Competition Results 2005

Including the latest update, the results of 164 international piano competitions and two other international music competitions that have been held in 2005 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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Concurso Internacional de Piano, Ferrol (esp)
15 - 21 December 2005

       1. Tommaso Cogato (it) 
       2. Inesa Synkevych (ukr)
       3. Jorge Pico Alvarez (esp)

Total: 26 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale de Musica "Vincenzo Bellini", Caltanissetta (it)
14 - 18 December 2005

  1. ---.
  2. Mikhail Lifits (uzb) 

  3. (ex aequo:) Rebecca Cap (irl) 
                         Tatjana Ivleva (rus)

 

Total: 7 pianists took part 

 

Concorso Internazionale de Musica, Marsala (it)
12 - 18 December 2005

  1. ---.
  2. (ex aequo:) Yuliya Smolskaya (rus) 

                          Tatjana Tontikh (rus)

  3. Haruka Kuroiwa (jpn) 

 

Other finalists:

      Yuki Kurashima (jpn) Dipl.

      Kyung-Wha Lee (cor)

      Agata Wrzesniewska (pol) Dipl.

      Aiko Yajima (jpn) Spec. Prize

 

Total: 25 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Minsk (belo)
3 - 18 December 2005

       1. (ex aequo:) Alexei Chernov (rus) 
                               Timur Shcherbakov (belo) 

       2. ---.
       3. ---.

 

Other finalists:
          Konstantin Krasnitzky (belo)
          Vasil Netuk (belo)
          Vlada Shatskaya (belo)
          Vitali Stakhiyevich (belo) 

Total: 37 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Pausilypon-Denza", Naples (it)
12 - 16 December 2005

     1. Stanislav Khristenko (ukr) 

     2. Eri Yamabe (jpn)
     3. Sofya Gulyak (rus) 

 

Other finalist:

         Masumi Kitabe (jpn)

Total: 24 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, San Nicola di Bari (it)
10 - 15 December 2005

  1. Denis Maslyuk (slvn) 

  2. Georgi Gromov (rus) 
  3. Yashuangzi Xie (chn) 

Total: 27 pianists took part

 

Beethoven Competition Bonn (frg) (AAF)
5 - 15 December 2005

               1. Henri Sigfridsson (fin)

               2. Norie Takahashi (jpn)
               3. David Kadouch (f)

Total: 29 of the 36 invited pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Pianistica "Florestano Rossomandi", Bovino (it)
11 - 13 December 2005

    1. Tomoko Okawa (jpn)

    2. ---.
    3. (ex aequo:) Boris Feiner (isr) 
                            Tatiana Ivleva (rus) 

 

Concorso Internazionale per Giovani Pianisti - Violonisti
e Formazione Cameristiche "Gianluca Campochiaro", Pedara (it)
8 - 11 December 2005

Piano - Category F

 

Absolute winner: Daniela Flonta (rum)

 

1. (ex aequo:) Gabriele Tomasello (it) 
                        Akiko Yoshimitsu (jpn) 

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Camillo Togni", Gussago (it)
8 - 11 December 2005

Category "Pianoforte e Orchestra"

 

               1. Mariya Kim (cor)
               2. Irene Veneziano (it)

Total: 11 pianists took part in this category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Francesco Durante", Frattamaggiore (it)
8 - 11 December 2005

    1. Vadim Ageev (rus)

    2. Alexander Yakovlev (rus) 
    3. Marc Pierre Toth (can) 

 

Total: 16 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Liszt", Grottamare (it)
5 - 8 December 2005

    1. ---.
    2. Kaori Takaishi (jpn)
    3. (ex aequo:) Shih-wei Chen (tai) 
                            Hana Son (cor)

Total: 6 pianists took part

 

International Piano-e-Competition, Minneapolis (usa) (AAF)
7 December 2005: Announcement of pianists invited to audition

68 pianists invited to audition

Click here to see their names: www.piano-e-competition.com/whatsnew.htm

 

Grand Prix Animato, Paris (f) (AAF)
4 - 6 December 2005

Four Finalists

               1. Xiaotang Tan (chn)
               2. Jie Chen (chn)
               3. Vladimir Milosevic (y)   
               4. Sofia Gulyak (rus)

Honorary Prize:
               Martina Filjak (crt)

Total: 16 of the 17 invited pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Ennio Porrino", Cagliari (it)
29 November - 2 December 2005

1. Masataka Goto (jpn) 
2. ---.

3. (ex aequo:) Evgeny Cherepanov (rus) 
                        Viller Valbonesi (it)

Total: 15 pianists took part

 

Premio de Piano Frechilla - Zuloaga, Valladolid (esp)
27 November - 2 December 2005

   1. Zlata Chochieva (rus)
   2. Evgueny Starodubtsev (rus)  
   3. Marian Sobula (pol) 

 

Other finalist

       Anna Bulkina (turkm)

Total: 31 pianists took part

 

Rencontres de Jeunes Pianistes, Namur (b)
24 - 27 November 2005

Piano solo - Category C

 

           1. Stephanie Proot (b)
           2. Tea Andrijic (serb)

           3. Sun Mi Han (cor)

Total: 16 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, Andorra
19 - 27 November 2005

    1. Alexander Moutouzkine (rus)

    2. Michael Bulychev-Okser (usa)
    3. (ex aequo:) Anna Bogolyubova (ukr) 

                            Lubov Yanpolsky (isr)
    4. (ex aequo:)  Grace Chia-ying Mo (can)

                            Yohan Ripert (f) 

Total: 51 pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, Las Rozas (Madrid) (esp)
19 - 26 November 2005

    1. Juan Francisco Lago Cuellar (esp)

    2. Enrique Bernaldo de Quiros (esp)
    3. Paulo Roberto Brasil (brs) 

Total: 18 pianists took part

 

Concurso Pianistico "Premio Stefano Marizza", Trieste (it)
19 - 20 November 2005

    1. Matteo Andri (it)

    2. Mai Takahasi (jpn)

Total: 8 pianists took part

 

Concours de Geneve, Geneve (ch) (Fed.)
3 - 18 November 2005

    1. ---.

    2. Louis Schwizgebel-Wang (ch) 
    3. (ex aequo:) Alexander Yakovlev (rus) 

                            Irina Zahharenko (est)

Other finalist:
         Deborah Lee (usa) (Special prize)

Total: 31 pianists took part

 

Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Hilton Head (usa)
November 2005: announcement of selected candidates

24 pianists selected for participation
in the competition (March 2006)

 

  Carlos Avila (usa)
Sheng Cai (can)
Miao Hou (chn)
Grace Kim (cor)
Min-Jung Kim (cor)
Martin Labazevitch
Sungha Lee (cor)
Dimitri Levkovich (ukr)
Ang Li (can)
José Menor (esp)
Irina Naumovska (mace)
Samuel Oram
Jei-Yern Ryu (cor)
Daniil Sayamov (rus)
Di Yi Tang (chn)
Tian Tian (can)
Chetan Tierra
Mana Tokuno (jpn)
Akiko Tominaga (jpn)
Sha Wang (usa)
Takashi Yamamoto (jpn)
Chia-lin Yang (tai)
Clara Yang (chn)
Wen-li Zhou (chn)

 

Internationaler Klavierwettbewerb, Nauen im Havelland (frg)
11 - 13 November 2005

      1. Helene Tysman (f)
      2. Akiko Mori (jpn)
      3. Alexei Lebedev (rus) 

 

Other finalists:
      4. Anne Folger (frg)
      5. Julian Gorus (bul)

Total: 18 pianists took part

 

3rd China Shanghai International Piano Competition, Shanghai (chn)
1 - 13 November 2005

 

      1. ---
      2. Romain Descharmes (f)
      3. (ex aequo:) Esther Jung-A Park (usa) 
                              Zhang Zuo (chn)

Others in the Mozart Concerto finals:
         Jun Asai (usa) (Mozart Concerto prize)
         Xiang Huang (chn)
         Hao Shen (chn) (Mozart Concerto prize)

Total: 23 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Giuliano Pecar", Gorizia (it)
6 - 12 November 2005

             1. Jakub Cizmarovic (slvk)
             2. Zoltan Füzessery (hun)
             3. Matej Arendarik (slvk)

Other finalists:
                Marija Godjevac (y)
                Nunzio Maria Daniele Petralia (it)
                Gergo Teleki (hun)
                Francesca Vidal (it)

Total: 25 pianists took part in the competition
for the Premio Pecar

 

International Competition "Virtuosi di Pianoforte", Usti nad Labem (cz)
10 - 11 November 2005

Category 3

 

    1. (ex aequo:) Bohumir Stehlík (cz)
                            Karel Vrtiska (cz) 
    2. (ex aequo:) Barbara Bajor (pol)
                            Oleksandr Yankevych (ukr) 
    3. (ex aequo:) Daniel Danilenko (rus)
                            Dordzhaka Ednyashev (rus) 

 

Internationaler Klavieretüden-Wettbewerb "Johann Baptist Cramer", St. Georgen (frg)
3 - 7 November 2005

Category 4

 

1. Mariana Kryzhanivska (ukr)

Total: 3 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Gyeongnam International Music Competition, Tongyeong (cor)
29 October - 5 November 2005

  1. Victoria Korchinskaya-Kogan (rus) 

  2. Da Sol Kim (cor) 

  3. Norie Takahashi (jpn)

  4. Alexander Moutouzkine (rus) 
  5. Young-Ah Tak (cor)

Total: 24 pianists took part

 

Beethoven Competition Bonn, Bonn (frg) (AAF)
1 November 2005: result of preselection

36 pianists have been selected

  Anna Bogolyubova (Godlov) (ukr)
Emre Elivar (tur)
Pavel Gintov (ukr)
Stephen Ham (can)
Chad Heltzel (usa)
Christopher Hinterhuber (a)
Marcel Javorcek (cz)
Oscar Jezior (pol)
David Kadouch (f)
Yusuke Kikuchi (jpn)
Yumi Kimachi (jpn)
Masao Kitsutaka (jpn)
Beatrix Klein (frg)
Ayano Kobayashi (jpn)
Andrej Korobeinikov (rus)
Igor Levit (rus)
Hyo-Sun Lim (cor)
Alicia Gabriela Martinez (ven)
Maria Mazo (rus)
Elena Melnikova (rus)
Alexander Muzykantau (belo)
Petr Ovtcharov (rus)
Tom Poster (gb)
Pavel Raikerous (rus)
Tanja Ruta (ukr)
Anton Salnikov (rus)
Stiri Schütz (gdr)
Ingmar Schwindt (frg)
Henri Sigfridsson (fin)
Inessa Sinkewitch (ukr)
Norie Takahashi (jpn)
Dina Ugorskaya (rus)
Jonas Vitaud (f)
Dmitry Vorobieff (rus)
Xiao-Han Wang (chn)
Carl Wolf (frg)

For more details see: www.beethoven-competition-bonn.de

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Roma", Roma (it)
18 - 31 October 2005

Premio Chopin

    1. Lilian Akopova (ukr)
    2. ---.
    3. (ex aequo:) Regina Chernychko (ukr) 
                            Marc Toth (can)

Total: 13 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Luciano Gante", Pordenone (it)
26 - 29 October 2005

    1. ---.
    2. (ex aequo:) Federico Gianello (it) 
                            Domenico Monaco (it)
    3. Michele Montemurro (it)

Total: 14 pianists took part

 

International "F. Chopin" Piano Competition, Warsaw (pol) (Fed.) (AAF)
23 September - 24 October 2005

    1. Rafal Blechacz (pol)
    2. ---.
    3. (ex aequo:) Dong-Hyek Lim (cor) 
                            Dong-Min Lim (cor)
    4. (ex aequo:) Shohei Sekimoto (jpn)
                            Takashi Yamamoto (jpn) 
    5. ---.
    6. Ka Ling Colleen Lee (hk) 

Special prizes:
Best Concerto: Rafal Blechacz (pol) 
Best Mazurkas: Rafal Blechacz (pol) 
Best Polonaise: Rafal Blechacz (pol) 

Other finalists:
        Jacek Kortus (pol)
        Rachel Naomi Kudo (usa) 
        Yuma Osaki (jpn)
        Rieko Nezu (jpn)
        Yeol Eum Son (cor)
        Andrey Yaroshinskiy (rus)   

Total: 256 pianists took part

 

Internationaler 'Anton Rubinstein' Klavierwettbewerb, Dresden (frg)
6 - 22 October 2005

 1. Kateryna Titova (ukr)
 2. Elena Melnikova (rus)

Other finalist:
      Vladimir Khomyakov (rus) 
      (Audience Prize)

Total: 12 pianists took part

 

Bremer Klavierwettbewerb, Bremen (frg)
9 - 19 October 2005

   1. David Meier (frg)
   2. Maria Dvoskina (rus)
   3. ---.

Total: 20 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Fausto Zadra", Abano Terme (it)
14 - 16 October 2005

       1. Lorenzo Cossi (it) 
       2. (ex aequo:) Natsumi Kawashima (jpn) 
                              Irene Veneziano (it)
       3. (ex aequo:) Tatiana Bezmenova (rus) 
                              Giuseppe Gullotta (it)

Total: 20 pianists took part

 

Louisiana International Piano Competition, Alexandria (Louisiana, usa)
11 - 16 October 2005

Artists level

                1. Anna Polusmiak (ukr) 
                2. Rufus Choi (usa)
                3. Alexei Goulenco (mold) 

Total: 27 of the 28 invited pianists took part
in this highest category

Junior Level

                1. Joshua Wright (usa) 
                2. Michael Dawkins (usa)  
                3. Lena Ye

 

Concorso Internazionale di Pianoforte, Sulmona (it)
10 - 16 October 2005

   1. Lilian Akopova (ukr) 
   2. Sun-Jee Song (cor)
   3. Magda Amara (rus) 

Total: 24 pianists took part

 

Concours de Piano International "Andre Dumortier", Leuze-en-Hainaud (b)
8 - 15 October 2005

   1. Philippe Raskin (b) 

Other finalists:
       Jonas de Geyndt (b) 
       Mariya Prakofyeva (belo) 
       Yingjia Xue (chn)

Total: 8 of the 13 selected pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, Vercelli (it) (Fed.)
7 - 15 October 2005

      1. Mizuka Kano (jpn)
      2. Yuko Mine (jpn) 
      3. Boris Feiner (isr)

Total: 26 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Tbilisi (geor) (Fed.)
2 - 15 October 2005

 Grand Prix: Daniil Tsvetkov (kzk) 
      1. Tamar Beraya (geor)
      2. Khatia Buniatishvili (geor)
      5. Inna Charuashvili (geor) 
      3. Dizhou Zhao (chn)
      4. Denis Zhdanov (ukr)

Total: 26 pianists took part

 

Concurso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio A.B. Michelangeli", Foligno (it)
7 - 9 October 2005

    1. Michelangelo Carbonara (it)
    2. Marco Vergini (it)
    3. ---.

Total: 8 pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, Porto (prt) (Fed.)
28 September - 8 October 2005

    1. Evgeni Starodubtsev (rus)
    2. (ex aequo:) Andreis Ozokins (lat)
                            Tristan Pfaff (f) 
    3. Keiko Kurachi (jpn) 
    4. Mi-Yeon Lee (cor) 
    5. Yohei Wakioka (jpn)

Total: 34 pianists took part

 

Internationaler Schubert-Klavierwettbewerb, Dortmund (frg) (Fed.) (AAF)
25 September - 2 October 2005

    1. Motoi Kawashima (jpn) 
    2. Hiroyo Imagawa (jpn)
    3. Philip Kopatchevsky (rus)  
    4. Konstantin Lapshin (rus) 
    5. Anastasia Gamaley (rus) 

 

Total: 53 pianists took part

 

Internationaler Klavierwettbewerb Franz Liszt, Wroclaw (pol)
19 September - 1 October 2005

    1. Stanislav Soloviev (rus) 
    2. ---.
    3. (ex aequo:) Hisako Hirata (jpn)
                           Wojciech Waleczak (pol)  
    4. Michael Schneider (usa) 

 

Total: 22 pianists took part

 

International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition, Warsaw (pol) (Fed.) (AAF)
Results of the Preselection stage
23 - 29 September 2005

80 pianists selected for the main competition

See: www.konkurs.chopin.pl/redirect.php?DOC=decyzja_29wrzes2005

 

Total: 256 pianists took part

 

"Carl Czerny" International Piano Competition, Prague (cz)
18 - 25 September 2005

Category 2

 

          1. Misuzu Kikuchi (jpn) 
          2. Karel Vrtiska (cz)
          3. (ex aequo:) Patrick Hevr (cz)  
                                 Alexei Melnikov (rus) 
                                 Martin Safar (cz) 

 

Total: 12 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Internationaler Klavierwettbewerb "Tomassoni", Cologne (frg) (Fed.)
12 - 24 September 2005

   1. Jinsang Lee (cor) 
   2. Joon Kim (cor)
   3. Tomomi Okumura (jpn) 

Total: 29 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Ettore Pozzoli", Seregno (it) (AAF)
13 - 21 September 2005

    1. Martin Cousin (sct) 
    2. Yoon-Jung Han (cor)
    3. Alexei Yemtsov (ukr)  

 

Total: 43 pianists took part

 

Hong Kong International de Piano, Hong Kong (hk) (AAF)
4 - 19 September 2005

    1. Ilya Rashkovsky (rus) 
    2. Wen-yu Shen (chn)
    3. Sung Hoon Kim (cor)    

Other finalists:

    Mei Yi Foo (mal)

    Ka Ling Colleen Lee (hk) 
    Andrej Ponochevny (rus) 

Total: 20 pianists took part

 

International Music Competition 'Premio Vittoria Caffa Righetti', Cortemilia (it)
12 - 18 September 2005

Piano - Category H

 

  1. Roberto Fabris (it)
  2. Ji Eun Kim (cor)
  3. (ex aequo:) Paolo Flora (it)

                          Madoka Sakurai (jpn) 

                          Nelli Lager (rus)

 

Internationaler Max Reger Klavierwettbewerb, Weiden (frg)
5 - 13 September 2005

    1. Philipp Krondichler (a)    
    2. (ex aequo:) Andreas Hering (frg)

                           Michael Preisser (frg) 

 

Other finalists:

        Barno Khaknazarova (kzk)

        Yoko Yamada (jpn)

Total: 8 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano "Clara Haskil", Vevey (ch) (Fed.)
2 - 13 September 2005

Winner: Sunwook Kim (cor)

Other finalists:
            Francesco Piemontesi (ch) 
            Gottlieb Wallisch (a)

Total: 67 pianists took part

 

Internationaler Klavier- und Kompositionswettbewerb-Festival "Carl Filtsch", Sibiu (rum)
6 - 11 September 2005

Category C

 

    1. Istvan Lajko (hun)  

    2. (ex aequo:) Marija Ivanovic (serb) 
                            Andrea Calvani (it)

    3. Ioana Crisu (rum)  

 

Carl Filtsch prize: Angyalka Mayer (rum)

 

Total: 10 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Music Competition "Georges Enescu", Bucharest (rum) (Fed.)
4 - 11 September 2005

    1. Irina Zahharenkova (est)   
    2. Evgeny Izotov (rus)

    3. Adrian Aimo Pagin (f)

Total: 18 pianists took part

 

Concours Grieg, Oslo (n) (AAF)
3 - 11 September 2005

                        1. Mi-Jung Park (cor)   
                        2. Federico Gianello (it)

                        3. Arta Arnicane (lat)

Total: 38 pianists took part in the solo piano competition

 

International Competition "Valsesia-Musica", Varallo (it) (AAF)
3 - 11 September 2005

    1. Victoria Korchinskaya-Kogan (rus/can)    
    2. Sofya Gulyak (rus)

    3. (ex aequo:) Enrique Bernaldo de Quiros (esp)

                           Alessandra Macellaro la Franca (it) 
    4. Tomoko Okawa (jpn)

Total: 39 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Ibiza (esp)
29 August - 4 September 2005

Senior Group

          1. Giovanni Doria-Miglietta (it)

          2. Mikhail Shilyaev (rus)

          3. Plamena Doncheva (bul)

Total: 32 pianists took part in this highest category

Junior Group

          1. Abigail Sin (sing)

          2. Ganna Zubenko (ukr)

          3. Vladislav Kustovsky (ukr)

 

Johannes Brahms Internationaler Musikwettbewerb, Poertschach (a)
28 August - 4 September 2005

Piano

  1. Geoffroy Couteau (f)
  2. Shiyo Matsuura (jpn)
  3. Jae-Kyung Yoo (cor) 
  4. Dan-dan Zheng (chn) 
  5. Satoko Shimbori (jpn)

Total: 27 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "F. Busoni", Bolzano (it) (Fed.)
(Second phase:) 24 August - 3 September 2005

Three finalists in last stage

      1. Giuseppe Andaloro (it)
      2. Mariangela Vacatello (it)
      3. Hye-Jin Kim (cor) 

Other finalists:
      4. Anna Vinnitskaya (rus)
      5. Spencer Myer (usa)
      6. Wen-yu Shen (chn)

Total: 27 pianists took part
in this second phase of the competition

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Giuseppe Terracciano", Giffoni Sei Casali (SA) (it)
25 - 28 August 2005

Piano

   1. Ivan Donchev (bul )
   2. ---.
   3. Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor) 

Other finalists:
      Michele Benignetti (it)
      Raffaele Maisano (it)

Total: 6 pianists took part 

 

Concorso Internazionale di Musica "Palma d'Oro, Finale Ligure (it)
24 - 27 August 2005

Piano

   1. Piotr Machnik (pol )
   2. Malgorzata Podstawska (pol) 
   3. Marco Gaggini (it)

Total: 4 pianists took part 

 

Internationaler Wiener Pianistenwettbewerb, Vienna (a)
17 - 25 August 2005

Category C

        1. Wen Xia (chn )
        2. Ji-Eun Park (cor )
        3. (ex aequo) Yuka Ishikawa (jpn)
                               Kaori Tanaka (jpn)
                               Kanako Yamamoto (jpn) 

Other finalist:
            Jooyoun Cho (cor)

Total: 15 pianists took part in this highest category

 

PTNA Competition, Tokyo (jpn) (AAF)
July/August 2005
Award Ceremony: 24 August 2005

Superior Grade

  1. Ichiro Kaneko (jpn)
  2. Akihiro Sekiya (jpn)
  3. Takuya Tainaka (jpn)

Other finalists:
      Hiroo Sato (jpn)
      Erina Ishii (jpn)

Total: 52 pianists took part
in this highest category

 

3rd Nagoya International Music Competition, Nagoya (jpn)
10 - 15 August 2005

Piano

  1. Da Sol Kim (cor)
  2. Anna Sheludko (rus)
  3. Ji-Youn Kim (cor)
  4. Yosuke Shakagori (jpn) 

Total: 51 pianists took part

 

Concorso Musicale Internazionale, Guardiagrele (it)
28 - 31 July 2005

Piano - Category L

             1. Sayumi Yamazaki (jpn)
             2. ---.

Other finalists:
                Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor) (Spec. prize) 
                Reiko Yokoi (jpn) (Spec. prize) 
                 Miona Babic (serb)

No more contestants in this highest category

 

Cleveland International Piano Competition, Cleveland (OH, usa) (Fed.)
27 July - 7 August 2005

             1. Chufang Huang (chn)
             2. Sergei Kuznetsov (rus)
             3. Stanislav Khrystenko (ukr)
             4. Spencer Myer (usa)

Total: 30 of the 35 invited pianists took part

 

Santander International Piano Competition, Santander (esp) (Fed.)
25 July - 7 August 2005

              1. Alberto Nose (it)
              2. Herbert Schuch (frg)
              3. Jie Chen (chn)

Total: 19 of the 22 invited pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Sergei Rachmaninov", Morcone (it)
2 - 6 August 2005

     1. Tatiana Chernicka (rus) 
     2. (ex aequo:) Mariya Kim (ukr) 
                             Alexander Vaguener (b) 
     3. Laura McDonald (aus) 

Total: 19 pianists took part

 

Eastman International Competition for Young Pianists, Rochester (NY, usa)
30 July - 5 August 2005

        1. Song-Yuan Tang (chn) 
        2. Jing Yang (chn)
        3. Seejoon Park (cor) 

Other finalists:
            Hye-Jin Kim (cor)
            Mi Eun Kim (cor/usa)
            Xiao Wang (chn)

Total: 21 pianists took part

 

New Orleans International Piano Competition, New Orleans (usa)
24 - 31 July 2005

        1. Tanya Bannister (gb)
        2. Alexandre Pirojenko (rus)
        3. Luca Trabucco (it)

Total: 12 invited pianists took part

 

Concorso di Esecuzione Strumentale e Vocale "Rovere d'Oro", San Bartolomeo (it)
24 - 30 July 2005

Piano

   1. Young-Mi Choi (cor)
   2. Reika Dobashi (jpn) 
   3. Artur Burmistrov (rus) 
   4. (ex aequo:) Dario Bonuccelli (it)
                           Yuriko Nakata (jpn) 
                           Tae Yoshioka (jpn) 

 

Prix Amadeo-Jeunesse for Piano, Vaals (hol)
15 - 16 July 2005

   1. Yumi Sato (jpn) 
   2. Jia Wang (chn) 
   3. (ex aequo:) Asa Mori (jpn) 
                           Boris Radulovic (serb) 

Total: 11 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Palazzo Spinola", Rocchetta Ligure (AL) (it)
15 - 16 July 2005

Category F

       1. (ex aequo:) Oleg Bellini (it) 
                               Sachiko Yamamoto (jpn) 
       2. Saena Kang (cor) 
       3. Junko Watanabe (jpn) 

No more contestants in this highest category

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano "Ricardo Vines", Lleida (esp)
7 - 11 July 2005

Category A

            1. Luis Pares (ven/it) 
            2. Emmanuelle Swiercz (f) 
            3. Natalia Posnova (rus) 

Total: 15 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale "Citta di Massafra", Massafra (it)
4 - 10 July 2005

Piano - Category H

             1. (ex aequo:) Izumi Miyamoto (jpn)
                                    Kazunori Yamanaka (jpn)

Total: ca. 15-20 pianists took part in this highest category

 

IBLA World Competition, Ilba Ragusa (it)
28 June - 10 July 2005

IBLA Grand Prize Awards

Piano

Bartok-Prokofiev Award
Rajung Yang (cor)

Contemporary Music Award
Lenio Liatsou (gr)

Spec. mentions:
   - Ligeti & Rachm.: Anna Shakina (rus)
   - Ginastera & Beeth.: Cezara-Lucia Vladescu (rum) 
   - Debussy - Martin: Nazareno Ferruggio (it)
   - Mozart & Bartok: Yukiko Hinami (jpn)

Other award winner:
      Tatiana Valueva (rus)

 

AMSA International Piano Competition, Cincinnati (OH, usa)
30 June - 9 July 2005

Artists Division
Three finalists

            1. Ilya Yakushev (rus) 
            2. Spencer Myer (usa) 
            3. Scott Meek (can) 

            4. (ex aequo:) Dmitri Shelest (ukr) 
                                    Wenli Zhou (chn) 
            5. Dmitri Levkovich (ukr) 
            6. Polina Bespalko (rus)

Total: 20 pianists took part in the Artists Division

 

Rudolf Firkusny International Piano Competition, Prague (cz)
24 - 30 June 2005

          1. Anastasiya Naplyokova (ukr) 
          2. Jakub Uhlik (cz)
          3. Ilze Zvaigzekaine (lat)

Other finalists:
              Andreas Donat (frg)
              Inara Gurieva (lat)
              Martin Levicky (cz)
              Julia Okruashvili (rus)
              Anna Volovich (rus)
              Alicia Witarska (pol)

Total: 31 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Concerti in Villa", Vicenza (it)
27 June 2005

              1. Fernando Rossano (it) 
              2. Roberto Corliano (it)
              3. Helios d'Andrea (it) 

Total: 10 of the 13 invited pianists took part

 

International Young Artists Piano Competition, Washington (MD, usa)
23 - 26 June 2005

Group 6 - Young Professionals

                       1. Jeannette Fang (usa)
                       2. Chi-Ming Shul (usa)
                       3. Joseph Irrera (usa) 

Total: 5 selected pianists took part in this highest category

 

Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Piano Competition, Salt Lake City (UT, usa)
20 - 25 June 2005

           1. Kuok-Wai Lio (hk) 
           2. Lukas Geniusas (lit)
           3. Christina Naughton (usa) 
           4. Zuo Zhang (chn) 
           5. Alessandro Deljavan (it) 
           6. Hitomi Maeyama (jpn) 

Total: 34 of the 39 invited pianists took part 

 

Busoni Competition, Bolzano (it) (Fed.)
additional selection: June 2005

Four more contestants
added to the 23 pianists
admitted to the final phase (August 2005)

    Evgeny Brakhman (rus) - 2nd prize Glasgow 2004 
    Ivo Kahanek (cz) - winner Prague 2004
    Spencer Myer (usa) - winner Pretoria 2004 
    Wen-yu Shen (chn) - 2nd prize Brussels 2003 

 

Sviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition, Moscow (rus) (AAF)
12 - 26 June 2005

    1. Eldar Nebolsin (rus) 
    2. (ex aequo:) Yakov Katsnelson (rus) 
                           Makoto Ueno (jpn)
    3. ---.
    4. (ex aequo:) Vadim Rudenko (rus) 
                            Yung-Wook Yoo (cor)
    5. Ani Takidze (geor) 
    6. ---.

Total: 31 of the 34 invited pianists took part

 

International Music Competitions, Pianello (it) (AAF)
16 - 19 June 2005

Piano - "Premio Silvio Bengali"

    1. Ji-Hwan Hong (cor) 
    2. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)
    3. ---.

Other finalists:
     4. Jiny Choi (cor)
    5. Mauro Bertoli (it)
     6. Guzal Hilbertz-Enikeeva (uzb) 

Total: 53 pianists took part

 

Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition, Los Angeles (CA, usa)
4 - 18 June 2005

            1. Wen-yu Shen (chn)
            2. Andrej Korobeinikov (rus) 
            3. Sofia Gulyak (rus) 

Other finalist:
                Denis Evstiukhine (rus) 

Total: 33 of the 34 invited pianists took part

 

Beethoven Internationaler Klavierwettbewerb, Vienna (a) (Fed.)
4 - 14 June 2005

Three finalists

    1. Herbert Schuch (frg) 
    2. Gabrielus Alekna (lit) 
    3. Petr Ovtcharov (rus) 

    4. Norie Takahashi (jpn)
    5. Matthias Soucek (a)
    6. Hyo-Sun Lim (cor)

Total: 35 invited pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, Cesenatico (it)
3 - 11 June 2005

Category F

    1. (abs.) Haruka Kuroiwa (jpn) 
                  Giuliano Adorno (it) 
                  Favio Rosai (it)
    2. Stefano Saino (it)
    3. Marco Rinaudo (it)

 

International Piano Competition "Step towards Mastery", St. Petersburg (rus)
1 - 10 June 2005

Category B

                      1. Chun Wang (chn) 
                      2. Jaan Ots (est)
                      3. ---.

Other finalist:    Dariya Goremykina (rus)
                          Dariya Kochetkova (rus)
                          Xunte Si (chn)

Total: 21 pianists took part in this highest category

Category A

                      1. Nan Song Huang (chn)
                      2. Andrej Shichko (belo)
                      3. Elizaveta Ukrainskaya (rus)

Other finalists:   Elena Krasnoselskaya (rus)
                          Ju Li (chn)
                          Polina Mikhailova (rus)

Total: 17 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth (TX, usa) (Fed.)
20 May - 5 June 2005

    1. Alexander Kobrin (rus)
    2. Joyce Yang (cor)
    3. Sa Chen (chn)

Other finalists:
        Davide Cabassi (it)
        Chu-fang Huang (chn)
        Roberto Plano (it)

Total: 35 invited pianists took part

 

Concorso Europeo dei Duchi d'Acquaviva, Atri (Teramo, it)
31 May - 5 June 2005

    1. Keiko Kurachi (jpn)
    2. Macha Kanza (f) 
    3. Alessandro Rosseletti (it) 

 

Concorso Europeo di Musica "Pietro Argento", Gioia (it)
4 - 5 June 2005

Pianoforte - Category F

                 1. Sachiko Yamamoto (jpn) 
                 2. Andrea la Rosa (it) 
                 3. Alexander Tevelev (rus) 

Total: 9 pianists took part in this highest category

 

J.N. Hummel International Piano Competition, Bratislava (slvk) (Fed.)
29 May - 5 June 2005

    1. Andrew Brownell (usa)
    2. (ex aequo:) Alessandro Deltavan-Farshi (it) 
                           Yi-chih Lu (tai)
    3. ---.

Other finalists:
        Gabor Monostori (hun)
        Sandro Russo (it)
        Anna Semkina (rus)

Total: 27 pianists took part

 

Vladimir Viardo International Piano Competition, Belmont (CA, usa)
28 May - 5 June 2005

Senior Division

          1. ---.
          2. Yi He (chn)
          3. (ex aequo:) Katerina Titova (ukr) 
                                 Alina Novik (ukr)

Other finalists:
              Archie Chen (usa)
              Xin Xin (chn)

Total: 16 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale Valsesia - Musica Juniores - Premio Monterosa - KAWAI, Varallo (it)
26 - 29 May 2005

Piano

Absolute winner: Zéphyrine Fesneau (f) (Cat. B)

       Cat. F: no participants
       Cat. E: 1. ---.
                   2. Ester Snider (it)

No more participants in category E

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Premio Seiler", Palermo (it)
26 - 29 May 2005

                  1. Jie Zheng (chn) 
                  2. Boris Feiner (isr)
                  3. Wojciech Waleczak (pol)

Other finalist:
                      Natalia Posnova (rus)

Total: 8 pianists took part in the main competition 

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "A.M.A. Calabria", Lamezia Terme (it)
23 - 29 May 2005

1. Masataka Takada (jpn) 
2. ---.
3. (ex aequo:) Alla Ivanzhina (rus) 
                       Orazio Sciortino (it) 
4. ---.
5. (ex aequo:) Kaori Takaishi (jpn) 
                       Yohei Wakioka (jpn) 

Other finalists:
    Alessio Cioni (it)
    Anna Solovieva (rus) 
    Maria Perrotta (it) (withdrew)

Total: 35 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Premio A. Napolitano", Vietri (it)
26 - 28 May 2005

          1. Lukas Klotz (frg)
          2. Vincenzo de Stefano (it)
          3. (ex aequo:) Ekaterina Ivanova (it) 
                                 Mitsue Niimi (jpn)

Total: 16 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Premio Marco Fortini", Bologna (it)
25 - 28 May 2005

                1. Denis Masliuk (slvn)
                2. Natalya Sukharevitch (rus) 

Total: 7 pianists took part in the main competition 

 

International Music Competition "Queen Elisabeth", Brussels (b) (Fed.) (AAF)
Violin
1 - 28 May 2005

1. Sergei Khatchatryan (arm)
2. Iossif Ivanov (b)
3. Sophia Jaffe (frg)
4. Saeka Matsuyama (jpn)
5. Mikhail Ovrutsky (rus)
6. Hyuk Joo Kwun (cor)

Other finalists:
    Alena Baeva (rus)
    Andreas Janke (frg)
    Keisuke Okazaki (jpn)
    Antal Szalai (hun)
    Kyoko Yonemoto (jpn)
    Dan Zhu (chn)

Total: 132 violinists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale di Interpretazione Musicale "Citta di Racconigi" (it)
19 - 27 May 2005

Category E

   1. ---.
   2. Roberto Fabris (it)
   2. Miki Kawashima (jpn)
   2. Lukas Klotz (frg)
   2. Giulio Pietropaolo (it)
   3. Ester Snider 
   3. Maria Kiosseva
   4. Adachi Tomohiro (jpn)
   4. Irene Castellini (it)
   4. Guendalina Consoli (it)

 

Concorso Internazionale per Pianoforte e Orchestra, Cantu (it)
14 - 23 May 2005

Romantic Concerto

          1. Yoshifumi Morita (jpn)
          2. Yuliyana Avdeeva (rus) 
          3. Ka-Ling Colleen Lee (hk) 

Total: 48 pianists took part in this category

Classical Concerto

          1. ---.
          2. Alexia Mouza (gr)
          3. (ex aequo:) Mihai Boitan (rum) 
                                  Hye-Jin Kim (cor) 

Other finalist:
              Elena Melnikova (rus)

Total: 40 pianists took part in this category

 

Russian Music International Piano Competition, San Jose (CA, usa)
12 - 22 May 2005

Advance Category

              1. Anastasia Dedik (rus) 
              2. Alexandre Kravtsov (rus)  
              3. Wojciech Nucz (pol) 

Total: 18 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Arcangelo Speranza", Taranto (it)
18 - 21 May 2005

  1. Balazs Fulei (hun) 
  2. Vital Stahievitch (belo) 
  3. Giovanna Borruso (it) 

Total: 23 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale Vocale e Strumentale "Anemos", Rome (it)
14 - 18 May 2005

Piano - Category D

     1. Rintaro Akamatsu (jpn) 
     2. (ex aequo:) Dawid Andraszewski (pol) 
                            Maria Rutkowska
                            Sachiko Yamamoto (jpn) 

No more contestants in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Paul Harris 2005", Verbania (it)
14 - 18 May 2005

      1. Luca Rasca (it)

Total: 7 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano 'Ile de France', Maisons-Laffitte (f)
13 - 15 May 2005

Diplome de Concert

   1. Masao Kisutaka (jpn)
   2. Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor)
   3. Varduhi Yeristyan (arm) 

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Mauro Paolo Monopoli", Barletta (it)
10 - 15 May 2005

      1. ---.
      2. (ex aequo:) Vadim Ageev (rus) 
                              Yusuke Kikuchi (jpn) 
      3. Boris Feiner (isr)

Total: 33 pianists took part

 

Seiler Internationaler Klavierwettbewerb, Kitzingen (frg)
2 - 15 May 2005

Seniors

      1. Takashi Yamamoto (jpn) 
      2. Tong Bo (chn)
      3. ---.
      4. (ex aequo:) Marie-Louise Bodendorff (frg) 
                              Alexandre Pirojenko (rus)
      5. Chiharu Sudo (jpn)
      6. Kyrylo Zveginzov (ukr)

Other finalists:
          Hao Shen (chn)
          Emmanuelle Swiercz (f)
          Noriko Ushioda (jpn)

Total: 52 pianists took part in this highest category

Juniors

      1. Rika Nakamura (jpn) 
      2. Qizhen He (chn)
      3. Lok-ping Chau (hk)
      4. Daniil Kirillov (rus) 
      5. (ex aequo:) Lok-ting Chau (hk)
                              Valery Goldes (ukr)
      6. (ex aequo:) Vladimir Levitsky (rus)
                              Yundu Wang (chn)

Total: 37 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Lake Como International Piano Competition, Como (it) (AAF)
9 - 14 May 2005

    1. Evgeny Izotov (rus)
    2. Jae-Hyuck Cho (usa)
    3. Ya-ou Xie (chn)

Total: 17 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition in memory of Liszt Ferenc, Pecs (hun) (AAF)
3 - 14 May 2005

   1. Janos Balazs (hun) 
   2. (ex aequo:) Olivier Besnard (f) 
                           Elena Drozdova (rus)
   3. (ex aequo:) David Ball (hun)
                           Istvan Lajko (hun)

Total: 20 pianists took part

 

International Young Musicians Competition "CittEdi Barletta", Barletta (it)
4 - 8 May 2005

Piano - Category G

      1. (ex aequo:) Nino Kasradze (geor) 
                              Yu Murakami (jpn) 

Total: 18 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano "Premi Zanuy", Berga (esp)
5 - 7 May 2005

Category A

                1. Katia Michel Corcoy (esp)
                2. (ex aequo:) Shunji Hirota (jpn) 
                                        Ayumi Kagawa (jpn) 
                3. ---.

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, Carlet (esp)
3 - 7 May 2005

Category A

                1. Kook-Hee Hong (cor)
                2. Carles Marin Moret (esp) 
                3. Yashuangzi Xie (chn)

Total: 7 pianists took part in this higest category

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, Paris (f)
2 - 4 May 2005

Category Excellence

                1. Arthur Ancelle (f) (with congratulations) 
                1. Anna Tushaeva (ukr) 
                2. (ex aequo) Yuki Hacrgawa (jpn)
                                       Dmitry Tchesnokov (rus) 
                3. (ex aequo) Haewon Shin (cor)
                                       Melisande Sinsoulier (b) 

Total: 7 pianists took part in this higest category

 

Concorso Pianistico "Premio Maria Giubilei", Sansepolcro (it)
30 April - 1 May 2005


Absolute winner: Yui Akita (jpn)

Scholarships:
   Margarita Colombo (it)
   Eva Collura (it)
   Paolo Saginario (it)

Total: 10 pianists took part

 

Chopin Competition, Warsaw (ch) (AAF)
List of contestants announced (27 April 2005)

350 pianists are scheduled to participate
in the 15th Chopin Competition in Warsaw

(admission stage starts September 23rd, 2005
main competition starts October 3rd, 2005)

The complete list of contestants
can be viewed on:

www.konkurs.chopin.pl

(go to the English version, and click on "Participants"
or in the Polish version, click on "Uczestnicy")

 

Horowitz Competition, Kiev (ukr) (Fed.)
14 - 29 April 2005

Senior Group

     1. Lorenzo di Bella (it)
     2. Alexei Kurbatov (rus)
     3. Mariya Pukhlianko (ukr)
     4. Pavel Kashcheva (belo)
     5. (ex aequo:) Miao Huang (frg)
                             Kateryna Kulikova (ukr) 
                             Andriy Vasin (ukr)

     Other finalist:
         Sergei Kasprov (rus)

Total: 39 pianists took part in this highest category

Intermediate Group

     1. Mimi Jue Wang (chn)
     2. (ex aequo) Antoniy Baryshevskiy (ukr) 
                            Valeriya Kucherenko (ukr)
     3. Vladimir Guryanov (rus)

Junior Group

     1. Ryoma Takagi (jpn)
     2. Pavlo Netuk (belo)
     3. Viktor Krasovsky (ukr)
     4. Siqian Li (chn)

 

Concours International de Piano "Jean Francaix", Paris (f)
22 - 25 April 2005

   1. ---.
   2. (ex aequo:) Hyung Jung Lim (cor)
                           Maria Maleeva (rus)
                           Kaori Takaishi (jpn)
   3. ---.

Other finalists:
        Simon Callaghan (gb) 
        Shoko Gamo (jpn)
        Min Jung Kim (cor)
        Yoshino Kimura (jpn) 

Total: 21 pianists took part

 

Maria Canals International Music Competition, Barcelona (esp) (Fed.)
16 - 24 April 2005

  1. Jue Wang (chn)
  2. Yukiko Akagi (jpn) 
  3. Fumio Kawamura (jpn) 

Total: 72 pianists took part

 

Szymanowski International Music Competition, Lodz (pol)
17 - 23 April 2005

  1. ---.
  2. Zlata Chochieva (rus) 
  3. (ex aequo:) Piotr Szychowski (pol) 
                          Dmitry Vlashuk (belo)

Total: 16 pianists took part

 

Lake Como International Piano Competition, Cadenabbia / Griante (it) (AAF)
participants announced, 22 April 2005

18 pianists listed to participate in the first
Lake Como Int'l Piano Competition, May 2005

Alessandra Maria Ammara (it)
Miki Aoki (jpn)
Marcus Baban (frg)
Jae-Hyuck Cho (cor)
Emilio De Mercato (it)
Vittorio Forte (it)
Michele Gurdal (b)
Stephen Ham (can)
Evgeny Izotov (rus)
Andrea La Rosa (it)
Marlena Maciejkowicz (frg)
Ana Marija Markovina (crt)
Raffaele Moretti (it)
Julia Mustonen (fin)
Akane Sakai (jpn)
Aoi Toku (jpn)
Ya-ou Xie (chn)

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano "Acropolis", Madrid (esp)
20 - 22 April 2005

     1. ---.
      2. (ex aequo:) Alicia Witarsa (pol) 
                            Yao Yun Xiao (chn) 
     3. ---.

Other finalist:
         Eri Goto (jpn) 

Total: 18 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Kosice (slvk)
14 - 17 April 2005

Category 3

             1. Kristina Stepashukova (ukr/cz) 
             2. Mariam Dadashyan (ukr)
             3. Adam Farana (cz)
             4. Maria Hocova (slvk)
             5. Lesya Lozicka (ukr)

Total: 13 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Boesendorfer International Piano Competition, Sofia (bul)
11 - 17 April 2005

  1. (ex aequo:) Yana Vasilieva (rus) 
                          Alexander Yakovlev (rus) 
  2. ---.
  3. Anna Petrova (bul) 

Total: 37 pianists took part

 

International Franz Liszt Competition, Utrecht (hol) (Fed.) (AAF)
2 - 16 April 2005

  1. Ying Di Sun (chn) 
  2. Anton Salnikov (rus)
  3. Christiaan Kuyvenhoven (hol) 

Audience prize: Anton Salnikov (rus) 
Press prize: Joszef Balogh (hun)
Encouragement award: Zuo Zhang (chn) 

Total: 48 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Santander (esp) (Fed.)
15 April 2005: Announcement of selection

22 pianists selected for participation in the
Santander Competition, July/August 2005

Jose Enrique Bagarú} Villazan (esp)
Chiao-Ying Chang (tai)
Jie Chen (chn)
Denis Kojukhine (rus)
Marina Kolomytseva (rus)
Deborah Lee (usa)
Chenyin Li (chn)
Hyo-Sun Lim (cor)
Olga Monakh (ukr)
Alexei Nabiulin (rus)
Alberto Nose (it)
Roberto Plano (it)
Matan Daniel Porat (isr)
Elizabeth Joy Roe (usa)
Sandro Russo (it)
Herbert Schuh (frg)
Konstantin Sukhovetski (rus)
Masataka Takada (jpn)
Di Yi Tang (chn)
Ilona Timtchenko (rus)
Mariangela Vacatello (it)
Chen Xin Xu (chn)

Total: 211 pianists applied

 

Concours 'FLAME', Paris (f)
14 - 15 April 2005

Piano - Category A

     Spec. prize: Denis Ivanov (rus)
     Spec. prize: Jean-Christophe Dijoux (f) 
     Concert: Lydia Bader (frg) 
     Concert: Sofja Gulbadamova (frg) 

     Participation in Master Class:
          Diana Sahakyan (arm)
          Matthieu Acar (f)
          Gerome Boutiller (f)
          Fabien Touchard (f)

Total: 50 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, Tel-Aviv/Eilat (isr) (Fed.)
28 March - 13 April 2005

three finalists

     1. Oleksandr Gavrylyuk (ukr)
     2. Igor Levit (rus)
     3. Yeol Eum Son (cor)

     4. (ex aequo:) Jie Chen (chn) 
                            Tatjana Kolesova (rus) 
     5. Min Soo Sohn (cor)

Total: 36 invited pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, London (gb) (Fed.)
1 - 12 April 2005

     1. Herbert Schuch (frg) 
     2. Jean-Frederic Neuburger (f) 
     3. Jayson Gilham (aus)

Educational awards:
         Laszlo Borbely (hun)
         Nicolas Riyad (syr)
         Jue Wang (chn) 

Total: 23 of the 24 invited pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, Capdepera - Mallorca (esp)
7 - 10 April 2005

Level 5

       1. Hyun-Jin Yang (cor) 
       2. Andriy Tsygichko (ukr) 
       3. (ex aequo:) Giuliano Adorno (ukr) 
                               Andrej Kasik (frg)

Total: 12 pianists took part in this highest caegory

 

Isabel Scionti International Piano Competition, Kingsville (Texas, usa)
4 - 7 April 2005

Final Competition

   1. Jonathan Ware (usa) 

Senior Piano Concerto Competition

   1. Jonathan Ware (usa) 
   2. Tanya Karyagina (kzk) 
   3. David Kaplan (usa)

Other finalist:
       Jay Sun (usa)

Total: 14 pianists took part in this category

Senior Isabel Scionti Piano Solo Competition

   1. Jiyeon Shin (cor) 
   2. David Kaplan (usa)
   3. Jonathan Ware (usa) 

Other finalists:
       Yoonjung Han (cor)
       Christine Bethanne Hill Johnson (usa) 
       Tanya Karyagina (kzk)
       Joo-Yeon Lee (cor)

Total: 22 pianists took part in this category

Junior Piano Concerto Competition

   1. Sun-A Park (usa) 
   2. Stephanie Ann Chan (usa) 
   3. Robert McDonald (usa)

Other finalist:
       Leo Benjamin Svirsky (usa)

Total: 7 pianists took part in this category

Junior Isabel Scionti Piano Solo Competition

   1. Leo Benjamin Svirsky (usa) 
   2. Sun-A Park (usa) 
   3. Stephanie Y. Chen (usa)

Other finalist:
       Stephanie Ann Chan (usa)

Total: 12 pianists took part in this category

 

Cleveland International Piano Competition, Cleveland (Ohio, usa) (Fed.)
 April 2005: Announcement of selection

35 pianists selected for participation in the
Cleveland Competition, July/August 2005

Ning An (usa)
Marouan Benabdallah (hun)
Jonathan Leon Benichou (f)
Jie Chen (chn)
Alexei Chernov (rus)
Mladen Colic (y)
Inna Faliks (usa)
Grace Fong (usa)
David Chinying Fung (aus)
Masataka Goto (jpn)
Christopher Guzman (usa)
Chufang Huang (chn)
Miao Huang (frg)
Stanislav Khrystenko (ukr)
Sergei Kuznetsov (rus)
Sarah Lavaud (f)
Spencer Myer (usa)
Michael Namirovsky (isr)
Pavlin Petrov Nechev (bul)
Alexander Romanovsky (ukr)
Rui Shi (chn)
Lauma Skride (lat)
Yeol Eum Son (cor)
Martin Sturfaelt (sw)
Alessandro Taverna (it)
Rem Urasin (tat)
Viktor Valkov (bul)
Xun Wang (chn)
Di Wu (chn)
Chen Xin Xu (chn)
Hong Xu (chn)
Takashi Yamamoto (jpn)
Yung Wook Yoo (cor)
Andrius Zlabys (lit)
Xiang Zou (chn)

Total: 244 pianists applied,
143 were invited to audition

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, Jaen (esp) (AAF)
31 March - 8 April 2005

     1. Ilya Rashkovsky (rus) 
     2. Tatjana Chernichka (rus) 
     3. Masataka Takada (jpn) 

Total: 37 pianists took part

 

Sviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition, Moscow (rus) (AAF)
6 April 2005: Announcement of selection

33 pianists selected for participation in the
Richter Competition, June 2005

Murad Z. Adigezalzade (rus)
Alexei Chernov (rus)
Nami Ejiri (jpn)
Maxim Philippov (rus)
Vjacheslav Griaznov (rus)
Maria Grigorenko (rus)
Yuzo Kakeya (jpn)
Eleonora Karpukhova (tat)
Jacob Katznelson (rus)
Inga Kazantseva (rus)
Sergei Kudriakov (rus)
Peter Laul (rus)
Yong-Kyu Lee (cor)
Dmitry Lyudkov (rus)
Denis Losev (rus)
Makoto Ueno (jpn)
Claudio Carbo Montaner (esp)
Viv McLean (gb)
Emi Trish Nakajima (usa)
Eldar Nebolsin (rus)
Jong-Hwa Park (cor)
Oleg Polianski (ukr)
Vadim Rudenko (rus)
Andrej Shibko (belo)
Mikhail Shilyaev (rus)
Balazs Szokolay (hun)
Ani (Ann) Takidze (geor)
Natalja Taldykina (rus)
Francisc (Ferenc) Vizi (rum)
Kensei Yamaguchi (jpn)
Fan-Chiang Yi (tai)
Yung Wook Yoo (cor)
Asaf Zohar (isr)

Total: 113 pianists applied

 

Concours de Piano "Cecile Edel-Latos", Chatou (f)
12 March - 3 April 2005

Category Excellence

     1. (1st placed) Camille Schnoor (f) 
     1. (2nd placed) Ryoko Moriguchi (jpn) 
     2. Katherine Nikitine (it)

Total: 12 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concours International de Piano "Milosz Magin", Paris (f)
17 - 22 March 2005

Category Concertiste

     1. Ryan MacEvoy-McCullough (usa) 
     2. Hiroko Tani (jpn)
     3. Natsumi Koga (jpn) 

Total: 10 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concours National (*) de Piano, Sucy en Brie (f)
19 - 20 March 2005
(*: this competition is semi-international: although the title says 'National',
the competition is open to pianists of all nationalities,
also disregarding their place of residence)

Category Excellence

     1. Daijiro Oi (jpn) (plus special prize)
     1. Ryoko Moriguchi (jpn)
     2. Elsa Lambert
     3. Aki Suito (jpn) 

Total: 6 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, San Sebastian (esp)
19 - 20 March 2005

Category Superior

     1. Adi Aydinyan (arm)     
     2. (ex aequo:) Mihai Ritivoi (rum) 
                             Mari Tammik (rus) 
     3. Ruben Ramiro Prieto (esp) 

Total: 5 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concours International de Piano, Merignac (f)
18 - 20 March 2005

     1. Da-Hee Kim (cor)
     2. Akiko Inao (jpn) 
     3. Jennifer Fichet (f) 

Other finalist:
         Shi-kuan Fang (tai)

Total: 35 pianists took part

 

Concours Internationale de Piano, Arcachon (f)
16 - 20 March 2005

Category Virtuosite

     1. Marina Milenkovic (serb)
     2. Kaeko Ishikawa (jpn) 
     3. (ex aequo:) Masaki Ichikawa (jpn) 
                             Miki Masuyama (jpn) 

Other finalists:
         Olivier Besnard (f)
         Amadina Habid 
         Georgi Tubko 
         Kumiko Yoshida-Ly (jpn)

Total: 41 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Ignacio Cervantes International Piano Competition, Havana (cub) (AAF)
19 - 20 March 2005

   1. ---.
   2. Eliane Reyes (b) 
   3. Madaris Morgan (cub) 

Other finalist:
       Mauricio Arias Esguerra (col) 

Total: 7 pianists took part

 

Concurs Internacional de Piano, Palma de Mallorca (esp)
16 - 19  March 2005

1. Enrique Bernaldo de Quiros Martin (esp) 
2. Keska Gajusz (pol)
3. (ex aequo:) Michal Bjalk (pol) 
                       Javier Gomez (esp)

Total: 8 pianists took part

 

Rencontre Internationale de Piano, Mee-sur-Seine (f)
18  March 2005

Winner

Shohei Sekimoto (jpn)

Total: 4 invited pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano, Epinal (f) (Fed.)
11 - 20  March 2005

  1. ---.
  2. (ex aequo:) Sang-Il Han (cor)
                          Irina Zahharenkova (est) 
  3. Yukako Morikawa (jpn)
  4. Natalja Zagalskaya (rus)

Total: 41 pianists took part

 

Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Piano Competition, Salt Lake City (UT, usa)
 Announcement of selection

39 pianists selected for participation in the
Bachauer Young Artists Competition, June 2005

Hwi-Min An (cor)
Lok-ping Chau (hk)
Lok-ting Chau (hk)
Sean Chen (usa)
Jun-Yong Cho (cor)
Belinda Chiu (usa)
Song Choi (usa)
Ruby Chou (usa)
Sara Daneshpour (usa)
Alessandro Deljavan (it)
Teng Fu (chn)
Yuri Fushiki (jpn)
Lukas Geniusas (lit)
Bo Hu (chn)
Anton Ignubov (rus)
Wen-bin Jin (chn)
Kaoru Jitsukawa (jpn)
Natalija Kazarian (geor)
Eun-Taek Kim (cor)
Tae-Kyung Kim (cor)
Alexander Krichel (frg)
Daniel Laor (isr)
Kuok-Wai Lio (chn)
Hitomi Maeyama (jpn)
Christina Naughton (usa)
Nariya Nogi (jpn)
Mahidhara Pallavi (usa)
Sun-A Park (usa)
Arisa Sakai (jpn)
Kamala Schelling (usa)
Alexei Sychev (rus)
Margarita Trif (rus)
Sara Vujadinovic (serb)
Joshua Wright (usa)
Jia-ling Wu (chn)
Xiao Qiu Xue (chn)
Jing Yang (chn)
Zuo Zhang (chn)
Jingyi Zhang (chn)

Total: 150 pianists applied, 39 selected

 

Beethoven International Piano Competition, Vienna (a) (Fed.)
 Announcement of selection

37 pianists selected for participation in the
Beethoven Competition, June 2005

Soojin Ahn (usa)
Gabrielius Alekna (lit)
Esther Birringer (frg)
Olivier Cangelosi
Soo-Jin Chae (cor)
I-ting Chen (tai)
Da Jung Cho (cor)
Eun-Nyung Erika Chun (cor)
Gabriele Del Santo (it)
Oleksiy Gorlach (ukr)
Renana Guttman (isr)
Keiko Hattori (jpn)
Emil Holstroem
Ji-Hoon Jun (cor)
Yusuke Kikuchi (jpn)
Andreas Koenig (frg)
Johanna Jimin Lee (cor)
Yoo-Seon Lee (cor)
Igor Levit (rus)
Hyo-Sun Lim (cor)
Vaclav Macha (cz)
Yayoi Negishi (jpn)
Johannes Nies
Petr Ovtcharov (rus)
Toma Augustin Popovici (rum)
Tom Poster (gb)
Yoon-Soo Rhee (cor)
Mariko Sano (jpn)
Takashi Sato (jpn)
Herbert Schuch (frg)
Ingmar Schwindt (frg)
Andrea Secchi (it)
Matthias Soucek (a)
Norie Takahashi (jpn)
Chikage Takehana (jpn)
Jonas Vitaud (f)
Johannes Josef Wilhelm (a)

Total: 276 pianists applied
37 pianists selected 

 

Washington International Piano Competition, Washington (DC, usa)
12 - 13  March 2005

   1. Jie Chen (chn) 
   2. Chu-fang Huang (chn) 
   3. Dudana Mazmanishvili (geor) 

Other finalists:
       Kimball Gallagher (usa)
       Esther Keel (usa)
       So Yoon Lee (cor)

Total: 16 of the 17 invited pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano de l'Eurorégion, Douai (f)
12 - 13  March 2005

Category VirtuositE/i>

      1. (unan.) Geoffroy Couteau (f) 
      1. (ex aequo) Melizande Sansoulier (f) 
                            Eva Dallot (b)

Total: 3 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Hilton Head (SC, usa)
7 - 13  March 2005

      1. Di Wu (chn) 
      2. Chenxin Xu (chn) 
      3. Ryo Yanagitani (can)

Total: 24 invited pianists took part

 

Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition, Tel Aviv (isr) (Fed.)
 Announcement of selection

42 pianists selected for participation in the
Arthur Rubinstein Competition, April 2005

Soojin Ahn (usa)
Fedor Amirov (rus)
Inon Barnatan (isr)
Iddo Bar-Shai (isr)
Sodi Francis Braide (nig)
Jie Chen (chn)
Alexei Chernov (rus)
Lorenzo Di Bella (it)
Oleksandr Gavrylyuk (ukr)
Chufang Huang (chn)
Vakhtang Kodanashvili (geor)
Tatjana Kolesova (rus)
Sergei Kuznetsov (rus)
Peter Laul (rus)
Sarah Lavaud (f)
Yong-Kyu Lee (cor)
Igor Levit (rus)
Aleksandr Lubyanzhev (rus)
Maria Massytcheva (rus)
Viv McLean (gb)
Vladimir Miloševic (y)
Emi Trish Nakajima (usa)
Michael Namirovsky (isr)
Edisher Savitski (geor)
Danil Sayamov (rus)
Yang Shen (chn)
Ayano Shimada (jpn)
Henri Sigfridsson (fin)
Min Soo Sohn (cor)
Yeol Eum Son (cor)
Konstantin A. Sukhovetski (rus)
Hironao Suzuki (jpn)
Young-Ah Tak (cor)
Sylvia Thereza (brs)
Gottlieb Wallisch (a)
Li Wang (can)
Henry Wong Doe (nzl)
Hui Wu (chn)
Akiko Yamamoto (jpn)
Yung Wook Yoo (cor)
You-you Zhang (chn)
Xiang Zou (chn)

Total: 153 pianists applied, 42 were selected

 

Mozart Competition for Young Piano Players, Brno (cz)
10 - 12 March 2005

Absolute Winner

Karolina Pancernaite (lit) (Cat. 4)

Category 6

              1. ---.
              2. ---.
              3. Lucie Pokorna (cz)

Honorable mention:
                  Beata Kolatkova (cz)
                  Marek Zicha (cz)

Total: 9 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Emmanuel Durlet International Piano Competition, Antwerp (b)
1 - 6 March 2005

      1. Olga Kotlyarova (rus) 
      2. Maria Dvoskina (rus) 
      3. Tatjana Prushinskaya (rus) 
      4. Chufang Huang (chn) 
      5. Nicolas Franco (b) 
      6. Ying Zhou (chn) 
      7. Justyna Maj (can) 
      8. Mariya Prokofyeva (belo) 
      9. Barbara Balthussen (b) 
    10. Michael Zertsekel (isr) 

Total: 30 pianists took part

 

Iowa International Piano Competition, Sioux City (usa)
3 - 5 March 2005

Three finalists

      1. Michael Mizrahi (usa) 
      2. Tian Lu (chn) 
      3. Milica Jovanovic (serb)

      4. Paul Wyse (usa) 
      5. Soo Hyun Cho (cor) 
      6. Jeffrey Brown (usa) 

Total: 11 of the 12 invited pianists took part

 

International Franz Liszt Competition for Young Pianists, Weimar (frg)
24 February - 1 March 2005

Category B

   1. James Redfern (gb) 
   2. Nariya Nogi (jpn)
   3. (ex aequo:) Andrea Schuetz (frg) 
                          Chun Wang (chn) 

Total: 27 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth (TX, usa) (Fed.)
January - February: Auditions
1 March 2005: Announcement of selection

35 pianists selected for participation in the
Van Cliburn Competition, May 2005

Lilian Akopova (ukr)
Ning An (chn/usa)
Giuseppe Andaloro (it)
Stephen Beus (usa)
Sodi Braide (nig/gb)
Davide Cabassi (it)
Jie Chen (chn)
Sa Chen (chn)
Ying Feng (chn)
Grace Fong (usa)
Davide Franceschetti (it)
Alexei Grynyuk (ukr)
Chu-Fang Huang (chn)
Mariya Kim (ukr)
Alexander Kobrin (rus)
Marina Kolomiytseva (rus)
Alexey Koltakov (aus)
Soyeon Lee (cor)
Ang Li (can)
Albert Mamriev (isr)
Gabriela Martinez (ven)
Maria Mazo (rus)
Alexandre Moutouzkine (rus)
Esther Park (cor/usa)
Roberto Plano (it)
Daria Rabotkina (rus)
Ilya Rashkovskiy (rus)
Elizabeth Joy Roe (usa)
Rui Shi (chn)
Rem Urasin (rus)
Xiaohan Wang (chn)
Di Wu (chn)
ChenXin Xu (chn)
Joyce Yang (cor)
Andrius Zlabys (lit)

Total: 270 pianists applied, 146 were invited to audition

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Scriabin", Grosseto (it)
24 - 27 February 2005

   1. Mariya Kim (ukr) 
   2. ---.
   3. (ex aequo:) Denis Gromov (rus) 
                           Nadya Peterson (rus) 

Total: 33 pianists took part

 

International Music Competition, Corpus Christi (TX, usa)
17 - 20 February 2005

Piano

(Two finalists)
 1. Christopher Guzman (usa) 
 2. Sun-A Park (cor)

 3. Nino Cocchiarella (usa) 

Total: 19 pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, Huesca (esp)
16 - 20 February 2005

Category A

    1. Alexei Lebedev (rus) 
    2. ---.
    3. (ex aequo:) Se Eun Choi (cor)
                            Krzysztof Stypulkowski (pol) 

Other finalists:
        Jorge Lopez (usa)
        Dina Nedeltcheva (bul) 
        Akiko Omura (jpn)

Total: 12 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Taipei Chopin Piano Competition, Taipei (tai) (AAF)
4 - 20 February 2005

Three winners:
    Ai Tzen (chn) 
    Chien-ying Inna Yang (tai) 
    Jhong-Sin Liou (tai) 

Other finalists:
    Frederic Mong-huei Chen (tai) 
    Yi-fan Lin (tai) 

Total: 37 pianists took part

 

Concours de Piano, Brest (f)
5 - 14 February 2005
(Highest categories: 12-14 February)

Category "Chopin"

    1. (ex aequo:) Yoshimo Kimura (jpn) 
                            Moye Kolodin (frg)
    2. (ex aequo:) Jean-Pierre Laurent (f) 
                            Thomas Valverde (f)
    3. (ex aequo:) Louis Lancien (f)
                            Camille Schnoor (f) 

Total: 25 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Piano-Campus Festival - Competition, Pontoise (f) (AAF)
11 - 13 February 2005

    1. Mu-ye Wu (chn)
    2. Tomoaki Yoshida (jpn)
    3. Miao Huang (frg) 

Total: 12 invited pianists took part

 

Concours International de de Musique de Maroc, Casablanca/Rabat (mrc)
9 - 13 February 2005

    1. Shohei Sekimoto (jpn) 
    2. Xiaotang Tan (chn) 
    3. Sofya Gulyak (rus)
    4. Andrei Korobeinikov (rus) 

Total: 10 invited pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Pia Tebaldini", Brescia (it)
6 February 2005

Absolute winner: Martina Consonni (it)
(participant in Category A)

Category C: no winners
(Highest) category D: no contestants

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, Cercola (it)
1 - 5 February 2005

   1. ---.
   2. (ex aequo:) Pietri Gatto (it) 
                           In-Young Park (cor) 
   3. (ex aequo:) Taejin Kim (cor) 
                           Ha-sun Park (cor) 
   4. Yukiko Fujieda (jpn)

Total: 7 pianists took part

 

Viriginia Waring International Piano Competition, Palm Desert (usa)
17 January - 5 February 2005

Senior Division
Concerto Category

                   1. Sungeun Kim (cor) 
                   2. Nikolai Maloff (can) 

Other finalist: Sarah Rhee (can) 

Total: 19 pianists took part in this Concerto Category

Senior Division
Solo Category

                    1. Stepan Simonian (rus) 
                    2. Hyun-Soo Lee (cor) 

Other finalist:  Emi Kagawa (jpn) 

Total: 49 pianists took part in this Solo Category

Senior Division
Krenek Category

                   1. Mikhail Korzhev (rus) 
                   2. Naoko Sugiyama (jpn) 

Total: 3 pianists took part in this Krenek Category

 

International Piano Competition 'EPTA', Osijek (crt)
26 January - 2 February 2005

Category C

       1. (ex aequo:) Ji-Hwan Hong (cor) 
                              Alice Sara Ott (jpn) 
       2. ---.
       3. ---.
       4. Darko Varga (y)

Other finalist:
           Masa Novosel (crt)

Total: 7 participants in this highest category

 

Concours de Piano "Madeleine de Valmalete", Paris (f)
Cat. Excellence: 30 January 2005

Category Excellence II "Ravel" 

       1. (felic.) Yoshino Kimura (jpn) 
       1. (unan.) Miyuki Ohata (jpn) 

Total: 2 pianists took part in this highest category

Category Excellence I "Beethoven" 

       1. (felic.) Hae-Jung Kim (cor) 
       1. (felic.) Keiko Higashi (jpn) 
       1. Chae-Young Lee (cor) 
       1. Hiroko Nagashima (jpn) 
       1. Mathieu Stepec 

Total: 11 pianists took part in this category

 

Concours de Piano, Vulaines (f)
15 - 16 January 2005

Category Virtuosite

       1. (1st place) Marina Milinkovitch
       1. (2nd place) Jean Muller (lux) 
       2. Kaori Ito (jpn) 
       3. Antoine Terny (f) 

Diplomas:
           Marroussia Gentet 
           Kimiko Hayashi (jpn) 
           Pamela Hurtado (f)
           Louis-Paul Niemerich 

Total: 13 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Chopin International Piano Competition, Corpus Christi (TX, usa)
15 January 2005

Grand Prize winner
Yuri Blinov (belo)

           1. ---.
           2. Eun-Ah Cho (cor)

Total: 3 invited pianists took part

 

Young Concert Artists, New York (usa)
Finals: 15 January 2005

(NB This is a 'mixed' music competition)

Two pianists among the winners

Gleb Ivanov (rus)
Wonny Song (can)

One more pianist among the finalists:

Hyo Jee Kang (cor)

 

International Chopin Competition in Asia, Tokyo (jpn)
Finals: 4 - 10 January 2005

Delegate category

  Gold medal: Soo-Jung Ann (cor) 
                      Takuro Maeda (jpn) 
                      Shohei Sekimoto (jpn) 
  Silver: ---.
  Bronze: ---.

  Encouraging prize: Mariko Furukawa (jpn) 
                                 Shinya Kiyozuka (jpn) 

All five receive the return air fare to Warsaw

Total: 29 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Piano Competition "Mariya Yudina", St. Petersburg (rus)
4 - 10 January 2005

Category 3

          1. ---.
          2. Konstantin Lapshin (rus) 
          3. Georgi Pironkov (bul)

No more contestants in this highest category

 

 

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