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.
Back to the results of
2008
(Click here for competition results of
2007 or 2005)
(Click here for competition results of
2000-2004)
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. ---. 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)
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)
3. (ex aequo:) Gulrukh Shakirova (uzb)
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 Charlie Albright (usa) 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)
3. (ex aequo:) Mariam Dadashyan (ukr) |
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)
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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 3. Jean Muller (lux)
Total: 8 selected pianists took part |
Premio Pianistico Internazionale,
Foligno (it)
15 - 16 October 2006
|
1. Mauro Bertoli (it) 3. Alexei Lebedev (rus)
Total: 7 pianists took part |
Concours de Geneve,
Geneve (ch) (Fed.)
30 September - 15 October 2006
|
1. ---. 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) 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)
|
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)
Syuzanna Kaso (ukr)
|
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)
|
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)
|
|
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)
|
Seiler International
Piano Competition, Rethymno (Crete, gr)
15 - 24 September 2006
|
1. (ex aequo:) Constantinos Valianatos (gr) 2. ---. 3. Shinya Kiyozuka (jpn)
Other
finalists:
Total: 45 pianists took part in this highest category |
|
Group A: Young Soloists
1. Nansong Huang (chn) |
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)
|
International Chopin
Competition for Young Pianists, Beijing (chn)
9 - 17 September 2006
|
1.
Dmitri Shishkin (rus) 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) 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)
Other
finalist:
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
view the list on:
|
China Shenzhen International
Piano Concerto Competition, Shenzhen (chn)
September 2006: announcement of selected contestants
|
40
pianists have been selected to take part
view the list on:
|
ARD
Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD, Muenchen (frg) (Fed.)
29 August - 15 September 2006
|
Piano
1. Ben Kim (usa)
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)
Total: 28 pianists took part |
Concorso Internazionale
"Valsesia - Musica", Varallo (it) (AAF)
2 - 10 September 2006
|
1. Sergei Tarasov (rus) 3. Alexei Chernov (rus)
4. (ex aequo:) Alina Kabanova (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)
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
Lilian
Akopova (ukr) |