Competition Results 2006

Including the latest update, the results of 187 international piano competitions that have been held in 2006 (plus the results of 20 preselections and one 'mixed' competition) 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 International de Piano "Jose Roca", Valencia (esp)
16 - 21 December 2006

 1. Yukiko Akagi (jpn)

 2. Antonio Ortiz Ramirez (esp) 

 3. Edward Neeman (usa)

 

Total: 10 pianists took part

 

Concours International "Jean-Sébastien Bach" Piano - Violon, Paris (f)
16 - 17 December 2006

Piano

 

 1. ---.

 2. Gabriela Ungureanu (rum) 

 

No other contestants for piano

 

International Piano Competition "Tatyana Nikolaeva", Bryansk (rus)
9 - 16 December 2006

Category C

 

                                   1. ---.
                                   2. ---.

                                   3. ---.

 

Total: one pianist took part in this highest category

 

Premio Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Pausilypon", Napoli (it) (AAF)
11 - 15 December 2006

 1. Aimo Pagin (f)

 2. ---.

 3. (ex aequo:) Petr Ovtcharov (frg) 
                         Yubo Zhou (chn)

 

Total: 22 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano "Francis Poulenc", Tulle-Brive-Limoges (f) (AAF)
7 - 14 December 2006

 1. Yusuke Kikuchi (jpn)

 2. Evgeny Starodubtsev (rus) 

 3. Takashi Sato (jpn)

 

Total: 16 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Margarita Lothar-Shevchenko", Novosibirsk (rus)
1 - 14 December 2006

             1. Philip Kopatchevsky (rus)

             2. (ex aequo:) Elena Sadchikova (rus) 

                                    Natalya Taldykina (rus) 

             3. Tatyana Prushinskaya (rus) 

 

Other finalists:

                 Dmitry Karpov (rus)

                 Konstantin Tyulkin (rus)

 

Total: 13 pianists took part in the main competition

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Camillo Togni", Gussago (it)
7 - 10 December 2006

Category Pianoforte e Orchestra

 

                  1. ---.

                  2. Maria Perrotta (it)

                  3. Francesca Cucciarre (it) 

 

Total: 7 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Piano Competition Grand Konzerteum, Athens (gr)
4 - 10 December 2006

Category Grand Konzerteum

 

               1. ---.

               2. Galina Chistyakova (rus)

               3. ---.

               4. ---.

 

Total: 5 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Piano Competition, Almaty (kzk)
4 - 9 December 2006

    1. (ex aequo:) Rabiga Dyussembaeva (kzk) 

                            Daniil Tsvetkov (rus)

    2. (ex aequo:) Sergei Kim (kzk)
                            Qingpan Xiao (chn)

    3. (ex aequo:) Gulrukh Shakirova (uzb)
                            Weiwei Zhai (chn)

 

Total: approx. 24 pianists took part

 

Hilton Head International Piano Competition (usa) (AAF)
December 2006: announcement of selected contestants

24 pianists have been selected to take part
in the competition, March 2007

Charlie Albright (usa)
Jae-Won Cheung (cor)
Julian Gorus (bul)
Georgi Gromov (rus)
Qing Jiang (chn)
David Kaplan (usa)
Natalija Kazarian (geor)
Yusuke Kikuchi (jpn)
Olexei Koltakov (ukr)
Rachel Naomi Kudo (usa)
Martin Labazevitch (pol)
Hyo-Sun Lim (cor)
Jose Menor Martín (esp)
Ksenia Morozova (rus)
Hando Nahkur (est)
Marianna Prjevalskaya (mold/esp)
Hanout Senekeremian (usa)
Rui Shi (chn)
Misuzu Tanaka (jpn)
Slawomir Wojciech Wilk (pol)
Chia-lin Yang (tai)
Dizhou Zhao (chn)
Eric Alan Zuber (usa)
Darrett Zusko (can)

Total: 176 pianists applied

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano "Cidade de Ferrol", Ferrol (esp)
30 November - 7 December 2006

  1. Mihkel Poll (est)

  2. Jae-Hyuck Cho (cor/usa)

  3. Maryna Baranova (ukr/frg) 

 

Total: 32 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Cittŕ di Marsala", Marsala (it)
29 November - 3 December 2006

   1. Kiryl Keduk (belo)

   2. (ex aequo:) Carles Marin Moret (esp) 

                           Arisa Sakai (jpn)

   3. Margarita Golovsko (ukr)

 

Other finalists:

      Jun Ishimura (jpn)

      Masafumi Nakatani (jpn)

      Akiko Omuro (jpn)

      Anna Semkina (rus)

 

Total: 18 pianists took part

 

2nd ASEAN Int'l Chopin Piano Competition, Kuala Lumpur (mal)
28 November - 2 December 2006

Concerto 'C' Category

 

   1. ---.

   2. Andrew Koay (mal) 

   3. ---.

 

Total: 90 pianists took part in 9 categories

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Ennio Porrino", Cagliari (it)
27 November - 2 December 2006

   1. ---.

   2. Eric Artz (f) 

   3. (ex aequo:) Daniel Vaiman (isr)

                           Yun-Jung Koo (cor)

 

Total: 12 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Ella Phillipp", Timisoara (rum)
25 - 30 November 2006

   1. Vanda Albota (rum)

   2. Rena Noguchi (jpn)

   3. Andrei Banciu (rum)

 

Other finalist:

       Ralica-Giorgiana Ciorbaru (rum) 

 

Total: 13 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Hamamatsu (jpn) (Fed.) (AAF)
12 - 27 November 2006

   1. Alexei Gorlatch (ukr)

   2. Sergei Kuznetsov (rus)

   3. (ex aequo:) Tae-Hyung Kim (cor)

                         Tomoki Kitamura (jpn)

   4. ---.

   5. Chun Wang (chn)

   6. Nikolay Saratovskiy (rus) 

 

Total: 73 of the 94 invited pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano, Fribourg (ch)
25 - 26 November 2006

Category 5

 

                   1. Johann Treichel

                   2. ---.

                   3. Carole Berset 

 

No more participants in this highest category

 

Rencontres Internationales des Jeunes Pianistes, Namur (b)
22 - 26 November 2006

Category 4

 

                    1. Nicolas Franco (b)

                    2. Haruka Ogawa (jpn)

                    3. Inga Fiolia (rus)

 

Other finalists: Maryanna Brodska (ukr)

                        Christopher Ellis (gb)

                        Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort (b)

 

Total: 15 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concurs Internacional de Piano d'Escaldes-Engordany - Premi Principat d'Andorra, Andorra (and)
18 - 25 November 2006

   1. Mikhail Mordvinov (rus)

   2. Mayumi Sakamoto (jpn) 

   3. Ryoji Ariyoshi (jpn) 

   4. Yaron Kohlberg (isr) 

   5. Jason Wirth (usa)

 

Other finalists:

       Svetlana Andreeva (rus) 

       Polina Bogdanova (rus)

 

Total: 38 pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano "Compositores de Espana", Las Rozas (esp)
18 - 25 November 2006

   1. Sergei Tarasov (rus)

   2. Michael Namirovsky (isr) 

   3. Alexei Kurbatov (rus) 

 

Total: approx. 54 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Roma 2006", Roma (it)
1 - 13 November 2006

   1. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)

   2. ---.

   3. Daniela Tsekova (bul)

 

Total: 16 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Premio Giuliano Pecar", Gorizia (it)
5 - 11 November 2006

   1. Ilaria Loatelli (it)

   2. Marouan Benabdallah (hun) 

   3. Chengcheng Zhao (chn)

 

Other finalists:

       Lorenzo Cossi (it)

       Alessandra Giunti (it)

       Soyeon Kim (cor)

 

Total: 16 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Virtuosi per Musica di Pianoforte", Usti nad Labem (cz)
9 - 11 November 2006

Category 3

 

   1. Kristina Stepashukova (cz/ukr) 
   2. (ex aequo:) Jakub Czekierda (pol) 
                         Aleksandra Lugovtseva (rus) 
                         Aleksandra Sennikova (rus) 

   3. (ex aequo:) Mariam Dadashyan (ukr)
                         Filip Horinek (cz)

 

Franz Liszt International Piano Competition, Weimar (frg) (Fed.) (AAF)
27 October - 5 November 2006

 1. Olga Kozlova (rus)

 2. Masataka Takada (jpn) 

 3. Vitaly Pisarenko (ukr) (+ Aud. Prize) 

 

Other semi-finalists:

     Yuhi Ozaki (jpn)

     Si-Yuan Wang (chn)

 

Total: 56 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Franco Alfano", Sanremo (it)
29 October - 4 November 2006

 1. Ekaterina Gumenyuk (ukr)

 2. Natalia Sukharevich (rus) 

 3. Simeon Bekchiev (bul)

 

Total: 38 pianists took part

 

Emil Gilels International Piano Competition, Odessa (ukr)
24 October - 4 November 2006

 1. Pavel Kolesnikov (rus)

 2. (ex aequo:) Alexei Chernov (rus) 

                         Alexandre Pirojenko (rus) 

 3. (ex aequo:) Natela Beraya (geor)

                         Georgi Koshukhar (ukr) 

                         Maxim Podkurkov (rus) 

 4. Hao Cheng Liu (chn)

 5. (ex aequo:) Vasyl Kotys (ukr)

                         Ekaterina Kulikova (ukr)

 6. Alexander Muzykantov (belo) 

 

Total: 38 pianists took part

 

Nordic Piano Competition (*), Malmo (sw)
29 October - 3 November 2006
(*: only for pianists living in Scandinavia)

        1. Emil Gryesten Jensen (dan) 

        2. Henrik Mawe (sw)

        3. Inese Klotine (sw)

        4. Asuka Nakamura (jpn)

 

Other finalists:

            Rikke Sandberg (dan)
            Jakob Alsgaard Bahr (dan)

 

Total: 15 pianists took part

 

Honens International Piano Competition, Calgary (can) (Fed.)
19 October - 3 November 2006

        1. Minsoo Sohn (cor)

        2. Hinrich Alpers (frg)

        3. Hong Xu (chn)

        4. Spencer Myer (usa)

        5. Sergei Salov (ukr)

 

Total: 21 selected pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition in memory of Vladimir Horowitz, Kiev (ukr)
22 - 31 October 2006

Junior Category

 

 1. ---.

 2. (ex aequo:) Nansong Huang (chn) 

                         Valeriya Shushkevitch (ukr) 

 3. (ex aequo:) Roman Lopatynsky (ukr) 

                         Mariya Petrova (ukr)

 4. (ex aequo:) Irina Burgan (ukr) 

                         Oleksandr Chorny (ukr)

 

Total: 11 pianists took part in this highest category

Advanced Category 'D'

 

 1. Anastasia Rizikov (can)

 2. Sergei Tanin (rus)

 3. Karina Sokolovska (ukr)

 4. Stephaniy Supashev (usa) 

 

Julia Crane International Piano Competition, Potsdam (NY, usa)
27 - 29 October 2006

   1. Olivier Hebert-Bouchard (can) 

   2. Joshua Wright (usa)

   3. Sun-A Park (usa)

   4. Kei Neidra (usa)

   5. Hanqian Zhu (chn)

   6. Caitlin Carmack (usa)

 

Total: 16 of the 17 selected pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Luciano Gante", Pordenone (it)
25 - 28 October 2006

 1. ---.

 2. (ex aequo:) Kaori Takaishi (jpn)

                         Marc Pierre Toth (can) 

 3. ---.

 

Other finalists:

      Gloria Campaner (it)

      Marco Ciampi (it) 

      Svetlana Kudina (rus)

      Tristan Pfaff (f)

 

Total: 13 pianists took part

 

First China Shenzhen International Piano Concerto Competition, Shenzhen (chn)
18 - 28 October 2006

   1. (ex aequo:) Mariya Kim (ukr) 
                          Zhang Zuo (chn) 

   2. ---.

   3. Wenyu Shen (chn)

   4. Jie Yuan (chn)

   5. Miao Hou (chn)

   6. Sun-Ho Lee (cor) 

 

Total: 31 of the 40 selected pianists took part

 

Balakirev International Piano Competition, Krasnodar (rus)
20 - 28 October 2006

Grand Prix: Pavel Dombrovsky (rus)
               1. Nikolay Medvedev (rus)
               2. Denis Evstioukhin (rus)
               3. Tatiana Khalturina (rus)
               4. ---.
               5. (ex aequo:) Natalia Tkachenko (rus)  
                                       German Ukolov (rus)

Total: 24 selected pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition for Young Musicians, Enschede (hol) (AAF)
22 - 27 October 2006

Category B

 

     1. Alexei Sychev (rus) (+ Aud. Prize + Press Prize) 

     2. Anastasia Zorina (rus)

     3. (ex aequo:) Regina Chernychko (rus) (+ Orchestra Prize) 

                             Sofia Vasheruk (rus)

Other finalists:

         Misako Osada (jpn) (Spec. Prize)

         Irina Ovsyannikova (rus) (Spec. Prize)

         Irakli Chumburidze (geor) 

         Daria Platonova (rus)

         Stephanie Proot (b)
         Hedda Skurka-Ballmann (frg) 

         Vlada Vassilieva (mex) 

 

Total: 38 pianists took part in this highest category

Category A

 

     1. Shuang Yu (chn) 

     2. Evangeliya Delizonas (rus) (+ Aud. Prize)

     3. (ex aequo:) Zhichao Julian Jia (chn) (+ Press Prize)

                             Re Zhang (chn)

 

Other finalists:

         Darya Miadzvetskaya (belo) (Spec. Prize)

         Anton Rosputko (lat) (Spec. Prize)

         Nguyen Lan Phien Pham (frg) 

         Noah Vinzens (ch)

         Yuliya Yermolyeva (belo)

 

Total: 27 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Premio Pianistico Internazionale “Stefano Marizza”, Trieste (it)
23 - 25 October 2006

   1. Chiara Opalio (it)

   2. (ex aequo:) Silvia Tessari (it) 

                           Niccolo Ronchi (it) 

 

Total: 9 pianists took part

 

Europaeischer Chopin Klavierwettbewerb, Darmstadt (frg) (AAF)
14 - 25 October 2006

   1. Helen Tysman (f)

   2. Aiko Yajima (jpn)

   3. Gajane Saakjana (lat)

   4. Katarzyna Malinowska (pol)

   5. Misuzu Kikuchi (jpn)

   6. Francesca Hun-Jae Kim (cor) 

 

Total: 20 pianists took part

 

"Frinna Awerbuch" International Piano Competition, New York (NY, usa)
14 - 22 October 2006

  1. (ex aequo:) Chetan Tierra (usa) 
                        Yin Zheng (chn)

  2. Steven Mann (usa)

  3. (ex aequo:) Jeewon Lee (cor)

                        Anna Maimine 

  4. Yukiko Agaki (jpn) 

 

Other finalists:

      Kristie Janczak (usa) 

      Joonhee Kim (cor)

      Kana Mimaki (jpn)

      Irma Svanadze (geor)

 

Total: 46 selected pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, Trani (it)
16 - 21 October 2006

  1. Vitaly Pisarenko (ukr) 

  2. Yuliya Smolskaya (rus) 

  3. Anastasia Solomatina (rus) 

 

Total: 14 pianists took part

 

San Antonio International Piano Competition, San Antonio (usa)
15 - 21 October 2006

 1. Olexei Koltakov (ukr) 
 2. ---.

 3. (ex aequo:) Grace Fong (usa)

                         Michael Mizrahi (usa) 

 

Total: 10 selected pianists took part

 

August-Everding-Musikwettbewerb (Konzertgesellschaft Muenchen), Muenchen (frg)
15 - 16 October 2006

  1. Alexei Gorlatch (ukr)
  2. Dudana Mazmanishvili (geor) (+ Aud. Prize) 

  3. Jean Muller (lux) 

 

Total: 8 selected pianists took part

 

Premio Pianistico Internazionale, Foligno (it)
15 - 16 October 2006

  1. Mauro Bertoli (it)
  2. ---.

  3. Alexei Lebedev (rus) 

 

Total: 7 pianists took part

 

Concours de Geneve, Geneve (ch) (Fed.)
30 September - 15 October 2006

    1. ---.
    2. (1st mentioned) Gilles Vonsattel (ch) (+ Aud. Prize) 

    2. (2nd mentioned) Juliana Avdeeva (rus) 

    3. Yusuke Kikuchi (jpn)

 

Total: 82 pianists took part

 

Newport International Competition for Young Pianists, Newport (Wales, gb)
Semifinals and Finals: 11 - 14 October 2006

    1. Ishay Shaer (isr)

    2. Jordi Farran-Lapena (esp) 

    3. Yuki Bessho (jpn) 

 

Total: 26 pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano "Parnassos", Monterrey (mex) (AAF)
29 September - 9 October 2006

     1. Yaron Kohlberg (isr)

     2. (ex aequo:) Alexei Chernov (rus) 

                             Rufus Choi (usa)
     3. ---.

     4. Michael Bulychev-Okser (rus)

 

Total: 19 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale di Pianoforte, Sulmona (it)
2 - 9 October 2006

     1. Margarita Muzichenko (rus)

     2. Vincenzo di Stefano (it) 

     3. Sona Arshakyan (arm)

 

Other finalists:

         Regina Chernichko (ukr)

         Irina Panina (rus)

         Sun Young Park (cor)

         Gabriele Zilyte (lit)

 

Total: 20 pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Musica da Cidade do Porto, Porto (prt) (Fed.)
27 September - 7 October 2006

   1. Jung-Eun Lee (cor)

   2. Hee-Yoo Hwan (cor)

   3. Mariko Furukawa (jpn) 
   4. Ayako Imai (jpn)


Total: 30 pianists took part

 

Abano Terme International Piano Competition "Fausto Zadra", Abano Terme (it)
29 September - 1 October 2006

   1. Rie Shimada (jpn)

   2. Alexandre Pirojenko (rus)

   3. Federica Marini (it) 

Other finalists:

       Mauro Bertoli (it)
       Roberto Fabris (it)
       Clara Fruehstueck (a)

       Syuzanna Kaso (ukr)
       Jennifer McNamara (aus)
       Tatjana Nikolaeva-Soldatenko (ukr) 
       Marc Pierre Toth (can)
       Akiko Yui (jpn)


Total: 59 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale 'Rina Sala Gallo', Monza (it) (AAF)
21 - 30 September 2006

   1. Michail Lifits (uzb)

   2. Sofya Gulyak (rus)

   3. Lorenzo Cossi (it) 

 

Others in semifinals:

       Miyuki Ishii (jpn)

       Marian Sobula (pol)


Total: 40 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale - Repubblica San Marino, Borgo Maggiore (sanm) (AAF)
21 - 30 September 2006

   1. Evgeny Brakhman (rus) 

   2. Sasha Grynyuk (ukr)

   3. (ex aequo:) Domenico Monaco (it)

                          Gabriel Alexandru Teclu (rum) 


Total: 64 pianists took part

Category Young Pianists

 

   1. ---.

   2. Hijune Han (cor)

   3. Ida Kaplan (rus)

Category Piano Duos

 

   1. Olga Chipak (rus) & Oleksiy Kushnir (rus)

   2. ---.

   3. Ines Lunkenheimer (frg) & Katja Anne Lunkenheimer (frg) 

 

Jose Iturbi International Piano Competition, Valencia (esp) (Fed.)
14 - 30 September 2006

   1. Josu de Solau Soto (esp) 

   2. Valentina Igoshina (rus)

   3. Andrey Yaroshinsky (rus) 

 

Other finalists, 1st phase:

   4. (ex aequo:) Patrick Hemmerle (f)

                           Sofya Melikyan (arm) 

   5. Natalya Kuchaeva (rus) 


Total: 35 pianists took part

 

Seiler International Piano Competition, Rethymno (Crete, gr)
15 - 24 September 2006

   1. (ex aequo:) Constantinos Valianatos (gr)    
                           Daniyar Yessimkhanov (kzk)

   2. ---.

   3. Shinya Kiyozuka (jpn) 

 

Other finalists:
       Anne-Sophie Charignon (f) 
       George Filadelfefs (gr) 
       Svetlana Karpunkina (rus) 
       Ekaterina Krivokochenko (rus) 
       Noel Mc Robbie (can) 
       Yuko Nakandakari (jpn) 

 

Total: 45 pianists took part in this highest category

Group A: Young Soloists

 

   1. Nansong Huang (chn)
   2. Nicolas Riyad (syr)
   3. Konstantinos Destounis (gr)

 

Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, Leeds (gb) (Fed.)
6 - 24 September 2006

                 1. Sun-Wook Kim (cor) 

                 2. Andrew Brownell (usa)

                 3. Denis Kozhukhin (rus)

                 4. Siheng Song (chn)

                 5. Sung-Hoon Kim (cor)

                 6. Grace Fong (usa)


Total: 71 of the 83 selected pianists took part

 

International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists, Beijing (chn)
9 - 17 September 2006

  1. Dmitri Shishkin (rus) 
  2. Yijia Wang (chn) 

  3. Daniil Trifonov (rus) 

  4. Yang Liu (chn)

  5. Daniil Malyuta (rus)

 

Other finalist:

      Huizhen Jin (chn)

 

Total: 39 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, Vietri (it) (AAF)
Premio di Esecuzione Pianistica "Antonio Napolitano"
12 - 16 September 2006

                1. Michail Lifits (uzb) 
                2. Alexander Yakovlev (rus) 

                3. Salvato Amedeo (it) 

                4. (ex aequo:) Maria Perrotta (it) 

                                        Maxim Kulabukhov (ukr) 

 

Total: 24 pianists competed for this Premio Antonio Napolitano

 

Liszt-Bartok International Music Competition, Budapest (hun) (Fed.)
3 - 15 September 2006

  1. Elmar Gasanov (rus) 
  2. (ex aequo:) Olivier Besnard (hun) 
                          Laszlo Borbely (hun)
  3. Istvan Lajko (hun) 

 

Other finalist:
      Masataka Takada (jpn) 

 

Total: 43 pianists took part

 

Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Hamamatsu (jpn) (Fed.) (AAF)
September 2006: announcement of selected contestants

94 pianists have been selected to take part
in the competition, November 2006

 

view the list on:


www.hipic.jp/eng/contestants_results/index.html

 

 

China Shenzhen International Piano Concerto Competition, Shenzhen (chn)
September 2006: announcement of selected contestants

40 pianists have been selected to take part
in the competition, October 2006

 

view the list on:


www.csipcc.com

 

 

ARD Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD, Muenchen (frg) (Fed.)
29 August - 15 September 2006

Piano

 

        1. Ben Kim (usa)
        2. (ex aequo:) Hisako Kawamura (jpn)
                                Marianna Shirinyan (arm) (+ Audience Prize) 

 

Total: 28 of the 36 selected pianists took part

 

Concours Grieg, Oslo (n) (AAF)
2 - 10 September 2006

Piano Solo

 

  1. Hongbo Quan (chn) (+ Audience Prize) 

  2. Yaron Kohlberg (isr)
  3. Dimitris Kostopoulos (n) 

 

Total: 28 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale "Valsesia - Musica", Varallo (it) (AAF)
2 - 10 September 2006

   1. Sergei Tarasov (rus) 
   2. Alexander Yakovlev (rus) 

   3. Alexei Chernov (rus)

   4. (ex aequo:) Alina Kabanova (rus) 
                           Alexander Maslov (rus)

                           Aimo Pagin (f)

 

Total: 64 pianists took part

 

Internationaler Johannes Brahms Wettbewerb, Poertschach (a)
27 August - 3 September 2006

Piano

 

    1. Mariya Filippova (ukr)
    2. Nobue Ito (jpn)
    3. Ena Uotani (jpn)
    4. Elena Ivanova (rus) 
    5. Malgorzata Podstawska (pol) 
    6. Yuki Hasegawa (jpn)

 

Total: 22 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Ferruccio Busoni", Bolzano (it) (Fed.)
First phase: 21 - 29 August 2006

24 pianists selected for the second phase
(August 2007)

 

Lilian Akopova (ukr)
Florence Boissolle (f)
Federico Colli (it)
Lorenzo Cossi (it)
Martina Filjak (crt)
Alexei Gorlatch (ukr)
Giuseppe Gullotta (it)
Sofya Gulyak (rus)
Ji Hwan Hong (cor)
Jae Weon Huh (cor)
Sue Woon Hyung (cor)
Evgeny Izotov (rus)
Yu Mi Lee (cor)
Maria Massytcheva (rus)
Dudana Mazmanishvili (geor)
Dinara Nadzhafova (ukr)
Johannes Nies (frg)
Akihito Okuda (jpn)
Petr Ovtcharov (rus)
Esther Park (usa)
Vyacheslav Sidorenko (ukr)
Stella Su-Jung Sun (chn)
Siyuan Wang (chn)
Saori Zetsu (jpn)

 

Total: 90 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internacional de Piano, Panama (pan) (AAF)
21 - 27 August 2006

     1. Mario Alonso Herrero (esp)
     2. Kookhee Hong (cor) + Audience Prize
     3. Jingjing Wang (chn)
     4. Marcos Madrigal (cub)
     5. Anna Khanina (rus/frg)

 

Total: 10 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale di Musica "Palma d'Oro", Finale Ligure (it)
22 - 26 August 2006

Piano

 

     1. (ex aequo:) Ireneusz Boczek (pol)
                             Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor) 
     2. ---.
     3. Philipp Richardsen (a)

 

Total: 6 pianists took part

 

Wiener Pianisten-Wettbewerb, Vienna (a)
17 - 24 August 2006

Category C

 

             1. Tamar Zhvania (geor)
             2. Sou Kondo (jpn) 

             3. Hiromi Ikei (jpn)

 

Other finalists:
                 Ayako Fujiki (jpn)
                 Mariann Marczi (hun) 
                 Takatoshi Mukai (jpn)

 

Total: 7 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Villa Lobos International Piano Competition, Sao Paulo (brs)
14 - 20 August 2006

Two finalists

 

             1. Chun Wang (chn)
             2. Jie Chen (chn)

 

             3. Romain David (f)

             4. Irina Zahharenkova (est) 

 

Total: 17 of the 20 invited pianists took part

 

International Competition for Young Pianists, Ettlingen (frg)
6 - 13 August 2006

Category B

 

 1. Yuhi Ozaki (jpn)

 2. Ksenia Rodionova (rus) 
 3. Jun-Hee Kim (cor)
 4. Chenna Lu (chn)
 5. Haruka Ogawa (jpn)

 

Encouragement awards to the
following finalists:

     Xia Jiang (chn)
     Louis Lancien (f)
     Gryta Tatoryte (lit)

 

Further finalists:
     Azumi Ito (jpn)
     Dilian Ivanov (bul)
     Nestor Pifarre Bayona (esp) 
     Ricarda Schmersahl (frg)
     Hae-Sung Yoon (cor)

 

Total: 42 of the 47 invited pianists took part
in this highest category

Category A

 

 1. Ching-toa Aristo Sham (hk)

 2. Nansong Huang (chn) 
 3. Wai-yin Wong (hk)
 4. Jung-Eun Kim (cor)
 5. Aika Kondo (jpn)

 

Encouragement awards:

     Ryszard Alzin (pol)
     Gabrielle Chou (usa)
     Rika Nakamura (jpn)

     Nicholas Namoradze (geor)
     Tomoki Park (jpn)
     Nicholas Ryba (usa)
     Gui-ning Xu (chn) 

 

Total: 47 of the 52 invited pianists took part
in this junior category

 

PTNA Piano Competition, Tokyo (jpn) (AAF)
July - 22 August 2006

Superior Grade

 

              1. Hiromi Maeyama (jpn)

              2. Kana Onda (jpn) 
              3. Miwa Hoyano (jpn)

 

Other finalist:

                  Rui Urayama (jpn)

 

Total: 72 pianists took part in this highest category

 

IBLA Grand Prize, Ibla Ragusa (it)
28 July - 9 August 2006

Piano Adult

 

 Winners: Liudmila Dukhan (rus) 
                Klara Min (cor) 
                Tatiana Nikitina (rus) 

 

Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition, Rochester (NY, usa)
29 July - 4 August 2006

 1. Charlie Albright (usa) 
 2. Kenric Tam (usa)

 3. Vyacheslav Kiselev (rus) 

 

Other finalists:

     Min-Hwan Kim (usa)
     Yundu Wang (usa)
     June Wu (chn)

 

Total: 18 pianists took part

 

11th Taipei International Youth Chopin Piano Competition, Taichung (tai) (AAF)
26 July - 4 August 2006

 1. (ex aequo:) Maxim Ladid (lux/frg) 
                         Meng-sheng Shen (tai) 
 2. (ex aequo:) Kang Huang (tai) 
                         Yasunori Yagi (jpn)

 3. ---.

 

Other finalists:
     Ting-i Lee (tai)
     Hsin-hui Liu (tai)
     Hsin-i Huang (tai)
     Shih-yu Tang (tai) Special prize
     Shan-chi Hsu (tai) Special prize
     Chia-cui Chang (tai) Special prize
     Chin-ling Tsai (tai) 

 

Total: 81 pianists took part

 

Kazuko Yasukawa Memorial Concours, Tokyo (jpn)
19 - 31 July 2006

 1. Shoko Kawasaki (jpn) 
 2. Natari Shibukawa (jpn) 

 3. Chie Jinno (jpn)

 

New Orleans International Piano Competition, New Orleans (usa)
24 - 30 July 2006

     1. Dustin Gledhill (usa) 
     2. Chetan Tierra (usa)

     3. Dimitri Levkovich (can/ukr)

 

Total: 12 invited pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale "Rovere d'Oro", San Bartolomeo (it)
24 - 30 July 2006

Rovere d'Oro - Piano

 

     1. Anastasia Dedik (rus) 
     2. Alexander Orlov (rus)

     3. Pavel Kolesnikov (rus) 

     4. ---.

     5. Anna Vasilieva (rus)

 

Total: 15 pianists took part

 

Viardo International Piano Competition, Tarrytown (usa)
25 - 29 July 2006

Senior Category

 

1. Victor Stanislavsky (isr) 
2. ---.

3. (ex aequo:) Eric Zuber (usa)

                       Grace Fong (usa) 

Junior Category

 

1. ---.
2. Laura Iacovache-Pana (fin) 
3. ---.

 

Tivoli International Piano Competition, Copenhagen (dan) (AAF)
20 - 27 July 2006

    1. Ning An (usa)
    2. Alexander Moutouzkine (rus) 

    3. Zlata Chochieva (rus)

 

Total: 12 invited pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition for the Vendome Prize 2006, Lisbon (prt) (AAF)
Final phase: 20 - 23 July 2006

                   1. Stephen Beus (usa) 
                   2. Andrej Korobeinikov (rus)

 

Total: 12 invited pianists took part in this final phase

 

Muenchener Klavierpodium der Jugend, Munich (frg)
13 - 16 July 2006

Category 5

 

Prizewinner: Marina Kan (rus)

 

Total: 2 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Internationaler Klavier- und Kompositionswettbewerb 'Carl Filtsch', Sibiu (rum)
11 - 16 July 2006

Category C

 

   1. (ex aequo:) Catalin Dima (rum) 
                           Doris Lindner (a) 
   2. (ex aequo:) Yuka Katori (jpn) 
                           Xavier Lecomte de la Bretonnerie (f) 
   3. (ex aequo:) Peter Kolcsar (hun)

                           Alexander Lialios (bul)

 

Composition prize

                    1. Alexander Lialios (bul)

                    2. Andrean Lazarov (bul)

 

Carl Filtsch Prize

Joana Crisu (rum)

 

Total: 12 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Prix Amadeo for Piano, Vaals (hol)
14 - 15 July 2006

   1. Benjamin Nuss (frg)

   2. Artem Kanke (ukr) 
   3. Sebastian Voltz (frg) 

 

Other finalists:

       Eugen Dietrich (frg)
       Huijing Han (chn)

       Michele Montemurro (it) 

       Konstantin Semilakovs (est/frg) 

 

Total: 18 pianists took part

 

Internationaler Johann-Sebastian-Bach Wettbewerb, Leipzig (frg) (Fed.)
4 - 15 July 2006

Piano

 

   1. Irina Zahharenkova (est)

   2. Varvara Nepomnyashaya (rus) 
   3. Olena Vorotno (rus)
   #4 Li-chun Su (tai)

   #5 Assen Boyadjiev (bul) 
   #6 Olga Andryushenko (rus)

 

Total: 36 pianists took part

 

3rd Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition, Minneapolis (usa) (AAF)
2 - 14 July 2006

     1. Edisher Savitski (geor)

     2. Ryo Yanagitani (can)
     3. Victoriya Korchinskaya-Kogan (rus) 
     4. Mikhail Mordvinov (rus)
     5. Einav Yarden (isr)
     6. Gregory DeTurck (usa)

 

Total: 24 of the 26 invited pianists took part

 

Newport International Competition for Young Pianists, Newport (Wales, gb)
1st stage, London: 10 - 12 July 2006

Admitted to the semifinals (Newport, Oct. 2006)

 

         Yuki Bessho (jpn)

         Jordi Farran-Lapena (esp)

         Melissa Gore (gb)

         Sarah Hiller (frg)

         Miho Kawashima (jpn)

         Ishay Shaer (isr)

 

Total: approx. 26 pianists took part

 

Concurs Internacional de Piano "Ricard Vińes", Lleida (esp)
8 - 11 July 2006

Category A

 

   1. ---.

   2. (ex aequo:) Enrique Bernaldo de Quiros Martin (esp)  
                           Eduardo Fernandez Garcia (esp)

 

 

Concorso Internazionale "Citta di Massafra", Massafra (it)
3 - 9 July 2006

Piano - Category H

 

Winner: Mikhail Yakovlev (rus)

 

Total: approx. 10 pianists took part in this highest category

 

50th AMSA World Piano Competition, Cincinnati (usa)
27 June - 9 July 2006

Three finalists

 

   1. Tatiana Tessman (Mitchko) (rus) 
   2. (ex aequo:) Ryan MacEvoy McCullough (usa)  
                           Xin Ti (chn)

   3. ---.

 

   #4. (ex aequo:) Tatiana Ivleva (rus)

                             Anastasia Solomatina (rus)

   #5. ---.

   #6. Yulia Yun (uzb)

 

Total: 16 of the 30 selected pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Giuseppe Terracciano", Sieti (it)
4 - 8 July 2006

Esecuzione Pianistica

 

   1. (ex aequo:) Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor) 

                           Alexei Lebedev (rus)

   2. ---.
   3. (ex aequo:) Ryo Horiuchi (jpn)  
                           Natalia Pushkantser (rus) 

 

Total: 9 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano "Son Altesse Royale la Princesse Lalla Meryem", Rabat (mrc)
1 - 8 July 2006

Category Virtuosite

 

                    1. Hiroko Tani (jpn)
                    2. Ryoko Moriguchi (jpn) 

                    3. Tomohiro Hatta (jpn) 

 

Other finalist:   Irina Georgieva (bul)

 

Total: 8 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Chopin Piano Competition, Marianske Lazne (cz)
30 June - 3 July 2006

Category B

 

        1. ---.

        2. Piotr Latoszynski (pol)
        3. Peter Fancovic (slvk)

        #4. Vital Stahievich (belo)
        #5. Tomomasa Sakata (jpn)

 

Total: 16 pianists took part in this highest category

Category A

 

        1. Lucie Valcova (cz)

        2. Denny Hozman (cz)
        3. Zuzanna Pawlaszek (pol)

 

Total: 8 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Tunbridge Wells Int'l Young Concert Artists Competition (TWIYCA), Tunbridge Wells (gb)
29 June - 2 July 2006

Piano

 

     1. James Willshire (gb)

     2. Martyna Jatkauskaite (lit)
     3. Alexander Karpeev (rus)
     4. (ex aequo:) Alexander Ullman (gb) 

                             Nafis Umerckulova (uzb) 

 

Overall winner
(after competing with the winners of the other sections/other instrumentalists)

Martyna Jatkauskaite (lit)

 

Gina Bachauer Int'l Piano Competition, Salt Lake City (Utah, usa) (Fed.)
15 - 30 June 2006

        1. Stephen Beus (usa)
        2. Takashi Yamamoto (jpn)
        3. Vadim Kholodenko (ukr)
        4. Hinrich Alpers (frg)
        5. Jue Wang (chn)
        6. Colleen Lee (hk)

 

Total: 39 of the 41 invited pianists took part

 

Honens International Piano Competition, Calgary (can) (Fed.)
29 June 2006: results of preselection

21 pianists selected for participation
in the 5th Honens Int'l Piano Competition (Calgary - Canada, Oct./Nov. 2006)


Hinrich Alpers (frg)
Michael Bukhman (isr)
Gregory DeTurck (usa)
Inna Faliks (usa)
Tanya Gabrielian (usa)
Stanislav Khrystenko (ukr)
Marina Kolomytseva (rus)
Soyeon Clara Lee (cor)
Igor Lovchinsky (rus)
Maria Mazo (rus)
Spencer Myer (usa)
Sergei Salov (ukr)
Sergei Saratovski (rus)
Edisher Savitski (geor)
Daniil Sayamov (rus)
Elizabeth Schumann (usa)
Min Soo Sohn (cor)
Evgeni Starodubtsev (rus)
Juliana Steinbach-Lessa (brs)
Tatjana Titova (rus)
Hong Xu (chn)

 

Premio Internacional de Piano "Fondacion Guerrero", Madrid (esp) (AAF)
16 - 23 June 2006

  1. Xiaofeng Wu (chn) 

  2. Yukiko Akagi (jpn)

  3. Fernando Cruz Robledillo (esp) 

 

Total: 7 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Nazionale* "Muzio Clementi Yamaha", Lastra a Signa (it)
21 - 24 June 2006
*: although the competition is named 'National', it is open to pianists of any nationality irrespective of their place of residence or study

Category D

 

                  1. ---.

                  2. Giovanna Borruso (it) 

 

Total: 3 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Laureates after the finals of all categories:

 

              1. Martina Consonni (it) (Cat. A)

              2. Costanza Principe (it) (Cat. B)

              3. Yumi Palleschi (it) (Cat. C)
              4. Daniele Paolillo (it) (Cat. C)

 

Concours Geza Anda, Zurich (ch) (Fed.)
8 - 20 June 2006

  1. Sergei Koudriakov (rus) 

  2. Nikolai Tokarev (rus)

  3. Tomomi Okumura (jpn)

 

Total: 25 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Concerti in Villa", Vicenza (it)
19 June 2006

  1. ---.

  2. Alessandro Taverna (it) 

 

Total: 3 pianists took part

 

Gran Premio Europeo della Musica "Mendelssohn-Cup", Taurisano (it)
12 - 18 June 2006

Esecuzione Pianistica

 

  1. Ksenia Morozova (rus) 

  2. ---.

  3. Sangiovanni Scipione (it) 

 

Other finalist:

      Alessandro Mazzamuto (it) 

 

Total: 4 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition World Music Masters, Monte Carlo (AAF)
12 - 17 June 2006

     1. Vladimir Sverdlov (rus)

 

Other finalist:

        Jae-Hyuck Cho (cor)

 

Total: 9 invited pianists took part

 

Tallinn International Piano Competition, Tallinn (est)
4 - 15 June 2006

  1. Mihkel Poll (est) 

  2. Gang Sun (chn)

  3. (ex aequo:) Sten Lassman (est) 
                          Daniil Sayamov (rus) 

 

Total: 28 pianists took part

 

International Russian Music Piano Competition, San Jose (CA, usa)
1 - 11 June 2006

Advanced Category

 

                      1. Yukiko Sekino (jpn)

                      2. Chih-long Hu (tai)

                      3. Howard Na (usa)

 

Total: 23 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Alessandro Casagrande", Terni (it) (Fed.)
31 May - 11 June 2006

  1. Irina Zahharenkova (est) 

  2.  Dmitry Demiashkin (rus)

  3.  Marco Vergini (it)

 

Total: 38 pianists took part

 

Concorsi Internazionali di Musica della Val Tidone, Val Tidone (it) (AAF)
Premio Silvio Bengalli: 8 - 10 June 2006

  1. ---.

  2. (ex aequo:) Mariya Kim (ukr) 

                          Hongbo Quan (chn) 

  3. Giuseppe Gullotta (it)

  4. Beatrice Magnani (it)

  5. Nika Lundstrem (rus)

 

Total: 57 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Nazionale* "Cittŕ di Cesenatico" - Trofeo Febo Villani, Cesenatico (it)
3 - 10 June 2006
*: though named National, the competition does not impose any restrictions regarding nationality, study or residence

Category F

 

     1. Viller Valbonesi (it) - Absolute winner 

     1. Marco Ciampi (it)

     1. Rinaldo Zhok

     2. ---.

     3. Giovanni Bertelli (it)

 

Total: 7 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico e Lirico Internazionale "Muzio Clementi", Tivoli (Roma, it)
5 - 9 June 2006

Piano - Category 3

 

       1. Antonio d'Abramo (it) 

       2. (ex aequo:) Hye Kyung Kim (cor) 

                               Matteo Santalamazza (it) 

       3. Ingrid Ferrari (it) 

 

Total: 4 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concours International de Piano 'Adilia Alieva', Gaillard (f)
2 - 6 June 2006

Category Professionals

 

              1. Kamilla Suleimanova (azer) 

              2. Katiana Georga (geor)

              3. Lyudmila Chychuk (ukr)

              4. Mekhriban Agayeva (azer)

 

Total: 7 pianists took part in this highest category

Category Juniors

 

              1. Florian Noack (b) 

              2. Alexandra Dariescu (rum)

              3. Shi Zhai (chn)

              4. Ekaterina Gorbunova (rus)

 

Total: 9 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Concorso Nazionale* di Esecuzione Musicale "Idelmo Poggioli", Torre Annunziato (it)
3 - 4 June 2006
*: though named National, the competition is open to musicians from the European Union

Piano - Category F

 

                1. Francesco di Gregorio (it) 

 

Total: 7 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale per Pianisti “Giovani Talenti", Voghera (it)
2 - 4 June 2006

    1. Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor) 
    2. Mauro Bertoli (it) 

 

Other finalists:

        Giacomo Miglioranzi (it) 
        Patrizia Salverini (it)

 

Total: 9 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale di Musica "Pietro Argento", Gioia del Colle (it)
31 May - 4 June 2006

Piano - Category F

 

    1. In-Young Moon (cor) - Absolute winner
        Mirco Ceci (it)
        Alexei Suchkov (rus) 

    2. Maki Inoue (jpn)

    3. Marco Ciampi (it)

        Yoshino Kimura (jpn)

 

Total: 15 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Europeo dei Duchi d'Acquaviva, Atri (Teramo, it)
29 May - 4 June 2006

Piano

 

 1. Elena Zalesova (rus)
 2. Yu In Lee (cor)

 3. Plamena Doncheva (bul) 

 

Total: 31 pianists took part

 

Premio Pianistico Internazionale "Marco Fortini", Bologna (it)
1 - 3 June 2006

Category D

 

            1. Ekaterina Shishkina (rus) 

            2. Yuri Watanabe (jpn)

                Denisa Mirica (rum)

                Jacopo Giaccopuzzi (it)

            3. ---.

 

Total: 5 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale Valsesia Musica Juniores "Premio Monterosa-Kawai", Varallo Sesia (it)
27 - 28 May 2006

Category F

 

       1. (ex aequo:) Valentina Nappo (it) 

                               Natalia Pegarkova (rus) 

       2. Ji-Hyun Han (cor)

       3. Carlo Beltrametti (it)

 

Total: 5 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Piano Competition, Sakai (jpn)
24 - 28 May 2006

General Category

3 Finalists


                1. Arisa Sakai (jpn) 

                2. Marcelo Thys (brs) 

                3. Risa Kimura (jpn)

 

                4. (ex aequo:) Mao Inoue (jpn)

                                        Masako Obuchi (jpn)

                5. ---.

                6. Shintaro Kawabata (jpn)

 

Total: 64 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Europeo "Cittŕ del Vasto", Vasto (it)
25 - 28 May 2006

         1. Liu Sin Pei (chn/can) 

         2. Stefania di Giuseppe (it) 

 

No more contestants took part in this category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Benedetto XIII", Puglia (it)
23 - 28 May 2006

    1. Stanislav Khrystenko (ukr) 

    2. Andrey Stukalov (rus)

    3. Masanori Sugano (jpn)

 

Other finalist:

        Elena Zalesova (rus) 

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "A.M.A. Calabria", Lamezia Terme (it)
22 - 28 May 2006

    1. ---.

    2. Akihiro Sakiya (jpn)

    3. Zhou Yubo (chn)

    4. ---.
    5. (ex aequo:) Yukino Kani (jpn) 

                            Ko Woon Kim (cor) 

 

Other finalists:

        Marie-Louise Bodendorff (frg) 

        Pietro Cerisini (it)

        James Jae-Won Moon (cor/aus) 

        Regina Chernichko (ukr)

 

Total: 26 pianists took part

 

Juliusz Zarebski International Music Competition, Lomianki (pol)
22 - 28 May 2006

Piano - Category C

 

    1. Patrick Koralewski (pol)
    2. (ex aequo:) Katarzyna Antoniak (pol) 

                            Natalia Czekala (pol)

    3. Aleksandra Koziol (pol) 

 

Total: 10 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, Carlet (esp)
23 - 27 May 2006

Category A

 

                     1. Maxim Anikushin (rus)
                     2. Marius Cosmin Boeru (rum) 

                     3. ---.

 

Total: 4 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico "Premio Arcangelo Speranza", Taranto (it)
23 - 27 May 2006

    1. ---.

    2. (ex aequo:) Angelo Arciglione (it)
                             Akiko Nikami (jpn) 

    3. Francois Lambret (f) 

                  

Total: 7 pianists took part

 

Premio Pianistico Internazionale "Sigismund Thalberg", Napoli (it)
22 - 26 May 2006

    1. Sofya Gulyak (rus)

    2. Violetta Egorova (rus) 

    3. Vadim Ageev (rus) 

 

Other finalist:

        Mauricio Zaccaria (it)

                  

Total: 5 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Dianae Nemus", Nemi (it)
23 - 25 May 2006

Category G

 

  1. Marco Ciampi (it)
  1. Alexei Suchkov (rus) 

 

Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Pianistica - Premio "Fryderyk Chopin", Racconigi (it)
22 - 24 May 2006

Category Pianoforte e Orchestra

 

                  1. Alice Severi (it) 

                  2. Asuka Toriyama (jpn) 

                  3. Viktor Urvalov (rus)

 

Total: 11 pianists took part in this category

 

Villa-Lobos International Piano Competition
May 2006: results of preselection

20 pianists selected for participation
in the first Villa-Lobos Competition (Sao Paulo, August 2006)


Jie Chen (chn)
Irina Chkourindina (rus)
Romain David (f)
Inna Faliks (usa)
Federico Gianello (it)
Syuzanna Kaso (ukr)
Olga Kopylova (rus)
Simone Leitao (brs)
Xin Liu (chn)
Alicia Martinez
Yoon-Wha Rho (cor)
Andrés Roig
Kaori Saito (jpn)
Aleyson Scopel (brs)
Breno Seifert (frg)
Andre Karel Von Frasunkiewicz (usa)
Chun Wang (chn)
Kensei Yamaguchi (jpn)
Irina Zahharenkova (est)
Sylwia Zaremba (pol)

 

Concorso Internazionale per Pianoforte e Orchestra, Cantu (it)
13 - 22 May 2006

Classical Concerto

 

   1. Pietro Gatto (it) 

   2. Ryoji Ariyoshi (jpn) 

   3. ---.

 

Other finalists:

       Mikhail Semenov (rus)

       Evelina Vorontsova (rus)

 

Total: 37 pianists took part in this category

Romantic Concerto

 

  1. ---. 

  2. (ex aequo:) Florence Boisolle (f) 
                          Evelina Vorontsova (rus)

  3. Maria Mazo (rus) 

 

Other finalist:

      Giuseppe Gullotta (it)

 

Total: 43 pianists took part in this category

 

Concours Internationaux de Musique de l'UFAM, Courbevoie (f)
Piano "Honneur": 21 May 2006

Piano - Category Honneur

 

                         1. ---.

                         2. ---.

                         3. Olivier Finot (f) 

 

Other finalists:      Amandine Belot (f)
                             Jerome Leboullenger (f)

 

Total: 7 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concours International de Piano d'Ile de France, Maison Lafite (f)
19 - 21 May 2006

Category Diplome de Concert

 

       1. (ex aequo:) Suzanna Bartal (rum) 

                              Hiroko Tani (jpn)

       2. (ex aequo:) Harumi Arima (jpn)

                              Aya Mogi (jpn) 
                              Naho Sogawa (jpn) 

       3. (ex aequo:) Seiko Oya (jpn) 

                              Tamara Satomi (jpn)

                              Ada Minasyan (arm)

 

Total: 21 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale Vocale e Strumentale "Anemos", Roma (it)
18 - 21 May 2006

Category D

 

No contestants in this highest category
(neither in category C)

Category B

 

      1. Giovanna Elena Surian (it)

      2. ---.

      3. Marco de Santis (it)

 

No more contestants in this junior category

 

Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Pianistica Unda Maris, Palermo (it)
17 - 19 May 2006

    1. (ex aequo:) Miao Huang (chn) 

                            Alexander Yakovlev (rus) 

    2. ---.

    3. (ex aequo:) Yusuke Kikuchi (jpn) 

                            Eri Yamabe (jpn)

 

Total: 13 pianists took part

 

AXA Dublin International Piano Competition, Dublin (irl) (Fed.) (AAF)
5 - 19 May 2006

               1. Romain Descharmes (f) 

               2. Kyu-Yeon Kim (cor) 

               3. Roberto Plano (it) 

               4. Libor Novacek (cz) 

               5. Rina Sudo (jpn) 

               6. Gilles Vonsattel (ch) 

 

Total: 44 of the 45 selected pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale “Harmoniae”, Rome (it)
11 - 16 May 2006

Category G

 

                 1. Roberto Corliano (it) 

                 1. Nino Kasradze (geor) 

 

Total: 9 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concurso Internacional de Musica 'Maria Canals', Barcelona (esp) (Fed.)
4 - 16 May 2006

  1. Jose Enrique Bagaria Villazan (esp) 

  2. Marie Vermeulin (f) 

  3. Mi-Yeon I (nzl) 

 

Total: 75 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale 'Premio Mauro Paolo Monopoli', Barletta (it)
9 - 14 May 2006

  1. Stanislav Khrystenko (rus) 

  2. Mariya Kim (ukr) 

  3. Kaori Takaishi (jpn) 

  4. Tomita Kan (jpn)

  5. Shun Tominaga (jpn)

  6. Ilya Vanishkin (rus)

 

Total: 30 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Musique "Jeunesses Musicales", Bucarest (rum)
7 - 13 May 2006

Piano - Category D

 

  1. ---.

  2. ---.

  3. (ex aequo:) Andreea Laura Butnaru (rum) 

                          Margar Sedrakyan (arm) 

 

Other finalist:    Piotr Wojciech Rozanski (pol)

 

Total: 7 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale 'Mozart', Frescati (it)
6 - 7 May 2006

Category F

 

                    1. Marco Riccelli (it) 

                    2. Mika Utsunomiya (jpn) 
                    3. Lorenzo di Toro (it) 

 

Total: 4 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Chopin Competition, Szafarnia (pol)
6 - 7 May 2006

Category 2

 

            1. ---.

            2. Agata Misiak (pol)

            3. Adela Hamanova (cz)

 

Other finalist:

                Sofya Romanova Stafieva (rus) 

 

Total: 9 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale 'Citta di Barletta', Barletta (it)
2 - 7 May 2006

Absolute winner

 

Vladislav Kustovskiy (rus)

 

Rachmaninov International Piano Competition, Veljki Novgorod (rus)
27 April - 7 May 2006

Category 2

 

1. ---.

2. (ex aequo:) Carson Back (can) 
                        Christina Sapelyak (ukr) 
3. (ex aequo:) Tatiana Dorokhova (rus) 
                        Erdem Mizirliolu (gb)

 

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano "Maria Campina", Faro (prt)
1 - 5 May 2006

    1. ---.

    2. Joana Vieira (prt)

 

Other finalist:

        Valeriu Stanciu (rum) 

 

Total: 3 pianists took part

 

Vendome Prize (AAF)
May 2006: announcement of finalists

12 pianists selected for participation
in the final stage (Lisbon, July 2006)

 

  Stephen Beus (usa)
Evgheny Brakhman (rus)
Jie Chen (chn)
Gleb Ivanov (rus)
Andrej Korobeinikov (rus)
Eduard Kunz (rus)
Marko Mustonen (fin)
Roman Rabinovitch (rus)
Martin Sturfalt (sw)
Xiaotang Tan (chn)
Mariangela Vacatello (it)
Mattei Varga (rum)

 

AMSA World Piano Competition, Cincinnati (usa)
May 2006: announcement of candidates

32 pianists selected for participation
in the AMSA World Piano Competition (July 2006)

 

view the list on:

 

www.amsa-wpc.org

 

 

International Piano Competition, Rhodes (gr)
25 - 30 April 2006

First age group

 

  1. Sofya Gulyak (rus) 

  2. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)

  3. Daniyar Yessimkhanov (kzk) 
  4. Marie-Louise Bodendorff (frg) 

 

Total: 16 pianists took part in this highest category

Second age group

 

  1. Mi-Hyun Ahn (cor) 

 

No more contestants in this junior category

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano "Acropolis", Madrid (esp)
25 - 27 April 2006

  1. Enrique Bernaldo de Quiros Martin (esp) 

  2. Stephanie Proot (b)

  3. Kasumi Yamamoto (jpn)

 

Total: 14 pianists took part

 

Missouri International Piano Competition, Joplin (MO, usa)
24 - 29 April 2006

Senior Category

 

                         1. Tatiana Tessman (rus)

                         2. Sergei Saratovski (rus)

                         3. Sang-Il Han (cor) 

 

Other finalists:  Esther Park (usa)
                         Ti Xin (chn)

 

Total: 19 invited pianists took part in this highest category

Junior Category

 

                         1. Xiaoqiu Xie (chn)

                         2. Lo-an Lin (tai)

                         3. Mi Eun Kim (cor) 

 

Other finalists:  Yundu Wang (usa)
                         Hee-Jun Han (cor)

 

Total: 14 invited pianists took part in this junior category

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano "Premio Jaen", Jaen (esp) (Fed.) (AAF)
20 - 28 April 2006

  1. Inesa Synkevich (ukr) 

  2. Chenyin Li (chn)

  3. Ji-Eun Lee (cor)

 

Total: 36 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Johannes Brahms", Acqui Terme (it)
24 - 25 April 2006

Category F

 

   1.   Reiko Kuwahara (jpn)

  1-1. Seung Mee Kim (cor) 

  1-2. Maria Rutkowska (pol) 

  2-1. Taejin Kim (cor) 

  2-2. Tomohiro Adachi (jpn)

  2-3. Ji Hye Kang (cor) 

  3-1. Giordana della Rosa (it) 

  3-2. Won Kyeong Seo (cor) 

  3-3. Yoko Dozaka (jpn) 

  4-1. Clara Schembari (it)

  4-2. Daniele Falasca (it) 

 

Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Pianistica "Anton Rubinstein", Acqui Terme (it)
23 April 2006

  1. Shunji Hirota (jpn)

  2. (ex aequo:) Seung Mee Kim (cor) 

                          Giacomo Miglioranzi (it) 

  3. (ex aequo:) Reiko Kuwahara (jpn) 

                          Kaori Takaishi (jpn) 

  4. (ex aequo:) Ji Hye Kang (cor) 

                          Taejin Kim (cor) 

                          Victoria Peneva

  5. Tomohiro Adachi (jpn)

 

Leeds International Piano Competition, Leeds (gb) (Fed.)
April 2006: announcement of candidates

83 pianists selected for participation
in the Leeds IPC (September 2006)

 

view the list on:

 

www.leedspiano.com

 

 

Regional Pre-Competition for the Vendome Prize (AAF), Pesaro (it)
22 - 23 April 2006

Admitted to the final stage (Lisbon, July 2006)

 

                                 Mariangela Vacatello (it)                                 

 

Total: 11 invited pianists took part in this Italian audition

 

Concours International de Piano "Jean Francaix", Vanves (f)
20 - 23 April 2006

Piano (21-23 April 2006)

 

    1. Eric Artz (f)

    2. Julia Miloslavskaya (rus) 

    3. Jong-Do An (cor)

 

Other finalists:
        Akiko Inao (jpn)
        Minako Kishi (jpn)
        Risa Komoto (jpn)
        Aigerim Mataeva (kzk)

 

Total: 35 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano "Nikolai Rubinstein", Bagnolet (f)
10 - 22 April 2006

Category Excellence (21-22 April 2006)

 

                1. Sergei Kasprov (rus)

                2. Dmitri Krutogoloviy (rus)

                3. Aksana Stahievitch (belo)

 

Total: 6 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Regional Pre-Competition for the Vendome Prize (AAF), Paris (f)
19 - 20 April 2006

Admitted to the final stage (Lisbon, July 2006)

 

                                 Xiaotang Tan (chn)

                                 Standby: Sofya Gulyak (rus)

 

Total: 11 of the 13 invited pianists took part in this Paris audition

 

Tivoli International Piano Competition (dan) (AAF)
April 2006: announcement of candidates

12 pianists selected for participation
in the first Tivoli Int'l Piano Competition
(Copenhagen, July 2006)

 

 Ning An (usa)
Arta Arnicane (lat)
Evgheny Brakhman (rus)
Jae-Won Cheung (cor)
Zlata Chochieva (rus)
Dorel Golan (isr)
Andrej Kasik (frg)
Chenyin Li (nzl)
Hyo-Sun Lim (cor)
Aleksander Moutouzkine (rus)
Tristan Pfaff (f)
Di Yi Tang (chn)

Total: 12 pianists selected from 127 applicants

 

Regional Pre-Competition for the Vendome Prize (AAF), London (gb)
8 - 9 April 2006

Admitted to the final stage (Lisbon, July 2006)

 

Eduard Kunz (rus)
Martin Sturfalt (sw)

 

Total: 14 of the 15 invited pianists took part in this London audition

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Filippo Trevisan", Ravenna (it)
8 - 9 April 2006

           1. Viktoriya Yermolyeva (ukr)

           2. (ex aequo:) Fumiyo Goshima (jpn) 

                                   Vitaly Pisarenko (rus) 

           3. Lorenzo Cossi (it)

 

Other finalists:
               Manuel Araujo (prt) 

               Miona Babic (serb)

               Haruka Kuroiwa (jpn)

               Manila Santini (it) 

 

Total: 16 pianists took part

 

Stasys Vainiunas International Piano Competition, Vilnius (lit)
28 March - 5 April 2006

           1. ---.

           2. (ex aequo:) Juliya Archangelskaya (belo) 

                                   Tarin Supprakorn (thl)

           3. Veronika Kopjova (lit)

 

Total: approx. 15 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Evangelia Tjiarri", Larnaka (cyp)
1 - 3 April 2006

Category B

           

Grand Prix: Moye Kolodin (frg)

 

           1. Simeon Goshev (bul)

           2. ---.

           3. ---.

 

Total: 4 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Regional Pre-Competition for the Vendome Prize (AAF), Helsinki (fin)
1 - 2 April 2006

Admitted to the final stage (Lisbon, July 2006)

 

Marko Mustonen (fin)

 

Total: 5 invited pianists took part in this Helsinki audition

 

Concours Musical de France, Paris (f)
26 March - 2 April 2006

Category Diplome de Concert

 

Two finalists

(four first prize winners)

 

                         1. Inga Kazantseva (fin)

                         1. Santa Ignace

 

Further prizes

 

                         1. Tomomi Maeda (jpn)

                         1. Przemyslaw Lechowski (pol) 

                         2. Keiko Osada (jpn)

 

Total: 10 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, San Sebastian (esp)
24 March - 2 April 2006

Category Superior

           

        1. (ex aequo:) Honore Bejin Garcia (f)

                               Tom Grimaud (f)

        2. ---.

        3. (ex aequo:) Audrey Lonca-Alberto (f)

                               Ruben Ramiro Prieto (esp)

 

Other finalists:

             Klevis Gjergji (alb)

             Francois-Xavier Villemin (f)

 

Total: 14 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Piano Competition "J.S. Bach", Gorzow Wielkopolski (pol)
27 March - 1 April 2006

Category 4

           

           1. Alekandra Jablczynska (pol)

           2. Jakub Tuszynski (pol)

           3. Katarzyna Mroz (pol)

 

Total: 11 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Regional Pre-Competition for the Vendome Prize (AAF), St. Petersburg (rus)
31 March 2006

Admitted to the final stage (Lisbon, July 2006)

 

Evgheny Brakhman (rus)

 

Total: 9 of the 10 invited pianists took part in this audition in St. Petersburg

 

First C. Bechstein International Piano Competition, Essen (frg) (AAF)
22 - 31 March 2006

           1. Evgeny Bozhanov (bul) 

           2. Amir Tebenikhin (kzk)

           3. Pierre Mancinelli (f) 

 

Total: 46 of the 67 invited pianists took part

 

Vladimir Krainev Young Pianists Competition, Kharkov (ukr)
22 - 31 March 2006

Category B

 

Grand Prix: Dinara Nadshafova (ukr)

              1. Chun Wang (chn)
              2. ---.
              3. (ex aequo:) Mikhailo Eletskiy (belo) 
                                    Maxim Lavrov (ukr)
                                    Tamila Salimdzhanova (uzb) 

 

Total: 26 pianists took part in this highest category

Category A

 

Grand Prix: Sigian Li (chn)

              1. (ex aequo:) Sergej Beliawski (rus) 

                                    Anna Denisova (rus) 
              2. (ex aequo:) Nan Song Huang (chn)

                                    Abigail Sin (sing) 
              3. (ex aequo:) Nadiya Kiselyova (ukr) 
                                    Marina Kisla (ukr)

 

Concorso Musicale "Un ricetto in musica", Candelo (it)
25 - 26 March 2006

Piano - Category E

 

     1. Asuka Toriyama (jpn) 

     2. (ex aequo:) Sachiko Ushikubo (jpn) 

                             Hidetaka Ohmi (jpn)

     3. Taejin Kim (cor)

     4. Anna Maria Morici (it)

 

Total: 8 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concours International de Piano, Saint Quentin en Yvelines (f)
25 - 26 March 2006

Category Excellence

 

no contestants

 

Category Superieur 2

 

     1. ---.

     2. Eva Cohen (f) 

 

No more pianists in this category

 

Concorso Internazionale di Musica "Carlo Soliva", Casale Monferato (it)
20 - 26 March 2006

Premio Valter Massaza

 

              1. ---.

              2. ---.

              3. ---.

 

Finalists:

       Diana Gabrielyan (arm)

       Bo-Kyung Kim (cor) (Spec. prize) 

       Maxim Shatalkin (rus)

       Gueorgui Trendafilov (bul)

 

Total: 11 pianists took part

 

Takamatsu International Piano Competition, Takamatsu (jpn)
18 - 26 March 2006

         1. Pavel Gintov (ukr)

         2. Stanislav Khrystenko (rus) 

         3. Chao Wang (chn) 

 

Other finalists:

             Sofya Gulyak (rus)
             Chih-long Hu (tai)
             Mako Okamoto (jpn)

 

Total: 63 pianists took part

 

Mozart Competition for Young Piano Players, Brno (cz)
23 - 25 March 2006

Absolute winner

Mangirdas Janusaitis (lit) 

 

Category 6

 

     1. Tomas Vrana (cz) 

     2. (ex aequo:) Pavel Brousek (cz) 

                             Silvia Vaterl (a)

     3. Alzbieta Pilerova (cz)

 

Honorable mention:

         Petra Stouracova (cz)
         Aleksandra Karciomova (lat) 

 

Total: 12 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concours "FLAME ŕ Salzbourg", Paris (f)
20 - 21 March 2006

Category A

 

         1. Tristan Pfaff (f)

         2. Nicolas van Nuijs (b) 

         3. (ex aequo:) Tatiana Alexandrova (rus) 
                                 Henrik Mawe (sw)

         4. Grigor Asmoryan (arm)

         5. Ruben Ramiro Prieto (esp)

 

Scolarships:
             Honore Bejin (f)
             Maxime Perrin (f)

 

Total: 57 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Giovanile Internazionale "Pia Tebaldini", Brescia (it)
18 - 19 March 2006

Category F

 

         1. Jacopo Giacopuzzi (it)

         2. Stefano Ambrogio (it) 

         3. Daniele d'Apote (it)

         3. Giovanni Lonati (it)

 

No more pianists took part in this highest category

 

Rencontre Internationale de Piano, Mée-sur-Seine (f)
17 March 2006

Winner: Ali Hireche (f)

 

Total: 5 invited pianists took part

 

Isidor Bajic Piano Memorial International Competition, Novi Sad (serb) (AAF)
7 - 17 March 2006

Category C

3 finalists for the orchestral round

 

         1. Sofya Lisitchenko-Lisitsa (rus)

         2. Varvara Nepomnyashchaya (rus) 

         3. Berenika Glixman (isr) (+ Audience Prize) 

 

Other finalists in the Chamber Music round:

            Bojan Marjanovic (serb)

            Vladimir Gligoric (serb)

            Anna Ulayeva (ukr) 

 

Total: 28 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico "Rami Musicali", Borgo dei Lunardi (it)
13 - 14 March 2006

Piano - Section II

 

       1. Manila Santini (it)

       2. Viller Valbonesi (it)

       3. (ex aequo:) Ludmila Georskaya (rus) 
                               Francesca Vidal (it)

 

Total: 12 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Comune di Cassina de' Pecchi"
(ad memoriam Marcello Cusi), Pecchi (it)
9 - 12 March 2006

       1. Giuseppe Gullotta (it)

       2. Fumiyo Goshima (jpn)

       3. (ex aequo:) Lorenzo Cossi (it) 

                              Andrey Stukalov (rus) 

 

Other finalists:

           Miglietta Giovanni Doria (it) 

           Juan Francisco Lago Cuellar (esp) 

           Yuka Ota (jpn)

 

Total: 26 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano, Casablanca / Rabat (mrc)
9 - 12 March 2006

       1. Mei-ting Sun (chn)

       2. Yuma Osaki (jpn)

 

Total: 6 invited pianists took part

 

Bedrich Smetana Piano Competition, Pilzen (cz)
5 - 12 March 2006

Category C

 

                    1. Jana Tumova (cz)

                    2. ---.

                    3. Olena Ivanenko (ukr) 

 

Total: 14 pianists took part in this highest category

Category B

 

    1. (ex aequo:) Imants Bluzmanis (lat)                

                           Denny Hozman (cz)                      
    2. ---.

    3. (ex aequo): Jiri Pesek (cz)
                           Elena Yudina (rus)

Category A

 

    1. (ex aequo:) Renata Kriszta Konyicska (hun)  

                           Sara Vujadinovic (serb)
    2. (ex aequo:) Jan Simandl (cz)
                           Kristina Stepashukova (ukr) 
    3. Bara Handzusova (cz)

 

 

Iowa International Piano Competition, Sioux (Iowa, usa)
9 - 11 March 2006

                  1. Assaff Weisman (isr)

                  2. Sean Kennard (usa)

                  3. Dmitri Shelest (ukr) 

 

Total: 10 of the 12 invited pianists took part

 

Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Hilton Head (usa) (AAF)
5 - 11 March 2006

    1. Dmitri Levkovich (can/ukr)

    2. Diyi Tang (chn)

    3. Daniil Sayamov (rus)

 

Total: 24 invited pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Maria Callas", Athens (gr) (Fed.)
28 February - 11 March 2006

1. ---.
2. (ex aequo:) Mariya Kim (ukr)

                       Masataka Takada (jpn)

3. Ilona Timchenko (rus)

 

Total: 19 pianists took part

 

Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition (usa) (Fed.)
March 2006: announcement of candidates

41 pianists selected for participation
in the Gina Bachauer Competition
(Salt Lake City, June 2006)

 

Hinrich Alpers (frg)
Aram Arakelyan (arm)
Tanya Bannister (gb)
Stephen Beus (usa)
Yuri Blinov (belo)
Jonathan Bowman (usa)
Michael Bukhman (isr)
Michelangelo Carbonara (it)
Domenico Codispoti (it)
Miroslav Dacic (serb)
Francois Dumont (f)
Alessandro Deljavan Farshi (it)
Jayson Gillham (aus)
Masataka Goto (jpn)
Lilit Grigoryan (arm)
Sang-Il Han (cor)
Vadym Kholodenko (ukr)
Sang-Young Kim (cor)
Vedrana Kovac (serb)
Ka Ling Colleen Lee (hk)
Piotr Machnik (pol)
Nana Mamaeva (ukr)
Hando Nahkur (est)
Ulugbek Palvanov (uzb)
Esther Park (usa)
Andrej Ponochevny (belo)
Sergei Salov (ukr)
Edisher Savitski (geor)
Michael Sheppard (usa)
Sylvia Therez Silveira (brs)
Stepan Simonyan (rus)
Mattei Varga (rum)
Vasileios Varvaresos (gr)
Jue Wang (chn)
Xiao-Han Wang (chn)
Di Wu (chn)
Chen Xin Xu (chn)
Hong Xu (chn)
Takashi Yamamoto (jpn)
Ryosuke (Ryo) Yanagitani (can)
Xiang Zou (chn)

Total: 41 pianists selected from 230 applicants

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico, Pinerolo (it)
1 - 5 March 2006

 1. Alexander Yakovlev (rus) 

 2. Kristian Lindberg (n) 

 3. Tatiana Chernichka (rus)

Other finalists:

     Yu-My Lee (cor) 
     Mayumi Sakamoto (jpn)

 

Total: 30 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Scriabin", Grosseto (it)
1 - 5 March 2006

 1. ---.
 2. Elena Los (rus) 
 3. (ex aequo:) Yusuke Kikuchi (jpn) 
                        Viktoriya Yermolyeva (ukr) 

 

Total: 29 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Premio Vanna Spadafora", Palermo (it)
23 - 27 February 2006

   1. Chiara Bertoglio (it) 
   2. Alexia Muza (gr) 
   3. Tiina Karakorpi (fin) 

Total: 13 pianists took part

 

Piano Campus International Piano Competition, Cergy Pontoise (f) (AAF)
24 - 26 February 2006

              1. Felix Raffel (frg) 

              2. Michael Lifits (uzb) 
              3. Martin Surot (f)

Total: 11 of the 12 invited pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano "Grand Amateurs", Paris (f)
22 - 26 February 2006

   1. Thomas Yu (can) 
   2. (ex aequo:) Dominik Winterling (frg) 
                           Rupert Egerton Smith (gb) 

   3. ---.
   4. (ex aequo:) Ariet Sirat (f) 
                           Averill Baker (can) 

Total: 95 pianists took part

 

Corpus Christi Young Artists' Competition, Corpus Christi (usa)
16 - 22 February 2006

Piano

 

   1. Michael Bukhman (azer) 
   2. Yuri Shadrin (rus) 

   3. Scott Meek (can)

   4. Kenric Tam (usa)

   5. Mehani Taeve (usa)

   6. Stephanie Nilles (usa)

Total: 17 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano, Brest (f)
top categories: 18 - 19 February 2006

Category Z - Chopin

 

   1. Yannick Rafalimanana (f) 
   2. (ex aequo:) Terence Muk (hk) 
                           Akiko Koishi (jpn) 
   3. (ex aequo:) Aleksandra Szymczak (pol) 
                           Eloise Kohn (f) 

Total: 23 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Competition "Young virtuoso" - Etudes and Scales, Zagreb (crt)
16 - 19 February 2006

Category V

 

   1. ---.
   2. ---.
   3. ---.
   4. ---.
   5. Rudolf Czene (hun) 

 

Other finalist:

       Zoltan Rostas (hun)

No more contestants in this highest category

 

Concours International de Piano "Edel-Latos", Chatou (f)
13 - 19 February 2006

   1. Ilya Maksimov (rus)
   2. ---.
   3. Young-Ah Kim (cor)

Other finalists:
       Misora Lee (cor)
       Marine Marcel (f)
       Tristan Pfaff (f)
       Kumiko Yoshida-Ly (jpn)

Total: 30 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano "Scriabin", Paris (f)
6 - 9 February 2006

Category Superieur

 

   1. (w/felic.) Naoko Ishikawa (jpn) 
   1. (unan.) Anastasia Gamali (rus)
   1. Aya Yoshii (jpn)
   2. Katarine Nikitine (f)

   2. Oxana Stahievitch (belo)

   3. Yuki Hasegawa (jpn)

   3. Samuel Roua (f)

   3. Nicolas van Nuijs (b)

Total: 10 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Piano-e-Competition, Minneapolis (usa) (AAF)
February 2006: accouncement of candidates

26 pianists selected for participation
in the Piano-e-Competition (July 2006)

 

  Angelo Arciglione (it)
Juliana Avdeeva (rus)
Marouan Benabdallah (hun)
Cheng Chen (chn)
Gregory DeTurck (usa)
Bogdan Claudiu Dulu (rum)
Claire Huangci (usa)
Viktoria Korchinskaya-Kogan (rus)
Konstantin Krasnitzky (belo)
Tatjana Larionova (rus)
Mikhail Mordvinov (rus)
Sergei Morozov (ukr)
Howard Na (usa)
Michael Namirovsky (isr)
Esther Park (usa)
Marko Pavlovic (y)
Edisher Savitski (geor)
Konstantin Shamray (rus)
Yang Shen (chn)
Rui Shi (chn)
Hanna Shybayeva (belo)
Helene Tysman (f)
Henry Wong Doe (nzl)
Ryo Yanagitani (can)
Einav Yarden (isr)
Darrett Zusko (can)

 

Total: 68 pianists (out of 127 applications)
were invited to audition

 

Concours International de Piano "20th Century", Orleans (f) (Fed.) (AAF)
30 January - 7 February 2006

   Main winner: Wilhem Latchoumia (f) 
(Prix Blanche Selva plus 5 other special prizes)

 

Other finalists: Andreij Sudelskii (ukr)
                        Prodromos Symeonidis (gr) 
                        Ermis Theodorakis (gr)

 

Further prizewinners:
                        Jessica Chan (tai/gb)
                        Nika Shirocorad (rus)

Total: 29 pianists took part

 

Baltic International Young Pianists Competition "Frederic Chopin", Narva (est)
28 January - 4 February 2006

Category 3

 

   1. Michal Jacek Kozlowski (pol) 
   2. Andre Haehre (n)
   3. Ekaterina Gumenyuk (rus)

Other finalist:
       Tamara Niekludow (pol)

Total: 13 pianists took part in this highest category

 

AXA Dublin International Piano Competition (irl) (Fed.) (AAF)
February 2006: accouncement of candidates

45 pianists selected for participation
in the AXA DIPC (May 2006)

 

Aleksander Anisimov (belo)
Cathal Breslin (irl)
Archie Chen (usa)
Romain Descharmes (f)
Francois Dumont (f)
Marco Fatichenti (it)
David Fung (aus)

Jayson Gillham (aus)
Dorel Golan (isr)
Georgi Gromov (rus)
Sasha Grynyuk (ukr)
Ching-yun Hu (tai)
Diana Ionescu (rum)
Yuan Jin (chn)
Esther Keel (usa)
Benjamin Kim (usa)
Joon Kim (cor)
Kyu-Yeon Kim (cor)
Sung-Hoon Kim (cor)
Tatjana Kolesova (rus)
Eduard Kunts (rus)
Ang Li (can)
Chenyin Li (nzl)
Hyo-Sun Lim (cor)
Yi-chih Lu (tai)
Risto-Matti Marin (fin)
Ruth Mc Ginley (irl)

Michael Mc Hale (irl)

David Mc Nulty (irl)

Mikko Antti Olavi Merjanen (fin)
Rieko Nezu (jpn)
Libor Novacek (cz)
Esther Park (usa)
Tristan Pfaff (f)
Roberto Plano (it)
Mihkel Poll (est)
Elizabeth Joy Roe (usa)
Hao Shen (chn)
Benjamin Smith (can)
Rina Sudo (jpn)
Young-Ah Tak (cor)

Peter Tuite (irl)
Gilles F. Vonsattel (ch)
Chen Xin Xu (chn)
Xiang Zou (chn)

For more information, visit:
www.axadipc.com

 

Concours International de Piano "Madeleine de Valmalete", Paris (f)
29 January 2006

Category Excellence

 

         Prix d'Honneur: Yumi Takeda (jpn)
         1. Jonathan Fournel
         2. David Saadia
             Tae Yeon Shim
             Nahoko Okada (jpn)
             Seo Yeon Heo (cor)
             Mi Ra Jeong (cor)

Total: 8 pianists took part in this highest category

 

C. Bechstein Internationaler Klavierwettbewerb (frg) (AAF)
21 January 2006: announcement of candidates

67 pianists selected for participation
in the first C. Bechstein competition (March 2006)

 

view the list on:

 

www.bechstein-pianocompetition.com

 

(Click on News, at the bottom of the main page,

after having chosen the language)

 

Regional Audition for the Vendome Prize, New York (usa) (AAF)
15 - 16 January 2006

 

Winners: Stephen Beus (usa)
               Jie Chen (chn)
               Gleb Ivanov (rus)
               Matei Varga (rum)

Total: 15 pianists auditioned
The four winners will proceed to the
semifinals in London (3-5 July 2006)

 

Concours International de Piano, Vulaines s/Seine (f)
14 - 15 January 2006

Category Virtuosite

 

                    1. Antoine Terny (f)
                    2. Kaori Ito (jpn) 

              Dipl. 1 Sifan Chen (chn) 

Total: 7 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Young Concert Artists, New York (NY, usa)
14 January 2006 (finals)
(NB. this is a mixed competition, open to various instrumentalists)

The following pianists were among the winners

 

            1. Jie Chen (chn)
                Chu-fang Huang (chn)
                Jean-Frederic Neuburger (f)
            2. Stephen Beus (usa)

Total: 10 participants (various instrumentalists)
had been selected for this final stage
Five of them received first prize, the other five second prize

 

First Schimmel USasu International Piano Competition, Tempe (AZ, usa)
12 - 14 January 2006

         1. Miyuji Kaneko (hun/jpn)
         2. Charlie Albright (usa)
         3. Ilia Ulianitsky (isr)

Other finalist:
             Ye Jin Lee (cor)

Total: 8 of the 10 selected pianists took part

 

First Schimmel Junior USasu International Piano Competition, Tempe (AZ, usa)
12 - 14 January 2006

         1. David Ko (jpn/usa)
         2. Abigail Sin (sing)
         3. (ex aequo:) Helen Jing (usa)
                                Andrew Wang (can)

Other finalist:
             Han Chen (tai)

Total: 9 of the 10 selected pianists took part

 

First Boesendorfer USasu International Piano Competition, Tempe (AZ, usa)
9 - 13 January 2006

         1. Anastasiya Markina (rus)
         2. Dimitri Levkovich (ukr/can)
         3. Esther Park (usa)

Other finalists:
             Inna Faliks (usa)
             Yoon-Jung Han (cor)
             Diyi Tang (chn)
             Kostyantyn Travinskii (ukr)
             Qiongna Zhang (chn)
             Dizhou Zhao (chn)

Total: 34 of the 36 selected pianists took part

 

International Chopin Competition in Asia, Tokyo (jpn)
Finals: 11 January 2006

Category Concerto C

 

 1. Da-Sol Kim (cor)
 2. ---.
 3. Keiya Tsushima (jpn)

 

International Mariya Yudina Competition, St. Petersburg (rus)
3 - 9 January 2006

Piano - Category 3

 

     Grand Prix: Sergei Kasprov (rus)  
                     1. Margar Sedrakyan (arm)
                    2. (ex aequo:) Sergei Artsybashev (rus) 
                                            Maya Irgalina (belo)

Total: 18 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Piano Competition, Sant'Agata Li Battiati (it)
28 December 2005 - 5 January 2006

    1. Giuseppe Gullotta (it) 
    2. (ex aequo:) Trochopoulos Panagiotis (gr) 
                            Dario Arico (it)
    3. Jesse David (usa)

Total: 6 pianists took part

 

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