Competition Results 2007

The results of 161 international piano competitions (plus 16 preselections and one multi-instrumental competition) that have been held in 2007 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.

(Click here for competition results of 2006 or 2005 or 2000-2004 or back to the results of 2008)

 

Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Hilton Head (SC, usa) (AAF)
December 2007: announcement of pianists selected to participate

20 pianists selected to take part
in the competition, March 2008

Elena Beriyeva (geor)
Michael Brown (usa)
Yunfeng Cai (chn)
Jonathan Coombs (usa)
Ran Dank (isr)
Gregory DeTurck (usa)
Wael Farouk (eg)
Tanya Gabrielian (usa)
Dorel Golan (isr)
Alexandre Lacombe (f)
Edward Neeman (aus)
Jessica Osborne (usa)
Tristan Pfaff (f)
Hoang Minh Pham (aus)
Darja Rabotkina (rus/usa)
Andrey Stukalov (rus)
Young-Ah Tak (cor)
Aiko Yajima (jpn)
Takashi Yamamoto (jpn)
Dizhou Zhao (chn)

Total: 20 pianists selected to participate

 

First Baltic International Piano Competition, Gdansk (pol)
10 - 18 December 2007

    1. Evgeny Starodubtsev (rus) 
     2. Vitaly Pisarenko (ukr)  
    3. Kiryl Keduk (belo)

Other semi-finalists:
    Carles Marin (esp)  
    Arisa Sakai (jpn) 
    Edgar Wiersocki (pol)

Total: 23 pianists took part

 

International Competition for Young Musicians "Musical Vladivostok", Vladivostok (rus)
9 - 15 November 2007

Senior Group

Grand Prix: Mizuki Kan (jpn) 
               1. Wan Chan (chn)  
               2. Natalia Karnovitch (rus) 
               3. (ex aequo:) Olga Ponomarenko (rus) 
                                     Elena shestakova (rus) 

Total: 9 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale - Premio Pianistico "Pausilypon", Napoli (it) (AAF)
10 - 14 December 2007

  1. ---.
  2. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)  (95/100*)
      Mayumi Sakamoto (jpn)    (94/100*)
  3. Sofya Tsygankova (rus)  

*: points added on special request
    by the organiser

Total: 18 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, San Nicola di Bari (it)
8 - 13 December 2007

  1. Kateryna Titova (ukr)
  2. Eduard Kunz (rus)
  3. Maurizio Zaccaria (it)

Total: 23 pianists took part

 

International Beethoven-Competition Bonn (frg) (AAF)
3 - 13 December 2007

           1. Yung-Wook Yoo (cor)
           2. Keiko Hattori (jpn)
           3. Dmitry Demiashkin (rus)

Other semi-finalists:
               Oleksiy Gorlatch (ukr)
               David Meier (frg)
               Amir Tebenikhin (arm)

Total: 29 of the 36 selected pianists took part

 

Campillos International Piano Competition, Campillos (esp) (AAF)
6 - 9 December 2007

                  1. Chenyin Li (nzl)
                   2. Nick Shalamov (rus) 
                  3. Aimo Pagin (f)

Other finalists:
                      Jorge Blasco (esp)
                     Soojin Chae (cor)
                     Jonathan Floril (ecu)
                     Esther Park (usa)
                     Arcadie Triboi (rum)
                     Ambrosio Valero (esp )
                     Jia Wang (chn)

Total: 43 of the 50 accepted pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Camillo Togni", Gussago (it)
6 - 9 December 2007

Pianoforte e Orchestra

    1. ---.
    2. (ex aequo:) Sangiovanni Scipione (it) 
                            Patrizia Salvini (it)
    3. (ex aequo:) Riccardo Scilipoti (it)
                            Naru Wakamatsu (jpn) 

Total: 14 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Lysenko International Music Competition, Kiev (ukr)
27 November - 8 December 2007

    1. Dmitry Onishchenko (ukr) 
    2. Kataryna Kulikova (ukr)  
    3. Alexei Chernov (rus) 
    4. Andrey Dragan (ukr)
    5. Tatiana Shafran (ukr)

Total: approx. 20 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Antonio Napolitano", Vietri (it) (AAF)
3 - 7 December 2007

              1. Elena Popkova (rus)
              2. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)
              3. (ex aequo:) Eduard Kunz (rus)
                                     Yuko Ueno (jpn)

Other finalists:
                  Ryo Horiuchi (jon)
                  Takashi Yoshida (jpn)

Total: 16 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico di Trieste "Premio Paolo Spincich", Trieste (it)
Pianoforte - Category 4: 6 December 2007

Piano - Category 4

                      1. ---.
                      2. ---.
                      3. ---.
                      4. Marco Zorzi (it)

No more contestants in this highest category

 

Concours International de Piano "Messiaen", Paris (f) (Fed.)
25 November - 1 December 2007

  1. Le Liu (chn)  
  2. Marie Vermeulin (f)
  3. Mako Okamoto (jpn) 
  4. Yuri Favorin (rus) 

Total: 22 pianists took part

 

Jose Roca International Piano Competition, Valencia (esp)
27 - 30 November 2007

  1. Yun-yi Qin (chn)  
  2. Nareh Arghamanyan (arm) 
  3. Masataka Takada (jpn) 

Total: 27 pianists took part

 

Minnesota International e-Piano Junior Competition, Minneapolis (MN, usa) (AAF)
December 2007: announcement of pianists selected to audition

45 pianists selected to take part
in the auditions, Jan./Febr. 2008

  Jean-Selim Abdelmoula (ch)
Kenny Broberg (usa)
Yen Yu Chen (tai)
Anja Xiaoxing Cui (frg)
Anna Denisova (rus)
Stanislava Doronkina (rus)
Frank Dupree (frg)
Jure Gorucan (slvn)
Nan Song Huang (chn)
Arthur Khmara (belo)
Eloise Kim (cor)
Noa Leigh Kleisen (hol)
David Yoshiaki Ko (jpn)
Darya Kochetkova (rus)
Julia Kociuban (pol)
Annie Kwok (usa)
Maxim Ladid (lux)
Jocelyn Lai (can)
Ali Leeza (usa)
Vladimir Levitsky (rus)
Zheyu Li (chn)
Tami Lin (can)
Jan Lisiecki (can)
Natalie Lo (can)
Ryan McNamara (usa)
Yuqing Damon Meng (chn)
Sergei Nedaivoda (rus)
Osip Nikiforov (rus)
yun-Yi Qin (chn)
Yang Song (chn)
Ran Sun (usa)
Eric Tan (can)
T. J. Keanu Tario (usa)
Reed Tetzloff (usa)
Katelyn Tran (usa)
Yunus Tuncali (tur)
Maria Verbaite (lit)
Andrew Wang (can)
Vivian Wang (usa)
Tracy Wong (usa)
Benjamin Woo (can)
Sijing Ye (chn)
Yon-Joon Yoon (cor)
Hao Tian Tim Zhang (can)
Xuan Amy Zhang (chn)

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Citta di Gorizia - Premio Giuliano Pecar", Gorizia (it)
25 November - 1 December 2007

Premio Pecar

               1. ---.
               2. Irina Chistyakova (rus)  
               3. (ex aequo:) Stefan Ciric (serb)  
                                       Lorenzo Cossi (it)

Other finalists:
                   Timur Gasratov (ukr)
                   Anna Tyshayeva (ukr)

Total: 27 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Rencontres Internationales des Jeunes Pianistes - EPTA, Namur (b)
20 - 25 November 2007

Category 4

                  1. Stephanie Proot (b)
                  2. Andrey Nesterenko (rus) 
                  3. Jona de Geyndt (b) 

Other finalists:
                     Flavien Casaccio (b)
                     Arne Perschel (b)
                     Sandra Sherkshnyte (lit) 

Total: 14 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concurs Internacional de Piano d'Escaldes-Engordany - Premi Principat d'Andorra, Andorra (and)
17 - 24 November 2007

   1. Eduard Kunz (rus) 
   2. Denis Evstiukhine (rus) 
   3. Yubo Zhou (chn) 
   4. Kateryna Titova (ukr)
   5. Esther Park (usa)

Other finalist:
      Xiaoxi Wu (chn)

Total: 46 pianists took part

 

Franz Schubert International Piano Competition, Rousse (bul)
17 - 22 November 2007

Category 3

                       1. Michael Soch (a)
                       2. Martin Ivanov (bul) 
                       3. Elena Gladkova (rus) 

Other finalist:     Tzarina Marinkova (bul) 

Total: 10 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Pianistica "Ennio Porrino", Cagliari (it)
15 - 20 November 2007

   1. Yoon-Soo Rhee (cor) 
   2. Daniele Rinaldo (it) 
   3. Mario Alonso Herrero (esp) 

Total: 14 pianists pianists took part

 

UNISA International Piano Competition, Pretoria (rsa) (Fed.)
November 2007: announcement of selected contestants

33 pianists selected to take part
in the competition, Jan./Febr. 2008

Arta Arnicane (lat)
Marie-Louise Bodendorff (frg)
Johan Botes (rsa)
Susan Chou (usa)
Simon Ghraichy (leb)
Martina Filjak (crt)
David Chinying Fung (aus)
Maria Gabrys (pol)
Dorel Golan (isr)
Ching-yun Hu (tai)
Beatrix Klein (frg)
Szczepan Konczal (pol)
Esthea Kruger (rsa)
Kateryna Kulikova (ukr)
Svetlana Kuznetsova (rus)
Alexandre Lacombe (f)
Pallavi Mahidhara (usa)
Alexander Orlov (rus)
Nikolai Saratovski (rus)
Ben Schoeman (rsa)
Elizabeth Schumann (usa)
Ishay Shaer (isr)
Anna Shelest (usa)
Yumeto Suenaga (jpn)
Inette Swart (rsa)
Alessandro Taverna (it)
Chetan Tierra (usa)
Viktor Valkov (bul)
Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort (b)
Slawomir Wilk (pol)
  Chun Wang (chn)
Gehui Xu (chn)
Alexei Yemtsov (ukr/aus)

 

Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, Tel Aviv (isr) (Fed.) (AAF)
November 2007: announcement of selected contestants

42 pianists selected to take part
in the competition, April 2008

  Ning An (usa)
Arta Arnicane (lat)
Dror Biran (isr)
Evgheny Brakhman (rus)
Khatia Buniatishvili (geor)
John Chen (nzl)
Yunjie Chen (chn)
Jae-Won Cheung (cor)
Martina Filjak (crt)
David Chinying Fung (aus)
Oleksandr Grynyuk (ukr)
Andrey Gugnin (rus)
Sofia Gulyak (rus)
Ching-Yun Hu (tai)
Carlos Alberto Ibay (usa)
Kyu-Yeon Kim (cor)
Mariya Kim (ukr)
Sang-Young Kim (cor)
Olexei Koltakov (ukr)
Eduard Kunz (rus)
Soyeon Clara Lee (cor)
Dimitri Levkovich (ukr)
Dudana Mazmanishvili (geor)
Vladimir Miloševic (serb)
Marko Mustonen (fin)
Michael Namirovsky (isr)
Roman Rabinovitch (isr)
Edisher Savitski (geor)
Aleyson Scopel (brs)
Yang Shen (chn)
Inessa Sinkevych (ukr)
Alessandro Taverna (it)
Amir Tebenikhin (kzk)
Agnieszka Ufniarz (pol)
Rem Urasin (tat)
Slawomir Wojciech Wilk (pol)
Ilya Yakushev (rus)
Fan-Chiang Yi (tai)
Hong-Chun Youn (cor)
Wei-Jen Yuan (tai)
Irina Zahharenkova (est)
Denis Zhdanov (ukr)

Total: approx. 142 pianists applied
42 pianists selected

Paderewski International Piano Competition, Bydgoszcz (pol) (Fed.) (AAF)
4 - 18 November 2007

        1. Nikita Mndoyants (rus) 
        2. Yulianna Avdeeva (rus) 
        3. Marianna Prjevalska (esp) 
        4. Lilit Grigoryan (arm) 
        5. (ex aequo:) Melody Quah (mal)
                                Pavel Raikerous (rus) 

Total: 38 of the 56 selected pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano "Compositores de Espana", Las Rozas - Madrid (esp) (AAF)
10 - 17 November 2007

     1. Daniil Tsvetkov (kzk) 
     2. Vakhtang Kodanashvili (geor) 
     3. Maryna Baranova (ukr) 
     4. Enrique Bernaldo de Quiros (esp)  

Total: 24 pianists pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale di Musica "G.B. Viotti", Vercelli (it) (Fed.)
9 - 17 November 2007

Three finalists

   1. Martina Filjak (crt)
   2. Sergei Artsybashev (rus) 
   3. Cathal Breslin (irl) 

Other semifinalists:
       Nicolas Bringuier (f) 
       Marisa Gupta (usa)
       Szczepan Konczal (pol) 
       Grzegorz Niemczuk (pol)

Total: 119 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Virtuosi per Musica di Pianoforte", Usti nad Labem (cz)
15 - 16 November 2007

Category 3

  1. David Hausknecht (cz) 
  1. Marton Balazs Kiss (a) 
  2. Katerina Ondrusikova (cz)  
  3. Vu Ngoc (frg)  
  3. Irina Kuzmina (ukr) 
  3. Bara Handzusova (cz) 
  3. Kristina Annomuchamedova (lit) 

Other finalists:
      Maxim Aleksandrov Sabelkin (rus) 
      Dominika Meckier (pol)

Total: 19 pianists took part in this highest category

 

China Shanghai International Piano Competition, Shanghai (chn)
2 - 15 November 2007

   1. Jae Weon Huh (cor) 
   2. Jie Yuan (chn)
   3. Sooyeon Ham (cor) 
   4. Hao Zhu (chn)
   5. Hao Shen (chn) 
   6. Nariya Nogi (jpn) 

Total: 30 pianists took part

 

Anton Rubinstein Internationaler Klavierwettbewerb, Dresden (frg)
16 October - 10 November 2007

   1. Amir Tebenikhin (arm) 
   2. Alexander Maslov (rus) 
   3. Bowen Li (chn) 

 

Premio de Piano Frechilla-Zuloaga, Valladolid (esp)
3 - 10 November 2007

   1. Judith Jauregui (esp) 
   2. Inocencio Javier Negrin (esp) 
   3. Cedric Gremaud (ch) + Aud. Prize 

Other finalist:
       Roberto Franca (it)

Total: 8 pianists took part

 

Concours International d'Exécution Musicale "Dr. Luis Sigall", Vina del Mar (chl) (Fed.)
3 - 10 November 2007

                1. Sean Kennard (usa) 
                2. Ryo Yanagitani (can) 
                3. Jose Menor (esp) 

Total: 16 of the 17 selected pianists took part

 

ASEAN International Concerto Competition, Jakarta (ndn)
1 - 8 November 2007

Category B

                  1. Victor Nathanael (ndn) 
                  2. Mari Kawakami (jpn)
                  3. Terra Tirta Putri Rimba (ndn) 

Total: 23 pianists took part in this highest category

Category A

                  1. Kyung A Lee (cor) 
                  2. Stephanie Onggowinoto (ndn)
                  3. Joseph Nayaka Clarence (ndn) 

Total: 37 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano "Cidade de Ferrol", Ferrol (esp)
1 - 8 November 2007

   1. Evgueni Starodubtsev (rus) 
   2. Aimo Pagin (f) 
   3. Chenyin Li (chn) 

Total: 12 pianists took part

 

Concours Iternational "Simone Delbert-Fevrier", Saint Martin du Var (f)
3 - 5 November 2007

Category Diplome de Concert

  1. Augustin Voegele (f) 
  2. Christophe Alvarez (f) 
  3. (ex aequo:) Seenu Singh (b)
                          Florian Puddu (f) 

 

Internationaler Klavieretueden-Wettbewerb "Johann Baptist Cramer", St. Georgen (frg)
1 - 3 November 2007

Category IV - Superior

  1. Yuan Tian (chn) 
  2. ---.
  3. ---.

 

Concours International "Marguerite Long", Paris (f) (Fed.) (AAF)
20 - 30 October 2007

             1. Hibiki Tamura (jpn)
             2. Junhee Kim (cor)
             3. Sofya Gulyak (rus) 
             4. Tae-Hyung Kim (cor) 
             5. Antoine de Grolee (f)  
             6. Tristan Pfaff (f)

Total: 29 of the 33 selected pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Luciano Gante", Pordenone (it)
24 - 28 October 2007

   1. Timur Gasratov (ukr)
   2. Ilaria Loatelli (it)
   3. Maksym Kulabukhov (ukr) 

Other finalists:
       Riccardo Bozzolo (it)
       Irina Ovsyannikova (rus) 
       Alexandru Catalin Serban (rum) 
       Riccardo Scillipoti (it)
       Denis Zardi (it)

Total: 18 pianists took part

 

4th China International Piano Competition, Xiamen (chn) (Fed.)
15 - 25 October 2007

             1. Haochen Zhang (chn) 
             2. Victor Stanislavsky (isr) 
             3. Yunqing Zhou (chn) 
             4. Bo Tong (chn)
             5. Nariya Nogi (jpn) 
             6. Masataka Goto (jpn)

Total: 34 of the 48 selected pianists took part

 

Premio Stefano Marizza, Trieste (it)
22 - 24 October 2007

   1. Grzegorz Niemczuk (pol)
   2. Fan-Chiang Yi (tai)

Total: 13 pianists took part

 

Bremer Klavierwettbewerb, Bremen (frg)
7 - 17 October 2007

   1. Yana Vasilyeva (rus)
   2. Romain David (f)
   3. Olyesya Urusova (rus) 

Total: 22 pianists took part

 

Franz Liszt International Piano Competition, Utrecht (hol) (Fed.) (AAF)
15 October 2007: announcement of selected contestants

24 pianists selected to take part
in the competition, April 2008

Soojin Ahn (usa)
Viktor Bijelovic (gb)
Dora Deliyska (bul)
Stephanie Elbaz (f)
Daniel Evans (gb)
Angelika Fuks (ukr)
Nino Gvetadze (geor)
Yuka Hosoda (jpn)
Tomasz Kamieniak (pol)
Eunseo Lee (cor)
Petr Limonov (rus)
Vincenzo Maltempo (it)
Denis Maslyuk (ukr)
Edvinas Minkstimas (lit)
Aleksander Moutouzkine (rus)
Jean Muller (lux)
Olga Mustafaeva (rus)
Yuhi Ozaki (jpn)
Vitaliy Pysarenko (ukr)
Azamat Sydikov (kirg)
Krisztina Taraszova (hun)
Yohei Wakioka (jpn)
Han Wang (chn)
Juan Salvador Zurutuza Valdespino (mex)

Total: approx. 70 pianists applied
24 pianists selected

 

Vlado Perlemuter European Piano Competition, Caen (f) (AAF)
4 - 14 October 2007

Three finalists

     1. Romain Descharmes (f) + Aud. Prize 
     2. Mariana Izman (hol)
     3. Francois Dumont (f)

     4. Vittorio Forte (it)
     5. Jordi Bittloch (f)
     6. Emmanuel Christian (f)

Total: 21 of the 30 selected pianists took part

 

Louisiana International Piano Competition, Alexandria (Louisiana, usa)
8 - 13 October 2007

Artist Level

  1. Dizhou Zhao (chn)
  2. Andrey Ponochevny (rus) 
  3. Ching-yun Hu (tai)

Junior Level

  1. Song Yang (chn)
  2. Yon-Joon Yoon (cor) 
  3. Margarita Lukachkina (rus) 

 

 

Southern Highlands International Piano Competition, Bowral (aus)
28 September - 7 October 2007

     1. Dizhou Zhao (chn)
     2. ---.
     3. Alexei Yemtsov (ukr) 
     4. Arthur Ancelle (f) 

Other finalist:
         David Shi (aus) 

Total: 16 of the 20 selected pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Franz Liszt" - "Premio Mario Zanfi", Parma (it)
1 - 6 October 2007

     1. ---.
     2. Pietro Ceresini (it) 
     3. ---.

Other finalist:
         Daniele Buggio (it) 

Total: approx. 6 pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Musica, Porto (prt) (Fed.)
26 September - 6 October 2007

  1. Daniil Tsvetkov (kzk) 
  2. Enrique Bernaldo de Quiros (esp) 
  3. Akiko Nikami (jpn)
  4. Yubo Zhou (chn)

Total: 35 pianists took part

 

Schubert International Piano Competition, Dortmund (frg) (Fed.) (AAF)
22 - 30 September 2007

Four finalists

  1. Takashi Sato (jpn) 
  2. Yuko Momo Shinohara (jpn) 
  3. David Meier (frg)
  4. Kinwai Shum (hk)
  5. Eri Mantani (jpn)

Total: 37 pianists took part

 

Fausto Zadra International Piano Competition, Abano Terme (it)
18 - 23 September 2007

  1. ---.
  2. Xiaohu Xing (chn)
  3. Anna Sagalova (rus) 

Other finalists:
      Yun-Jung Koo (cor)
      Michele Montemurro (it)
      Yoshifumi Morita (jpn)
      Tatiana Nikolayeva-Soldatenko (rus) 
      Haruka Ochi (jpn)
      Marco Scilironi (it)
      Francesca Vidal (it)

Total: 42 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale, Sulmona (it)
17 - 23 September 2007

  1. Eduard Kunz (rus)
  2. Giuliano Guidone (it)
  3. (ex aequo:) Christoph Alvarez (esp) 
                          Aimo Pagin (f)

Other finalists:
      Tae-Hee Kim (cor)
      Jing Nie (chn)
      Susanna Piermartiri (it)
      Patrizia Salvini (it)

Total: 22 pianists took part

 

Ciurlionis International Music Competition, Vilnius (lit) (Fed.)
13 - 23 September 2007

Piano

  1. Edvinas Minkstimas (lit) 
  2. Tatjana Titova (rus)
  3. Gintaras Janusevicius (lit) 

Other finalists:
      Marko Mustonen (fin)
      Laima Smolskaite (lit)
      Inga Vysniauskaite (lit)

Total: 16 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale 'Ettore Pozzoli', Seregno (it) (AAF)
11 - 18 September 2007

  1. Alexandre Pirojenko (rus) 
  2. Victor Stanislavsky (isr) 
  3. Balazs Fulei (hun)

Total: 50 pianists took part

 

Viardo International Piano Competition, Dallas (TX, usa)
14 - 16 September 2007

Senior Category

                 1. Dimitri Levkovich (can) 
                 2. ---.
                 3. (ex aequo:) Jae-Hyuck Cho (usa) 
                                         Dizhou Zhao (chn)

Total: 11 pianists took part in this highest category

Junior Category

                 1. Abigail Sin (sing) 
                 2. Laura Vera Spector (usa)
                 3. Yuebing Brian Zhang (chn) 

Total: 6 pianists took part in this junior category

 

 

Concours Grieg, Oslo (n) (AAF)
Solo piano: 13 - 16 September 2007

  1. Kristian Lindberg (n)
  2. Martina Filjak (crt)
  3. Mimi Jue Wang (chn) 
  4. Lin Chen (chn) 

Total: 20 pianists took part

 

Scotland International Piano Competition, Glasgow (sct) (Fed.)
5 - 15 September 2007

               1. Tom Poster (gb)
               2. Lukas Geniusas (lit)
               3. Tristan Pfaff (f) 
               4. Violetta Khachikian (arm) 

Total: 31 of the 35 selected pianists took part

 

Clara Haskil International Piano Competition, Vevey (ch) (Fed.)
31 August - 11 September 2007

Winner
Hisako Kawamura (jpn) 

Other finalists:
  Alina Elena Bercu (rum) 
  Yana Vasilyeva (rus) 

Other semifinalists:
  Sam Armstrong (usa)
   Lucas Blondeel (b)
  Alexander Schimpf (frg) 

Total: 78 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale "Valsesia - Musica", Varallo (it) (AAF)
1 - 9 September 2007

  1. Alexander Yakovlev (rus) 
  2. Ilona Timtchenko (rus) 
  3. (ex aequo:) Juan Francisco Lago Cuellar (esp) 
                         Akihito Okuda (jpn) 

Other finalist:
      Alessandra Giunti (it) 

Total: 75 pianists took part

 

George Enescu International Piano Competition, Bucharest (rum) (Fed.) (AAF)
2 - 8 September 2007

Piano

  1. Eduard Kunz (rus)
  2. Evgeny Cherepanov (rus)
   3. Christopher Falzone (usa) 

Total: 34 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition 'The Muse', Santorini (gr)
1 - 8 September 2007

  1. (ex aequo:) Elena Melnikova (rus) 
                          Ekaterina Yatsiuk (rus) 
  2. (ex aequo:) Christine Thayer (usa) 
                          Alina Sememnikova (rus) 
  3. (ex aequo:) Anastasia Gorokhovtseva (rus) 
                          Tatiana Pavlichuk (ukr)
                          Mark Taratushkin (rus) 

Total: 11 pianists took part

 

Internationaler Brahms-Wettbewerb, Poertschach (a)
25 August - 2 September 2007

Piano

     1. Eri Yamamoto (jpn)
     2. Tatyana Kolesova (rus)

Other finalists:
         Min-Kyong Jung (cor)
         Varvara Nepomnyashaya (rus) 
         Rie Shimada (jpn) 

Total: 29 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale di Musica da Camera "Palma d'Oro", Finale Ligure (it)
29 - 31 August 2007

Piano

     1. Luca Trabucco (it)
     2. (ex aequo:) Atsuko Mihara (jpn) 
                             Oliwia Trummer (frg) 

Other finalists:
         Alessandro Mercando (it)
         Andrey Stukalov (rus) 

Total: 13 pianists took part

 

F. Busoni International Piano Competition, Bolzano (it) (Fed.)
final phase: 22 - 31 August 2007

          1. ---.
          2. (ex aequo:) Sofia Gulyak (rus)
                                  Dinara Nadzhafova (ukr)
          3. Lilian Akopova (ukr)

Other finalists (1st stage w/orchestra)
          4. Mariya Kim (ukr)
          5. Martina Filjak (crt)
          6. Dudana Mazmanishvili (geor)

Other solo-finalists
              Lorenzo Cossi (it)
              Giuseppe Gullotta (it)
              Evgeny Izotov (rus)
              Yu Mi Lee (cor)
              Maria Massytcheva (rus)
              Akihito Okuda (jpn)

Total: 20 of the 27 pianists who had been selected
for this 2nd phase took part
(90 contestants in the first phase, 2006)

 

PTNA Piano Competition, Tokyo (jpn) (AAF)
finals: 26 August 2007

Superior Grade

  1. Yuha Ozaki (jpn)
  2. Erika Hanada (jpn) 
  3. Kaoru Jitsukawa (jpn) 

 

Wiener Pianistenwettbewerb, Wien / Vienna (a)
15 - 23 August 2007

Category C

  1. Jun-Seok Seo (cor)
  2. Kyoko Asaka (jpn)
  3. (ex aequo:) Thomas Egler (frg) 
                          Kilian Sprau (frg)

Other finalists:
      Istvan Sarkozi (hun)      
      Dan Tian (chn)

Total: 15 pianists took part in this highest category

Category B

  1. ---.
  2. Mei Abe (jpn)
  3. (ex aequo:) Hsin-yu Duan (tai) 
                          Eleni Eracleous (cyp)      

Category A

    1. (ex aequo:) Sakura Mitsukuri (jpn) 
                            Constantin Knoll (frg)
    2. Mihai-Vlad Coman (rum) 

No more contestants in this youngest age group

 

Manchester International Concerto Competition for Young Pianists, Manchester (gb)
14 - 17 August 2007

Category "22 and under"

                      1. Anja German (slvn)
                      2. (ex aequo:) Jan Lisiecki (pol/can)
                                              Jamie Bergin (gb)
                      3. Walid El-Yafi (gb) 

Total: 12 selected pianists took part in this highest category

Finalists Category "16 and under"

                         1. Eligiusz Skoczylas (pol)
                         2. Yun Jae Lee (cor)
                         3. Olga Tynyankina (rus)
                         4. Sarah Zajtmann (f)

Total: 12 selected pianists took part in this junior category

 

Concours de Piano "Virtuose du futur", Crans-Montana (ch)
11 - 15 August 2007

  1. (ex aequo:) Ahout Khachaturyan (arm) 
                         Kyrill Zengtsov (ukr)

Other finalist:   Carla Sandoval (chl)

Total: 10 pianists took part

 

Cleveland International Piano Competition, Cleveland (Ohio, usa) (Fed.)
25 July - 5 August 2007

             1. Alexander Ghindin (rus)
             2. Yaron Kohlberg (isr)
             3. Alexander Moutouzkine (rus)
             4. Ran Dank (isr)

Other semifinalists:
                 Dimitri Levkovich (ukr/can)
                 Helene Tysman (f)
                 Wei-Jen Yuan (tai)
                 Andrius Zlabys (lit)

Total: 31 of the 36 selected pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Musica Aeterna", Wavre (b)
29 - 31 July 2007

  1. Konstantin Kondrachov (rus)
  2. Alexandra Mikulska (pol) (+ Aud. Prize) 
  3. Dohaeng Jung (cor)

Other finalists:
      Lan Cui (chn)
      Christopher Ellis (gb)
      Nicolas Franco (b)
      Yuka Hosoda (jpn)
      Misa Kakumoto (jpn)
      Fumie Onda (jpn)
      Stephanie Proot (b)

Total: 27 pianists took part

 

Vianna da Motta International Piano Competition, Lisbon (prt) (Fed.) (AAF)
18 - 31 July 2007

  1. ---.
  2. (ex aequo:) Dmytro Onyshenko (ukr) 
                         Yung Wook Yoo (cor)
  3. ---.
  4. Lilit Grigoryan (arm)
  5. (ex aequo:) Szczepan Konczal (pol)
                          Inesa Synkevich (ukr) 
  6. Andreas Koenig (frg) 

Total: 39 pianists took part

 

Oberlin International Piano Competition, Oberlin (Ohio, usa) (AAF)
21 - 29 July 2007

        1. Yuqing Meng (chn) 
        2. Minson Hong (cor)
         3. Yun Qing Zhou (chn) (+ Aud. Prize)   
        4. Xiao Pei Xu (chn)
        5. Chai-Ju Yen (cor)
        6. John Choi (usa)

Total: 55 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Sergei Rachmaninov", Morcone (it)
25 - 29 July 2007

           1. Alexander Yakovlev (rus) 
           2. (ex aequo:) Polina Bogdanova (rus) 
                                 Maurizio Zaccaria (it)
           3. ---.
           4. Ivana Alkovic (serb)

Total: 22 pianists took part

 

Premio Rovere d'Oro, San Bartolomeo al Mare (it)
23 - 29 August 2007

Piano

   1. Alexander Kostritsa (rus)
   2. Tatiana Nikolaeva Soldatenkova (rus) 
   3. Sona Arshakyan (arm) 
   4. Alessandra Giunti (it)
   5. Nazareno Ferruggio (it)

Total: 12 pianists took part

 

New Orleans International Piano Competition, New Orleans (usa)
22 - 29 July 2007

       1. Konstantin Sukhovetzki (rus) 
       2. Alex McDonald (usa) 
        3. Christopher Atzinger (usa)

Total: 12 selected pianists took part

 

Rencontre International des Jeunes PIanistes, Sernancelhe (prt)
27 July 2007

1. Evgeny Izotov (rus)

Total: 5 invited pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Marguerite Long", Paris (f) (Fed.) (AAF)
July 2007: announcement of selected contestants

33 pianists accepted to take part
in the competition, October 2007

Ron Abramski (gb)
Jun Asai (usa)
Jae-Won Cheung (cor)
Zlata Chochieva (rus)
Antoine De Grolee (f)
Sofia Gulyak (tat)
Mei Hashimoto (jpn)
Julia Hsu (tai)
Claire Huangci (usa)
David Kadouch (f)
Miyuji Kaneko (jpn)
Benjamin Kim (usa)
Jun-Hee Kim (cor)
Tae-Hyung Kim (cor)
Ye-Dam Kim (cor)
Younggun Kim (cor)
Eri Kobayashi (jpn)
Kateryna Kulikova (ukr)
Anna Kurasawa (jpn)
Alexandre Lacombe (f)
Hyo-Joo Lee (cor)
Misora Lee (cor)
Hitomi Maeyama (jpn)
Zhee-Young Moon (cor)
Tristan Pfaff (f)
Mayumi Sakamoto (jpn)
Nima Sarkechik (f)
Ben Schoeman (rsa)
Hanout Senekeremian (usa)
Hibiki Tamura (jpn)
Yuya Tsuda (jpn)
Bryan Wallick (usa)
Elena Zalessova (rus)

Total: 33 pianists selected from among
more than 160 applicants

 

William Kapell International Piano Competition, College Park (MD, usa) (Fed.)
9 - 21 July 2007

         1. Sofya Gulyak (rus) (+ Aud. Prize)
         2. Sara Daneshpour (usa)
         3. Spencer Myer (usa)

Total: 25 of the 33 selected pianists took part

 

Internationaler Wettbewerb-Festival "Carl Filtsch", Sibiu (run)
9 - 15 July 2007

Category C

         1. Silviya Georgieva Kyoseva (bul)
         2. (ex aequo:) Krisztina Fejes (hun) 
                                 Ji-Eun Sung (cor)
         3. (ex aequo:) Emil Krastev Vuchev (bul) 
                                 Ljubov Aleksandrovna (rus) 
                                 Shunji Hirota (jpn) 
                                 Yumi Terazaki (jpn)

Other finalists:
            Marc Antoniu Mai-Antal (rum) (Filtsch Prize)
            Cristian Mihai Dimea (rum)
            Nedyalko Georgiev Dzhelepov (bul)
            Florian Mitrea (rum)
            Oana Cristina Popescu (rum)
            Anamaria Alexandra Vaduva (rum)

Total: 19 pianists took part in this highest category

Category B

         1. Frank Pierre Dupree (frg)
         2. (ex aequo:) Alexander Zvonov (rus) 
                                 George Todica (rum)
         3. (ex aequo:) Mihaila Nicolae (rum) 
                                 Vasile Daniel Dascalu (rum) 

Filtsch Prize: Cristian Sandrin (rum)

Total: approx. 20 pianists took part in this middle category

Category A

         1. (ex aequo:) Alexandru Cadmiel Bodac (rum) 
                                 Nikola Petev Georgiev (rum)
         2. (ex aequo:) Anca Busecan (rum) 
                                 Kamen Georgiev Chervendinev (bul)
                                 Radu Prisada (rum)
         3. (ex aequo:) Xenia Costinar (rum) 
                                 Horia Adrian Ghita (rum) 
                                 Daniel Adrian Monita (rum) 
                                 Daniel Ropota (rum)

Filtsch Prize: Ana Vucmanovici (rum)

Total: approx. 18 pianists took part in this youngest category

 

Prix d'AmadeO-Jeunesse for Piano, Laurensberg / Aachen (frg) (AAF)
13 - 14 July 2007

     1. Jae-Kyung Yoo (cor)
     2. (ex aequo:) Hye-Yeon Park (cor)
                             Yang Yang (chn)
     3. (ex aequo:) Vasilios Rakitzis (gr) 
                              Keina Sato (jpn)

Other finalist:
          Karolina Nadolska (pol)

Total: 19 of the 22 selected pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Citta di Ovada", Ovada (it)
7 - 10 July 2007

     1. ---.
     2. (ex aequo:) Young-Mi Choi (cor)
                             Riccardo Scilipoti (it) 
     3. Ekaterina Gorbunova (rus)

Other finalists:
        Lucio Carpani (it)
        Toshiako Jo (jpn)

Total: 22 pianists took part

 

Concurs Internacional de Piano "Ricard Vines", Lleida (esp)
7 - 10 July 2007

Categoria A

         1. Josep Garcia Martinez (esp)
         2. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)
         3. Carlos Guerrero Bullejos (esp)

Other finalist:
            Anna Cardona Esteva (esp)

Total: 8 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Musicale, Padova (it)
4 - 8 July 2007

Categoria Pianoforte Solistica - E

              1. Evelina Vorontsova (rus) 
              2. Young Mi Choi (cor)
              2. Yuri Maeda (jpn)
              2. Daniele Rinaldo (it)
              3. Caterina Pagani (it)
              3. Antoine Terny (f)
              3. Valeria Suchkova (rus)
              3. Hilary Demske (usa)
              4. Narumi Honda (jpn)
              4. Asako Watanabe (jpn)
              4. Sara de Ascaniis (it)
              4. Andrea Merlo (it)

Total: 21 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale 'Giuseppe Terracciano', Giffoni Sei Casali (SA) (it)
3 - 7 July 2007

Premio Pianistico

         1. ---.
         2. (ex aequo:) Giuliano Guidone (it)
                                 Ji-Yi Jang (cor)
         3. Raffaele Maisano (it)

Other finalists:
            Kim Hae Jung (cor)
            Rada Pogodaeva (kzk/frg)
            Simone Sala (it)

Total: 11 pianists took part in this highest category

 

World Piano Competition, Cincinatti (OH, usa)
Artists Division: 2 - 7 July 2007

Artists Dvision: Three finalists

                          1. Ching-yun Hu (tai)
                          2. Christopher Atzinger (usa) 
                          3. Yuri Shadrin (rus)

Other semifinalists:
                          4. Ilya Kazantsev (n)
                          5. Oleksandr Polyakov (ukr) 
                          6. (ex aequo:)  Rui Shi (chn)
                                                   Henry Wong Doe (nzl) 

Total: 20 of the 25 selected pianists took part in this highest category

 

Nordiske Pianistkonkurrence, Nyborg (dan)
25 - 30 June 2007

Three finalists

   1. Marko Mustonen (fin) 
   2. Emil Gryesten Jensen (dan) 
   3. Julia Tabakova (dan) (+ Aud. Prize) 

   4. Stefan Ivkovic (n)
   5. Joachim Carr (n)

Total: 11 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition in memory of Liszt Ferenc, Pecs (hun)
17 - 30 June 2007

    1. Jozsef Balog (hun)
    2. Mi-Jung Park (cor)
    3. Szilvia Miko (hun)

Total: 19 pianists took part

 

Tchaikovsky International Music Competition, Moscow (rus) (Fed.) (AAF)
12 - 30 June 2007

Piano - Finalists

       1. ---.
       2. Miroslav Kultishev (rus)
       3. Aleksandr Lubyanzhev (rus)
       4. (ex aequo:) Dong-Hyek Lim (cor) 
                             Sergei Sobolev (rus)
       5. Benjamin Moser (frg) + Spec. Prize
       6. Fedor Amirov (rus)

Other semifinalists:
           Andrej Korobeinikov (rus) (Spec. prizes) 
           Olga Kozlova (rus) (Spec. prize)
           Elisei Babanov (rus)
           Tatiana Chernichka (rus)
           Denis Evstiukhine (rus)
           Eleonora Karpukhova (rus)
           Sung Hoon Kim (cor)
           Tatjana Kolesova (rus)
           Sergei Kuznetsov (rus)
           Sergei Salov (ukr)
           Mikhail Shilyaev (rus)
           Tatiana Tessman (rus)
           Akiko Yamamoto (jpn)
           Irina Zahharenkova (est)

Total: 46 of the 52 selected pianists took part

 

Muenchner Klavierpodium der Jugend, Munchen (frg)
22 - 24 June 2007

Category 5

                  1. Michael Grau (frg)
                      Daniel Schneidt (frg)
                      Ellen Seidel (frg)
                      Hae-Sung Yoon (cor)
                  2. Andreas Froeschl (frg)
                      Daniel Seng (frg)
                  3. Ines Hoepfl (fg)
                      Felix Tennie (frg)

Total: 19 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Pro Piano-Rumania International Competition, Bucharest (rum)
19 - 24 June 2007

Category C

            1. Olga Cleianchina (mold)
            2. Natalia Koziariz (pol)
            3. Andreea Mut (rum)

No more pianists in this highest category

 

Jose Iturbi International Music Competition, Los Angeles (CA, usa) (AAF)
18 - 23 June 2007

Piano

           1. Rufus Choi (usa)
           2. Anastasia Markina (rus/usa)
           3. Evgheny Brakhman (rus)

Other finalists:
               Angel Cabrera (esp) (Spec. Prize)
               Tommaso Cogato (it)
               Claire Huangci (usa)

Total: 22 of the 24 selected pianists took part

 

Sendai International Music Competition, Sendai (jpn) (Fed.) (AAF)
10 - 23 June 2007

Piano

               1. Yuya Tsuda (jpn)
               2. Yu-chih Lu (tai)
               3. Oksana Shevchenko (rus)
               4. Ilya Ovchinnikov (rus)
               5. Ka Ling Colleen Lee (hk)
               6. Vyacheslav Gryaznov (rus)

Total: 36 of the 42 selected pianists took part

 

International Russian Music Piano Competition, San Jose (CA, usa) (AAF)
7 - 17 June 2007

Advanced Category

                           1. Sara Daneshpour (usa) (+ Aud. Prize)
                           2. Zhenni Li (chn)
                           3. Anton Smirnov (rus)

Total: 31 of the 49 selected pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Nazionale "Città di Cesenatico" - Trofeo Febo Villani, Cesenatico (it)
14 June 2007

Category F

        Absolute Winner: Nicolo Ronchi (it)
                           1. Marco Santia (it)
                           1. Filippo Santieri (it)

No more pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorsi Internazionali di Musica della Val Tidone, Pianello del Val Tidone (it) (AAF)
Premio Silvio Bengalli: 14 - 16 June 2007

Premio Silvio Bengalli

   1. Michael Namirovsky (isr) 
   2. Alexei Gorlatch (ukr)
   3. (ex aequo:) Volodymyr Lavrinenko (ukr) 
                           Ishay Shaer (isr)
   4. Esther Park (usa) 
   5. Ivan Rudin (rus)
   6. Shi Zhai (chn)

Total: 47 pianists took part

 

Concorso Nazionale* Pianistico e di Musica da Camera "Premio Robert Schumann", Messina (it)
(* although entitled 'Nazionale', there were no restrictions on nationality or place of study or residence) 
8 - 10 June 2007

Esecuzione Pianistica

no applicants

Category F

1. Vincenzo Pavone (it)

No more contestants in Category F

 

Juliusz Zarebski Music Competition, Lomianki (pol)
3 - 10 June 2007

Piano solo - Category D

             1. Tamara Niekludow (pol)
             2. Agnieszka Zahaczewska (pol) 
             3. ---.

Total: 9 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Interpretation Contest Beethoven's Hradec, Hradec nad Moravici (cz)
2 - 8 June 2007

Category 2

            1. Peter Fancovic (slvk)
            2. Viktor Vojnovic (cz)
            3. (ex aequo:) Miroslav Mic (cz) 
                                    Petr Ozana (cz)

Other finalist:
                Michal Monoszon (cz)

Total: 17 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Competition of Young Pianists "A Step towards Mastery", St. Petersburg (rus)
1 - 8 June 2007

Category C

           1. ---.
           2. ---.
            3. ---.

Three finalists
               Darya Goremykina (rus)
               Margarita Ilyasova (rus)
               Olesya Morozova (rus)

Total: 16 pianists took part in this highest category

Category B

      1. (ex aequo:) Frank Pierre Dupree (frg) 
                              Julia Kociuban (pol)
      2. (ex aequo:) Osip Nikiforov (rus)
                              John Chen (chn)
       3. Oleg Khudiakov (rus)

Total: 27 pianists took part in this category

Category A

      1. Dan Aika (jpn)
      2. Vera Bashnyak (rus)
       3. (ex aequo:) Jakub Sladek (cz)
                              Amiran Zenaishvili (rus) 

Total: 25 pianists took part in this category

 

Concorso Internazionale Musicale "Città di Maccagno", Maccagno (it)
25 May - 8 June 2007

Interpretazione Musicale - Piano

       1. ---.
        2. Yuri Maeda (jpn) 
       3. Elisa d'Auria (it) 

 

Concorso Internazionale dei Duchi d'Acquaviva, Atri (it) (AAF)
5 - 7 June 2007

Piano

   1. Hyun Jee Moon (cor)
    2. Alexander Carl Eick (frg) 
   3. Zamira Kumarzhanova (kzk) 

Other finalists:
       Chih-long Hu (tai)
       Alla Ivanzhina (rus)
       Irina Klimina (rus)
       Cathy Krier (lux)
       Janos Ludmany (hun)
   &n