
    Dustin Gledhill (usa)
    Sun-Wook Kim (cor) 

Other finalist:
    Jingyi Zhang

 Total: 14 pianists invited
to this junior category

 

Pianists selected for the International Piano Competition in Santander (esp)
announced on 22 April 2002

From 206 applications from 46 different countries for the International Piano Competition in Santander (August 2002), 92 received an invitation to enter the Preselection stage, and the following 20 pianists have been selected to compete in Santander. Three additional pianists were asked to be "stand-by":

Boris Giltburg (isr), Sodi Braide (nig), Lidija Bizjak (y), Jewgenij Sudbin (Russia/frg), Christopher Hinterhuber (a), Konstantin Sukhovetski (Russia), Chu-fang Huang (chn), Ning An (USA), Yunjie Chen (chn), Xiang Zou (chn), Minsoo Sohn (cor), Edisher Savitski (geor), Soyeon Lee (cor), Jong-Gyun Park (cor), Emilio González Sanz (esp), Albert Mamriev (isr), Martin Stadtfeld (frg), Sergei Kuznetsov (Russia), Ivan Rudin (Russia), and Alexander Romanovski (ukr).

The three pianists that were asked to be "stand-by" are:
Antti Siirala (fin), Tanya Bannister (gb), and Lluis Rodrígues Salvá (esp).

Total: 20 pianists selected plus 3 stand-by

 

Maria Canals International Piano Competition, Barcelona (esp) (Fed.)
20 - 28 April 2002

1.  Viv McLean (gb)
2. (ex aequo:)  Kook-Hee Hong (cor)
                        Alexandre Moutouzkine (Russia) 
3. (ex aequo:)  Mayumi Asano (jpn)
                        Yun-Yang Lee (cor)

Total: 64 participants

 

Rencontre International de Jeunes Pianistes, Viseu (prt)
18 - 20 April 2002

1. Siheng Song (chn)
2. Mattei Varga (rum) 
3. Amir Tebenikhin (kzk)

Total: 6 pianists invited

 

Sonata - Sonatina International Piano Competition, Corpus Christi (usa)
13 April 2002

Top category

  1. (ex aequo:) Christopher Beavers (usa) 
                          Eric Sun (usa)

Two pianists invited to this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Valtar Massaza", Casale Monferrato (it)
8 - 13 April 2002

  1. Olga Zdorenko (ukr)
  2. Vedrana Kovak (Russia)
  3. Maria Semeraro (it)

Other finalist:
      Gueorgui Trendafilov (bul)

Total: 28 participants

 

London International Piano Competition, London (gb)
6 - 16 April 2002

1. Giuseppe Andaloro (it)
2. Alberto Nose (it) 
3. Andrej Shibko (Russia)

Of the 24 invited pianists, 21 took part

 

International Piano Competition Arthur Rubinstein in Memoriam, Bydgoszcz (pol)
5 - 15 April 2002

  1. Julianne Awdiejew (Russia) 
  2. Rafal Blechacz (pol)
  3. Timur Shcherbakov (belo)
  4. Dasha Moroz (Russia)
  5. Andrij Jaroszhinsky (ukr)
  6. Agata Lukasiewicz (pol)

Total: 36 pianists took part

 

Bartók - Kabalevsky International Piano Competition, Radford (usa)
5 - 7 April 2002

Adult - First Level

  1. (ex aequo:) Ketevan Badridze (geor) 
                          Yuri Blinov (belo)
  2. George Seth François (ghn)

Total: 25 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Franz Liszt International Piano Competition, Utrecht (hol) (AAF)
2- 13 April 2002

1. Jean Dubé (f)
2. Ilona Timtchenko (Russia) 
3. Giancarlo Crespeau (f)

Total: 37 pianists took part

 

Concours National* de Piano, Sucy-en-Brie (f)
24 March, 2002
(* open to pianists of all nationalities)

Degré Supérieur

Med. 1 - 1. Canan Kocaay
Med. 1 - 2. Hae Rim Cha
Med. 1 - 3. Vincent Roa

Total: 16 pianists in this top category

 

Concours de Piano Eurorégion, Arras (f)
23 - 24 March, 2002

Degré Virtuosité

1. (ex aequo:) Evelina Borbei (Russia)
                        Eun-Ju Hong (cor)
2. Yumina Hirabayashi (jpn)

Total: 5 pianists in this top category

 

Rachmaninov International Piano Competition, Pasadena (CA, USA)
22 March - 6 April, 2002

1. Jewgeni Mikhailov (Russia)
2. Mizuka Kano (jpn)
3. ---.

Other finalists:
Fedor Amirov (Russia)
Ning An (usa)
Jan Krzysztof Broja (pol)
Alessio Cioni (it)
 

 

Rencontre International des Jeunes Pianistes, Mée s/Seine (f)
22 March, 2002

Winner: Denis Losev (Russia) 

Total: 5 invited pianists

 

Tchaikovsky Competition in Japan, Tokyo (jpn)
21 - 24 March, 2002

  1. Miho Tokaji (jpn)
  2. Yohei Wakioka (jpn)
  3. Mihail Hollack (jpn)

Total: 21 participants

 

Krainjev International Piano Competition, Kharkov (ukr)
19 - 31 March, 2002

Senior Category

  1. Olexandr Maslov (Russia)
  2. Tristan Pfaff (f)
  3. Valeriya Kucherenko (ukr)

29 contestants in the Senior category

Junior Category

  Grand Prix (ex aequo):
      Hidekazu Yasuda (jpn)
      Zuo Zhang (chn)
      Valeriya Mirosh (ukr)
  1. (ex aequo:) Katerina Levchenko (ukr)
                         Nariya Nogi (chn)
  2. Ksenia Rodionova (Russia)
  3. Maria Naroditska (ukr)

41 contestants in the Junior category

 

Championnat de Belgique, Spa (b)
17 March, 2002

Championnat Piano Musique Classique

  1. Catherine Sebock
  2. Aurélie Milazzo
  3. Perrine Darmigny

Total: 3 participants in this highest category

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, San Sebastian (esp)
16 - 25 March, 2002

Category Superior:

  1. Anne-Sophie Latour (f) 
  2. Lutxi Nesprias (f)
  3. Sophie Garcia (f)

 

Concours International de Piano, Saint Nom-la-Bretèche (f)
16 - 25 March, 2002

  1. ---.
  2. Yumeko Mochizuki (jpn) 
  3. Akemi Ueda (jpn)
  4. Haruka Miyazaki (jpn)

Other finalist:
      Harumi Suzuki (jpn)

Total: 26 participants

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, Jaén (esp)
14 - 22 March, 2002

  1. Anna Vinnitskaya (Russia)
  2. Lilian Akopova (ukr)
  3. Ya-ou Xie (chn)

Total: 22 participants

 

Concours International de Musique de l'UFAM, (f)
17 March, 2002

Piano Category Honneur

  1. (ex aequo:) Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (f)
                        Till Lefranc (f)
  2. Romain Coharde (f)
  3. Yuko Yamashiro (jpn)

Total: 8 participants

 

Washington International Competition, Washington (DC, USA)
9 - 10 March 2002

1. (ex aequo:) Robert Henry (usa)
                        Yoshikazu Nagai (jpn)
2. Ralitza Patcheva (bul)

Other finalists:
    I-chen Chen (tai)
    Zhe Li (chn)
    Paul Wyse (usa)

Total: 37 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano, Medoc Aquitaine (f)
8 - 10  March, 2002

  1. Ami Uematsu (jpn)
  2. Kumiko Yoshida-Ly (jpn)
  3. Anne-Sophie Charignon (f)

 

Concorso Internazionale di Musica "Città di Pinerolo" (it)
7 - 10  March, 2002

Piano

  1. Luca Trabucco (it)
  2. Tali Morgulis (ukr)
  3. (ex aequo:) Evelina Borbei (Russia) 
                        Aleksandra Mikulska (pol)

Total: 38 participants

 

International Piano Competition Bedrich Smetana, Pilzen (cz)
6 - 10  March, 2002

Top Category 3:

  1. ---.
  2. Mio Sakamoto (jpn)
  3. Aya Inaba (jpn)

Diploma:
      Tatjana Zakhariva (belo) 

 

Rencontre International des Jeunes Pianistes, Casablanca/Rabat (mor)
6 - 9  March, 2002

  1. Siheng Song (chn)
  2. Maurizio Baglini (it)
  3. Denis Losev (Russia) 

Total: 7 invited pianists

 

International Piano Competition Emmanuel Durlet, Antwerpen (b)
5 - 10  March, 2002

  1. Lucas Blondeel (b)
  2. Anna Sheludko (Russia)
  3. Katsura Mizumoto (jpn)
  4. Jean-Michel Dayez (f)
  5. Kiyotaka Izumi (jpn)
  6. Aoi Toku (jpn)
  7. Vital Stakhievitch (belo)
  8. Elena Krasnobaeva (Russia) 
  9. Elena Bobrovskich (Russia)
10. Simone Wolff (frg)

Total: 27 participants

 

International Piano Competition, Hilton Head (usa)
4 - 10  March, 2002

  1. Konstantin Sukhovetski (Russia) 
  2. Dustin Gledhill (usa)
  3. Esther Jung-A Park (cor)

Total: 22 participants

 

"Maria Callas" International Piano Competition, Athens (gr) (Fed.)
2 - 11  March, 2002

  1. Yong-Kyu Lee (cor)
   2. Rusen Özgür Aydin (tur)
  3. Alessandra Maria Ammara (it) 

Other finalist:
  Gergély Bogányi (hun)

Total: 22 participants

 

Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition
Results of preselection announced, March 5, 2002

From over 500 applicants, the following 32 pianists have been selected  and received an invitation to compete in the 2002 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition,
Salt Lake City (Uta, USA), June 2002

Maurizio Baglini (it), Evelina Borbei (Russia/f), Sodi Braide (nig/f), Daniel Burlet (brs), Hea Jung Cho (cor), Ruben Dalibaltayan (arm), Shani Diluka (sri), Ching-Wen Hsiao (tai), Brian Lee (can),
Colleen Lee (hk), Marina Lomazov (ukr/usa), Petronel Malan (rsa), Nana Mamaeva (ukr), Albert Mamriev (isr), Mikhail Mordvinov (Russia/frg), Massimiliano Motterle (it), Ian Parker (can), Cedric Pescia (ch), Irena Portenko (ukr), Vassily Primakov (Russia), Chuan Qin (chn), Sandro Russo (it), Nicolas Stavy (f), Hironao Suzuki (jpn), Amir Tebenikhin (kzk), Stephanos Thomopoulos (gr), Robert Utter (fin), Lev Vinocour (Russia/frg), Gilles Vonsattel (ch), Bryan Wallick (usa), Lu Wang (chn), Xiang Zou (chn)

Total: 32 pianists selected 

 

Concours International de Piano XXe Siècle, Orléans (f) (Fed.)
25 February - 5 March, 2002

1. Winston Choi (can) 
2. Nino Jvania (geor)
3. Makoto Ueno (jpn)

Total: 27 participants

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Scriabin", Grosseto (it)
19 - 24 February 2002

1. ---.
2. Roberto Corliano (it)
3. (ex aequo:) Sevène Dona (f)
                      Laurent Durupt (f)

Total: 27 participants in this top category

 

Etudes & Scales Competition, Zagreb (crt)
19 - 24 February 2002

Category V

  1. ---.
  2. ---.
  3. Albert Vucinovic (crt) 

1 participant in this top category

 

International Piano Competition, Brest (f)
9 - 11 February 2002

Category Z - Chopin

1. (ex aequo:) Simon Zaoui (f)
                      Arnaud Arbet (f)
2. (ex aequo:) Tatjana Maximenia (Russia) 
                      Réna Miyamoto (jpn)
                      Alexandre Lacombe (f)
3. (ex aequo:) Louis Lancien (f)
                      Marie Vermeulin (f)

Total: 40 participants in this top category

 

1st Piano Campus International Piano Competition, Pontoise (f)
9 - 10 February 2002

1. Siheng Song (chn)
2. Hisako Kawamura (jpn)
3. Edvinas Minkstimas (lit)

Total: 11 invited participants present

 

2nd International Competition of Young Soloists at the Piano, Patras (gr)
7 - 12 February 2002

1. Mariya Kim (ukr)
2. Eleni Mavromoustaki (gr)

Total: 3 pianists

 

3rd Concours International de Piano Francis Poulenc, Brive (f)
6 - 12 February 2002