AAF-Competitions results

Competition Results 2003

Including the latest update, the results of 132 international piano competitions that have been held in 2003 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 per Pianisti e Cantanti "V. Bellini", Caltanissetta (it)
17 - 20 December 2003

Pianists

   1. Martina Filjak (crt)
   2. (ex aequo:) Ayano Shimada (jpn)
                           Viktoria Yermolyeva (ukr)
   3. (ex aequo:) Giuseppe Gullotta (it)
                           Yuki Matsuzaka (jpn)

Total: 11 pianists took part

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Citta di Valentino", Castellaneta (it)
10 - 18 December 2003

Category G

Winner: Luca Donati (it)

Other finalist:
Akemi Ueda (jpn)

Total: 12 pianists took part in this highest category

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Franz Liszt", Grottamare (it)
10 - 14 December 2003

    1. ---.
    2. Zhou Ying (chn)
    3. ---.
    4. Shaochen Meng (chn)

Other finalists:
Robert Holm (usa)
Liu Lin (chn)

Total: 9 pianists took part

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Camillo Togni", Gussago (it)
4 - 7 December 2003

Category Pianoforte e Orchestra

    1. ---.
    2. Lubov Barsky (isr)
    3. Lukas Klotz (frg)

Total: 3 pianists took part in this highest category

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico, Marsala (it)
3 - 7 December 2003

    1. Kae Shiraki (jpn)
    2. Jie Zheng (chn)
    3. (ex aequo:) Joon Kim (cor)

Other finalists:
        Lusine Khatchatryan (arm)
        Masao Kitsutaka (jpn)
        Yumi Sato (jpn)

Total: 32 pianists took part

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Ennio Porrino", Cagliari (it)
1 - 5 December 2003

    1. Luca Rasca (it)
    2. ---.
    3. (ex aequo:) China Kusaka (jpn)
                            Mayuko Sata (jpn)

Total: 22 pianists took part

Rencontres Internationales des Jeunes Pianistes, Namur (b)
27 - 30 November 2003

Category 3

                    1. Rasa Vitkauskaite (lit)
                    2. Misa Kakumoto (jpn)
                    3. Lucy McLellan (gb)

Total: 21 pianists took part in this highest category

Seiler International Piano Competition, Sofia (bul)
24 - 30 November 2003

Category 2

    1. (ex aequo:) Simeon Panov (bul)
                            Maki Sekiya (jpn)
    2. (ex aequo:) Eugen Dumitrescu (bul)
                            Ana Lincheva (bul)
    3. Georgi Pironkov (bul)

Khatchaturian International Piano Competition, Yerevan (arm)
24 - 30 November 2003

    1. Tanya Gabrielian (usa)
    2. Tinatin Kiknadze (geor)
    3. (ex aequo:) Ruben Dalibaltayan (arm)
                            Mamikon Nahapetov (geor)

Other finalist:
Lilit Grigoryan (arm)

Total: 17 pianists took part

Concurso de Piano Internacional, Andorra
15 - 21 November 2003

    1. Marouan Benabdallah (hun)
    2. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)
    3. Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor)
    4. (ex aequo:) Chih-Long Hu (tai)
                           Mikhail Mordvinov (rus)

Other finalists:
        Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt (f) - Diploma
        Akihito Okuda (jpn) - Diploma
        Haruka Kuroiwa (jpn)
        Dudana Mazmanishvili (geor)

Total: 54 pianists took part

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Stefano Marizza", Trieste (it)
15 - 21 November 2003

1. Dora Deliyska (bul)

Spec. pr.: Lorenzo Cossi (it)

Total: 8 pianists took part

Sanremo Classico International Piano Competition, Sanremo (it)
15 - 21 November 2003

    1. Arnaud Arbet (f)
    2. Michele Sampaolesi (it)
    3. Shu-wen Chen (tai)

Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Hamamatsu (jpn) (Fed.) (AAF)
10 - 24 November 2003

             1. ---.
             2. (ex aequo:) Rafal Blechacz (pol)
                                    Alexander Kobrin (rus)
             3. Sergei Salov (ukr)
             4. (ex aequo:) Shohei Sekimoto (jpn)
                                    Rina Sudo (jpn)
             5. Hironao Suzuki (jpn)
             6. ---.

Total: 83 of the invited pianists took part

International Piano Competition "Carlos Cruz de Castro", Las Rozas (esp)
8 - 11 November 2003

             1. Yung Wook Yoo (cor)
             2. (ex aequo:) Juliana Avdeeva (rus)
                                    Eduardo Fernandez (esp)

Other finalist:
Marc Toth (can) (Special Prize)

Total: 19 pianists took part

International Piano Etude Competition "Johann Baptist Cramer", St. Georgen (frg)
6 - 8 November 2003

Category IV "Superior"

1. (ex aequo:) Angele Venslauskaite (lit)
Ivailo Zlatev (bul)
2. (ex aequo:) Yue-lin Gong (chn)
Anna Pavlova (lat)
3. ---.

No more contestants in this highest category

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Antonio Napolitano", Vietri sul Mare (it)
5 - 8 November 2003

1. Alessandra Giunti (it)
2. Takashi Fujii (jpn)
3. (ex aequo:) Stefania de Santi (it)
Vincenzo de Stefano (it)

Total: 14 pianists took part

Anton Rubinstein International Piano Competition, Dresden (frg)
4 - 19 November 2003

1. Alicia Gabriela Martinez (ven)
2. Pavel Raykerus (rus)
3. Hiroyo Imagawa (jpn)

Concours International de Piano "Olivier Messiaen", Paris (f)
2 - 11 November 2003

1. Chuan Qin (chn)
2. Prodomos Symeonidis (gr)
3. Hue-Am Park (cor)
4. Fedor Amirov (rus)

Total: 15 pianists took part

Second China Shanghai International Piano Competition, Shanghai (chn)
31 October - 13 November 2003

     1. Adam Golka (pol)
     2. Alasdair Beatson (gb)
     3. Alexander Moutouzkine (rus)
     4. Mu-ye Wu (chn)
     5. Hong-Chun Youn (cor)
     6. Jun Fan (chn)

Total: 33 pianists took part

San Antonio International Piano Competition, San Antonio (TX, usa)
28 October - 1 November 2003

     1. Roger Wright (usa)
     2. Young-Ah Tak (cor)
     3. Boris Feiner (isr)
     4. Charisse Baldoria (phl)
     5. Dahye Choi (cor)

Total: 14 invited pianists took part

Konzerteum International Piano Competition, Marathon (gr)
25 October - 2 November 2003

     1. ---.
     2. Masataka Takada (jpn)
     3. (ex aequo:) Tokiko Kobayakawa (jpn)
                             Nikolaos Savidis (gr)
     4. Ayano Kobayashi (gr)

Other finalist:
Chie Tsuyuki (jpn)

Internationaler Franz Liszt Wettbewerb, Weimar (frg)
24 October - 2 November 2003

     1. ---.
     2. Julian Gorus (isr)
     3. Risto-Matti Marin (fin)

Other finalist:
Tamara Kordzadze (geor)

Total: 8 pianists took part

Honens International Piano Competition, Calgary (can) (Fed.)
23 October - 7 November 2003

             1. Xiang Zou (chn)
             2. Winston Choi (can)
             3. Roberto Plano (it)

Other finalists:
4. Romain David (f)
5. Einav Yarden (isr)

Total: 21 invited pianists took part

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Luciano Gante", Pordenone (it)
22 - 25 October 2003

     1. Laurent Durupt (f)
     2. Michele Montemurro (it)
     3. (ex aequo:) Federico Gianello (it)
                            Andrea Secchi (it)

Other finalists:
Davide Cabassi (it)
Luca Trabucco (it)

Total: 21 pianists took part

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Florestano Rossomandi", Bovino (it)
21 - 25 October 2003

     1. Marian Sobula (pol)
     2. Michelangelo Carbonara (it)
     3. (ex aequo:) Shunji Hirota (jpn)
                             Cristiano Zanellato (it)

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Roma 2003", Rome (it)
14 - 27 October 2003

Concorso di Esecuzione

                   1. Wei-chi Lin (tai)
                   2. Marc-Pierre Toth (can)
                   3. Armine Grigorian (arm)

Total: 11 pianists participated in this highest category

Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Pianistica, Agropoli (it)
14 - 19 October 2003

    1. ---.
    2. ---.
    3. (ex aequo:) Chikako Kakigi (jpn)
                             Johanna Strzelecka (pol)
    4. Maya Onishi (jpn)

Total: 10 pianists participated in this highest category

Concorso Pianistico Europeo "Eliodoro Sollima", Villafranca Tirrena (it)
13 - 19 October 2003

Category E

                   1. (assoluto) Serafino Fiorenza (it)
                   1. Dario Arico (it)
                   2. ---.
                   3. Teresa Burderi (it)

Total: 3 pianists participated in this highest category

Newport International Piano Competition, Newport (gb)
9 - 12 October 2003
(First round: 8-10 July, London)

    1. Miao Huang (chn)
    2. Helene Tysman (f)
    3. Sofia Gulyak (rus)

Total: 26 pianists participated

Bremer Klavierwettbewerb, Bremen (frg)
5 - 15 October 2003

    1. Julian Gorus (bul)
    2. Yulianna Avdeeva (rus)
    3. (ex aequo:) Julia Fedulajeva (rus)
                           Dorel Golan (isr)

Total: 31 pianists participated

Concurso Internacional de Piano "Parnassos", Monterrey (mex) (AAF)
4 - 12 October 2003

   1. (ex aequo:) Anna Bogolyubova (ukr)
                           Piotr Banasik (pol)
   2. Ron Trachtman (isr)
   3. (ex aequo:) Rodolfo Ritter (mex)
                           Spyros Thomas (gr)
   4. Yukiko Ooku (jpn)

Total: 17 pianists took part

Concorso Musicale Internazionale "G.B. Viotti", Vercelli (it) (Fed.)
4 - 12 October 2003

Piano

   1. Hyo-Sun Lim (cor)
   2. ---.
   3. ---.

Other finalists:
Jun Nakao (jpn)
Akiko Nikami (jpn)

Total: 30 pianists took part

Concurso Internacional de Musica, Porto (prt) (Fed.)
1 - 12 October 2003

   1. Yusuke Kikuchi (jpn)
   2. (ex aequo:) Inga Kazantseva
                           Annalisa Londero (it)
   3. Ji-Hoon Jun (cor)
   4. Olga Monakh (ukr)
   5. Eun-Nyung Erika Chun (cor)

Total: 59 pianists took part

Guerrero International Piano Competition, Madrid (esp)
30 September - 10 October 2003

         1. Alexandre Moutouzkine (rus)
         2. (ex aequo:) Claudio Carbo Montaner (esp)
                                 Bruna Pulini (it)

Total: 12 pianists took part

First Taiwan International Piano Competition (TIPC), Taipei (tai) (AAF)
25 September - 5 October 2003

         1. ---.
         2. Chiao-ying Chang (tai)
         3. Mariya Kim (ukr)
         4. Rufus Choi (usa)
         5. Wei-jen Yuan (tai)
         6. (ex aequo:) Shiue-lin Day (tai)
                                Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor)

Total: 26 of the 32 invited pianists participated

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, Pavia (it)
23 - 27 September 2003

       1. Alessandra Giunti (ita)
       2. (ex aequo:) Elena Krasnobaeva (rus)
                               Kaoru Yamamoto (jap)
       3. Mitsue Niimi (jap)

Total: 17 participants

"M.K. Ciurlionis" International Piano and Organ Competition, Vilnius (lit) (Fed.)
22 - 29 September 2003

Piano

1. Sonata Alshauskaite (lit)
2. Irina Zahharenkova (est)
3. Hiroko Koseki (jpn)

Total: 25 pianists participated

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, Sulmona (it)
22 - 28 September 2003

   1. Roberto Corliano (it)
   2. (ex aequo:) Alexander Moutouzkine (rus)
                           Natsumi Ohno (jpn)

Total: 25 pianists took part

Internationaler Schubert-Wettbewerb, Dortmund (frg) (Fed.)
20 - 28 September 2003

        1. (ex aequo:) Amir Katz (isr)
                                Yong-Kyu Lee (cor)
        2. ---.
        3. Yuko Mine (jpn)
        4. Sonja Fraeki (fin)
        5. Geraldine Dutroncy (f)

Total: 64 pianists took part

Concorso Internazionale di Musica, Tolmezzo (it)
18 - 21 September 2003

        1. Matteo Andri (it)
        2. (ex aequo:) Junko Watanabe (jpn)
                               .... Lee (cor)
        3. Stefano Severini (it)

Total: 7 pianists took part

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, Pescara (it)
16 - 21 September 2003

        1. ---.
        2. (ex aequo:) Tatjana Pavlova (rus)
                                Keiko Watanabe (jpn)
        3. Takako Ono (jpn)

Karl Czerny International Piano Competition, Prague (cz)
16 - 20 September 2003

Category 2

        1. Ksenia Rodionova (rus)
        2. Piotr Rozanski (pol)
        3. (ex aequo:) Rihards Plesanovs (lat)
                                Darko Varga (y)

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Ettore Pozzoli", Seregno (it)
9 - 17 September 2003

        1. ---.
        2. Fumio Kawamura (jpn)
        3. Sofia Gulyak (rus)

Other finalist:
Laura McDonald (aus)

Total: 48 pianists took part

Concours International "Gheorghe Enescu", Bucharest (rum) (Fed.)
7 - 14 September 2003

Piano

        1. Ilona Timtchenko (rus)
        2. ---.
        3. (ex aequo:) Razvan Victor Dragnea (rum)
                                Jewgeni Starodubtsev (rus)

Other finalist:
Ferenc Vizi (rum)

Total: 31 pianists took part

Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, Leeds (gb) (Fed.)
3 - 20 September 2003

        1. Antti Siirala (fin)
        2. Evgenia Rubinova (uzb)
        3. Yuma Osaki (jpn)
        4. Igor Tchetuev (ukr)
        5. Chiao-ying Chang (tai)
        6. Sodi Braide (nig)

Total: 72 of the invited 92 pianists took part

International Piano Competition "Grieg", Oslo (n)
6 - 8 September 2003

        1. Jae-Wong Cheung (cor)
        2. Kristian Ofstad Lindberg (n)
        3. Jie Zhang (chn)

Total: 22 pianists took part

Internationaler "Carl Filtsch" Wettbewerb-Festival, Sibiu (rum)
1 - 9 September 2003

Category C

        1. Antonia Stoianova (bul)
        2. Valerieva Lincheva (bul)
        3. Mircea Itcus (rum)

Other finalists:
Carl Filtsch Spec. Prize: Andrei Enoiu (rum)
3rd Prize composition: Joana Tiberian (rum)

Total: 5 pianists took part in this highest category

Concurso Internacional de Ibiza (esp)
1 - 9 September 2003

Seniors

        1. Alexandre Pirojenko (rus)
        2. Jovanni Rey Verceles de Pedro (usa)
        3. Zoltan Fuzessery (hun)

Total: 64 pianists took part in this highest category

Concorso Internazionale "Valsesia Musica", Varallo Sesia (it)
Piano: 31 August - 7 September 2003

        1. (ex aequo:) Luca Trabucco (it)
                                Toomas Vana (est)
        2. (ex aequo:) Giuseppe Gullotta (it)
                                Gueorgui Trendafilov (bul)
        3. Alessandra Giunti (it)

Total: 52 pianists took part

Competizione e Festival Internazionale Music World, Fivizzano (it)
Piano: 30 August 2003

Category Piano Solo (Graduates):

Winner: Natalya Khrapko (ukr)

Total: 6 pianists took part in this category

Concours Clara Haskil, Vevey-Montreux (ch) (Fed.)
29 August - 9 September 2003

No winner this year

Finalists:
        Jacob Katznelson (rus)
        Herbert Schuh (frg)
        Stefan Stroissnig (a)

Total: 73 pianists took part

54th Concorso Ferruccio Busoni, Bolzano (it) (Fed.)
Second phase: 27 August - 6 September 2003

        1. ---.
        2. Maria Stembolskaya (rus)
        3. (ex aequo:) Lyubov Gegetchkori (rus)
                                Mu-ye Wu (chn)
        4. Jong-Hwa Park (cor)
        5. Alberto Ferrari (it)
        6. Alessio Cioni (it)

Total: 22 of the invited pianists took part

Martha Argerich International Piano Competition, Buenos Aires (arg)
25 August - 3 September 2003

           1. (ex aequo:) Alexandre Dossin (brs)
                                  Sergio Monteiro (brs)
           2. Oxana Mikhailoff (rus)

Total: 11 of the selected pianists took part

PTNA Piano Competition, Osaka/Tokyo (jpn) (AAF)
August 2003

Delegate Category

           1. Shohei Sekimoto (jpn)
           2. Naomi Kudo (jpn)
           3. Fuyuka Kusa (jpn)

Other finalists
Shoko Kawasaki (jpn)
Ichiro Kaneko (jpn)

Total: 46 pianists took part in this highest category

Internationaler Johannes Brahms Wettbewerb, Poertschach (a)
24 - 31 August 2003

Piano

           1. Marlena Maciejkowicz (frg)
           2. Yuka Oyabu (jpn)
           3. Costantino Catena (it)
           4. Jung-Woon Shin (cor)

Total: 19 pianists took part

"Music without Limits" International Competition-Festival, Druskininkai (lit)
14 - 23 August 2003

Category F

           1. Viktor Platonov (rus)
           2. (ex aequo:) Ausra Bernataviciute (lit)
                                   Darius Kudirka (lit)
                                   Ekaterina Petrovskaya (rus)
           3. ---.
           4. (ex aequo:) Yuliyanna Krestinina (rus)
                                   Julia Riskina (isr)

Total: 7 pianists took part in this highest category

Wiener Pianistenwettbewerb, Vienna (a)
13 - 21 August 2003

Category D

           1. Michiko Shimizu (jpn)
           2. (ex aequo:) Ji-Young Kang (cor)
                                   Risa Yasuda (jpn)
           3. Hyo-Jin Chung (cor)

Other finalists:
Philipp Richardsen (a)
Adam Szvoren (hun)

Total: 22 pianists took part in this highest category

Concorso Internazionale di Musica "Palma d'Oro", Finale Ligure (it)
21 - 23 August 2003

Piano

           1. ---.
           2. (ex aequo:) Riko Gatzke (frg)
                                   Keiko Takeda (jpn)
           3. Naoko Matsuoka (jpn)

Total: 5 pianists took part

Cleveland International Piano Competition, Cleveland (Ohio, usa) (Fed.)
30 July - 10 August 2003

           1. Kotaro Fukuma (jpn)
           2. Soyeon Lee (cor)
           3. Konstantin Sukhovestki (rus)
           4. Andrius Zlabys (lit)

Total: 37 of the invited pianists took part

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Sergei Rachmaninoff", Morcone (it)
22 - 26 July 2003

           1. Massimo Severino (it)
           2. Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor)
           3. (ex aequo:) Yoko Nishii (jpn)
                                   Sergei Pashkevitch (rus)

Total: 25 pianists took part

New Orleans International Piano Competition, New Orleans (usa)
19 - 27 July 2003

              1. Dmitry Vorobiev (rus)
              2. Hsiang Tu (tai)
              3. Spencer Myer (usa)

Total: 12 pianists were invited to compete

William Kapell International Piano Competition, College Park (MD, usa) (Fed.)
16 - 25 July 2003

       1. Ning An (chn
       2. Ying Feng (chn)
       3. Won Kim (cor)

Total: 41 participants

Competition for the Vendome Prize (AAF)
Final stage, Lisbon (prt)
13 - 15 July 2003

              1. (ex aequo:) Giuseppe Albanese (it)
                                      Boris Giltburg (isr)
              2. Alexandre Pirojenko (rus)

Total: 7 finalists

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Prokofiev", Ostra (it)
1 - 10 July 2003

          1. Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor)
          2. Marc Toth (can)
          3. Martin Surot
          4. Lusine Khatchatarian (arm)

Other finalists:
David Wolff (usa)
Ya-ou Xie (chn)

Total: 15 pianists took part

AMSA World Piano Competition, Cincinnati (usa)
29 June - 9 July 2003

Artists Division

              1. Anastasia Voltchok (rus)
              2. Yongkyu Lee (cor)
              3. Massimiliano Motterle (it)

Total: 18 contestants in the Artists Division

Chopin International Piano Competition, Marianske Lazne (cz)
29 June - 6 July 2003

Category B

          1. Olga Vishnevskaya (rus)
          2. Maki Inoue (jpn)
          3. (ex aequo:) Maria Gabrys (pol)
                                 Viacheslav Grochovski (rus)

Total: 15 contestants in this highest category

International Rudolf Firkusny Piano Competition, Prague (cz)
22 - 27 June 2003

      1. Christian Ihle Hadland (n)
      2. Suzanna Hlinka (aus)
      3. Tomihiro Hatta (jpn)

International Young Artists Piano Competition (IYAPC), Washington (DC, usa)
19 - 22 June 2003

Group 6 - Young Professionals

                         1. Elena Ryepkina (ukr)
                         2. Chia-cheng Sen (usa)
                         3. Michael Alpert (usa)

Total: 4 pianists participated in this highest age category

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, Minerbio (it)
18 - 27 June 2003

      1. Ingmar Schwindt (frg)
      2. (ex aequo:) Fabio Biffi (it)
                              Fan-chiang Yi (tai)
      3. (ex aequo:) Vadim Serebryany (can)
                              Aya Yoshii (jpn)

Total: 21 pianists took part

World Music Masters, Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
16 - 22 June 2003

Winner: Roustem Saitkulov (rus)

Other finalist: Sergei Tarasov (rus)

Total: 8 contestants

First Bachauer Amateur Piano Competition, Salt Lake City (Utah, USA)
16 - 21 June 2003

    1. Suzanna Perez (46, usa)
    2. Charles Chien (42, usa)
    3. Jonathan Hanks (42, usa)
    4. Allan Blumenthal (75, usa)
    5. Michael Moore (57, usa)
    6. Thomas Maurice (43, usa)
    7. Scot King (40, usa)

Concours Geza Anda, Zurich (ch) (Fed.)
12 - 24 June 2003

    1. Alexei Volodin (rus)
    2. Sergei A. Kuznetsov (rus)
    3. Hisako Kawamura (jpn)

Total: 47 contestants

International Music Competitions of the Val Tidone, Pianello Val Tidone (it) (AAF)
11 - 14 June 2003

Premio Silvio Bengalli

         1. Mikhail Lifits (uzb)
         2. Inna Faliks (ukr/usa)
         3. Gesa Luecker (frg)
         4. (ex aequo:) Alexander Schwarzkopf (usa)
                                Sasa Gerzelj (hun)
         5. Naily Saripova (est)
         6. Alessio Cioni (it)

Total: 47 pianists took part in the main competition

Claudio Arrau International Piano Competition, Chillan (chl)
7 - 14 June 2003

         1. ---.
         2. Akane Makita (jpn)
         3. Oksana Glouchko (isr)

Total: 7 invited pianists took part in this competition

Concorso Nazionale di Musica "Robert Schumann", Messina (it)
5 - 8 June 2003

Category G

1. (ex aequo:) Fiorenza Serafino (it)
Gabriele Tomasello (it)

Total: 4 pianists took part in this highest category

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, Acqui Terme (it)
1 - 5 June 2003

Premio "Anton Rubinstein"

         1. Piotr Zukowski (pol)
         2. Takashi Fujii (jpn)
         3. Yoko Nishii (jpn)
         4. (ex aequo:) Margherita Colombo (it)
                                 Tito Spinelli (it)
         5. (ex aequo:) Chiara di Muzio (it)
                                 Nikolaj Bogdanov (ukr)
                                 Ji-Eun Kim (cor)

Total: 15 pianists competed for the Premio Rubinstein

Premio "Johannes Brahms"
Category F

         1. (ex aequo:) Yuko Ito (jpn)
                                 Malgorzata Sajna (pol)
         2. (ex aequo:) Takashi Fujii (jpn)
                                 Yoko Nishii (jpn)
         3. Ji Eun Kim (cor)
         4. Chiara di Muzio (it)

Total: 6 pianists competed in this highest category

International Beethoven Piano Competition, Hradec nad Moravici (cz)
June 2003

Senior category

        1. Aleksandr Stary (cz)
         2. (ex aequo:) Jakub Hyps (cz)
                                 Martina Mergentalova (cz)
                                 Petra Milarova (cz)

Total: 19 pianists took part in this highest category

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Benedetto XIII", Puglia (it)
24 - 25 May 2003

1. Roberto Corliano (it)
2. Alessandra Maria Ammara (it)

Concours "Reine Elisabeth de Belgique", Brussels (b) (Fed.)
8 May - 7 June 2003

         1. Severin von Eckardstein (frg)
         2. Wen-yu Shen (chn)
         3. not awarded (*)
         4. Roberto Giordano (it)
         5. Kazumasa Matsumoto (jpn)
         6. Ju Jin (chn)

Other finalists:
         Valentina Igoshina (rus)
         Mako Okamoto (jpn)
         Jong-Gyung Park (cor)
         Sergei Sobolev (rus)
         Min Soo Sohn (cor)
         Amir Tebenikhin (kzk)

(*) Dong-Hyek Lim (cor) was announced
as 3rd prize winner but he refused his prize

Total: 109 pianists took part

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, Cantu (it)
23 May - 2 June 2003

Concerto Romantico

         1. Oleg Poliansky (ukr)
         2. (ex aequo:) Daniil Sayamov (rus)
                                Mariangela Vacatello (it)
         3. ---.

Concerto Classico

         1. ---.
         2. (ex aequo:) Stefano Ciric (y)
                                Maria Mazo (rus)
         3. ---.

Concorso Pianistico "Premio Arcangelo Speranza", Taranto (it)
21 - 24 May 2003

         1. Maya Glouchkova (bul)
         2. Alessandro Barneschi (it)
         3. Elena Zalessova (rus)

Press prize:
Julia Mustonen (fin)

Concours "Reine Elisabeth de Belgique", Brussels (b) (Fed.)
16 May 2003: Results after 1st round

Semi-finalists

         Maxim Anikushin (usa)
         Konrad Maria Engel (frg)
         Roberto Giordano (it)
         Valentina Igoshina (rus)
         Ju Jin (chn)
         Alexei Kurbatov (rus)
         Johanna Jimin Lee (cor)
         Dong-Hyek Lim (cor)
         Plamena Mangova (bul)
         Kazumasa Matsumoto (jpn)
         Ekaterina Mechetina (rus)
         Mako Okamoto (jpn)
         Yuma Osaki (jpn)
         Petr Ovcharov (rus)
         Jong-Gyung Park (cor)
         Alexander Romanovsky (ukr)
         Wen-yu Shen (chn)
         Ayano Shimada (jpn)
         Sergei Sobolev (rus)
         Min Soo Sohn (cor)
         Amir Tebenikhin (kzk)
         Anna Vinnitskaya (rus)
         Severin von Eckardstein (frg)
         Yung Wook Yoo (cor)

Total: 24 pianists passed the first round

Seiler International Piano Competition, Kitzingen (frg)
13 - 25 May 2003

Seniors

         1. Colleen Lee (hk)
         2. Francesco Piemontesi (it)
         3. Robert Henry (usa)
         4. Elena Bobrovskich (ukr)
         5. (ex aequo:) Albert Mamriev (isr)
                                 Miku Omine (jpn)
                                 Lorene de Ratuld (f)

Total: 73 pianists took part in this highest category

Juniors

         1. Dinara Nadzhafova (ukr)
         2. (ex aequo:) Daniil Kirillov (rus)
                                 Kuok-wai Lio (chn)
         3. Zhang Zuo (chn)
         4. (ex aequo:) Nareh Arghamanyan (arm)
                                 Bo Hu (chn)
         5. (ex aequo:) Konstantin Alexeev (rus)
                                 Soo-Jung Ann (cor)
                                 Anna Tsybuleva (rus)
         6. (ex aequo:) Alexander Kulikov (rus)
                                 Peixi Wu (chn)

Total: 31 pianists took part in this junior category

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "A.M.A. Calabria", Lamezia Terme (it) (AAF)
13 - 18 May 2003

         1. ---.
         2. Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt (f)
         3. Denis Kojukhine (rus)
         4. (ex aequo:) Toomas Vana (est)
                                 Natalia Zagalskaya (rus)

Total: 64 pianists took part

AXA International Piano Competition, Dublin (irl) (Fed.)
9 - 23 May 2003

         1. Antii Siirala (fin)
         2. Li Wang (can)
         3. Matan Porat (isr)
         4. Brenda Jones (usa)
         5. Andrej Ponochevny (belo)
         6. Heidi Hau (usa)

Total: 59 selected pianists took part

Concours de Piano International "Jean Francaix", Vanves (f)
8 - 11 May 2003

Piano

     1. ---.
     2. Kanae Endo (jpn)
     3. (ex aequo:) Florian Chevallier (f)
                             Shushanik Hovakimyan (usa)

Other finalists:
         Hyun-Jung Lim (cor)
         Marlo Thinnes (frg)
         Stanislav Tiaspolskii (ukr)

Total: 24 pianists took part

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Mauro Paolo Monopoli", Barletta (it)
7 - 11 May 2003

     1. ---.
     2. (ex aequo:) Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor)
                             Lio Kuok-man (mac)
                             Lin Chuan-yi (tai)
     3. ---.
     4. Rintaro Akamatsu (jpn)

Total: 29 pianists took part

International Piano Competition "Pancho Vladiguerov", Sofia (bul)
4 - 15 May 2003

     1. ---.
     2. (ex aequo:) Georgi Cherkin (bul)
                             Jennifer Kim (cor)
     3. Viktor Valkov (bul)
     4. (ex aequo:) Jewgeni Bozhanov (rus)
                             Elisaveta Smirnova (rus)

Total: 26 pianists took part

Regional Competition/Audition for the Vendome Prize, Imola (it) (AAF)
1 - 3 May 2003

Winners: Giuseppe Albanese (it)
Davide Cabassi (it)

Total: 9 contestants

International Piano Competition, Carlet (esp)
29 April - 3 May 2003

Category A

           1. Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor)
           2. (ex aequo:) Enrique Bernaldo de Quiros Martin (esp)
                                   Anna Khanina (rus)

Total: 18 pianists took part in this highest category

Regional Competition/Audition for the Vendome Prize, Hamburg (frg) (AAF)
26 - 27 April 2003

Winner: Emre Elivar (tur)

Total: 7 of the invited pianists took part

Regional Competition/Audition for the Vendome Prize, Vienna (a) (AAF)
25 - 26 April 2003

Winners: Ekaterina Dubkova (rus)
Ivo Kahanek (cz)
Mattei Varga (rum)

Total: 6 of the invited pianists took part

International Piano Competition, Jaen (esp)
24 April - 2 May 2003

     1. ---.
     2. Laura McDonald (aus)
     3. (ex aequo:) Tali Morgulis (isr)
                            Daniel del Pino (esp)

Total: 32 pianists took part

International Piano Competition "Acropolis", Madrid (esp)
23 - 25 April 2003

       1. Rintaro Akamatsu (jpn)
       2. Enrique Bernaldo de Quiros Martin (esp)
       3. (ex aequo:) David Ball (hun)
                               Anna Khanina (rus)

Total: 17 pianists took part

Regional Competition/Audition for the Vendome Prize, Paris (f) (AAF)
23 April 2003

Winners: Evelina Borbei (rus)
Kae Shiraki (jpn)

Horowitz International Piano Competition, Kiev (ukr)
10 - 13 April 2003

Senior Group

           1. ---.
           2. Timur Shcherbakov (belo)
           3. Artem Lyakhovich (ukr)
           4. (ex aequo:) Alexei Komarov (kzk)
                                    Kenichiro Suzuki (jpn)
           5. ---.
           6. ---.

Other finalists:
Lev Krymtsov (rus)
Kostyantin Travinskii (ukr)

Total: 22 participants in this highest category

Intermediate Group

           1. Dina Pysarenko (ukr)
           2. (ex aequo:) Oleksandr Chugay (ukr)
                                    Hai Ou Zhang (chn)
           3. (ex aequo:) Volodymyr Lavrynenko (ukr)
                                    Cheng Qian (chn)
           4. (ex aequo:) Alina Novik (ukr)
                                    Lukas Opacic (aus)
           5. ---.
           6. ---.

Total: 33 participants in this intermediate category

Junior Group

           1. Wai-ching Rachel Cheung (hk)
           2. (ex aequo:) Sanja Bizjak (y)
                                    Nariya Nogi (jpn)
           3. (ex aequo:) Qi Zhen He (chn)
                                    Lev Terskov (rus)
           4. Oleksiy Gorlach (ukr)
           5. Mikhail Yeletski (belo)
           6. ---.

Total: 28 participants in this Junior category

Concours International de Piano "Arcachon", Pyla s/Mer (f)
10 - 13 April 2003

       1. Tristan Pfaff
       2. Kae Shiraki (jpn)
       3. (ex aequo:) Elio di Tanna
                               Kanae Endo (jpn)

Regional Competition/Audition for the Vendome Prize, London (gb (AAF)
7 - 9 April 2003

Winners: Chiao-ying Chang (tai)
Yurie Miura (jpn)

Total: 13 participants

Concours International de Piano "Andre Dumortier", Leuze-en-Hainant (b)
5 - 12 April 2003

1. Shanshan Yang (chn)

Other finalists:
           Patrycjusz Baumann (pol)
           Cui Lan (chn)
           Ying-jia Xue (chn)

Total: 9 pianists took part

Regional Competition/Audition for the Vendome Prize, Helsinki (fin) (AAF)
4 - 6 April 2003

Winners: Juho Pohjonen (fin)
Antti Siirala (fin)

Total: 6 invited pianists took part

Concours Internacional "UFAM", Paris (f)
30 March 2003

Category Honneur

       1. Alexandre Gorce
       2. (unan.) Megumi Otsuki (jpn)
        2. (ex aequo) Maki Kondo (jpn)
                             Marine Marcel
       3. (ex aequo) Cedalis Collin
                             Aude Vallee

Total: 18 pianists took part in this highest category

Concurso Internacional de Piano, San Sebastian (esp)
26 - 30 March 2003

       1. Miku Omine (jpn)
       2. Yi-chih Lu (chn)
       3. (ex aequo:) Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor)
                               Sarah Tysman (f)

Other finalists:
Mayuko Ozawa (jpn)
Malgorzata Szymanska (pol)

Concours FLAME, Paris (f)
26 March 2003

Cat. B "Jeunes Concertistes":

              1. Carles Marin
              2. Justine Verdier
              3. Guillaume Coppola

Total: 24 pianists took part in this category

Concours de Piano Eurorégion, Arras (f)
22 - 23 March 2003

              1. Kaeko Ishikawa (jpn)
              2. (ex aequo) Agnes Graziano (f)
                                    Aki Horibe (jpn)
              3. Chie Satake (jpn)

Total: 8 pianists participated

Concours International de Piano, Epinal (f) (Fed.)
21 March 2003

       1. Sung-Hoon Kim (cor)
       2. Jean-Frederic Neuburger (f)
       3. Tom Poster (gb)
       4. Masataka Goto (jpn)

Total: 61 pianists took part

Concours International de Piano, Mee s/Seine (f)
21 March 2003

Winner: Alexander Kobrin (Russia)

Total: five pianists were invited to take part

International Competition for Young Pianists, Kosice (slvk)
20 - 23 March 2003

Category 3:

                    1. Elena Sever (y)
                    2. Hanna Fedorova (ukr)
                    3. Denis Zhdanov (ukr)
                    4. Marija Godjevac (y)
                    5. Radoslav Kovar (cz)

Total: 29 pianists took part in this highest category

Concours International de Piano "Maria Canals", Barcelona (esp) (Fed.)
15 - 25 March 2003

    1. Inesa Synkevich (isr)
    2. Yosuke Niino (jpn)
    3. So-Won Hwang (cor)

Other finalists:

Elena Kolesnitchenko (ukr)
So-Jin Kim (cor)

Total: 64 pianists took part

Concours International de Piano "Steinway", Paris (f)
16 March 2003

Category Superieur

    1. Ye-Dam Kim (cor)
    2. (ex aequo:) Honore Bejin