Competition Results 2008

The results of 178 international piano competitions (plus the results of 19 preselections) that have been held in 2008 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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International Piano Competition "Pausilypon", Napoli (it) (AAF)
15 - 19 December 2008

     1. Ekaterina Yatsyuk (rus)   
     2. (ex aequo:) Alexander Osminin (rus)  
                             Denis Zhdanov (rus)

 

R. Schumann International Piano Competition, Lamporecchio (it)
11 - 14 December 2008

     1. Georgy Gromov (rus)   
     2. Maria Perrotta (it)
     3. Gloria Campaner (it) + Aud. Prz. 

Total: 36 pianists took part

 

Vera Lotar-Shevchenko International Piano Competition, Novosibirsk (rus)
1 - 14 December 2008

Category 1

                 1. Oleg Akkuratov (rus)
                 2. Anna Kislitsyna (rus)
                 3. (ex aequo:) Konstantin Lapshin (rus)   
                                         Elena Los ( rus)

Other finalists:
                    Artem Abashev ( rus )
                    Oleg Samokhin (rus)

Total: 11 selected pianists took part in this highest age category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Camillo Togni", Gussago (it)
4 - 7 December 2008

Category F - "Pianoforte e Orchestra"

                             1. Alberto Nose (it)
                             2. ---.
                             3. Chun Wu (chn)

Total: approx. 15 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Hilton Head (SC, usa) (AAF)
December 2008: result of preselection

20 pianists selected to take part in the
14th Competition (2 - 9 March 2009)

 

Jun Asai (usa)
Marouan Benabdallah (mrc)
Michael Bukhman (isr)
Yunjie Chen (chn)
François Dumont (f)
Dorel Golan (isr)
Yoonjung Han (cor)
Jae-Weon Huh (cor)
David Kaplan (usa)
Sergey Kasprov (rus)
Esther Keel (usa)
Michail Lifits (frg)
Becky Lu (usa)
Vladimir Milosevic (serb)
Alexandre Pirojenko (rus)
Marina Radiushina (usa)
Tatiana Tessman (rus)
Chetan Tierra (usa)
Chun-chieh Yen (tai)
Wei-Jen Yuan (usa)

 

 

Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth (Texas, usa) (AAF)
10 December 2008: result of preselection

157 pianists selected to audition for the
13th Van Cliburn Competition (22 May - 7 June 2009)
[Auditions: Jan./Feb. 2009]

 

To see their names and programmes, visit:

 

www.cliburn.org/index.php?page=screening_auditions

 

and click on one of the audition sites

 

Minneapolis International Piano-e-Competition, Minneapolis (MN, usa) (AAF)
December 2008: result of preselection

71 pianists selected to audition for the
4th Piano-e-Competition (29 June - 10 July 2009)
[Auditions: January 2009]

 

To see their names and programmes, visit:

 

www.piano-e-competition.com/ecompetition/contestants_2009.asp

 

 

Rencontre International de Piano "Prix Animato", Paris (f) (AAF)
6 - 9 December 2008

      1. Tae-Hyung Kim (cor)
      2. Daniil Tsvetkov (uzb) + Aud. Prz.
      3. Ilya Rashkovsky (rus)

Total: 13 of the 14 invited pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, Campillos (esp) (AAF)
5 - 8 December 2008

           1. Maryna Baranova (ukr/frg)
           2. Scipione Sangiovanni (it)
           3. Yenifert Prado Jimenez (cub/esp)   

Other finalists:
               Javier Gomez Dolera (esp)
               Martyna Jatkauskaite (lit)
               Lusine Khatchatryan (arm)
               Martin Labazevitch (pol/usa)
               Anna Nizhegorodtseva (rus)
               Arcadie Triboi (rum)
               Zhi Yin (chn)

Total: 43 of the 50 selected pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Almaty (kzk) (AAF)
1 - 8 December 2008

   1. (ex aequo:) Yernar Nurtazin (kzk)   
                           Alexander Shaikin (rus)    
   2. (ex aequo:) Darya Kameneva (rus)
                           Ivan Rudin (rus)
   3. Sergei Kim (kzk)

Other finalists:
       Adil Nesipbayev (kzk)
       Evgeny Starodubtsev (rus)

Total: 23 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Antonio Napolitano", Vietri sul Mare (it) (AAF)
27 - 30 November 2008

      1. Yae-Kyung Yoo (cor)
      2. (ex aequo:) Desislava Bobrina (bul/rus)   
                              Simone Sala (it)
      3. (ex aequo:) Haruka Kuroiwa (jpn)
                              Ekaterina Yatsyuk (rus)

Other finalist:
          Luigi Pazienza (it)

Total: 33 pianists took part

 

EPTA - Rencontres Internationales des Jeunes Pianistes, Waterloo (b)
25 - 30 November 2008

Category 4

                   1. Grzegorz Niemczuk (pol)
                   2. Stefan Ciric (serb)
                   3. Raphael Theissen (b)

Other finalists:
                      Ani Arushanyan (arm)
                      Anna Gasparova (arm)
                      David Schofield (gb)

Total: 11 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Piano Competition "James Mottram", Manchester (gb) (AAF)
25 - 29 November 2008

Category B

                              1. Kataryna Titova (ukr)
                              2. Alexander Grynyuk (ukr)
                              3. Alexei Tartakovski (rus)

Total: 13 of the 15 selected pianists took part in this highest category

Category A

                            1. Nansong Huang (chn)
                            2. Alexander Ullman (gb)
                            3. Asagi Nakata (jpn)

Total: 15 of the 16 selected pianists took part in this junior category

 

Concours International de Piano "Francis Poulenc", Brive (f) (AAF)
23 - 29 November 2008

      1. Sofya Guelbadamova (rus)
      2. Jingjing Wang (chn)   
      3. Thomas Spiros (gr)

Total: 10 pianists took part

 

Concours de Piano International "Automobile Club de France", Paris (f)
27 November 2008

    Winner: Avan Yu (can)
    Spec. Prize: Yekown Sunwoo (cor)

Total: 4 invited pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Giuliano Pecar", Gorizia (it)
20 - 26 November 2008

    1. Ekaterina Richter (rus)
    2. (ex aequo:) Ju-Eun Lee (cor)
                            Milos Popovic (serb)  
    3. (ex aequo:) Jong Do An (cor)
                            Niccolo Ronchi (it)

Total: 31 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Dedication to Ferenc Liszt", Moscow (rus)
15 - 23 November 2008

Category B
Finalists

           Grand Prix: Arseny Aristov (rus)
                           1. Nansong Huang (chn)
                          2. ---.
                          3. Vladimir Levetsky (rus)

Total: 16 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Piano Competition, Andorra
15 - 22 November 2008

      1. Maria Masycheva (rus)
      2. Natalia Tkachenko (rus)
      3. Ada Gorbunova (rus)
      4. Yedam Kim (cor)
      5. (ex aequo:) Vanessa Benelli (it)
                              Tetsumichi Yoshinaga (jpn)  

Total: 56 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Jose Roca", Valencia (esp)
18 - 21 November 2008

      1. Anna Petrova (bul)
      2. Takaya Sano (jpn)
      3. Yun-Jung Koo (cor)

Total: approx. 30 pianists took part

 

Iowa International Piano Competition, Sioux (Iowa, usa)
17 November 2008: result of preselection

12 pianists selected to participate
in the competition, 5 - 7 March 2009

Denis Evstiukhine (rus)
Natalja Lavrova (rus/usa)
Yoni Levyatov (isr)
Jose Menor Martín (esp)
Sun-A Park (usa)
Nolan Pearson (usa)
Yukiko Sekino (jpn)
Ji Soo Seo (cor)
Yuri Shadrin (rus)
Rui Shi (chn)
Dmitry Vorobieff (rus)
Ryo Yanagitani (can)

 

International Piano Competition "Ennio Porrino", Cagliari (it)
12 - 17 November 2008

   1. Magdalena Amara (rus)   
   2. Oleg Polianski (ukr)
   3. Giulio Biddau (it)

Total: 8 pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano Compositores de Espana 'Cristobal Halffter', Las Rozas (esp) (AAF)
8 - 15 November 2008

      1. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)
      2. Evelina Borbei (f) 
      3. Kazuya Saito (jpn) 

Other finalist:
         Scipione Sangiovanni (it) 

Total: 29 pianists took part

 

Julia Crane International Piano Competition, Potsdam (usa)
7 - 9 November 2008

      1. Yang Song (chn)
      2. Benjamin Woo (can) 
      3. Qi Zhang (chn)    
      4. Sue Jin Jung (cor)
      5. Emiko Edwards (usa) 
      6. Joseph Mohan (usa)

Total: approx. 15 pianists took part

 

Gyeongnam International Music Competition 'Isang Yun in memoriam', Tongyeong (cor) (Fed.) (AAF)
2 - 9 November 2008

          1. Sofya Gulyak (rus)
          2. Stanislav Khristenko (rus) 
          3. Mariangela Vacatello (it)    
          4. Hong-Chun Youn (cor)
          5. Christopher Guzman (usa) 

Total: 21 of the 25 selected pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Young Pianist of the North", Gosforth (gb)
31 October - 2 November 2008

Main category
four finalists

        Grand prix: Tomass Kozlovskis (lat)
               1. Cameron Owen Rich-Eames (gb) 
               2. William David Green (gb)
               3. Matthew Shiel (gb)

             #4. Sarah Gardner (gb)

Total: 8 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, Ferrol (esp)
25 - 31 October 2008

      1. ---.
      2. Tristan Pfaff (f)
      3. (ex aequo:) Kumi Matsuo (jpn) 
                              Marianna Prejvalskaya (esp)   

Total: 14 pianists took part

 

Nordic Piano Competition, Malmo (sw)
25 - 31 October 2008

      1. Rima Chacaturian (lit)
      2. (ex aequo:) Stefan Ivkovic (n) 
                              Peter Friss johansson (sw)   
      3. ---.
      4. Elina Sirone (sw)

 

Horowitz International Piano Competition, Kiev (ukr) (Fed.)
24 - 29 October 2008

Junior Group

         1. Ilya Zuikov (ukr)
         2. Aleksandra Kasman (rus/usa) 
         3. (ex aequo:) Anatoly Khara (ukr) 
                                 Robert Sippola Visa (fin) 
         4. Kataryna Garanich (ukr)
         5. Volodymir Kochnev (ukr)

Total: 10 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concours Geneve, Geneva (ch) (Fed.) (AAF)
17 - 29 October 2008

   1. ---.
   2. (1. ranked) Hannes Minnaar (hol) + Aud. Prize 
   2. (2. ranked) Duanduan Hao (chn) 
   3. Da-Sol Kim (cor) 

Total: 106 pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Panama, Panama (pan) (AAF)
21 - 28 October 2008

      1. Jingjing Wang (chn)
      2. fernando Altamura (it)
      3. Edward Neeman (usa) 
      4. Olga Kozlova (rus) 
      5. Carles Marin (esp)
      6. Chun-chieh Yen (tai)
      7. Oxana Shevchenko (rus) + Aud. Prize   
      8. Jorge Gimenez (esp)

Total: 15 of the 20 selected pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Luciano Gante", Pordenone (it)
23 - 26 October 2008

    1. Alexander Osminin (rus)
    2  Georgy Gromov (rus) 
    3. (ex aequo:) Chiara Opalio (it) 
                            Ekaterina Richter (rus)  

Other finalists:
         Salvatore Monzo (it)
         Viller Valbonesi (it)
         Alexander Yakovlev (rus)
         Chun Wu (chn)

Total: 20 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano "Andre Dumortier", Leuze-en-Hainaut (b)
20 - 25 October 2008

    Grand Prix: Herin Sung (cor)   
                  2  Yuki Bessho (jpn) 
                  3. Jonas de Geyndt (b)      

Total: 8 pianists took part

 

James Mottram International Piano Competition, Manchester (gb) (AAF)
October 2008: result of preselection

15 pianists selected to participate
in the competition, 25 - 29 November 2008

Suzan-Margit-Ida Bartal (rum)
Zsolt Birtalan (hun)
Da Jung Cho (cor)
Oleksandr Grynyuk (ukr)
Dong Wan Ha (cor)
Ivan Hovorun (ukr)
Jun Ishimura (jpn)
Yoon-Jee Kim (cor)
Alexander Muzykantov (belo)
Veneta Neynska (bul)
Esther Park (usa)
Yasmin Rowe
Ishay Shaer (isr)
Alexei Tartakovski
Kateryna Titova (ukr)

16 pianists selected to participate
in the junior category, 25 - 29 November 2008

Manos Charalabopoulos
Sophia Dee
George Fu (usa)
Iliana-Victoria Grosse-Buening (frg)
Nan Song Huang (chn)
Huizhen Jin (chn)
Cason Kang
Dae Young Kim
Youyou Liu (chn)
Asagi Nakata (jpn)
Rosalind Phang
Azariah Tan
Pawel-Alexander Ullman (gb)
Irina Vaterl (a)
Hannah Yip (gb)
Yon-Joon Yoon (cor)

 

International Competition for Young Pianists, Enschede (hol) (AAF)
18 - 24 October 2008

Category B

               1. Gunel Mirzayeva (azer) (+ Aud. prize)
               2. (ex aequo:) Martin Klett (frg) (+ Press prize)  
                                     Piotr Koscik (pol)
               3. Stephanie Proot (b)

Other finalists:
                   Joao Bettencourt (prt) 
                   Adela Donovalova (cz)
                   Denny Hozman (cz) 
                   Vage Varagyan (rus)
                   Maria Yulin (rus)

Total: 37 pianists took part in this highest category

Category A

               1. Nino Kupreishvili (geor) (+ Aud. prize + Press prize) 
               2. Victoria Audry Sarasvathi (ndn) 
               3. (ex aequo:) Renata Kriszta Konyicska (hun)
                                       Randy Ryan (ndn)

Other finalists:
                   Polina Alexandrova (rus) 
                   Brandon van Doorn (hol)
                   Inge Du (frg) 
                   Justus Gericks (frg)
                   Annique Goettler (frg)
                   Igor Gubanov (rus) 
                   Santiago Lomelin (mex)

Total: 23 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Marizza", Trieste (it)
20 - 22 October 2008

     1. Emaneuele Delucchi (it)
      2. (ex aequo:) Yuri Maeda (jpn) 
                           Riccardo Bozolo (it) 

Other finalists:
         Anna Maria Morici (it)
         Silvia Vassallo Paleologo (it)
         Konami Tanaka (jpn) - Dipl.
         Paolo Zentilin (it) - Dipl.

Total: 11 pianists took part

 

Hong Kong International Piano Competition, Hong Kong (AAF)
4 - 19 October 2008

     1. Jin-Sang Lee (cor)
      2. Jong-Hai Park (cor) 
     3. Miao Huang (frg) 
     4. Hye-Jin Kim (cor) 
     5. Helene Tysman (f)

Total: 15 pianists took part

 

Parnassos International Piano Competition, Monterrey (mex) (AAF)
4 - 19 October 2008

     1. Evgueny Starodubtsev (rus)
      2. Ksenia Morozova (rus) 
     3. Marina Baranova (ukr) 
     4. Christopher Falzone (usa) 

Total: 11 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "J.S. Bach", Gorzow Wielkopolski (pol)
13 - 17 October 2008

Category 3

    1. Malgorzata Garstka (pol)
    2. Radoslawa Jasik (pol)
    3. (ex aequo:) Aleksander Mocek (pol) 
                            Lukasz Ohrceszczyk (pol)  

Other finalist:
        Katarzyna Zakrzewska (pol)

Total: 14 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Balakirev International Piano Competition, Krasnodar (rus)
2 - 10 October 2008

    1. ---.
    2. Anna Trushkova (rus)
    3. (ex aequo:) Arseny Esaulkov (rus) 
                            Daniil Kontuashvili (geor)  
    4. Maria Sidorenko (rus)

Other finalists:
        Michael Airapetian (arm)

Total: 11 pianists took part

 

Jazeps Vitols International Piano Competition, Riga (lat)
1 - 9 October 2008

   Grand Prix: Anton Lyakhovsky (rus)    
                  1. Andrejs Osokins (lat)
                  2. ---.
                  3. (ex aequo:) Arta Arnicane (lat) 
                                          Alexandre Pirojenko (rus) 

Other finalists:
                      Paavo Maijala (fin)
                      Dinara Mazitova (belo)

Total: 11 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Vladimir Viardo", Dallas (TX, usa)
3 - 5 October 2008

Senior Category

                 1. ---.
                 2. Ksenia Morozova (rus) 
                 3. Vyacheslav Kiselev (rus) 

Other finalists:
                     Sergei Morozov (ukr) 
                     Futuba Niekawa (jpn)

Total: approx. 17 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Piano Competition "Premio Franz Liszt", Grottamare (it)
2 - 5 October 2008

    1. Vincenzo Maltempo (it)
    2. (ex aequo:) Evelyna Borbei (rus) 
                            Yohei Wakioka (jpn) 
    3. Elia Tagliavia (it)
    4. Chun Wu (chn)

Other finalist:
       Daniele Terziano (it)

Total: 13 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Rina Sala Gallo", Monza (it) (AAF)
27 September - 5 October 2008

    1. Ilya Poletaev (can)
    2. Samuel Parent (f)
    3. Maria Perrotta (it)

Total: 48 pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Musica, Porto (prt) (Fed.)
24 September - 4 October 2008

    1. Li-chun Su (tai)
    2. (ex aequo:) Sun-Ho Lee (cor) 
                            Stephanie Proot (b) 
    3. Masanori Sugano (jpn)
    4. ---.

Total: 29 pianists took part

 

San Marino International Piano Competition, Borgo Maggiore (sanm) (AAF)
18 - 28 September 2008

Main competition - Soloists

                                    1. Daniil Trifonov (rus)
                                    2. Lukas Geniusas (lit) 
                                    3. Esther Park (usa)

Total: 31 of the 59 selected pianists took part in this highest category

Piano Duo competition

                     1. Ani & Nia Sulkhanishvili (geor)
                     2. Vadym Kholodenko & Andrey Gugnin (rus)
                      3. Barbara Rieder & Sebastian Bartmann (frg)

Other finalists:
                        Richard & Valentin Humburger (frg)
                        Chiara Soave & Cecilia Baccolo (it)

Total: 13 piano duos took part

Junior category 

                             1. Yifan Yang (chn)
                             2. Rafael Antonio Kyrychenko (rus) 
                             3. ---.

Other finalists:         Gloria Cianchetta (it)
                                Martina Consonni (it)
                                Tommaso dell'Arciprete (it) 

 

Franz Liszt International Piano Competition, Wroclaw (pol) (AAF)
17 - 28 September 2008

                  1. ---.
                  2. Eri Mantani (jpn)
                  3. Sonja Fraeki (fin)
                  4. Olivier Besnard (f)
                  5. Krisztina Taraszova (hun)

Other finalists:
                     Piotr Banasik (pol) 
                     Ilya Kondratiev (rus)

Total: 40 of the 47 selected pianists took part

 

Jose Iturbi International Piano Competition, Valencia (esp) (Fed.)
12 - 27 September 2008

     1. Zhengyou Chen (chn)
     2. Soyeon Kim (cor)
     3. Marianna Prjevalskaya (esp)   
     4. Angel Cabrera (esp)
     5. Angelo Arciglione (it) 
     6. Yu Mi Lee (cor)
     7. ---.

Total: 23 pianists took part

 

Hong Kong International Piano Competition, Hong Kong (hk) (AAF)
25 September 2008: result of preselection

16 pianists selected to participate
in the competition, 4 - 21 October 2008

Jun Asai (usa)
Vivian Choi (aus)
Alessio Cioni (it)
Igor Gryshin (ukr)
Miao Huang (frg)
Sean Eric Kennard (usa)
Hye-Jin Kim (cor)
Jin Sang Lee (cor)
Yu Mi Lee (cor)
Lixia Li (chn)
Jong-Hai Park (cor)
Yuri Shadrin (rus)
Helene Tysman (f)
Hui Wu (chn)
Ying-ge Yan (chn)
Hao Zhu (chn)

 

Seattle International Piano Competition, Seattle (usa)
19 - 21 September 2008

Category Professionals

  1. Raymond Wong
  2. Chia-Lin Yang
  3. Seojin Yoo
  4. Edward Park

 

Concours Grieg, Oslo (n) (AAF)
18 - 21 September 2008

Piano solo

                        1. Georgi Gromov (rus) 
                        2. Stepan Konczal (pol)
                        3. David Ball (hun)

Total: 11 pianists took part in the piano solo competition

 

European Piano Competition "Halina Czerny-Stefanska in memoriam", Poznan (pol) (AAF)
17 - 21 September 2008

  Grand Prix: Olga Stezhko (belo)    
                 1. Witek Przemyslaw (pol)
                 2. Radoslaw Sobczak (pol)
                 3. (ex aequo:) Pavel Kolesnikov (rus)     
                                        Jae-Kyung Yoo (cor)
                 4. Rinaldo Zhok (it)
                 5. Anna Solovieva (rus)
                 6. Helene Tysman (f) 

Other finalists:
                     Hyun Jee Moon (cor)
                     Elmira Sayfullayeva (belo)
                     Samson Tsoy (rus)
                     Chi Yan Adrian Wong (hk)
                     Ayako Yamamoto (jpn)

Total: 64 pianists took part

 

Grand Bohemian Orlando International Piano Competition, Orlando (FL, usa)
15 - 21 September 2008

    1. Yekwon Sunwoo (cor)  
    2. David Tong (aus)
    3. Tatiana Tessman (rus)

Total: 19 pianists took part

 

Johann Nepomuk Hummel International Piano Competition, Bratislava (slvk) (Fed.)
14 - 21 September 2008

    1. Christine Ning Zhao (chn) 
    2. Matei Arendarik (slvk)  
    3. (ex aequo:) Santa Ikemoto (jpn)  
                          Sung Ho Yang (cor) 

Other finalists:
        Maiko Sano (jpn)
        Yuko Ueno (jpn)

Total: 20 pianists took part

 

Taipei International Chopin Piano Competition, Taipei (tai) (AAF)
7 - 21 September 2008

'Adult category'

                 1. Kotaro Nagano (jpn)
                 2. Hyun-Jung Kim (cor)  
                 3. Sheng-yuan Kuan (tai)  

Other finalists:
                     Han Chen (chn)  
                     Yi-fan Lin (tai)
                     Yi-xin Pan (chn)

Total: 139 pianists took part in this highest category

Junior category

                   1. Yun-chih Hsu (tai)
                   2. Wen-ting Shi (chn)
                   3. Chia-rui Chang (tai)

Other finalists:
                       Ya-Wen Chou (usa)
                       Ping-An Lin (tai)  
                       Fuyuko Nakamura (jpn)    
                       Shih-yu Tang (tai)  
                       Min-hao Tsai (tai)

Total: 116 pianists took part in this junior category

 

International Competition for Young Pianists "F. Chopin", Moscow (rus)
12 - 20 September 2008

            1. Seong Jin Cho (cor)  
            2. Nikolai Hozyainov (rus)  
            3. Alexei Chuksin (rus)
            4. Tamila Salimdzhanova (uzb)
            5. Eun Sil Yoo (cor)
            6. Wesley Chu (can)

Total: 19 of the 35 selected pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Sulmona (it)
8 - 14 September 2008

     1. Kateryna Titova (ukr)  
      2. Christopher Falzone (usa)  
     3. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)

Other finalists:
         Christophe Alvarez (f)
         Wei He (chn)
         Young-Ah Kim (cor)
         Massimiliano Scatena (it)

Total: 17 pianists took part

 

Leos Janacek International Music Competition, Brno (cz)
8 - 13 September 2008

     1. Evgeny Cherepanov (rus)  
      2. Matej Arendarik (slvk)  
     3. (ex aequo:) Kyung-Ah Kim (cor)    
                           Martin Levicky (cz)

Total: 28 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competittion “The Muse”, Santorini (gr)
2 - 9 September 2008

     1. (ex aequo:) Vasilis Rakitzis (gr)  
                           Alexei Chernov (rus)
      2. (ex aequo:) Pavel Kolesnikov (rus)  
                           Alexey Sychev (rus)
                           Chao Wang (chn)

Other finalists:
          E-Hyun Chang (cor)
          Alisa Stekolshikova (rus)

Total: 31 pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, Ibiza (esp)
1 - 7 September 2008

Adult category

                     1. Fan-chiang Yi (tai)
                     2. Yanitza Hristova (bul)  
                     3. Ambrosio Valero García (esp) 

Total: 37 pianists took part in this highest category

Junior category

            1. Francisco Miguel Freire dos Reis (prt)
            2. Andrea Zamora Gumbao (esp)  
            3. Jonathan Zi Yang Shin (sing) 

Total: 4 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Concorso Internazionale Musicale 'Valsesia Musica', Varallo Sesia (it) (AAF)
30 August - 7 September 2008

   1. Timur Gasratov (ukr)
   2. (ex aequo:)  Christopher Falzone (usa)  
                           Olga Kozlova (rus)  
                           Alexandre Pirojenko (rus)  
   3. ---.
   4. Jun Ishimura (jpn)

Total: 58 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Ferruccio Busoni", Bolzano (it) (Fed.)
23 - 31 August 2008

24 pianists admitted to the
second phase (2009)

Tatiana Chernichka (rus)
Regina Chernychko (ukr)
Gesualdo Coggi (it)
Lorenzo Cossi (it)
Christopher Devine (hol)
Eugen Dietrich (frg)
Christopher Falzone (usa)
Giuseppe Gullotta (it)
Yifan Hu (chn)
Da Sul Jung (cor)
Viviana Pia Lasaracina (it)
Alexei Lebedev (rus)
Jin Sang Lee (cor)
Sun-Ho Lee (cor)
Michail Lifits (uzb)
Daniele Rinaldo (it)
Arisa Sakai (jpn)
Sangiovanni Scipione (it)
Oksana Shevtchenko (rus)
Olga Stezhko (belo)
Bruno Vlahek (crt)
Mimi Jue Wang (chn)
Jae Yeon Won (cor)
Jie Yuan (chn)

Total: approx. 120 of the 150 selected pianists took part

 

Johannes Brahms International Music Competition, Poertschach (a) (AAF)
23 - 31 August 2008

Piano

   1. (ex aequo:) Martin Klett (frg)  
                         Yoonsoo Rhee (cor)   
   2. ---.
   3. Rustam Muradov   

Other finalists:
      Nicolas Callot (b)
      Yuko Yokomichi (jpn) 
      Younggeun Yoon (cor)  

Total: 32 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale di Musica "Palma d'Oro", Finale Ligure (it)
28 - 30 August 2008

   1. (ex aequo:) Alexander Yakovlev (rus) 
                           Megumi Matsui (jpn)   
   2. ---.
   3. (ex aequo:) Andreas Kirpal (frg)
                           RMaxim Kulabkukhov (rus)   

Total: 13 pianists took part

 

PTNA Piano Competition, Tokyo (jpn) (AAF)
5 July - 24 August 2008

Superior Grade

    Grand Prix: K. Sato (jpn)
                   2. Momoko Mizutani (jpn)    
                   3. Ayami Sugiyama (jpn)

Other finalist: Erika Harada (jpn)

 

Wiener Pianistenwettbewerb, Wien (a) (AAF)
13 - 21 August 2008

Category C

                    1. William Galton  
                    2. Rie Kawata (jpn)
                    3. Eri Yamamoto (jpn)

Other finalists:
                      Hee-Jin Jang (cor)
                      Mi-Hyang Joo (cor) 
                      Sayaka Konishi (jpn)  

Total: 23 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists, Ettlingen (frg)
2 - 10 August 2008

Category B

                           1. Zhichao Julian Jia (chn)
                           2. Qi Xu (chn)
                           3. Daiki Kato (jpn)
                           4. Harim Song (cor)
                           5. Han-Bin Chyung (cor)

Other finalists:        Maroussia Gentet (f)
                               Valery Goldes (isr)
                               Chae-Um Kim (cor) 
                               Kangun Kim (cor)
                               Francois-Xavier Poizat (ch)
                               Jeung Beum Sohn (cor)
                               Miyu Suzuki (jpn) 

Total: 54 of the 63 selected pianists took part in this highest category

Category A

                           1. Zi Ye (chn)
                           2. Zuhao Liu (chn)
                           3. Arisa Onoda (jpn)
                           4. Saya Ota (jpn)
                           5. Misora Ozaki (jpn)

 Total: 44 of the 50 selected pianists took part in this junior category 

 

Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition, Rochester (NY, usa) (AAF)
1 - 9 August 2008

   1. Tiedan Yao (can)
   2. Min-Soo Hong (cor)  
   3. Peter Klimo (usa)

Total: 23 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Santander (esp) (Fed.)
25 July - 7 August 2008

         1. Jue Wang (chn)
         2. Avan Yu (can)
         3. Kotaro Fukuma (jpn)

Total: 20 selected pianists took part

 

Oberlin International Piano Competition, Oberlin (Ohio, usa) (AAF)
26 July - 3 August 2008

      1. Junle Li
      2. George Fu + Aud. Prize 
      3. Wantina Zhao
      4. Eunjin Bang 
      5. Jae Young Kim 
      6. Dong June Kim 

Total: 39 pianists took part

 

Tivoli International Piano Competition, Copenhagen (dan) (AAF)
27 July - 2 August 2008

           1. (ex aequo:) Sofya Gulyak (rus) + Aud. Prize 
                                   Evgheny Brakhman (rus) 
           2. ---.
           3. Yaron Kohlberg (isr)

Total: 12 selected pianists took part

 

Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia, Sydney (aus) (Fed.)
16 July - 2 August 2008

           1. Konstantin Shamray (rus)
           2. Tatiana Kolesova (rus)
           3. Ran Dank (isr)
           4. Takashi Sato (jpn)
           5. Tomoki Kitamura (jpn)
           6. Eric Zuber (usa)

Total: 35 of the 36 invited pianists took part

 

New Orleans International Piano Competition, New Orleans (usa) (AAF)
22 - 27 July 2008

   1. Spencer Myer (usa)
   2. Dmitry Levkovich (ukr/can)
   3. Vakhtang Kodanishvili (geor) 

Total: 12 invited pianists took part

 

Rencontre International des Jeunes Pianistes, Sernancelhe (prt)
25 July 2008

   1. Timur Gasratov (ukr)
   2. Ksenia Morozova (rus)

Total: 4 invited pianists took part

 

Soirées-Concours Internationales de Piano à Collioure, Collioure (f)
21 - 23 July 2008

           1. Adelaide Panaget (f)

Special prizes:
              Valentin Happel (f)
              Florian Noack (b)
              Jean-Christophe Sarkissian (f)    
              Laura Sibella (f)

Total: 9 invited pianists took part

 

The International Young Concert Artists Competition of Royal Tunbridge Wells (IYCAC), Tunbridge Wells (gb)
17 - 20 July 2008

Piano

       1. Sasha (Oleksandr) Grynyuk (ukr)    
       2. Jianing Kong (chn)
       3. Wayne Weng (tai/can)
       4. Alexandra Madalina Rusu (rum)
       5. Pawel-Alexander Ullman (gb) 

 

Prix AmadèO for Piano, Aachen (frg) (AAF)
11 - 13 July 2008

       1. Jayson Gillham (aus)    
       2. Sae-Nal Kim (cor)
       3. (ex aequo:) Ju Eun Lee (cor)
                              Jia Wang (chn)

Other finalist:
            Mimi Jue Wang (chn)

Total: 21 of the 24 selected pianists took part

 

Internationales Klavier- und Kompositions-Wettbewerb-Festival "Carl Filtsch", Sibiu (rum)
7 - 13 July 2008

Category C

         1. ---.
         2. Dimitry Masleev (rus) + Filtsch Prize    
         2. Diana Szoke (hun)
         3. Tamas Rostas (hun) 
         3. Joana Catuna (rum) + Filtsch Prize    

Total: 9 pianists took part in this highest category

Category B

         1. Jonut Cibotariu (rum) + Filtsch Prize 
         2. Pallas Catenella Riedler (hun)              
         2. Laura Chihaia (rum)
         3. Vasil Nachev (bul)
         3. Krasimir Chakov (bul)   

Filtsch Prize also to: Gabriela Streche (rum)

Total: 13 pianists took part in this middle category

Category A

                   1. Anca Busecan (rum)
                   2. Daniel Ropota (rum)
                   3. Stefan Andrei (rum)

  Total: 12 pianists took part in this junior category 

 

Cincinnati World Piano Competition, Cincinnati (OH, usa)
Artists: 6 - 13 July 2008

Category Artists
Three finalists

                       1. Yoonjung Han (cor)    
                       2. Rui Shi (chn)
                       3. Yunjie Chen (chn) 

Other semifinalists:
                       4. Claire Huangci (usa)
                       5. Ilya Kazantsev (rus)
                       6. Daria Scarano (usa)

Total: 13 pianists took part in this highest category

 

IBLA Grand Prize, Ragusa Ibla (it)
3 - 13 July 2008

Top Winner - Piano

Gasparyan Gayane (rus)

 

Minnesota International Piano e-Competition, Minneapolis (MN, usa) (AAF)
4 - 11 July 2008

       1. (ex aequo:) Frank Dupree (frg)    
                               Nan Song Huang (chn)
       2. ---.
       3. (ex aequo:) Jan Lisiecki (can)
                              Osip Nikiforov (rus)
       4. ---.
       5. Vladimir Levitsky (rus)

Total: 18 of the 20 selected pianists took part

 

Concurs Internacional de Piano "Ricard Viñes", Lleida (esp)
6 - 9 July 2008

Category A

              1. Bruno Vlahek (crt)  
              2. Olga Kozlova (rus)
              3. Enrique Bernaldo de Quiros (esp)

Other finalist:
                  Janos Palojtai (hun)

Total: 12 pianists took part in this highest category

Category B

              1. Eric Ledesma Barcelo (esp)  
              2. Maria Khokhlova (rus)
              3. Pedro Gomes (esp)

Total: 8 pianists took part in this junior category

 

IIYM International Piano Competition, Kansas City (usa)
6 - 7 July 2008

  1. Anna Han (usa)  
  2. (ex aequo:) Dominic A. Cheli (usa)  
                          Kate Liu (usa)
                          Micah McLaurin (usa)

Total: approx. 16 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano Son Altesse Royale la Princesse Lalla Meryem, Rabat (mrc)
1 - 7 July 2008

Category Virtuosite

              1. Fares Marek Basmadji (pol)  
              2. Taki Shirakawa (jpn)
              3. Irina Georgieva (bul)

Total: 5 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Piano Competition "Fryderyk Chopin", Marianske Lazne (cz)
28 June - 3 July 2008

    1. Eri Goto (jpn)
    2. (ex aequo:) Roman Wagner (Timoscuk) (cz)  
                            Lukasz Trepczynski (pol)
    3. Vasyl Kotys (ukr)

    Dipl. Jakub Uhlik (cz)
    Dipl. Chie Kamino (jpn)

Total: 26 pianists took part

 

Muenchener Klavierpodium der Jugend, Munich (frg)
26 - 29 June 2008

Category 5

    1. Maryna Kan (rus)

Further prizewinners in this category:
        Anton Aslamas (rus)
        Arina Boenhof (frg)
        Burak Cebi (tur)
        Xiao Chen (chn)
        Sarah Hiller (gb)
        Ines Hoepfl (frg)
        Shaochen Meng (chn)
        Tiziano Circosta (it)
        Jingxian Xie (chn)

Total: 14 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Sviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition, Moscow (rus) (AAF)
15 - 29 June 2008

    1. ---.
    2. Evgheny Bozhanov (bul)    
    3. (ex aequo:) Jong-Gyung Park (cor)
                            Jue Wang (chn)
    4. Fabio Romano (it)
    5. Alexei Zuev (rus)
    6. Alexander Osminin (rus)

Total: 33 of the 35 selected pianists took part

 

Jacopo Linussio International Piano Competition, Tolmezzo (it)
27 - 28 June 2008

    1. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)
    2. Aimo Pagin (f)
    3. Jin Woo Park (cor)

Total: 15 pianists took part

 

Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition for Young Artists, Salt Lake City (CA, usa) (AAF)
23 - 28 June 2008

          1. Sijing Ye (usa)
          2. Kenric Tam (usa)
          3. Jonathan Floril (ecu)
          4. Mozar Tsang (hk)
          5. Nansong Huang (chn)
          6. Beatrice Rana (it)

Total: 30 selected pianists took part

 

Budapest International Chopin Piano Competition, Budapest (hun)
21 - 27 June 2008

Category 2

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

Total: 5 pianists took part in this highest category
No finalists

Category 1

    1. Aleksandra Myslek (pol)
    2. (ex aequo:) Poom Prommachart (thl)   
                           Anna Faustova (rus)
    3. (ex aequo:) Kinga Mikolajczak (pol)
                           Natalia Czekala (pol) 
                           Panni Hotzi (hun)
                           Brigitta Sveda (hun)

Other finalists:   Petra Kiss (hun)
                          Marta Obbagy (hun)

Total: 20 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Mendelssohn-Cup", Taurisano (it)
18 - 22 June 2008

      1. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)    
      2. Yoshifumi Morita (jpn)
      3. Evgeni Starodubtsev (rus)
      4. Elia Tagliavia (it)

Total: 13 pianists took part

 

Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition for Young Pianists, Salt Lake City (CA, usa) (AAF)
16 - 21 June 2008

           1. Ching Toa Aristo Sham (hk)    
           2. George Li (usa)
           3. Anna Han (usa)
           4. Yi-jia Wang (chn)
           5. Jan Lisiecki (can)
           6. Xu Qi (chn)

Total: 32 of the 33 selected pianists took part

 

Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition, Los Angeles (CA, usa)
12 - 22 June 2008

       1. ---.
       2. Artem Abashev (rus)
       3. Fazliddin Husanov (uzb)    

Total: 12 of the 24 selected pianists took part

 

José Iturbi International Music Competition, Los Angeles (CA, usa) (AAF)
16 - 21 June 2008

          1. Mariya Kim (ukr)    
          2. Anastasiya Markina (rus)
          3. (ex aequo:) Tommaso Cogato (it)
                                 Stepan Simonian (rus)
                                 Chetan Tierra (usa)

Other finalist:
             Margarita Muzychenko (rus) - Spec. Prize   

Total: 19 of the 24 selected pianists took part

 

"Chopin + ...." International Piano Competition, Budapest (hun)
16 - 20 June 2008

Category 2

    1. Ivett Gyongyosi (hun)
    2. Anna Obbagy (hun)
    3. (ex aequo:) Daniel Korpay (hun)
                          Marek Zicha (cz) 
                          Marton Vorosvary (hun)
                          Katalin Hanics (hun)

Other finalists:
        Viktor Burjan (hun)
        Erik Czako (hun)
        Aron Demeter (hun)
        Nora Hrebenku (hun)
        Andriy Levchenko (ukr)
        Zoltan Nemeth (hun)
        Dorina Pummer (hun)

Total: 21 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Competition for Piano and Violin "Ohrid Pearls", Ohrid (mace)
16 - 20 June 2008

Piano - Category C

    1. Milan Jankuloski (mace)
    2. Pandelina Atanasova (mace)
    3. Nina Koroleva (rus)

Total: 10 pianists took part in this category
No contestants in the highest category (D)

 

International Russian Music Piano Competition, San Jose (CA, usa) (AAF)
6 - 15 June 2008

Advanced Category 

                 1. Christopher Falzone (usa)
                 2. Tomer Gewirtzman (isr)    
                 3. Chao-yin Cai (chn)

Total: 26 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Internationaler Robert-Schumann-Musikwettbewerb, Zwickau (frg) (Fed.)
5 - 15 June 2008

Piano

    1. Mizuka Kano (jpn)
    2. Akiko Nikami (jpn)    
    3. Da Sol Kim (cor)

Total: 41 pianists took part

 

Concorsi Internazionali di Musica della Val Tidone, Pianello del Val Tidone (it) (AAF)
11 - 14 June 2008

Premio Silvio Bengalli

                 1. Rebecca Cap (cz/irl)
                 2. Viller Valbonesi (it)    
                 3. Giuseppe Gullotta (it)
                 4. Kyung-Hwa Moon (cor)
                 5. Masataka Goto (jpn)
                 6. Chih-yun Chen (tai)    
                 7. Jong Do An (cor)
                 8. Mattia Mistrangelo (it)

Total: 52 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Pianistica, Corato (it)
6 - 8 June 2008

        1. Youngmi Choi (cor)
        2. Alexei Lebedev (rus)
        3. (ex aequo:) Sunghoon Hwang (cor) 
                              Xianji Liao (chn)

Other finalists:
            Veronica Carni (it)
            Nazareno Ferruggio (it)
            Christian Fritz
            Giovanni Guastini (it)
            Svetlana Melentieva (rus)
            Keiko Yasuda (jpn)

Total: 17 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Balys Dvarionas Competition for Pianists and Violinists, Vilnius (lit)
3 - 8 June 2008

Piano - Category C

    Grand Prix: Jelena Vinel (belo)  

 Other finalist: Anna Odintsova (rus)

Total: 8 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Alessandro Casagrande", Terni (it) (Fed.)
28 May - 8 June 2008

   1. Evgheny Bozhanov (bul)
   2. Rachel Wai-Ching Cheung (hk) 
   3. Gabriele Baldocci (it)  

Total: 26 pianists took part

 

New Orleans International Piano Competition, New Orleans (usa) (AAF)
June 2008: result of preselection

12 pianists selected to participate
in the competition, 20 - 27 July 2008

Polina Bespalko (rus)
Berenika Glixman (isr)
Johann-Quentin Ceong Quon Kimm (cor)
Vakhtang Kodanashvili (geor)
Dimitri Levkovich (ukr)
Yoni Levyatov (rus)
Oxana M. Mikhailoff-Makhoff (rus)
Spencer Myer (usa)
Howard Na (usa)
Kinwai Shum (hk)
Chetan Tierra (usa)
Di Wu (chn)

Total: 105 pianists applied
12 pianists selected to participate

 

Concorso Internazionale dei Duchi d'Acquaviva, Atri (it)
3 - 5 June 2008

Piano

        1. Bowen Liu (chn)  
        2. Anna Tyshayeva (ukr)
        3. (ex aequo:) Rebecca Capova (cz/irl) 
                                Hanna Lee (cor)

Other finalists:
            Sayaka Cho (jpn)
            Hae-Song Jang (cor)
            Raffaele Maisano (it)
            Vikram Rajan (ind)

Total: 24 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concours International de Piano d'Ile de France, Maisons-Laffitte (f)
31 May - 2 June 2008

Category Diplome de Concert

                     1. Duanduan Hao (chn)  
                     2. Yedam Kim (cor)
                     3. Hana Kurasawa (jpn)

Total: 33 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale Valsesia - Musica Juniores
 Premio Monterosa - KAWAI, Varallo (it)
31 May - 2 June 2008

Solo piano
Absolute winners
 Costanza Principe (it) - Cat. D

Piano - Category F

       1. Jana Balazova (cz)  
       2. (ex aequo:) Chih-hung Chang (tai)  
                              Elena Knapkova (cz) 

No more contestants in this highest category

 

International Piano Competition "Sergei Rachmaninov", Moscow (rus)
30 May - 2 June 2008

     1. Alexander Sinchuk (rus)  
     2. Vyacheslav Gryasnov (rus)
     3. Daniil Samayov (rus)
     4. Ko Woon Kim (cor)
     5. Stanislav Djevetski (pol)
     6. Shi Ran Wan (chn)

Total: 33 of the 35 selected pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano "Adilia Alieva", Gaillard (f)
28 May - 2 June 2008

Category "Adultes"

              1. Witek Przemyslaw (pol)    
              2. Fumie Onda (jpn)
              3. Tatiana Kravea 
              4. (ex aequo:) Florian Noack (b)
                                     Roman Fric (cz)

Total: 10 pianists took part in this highest category

Category "Jeunes"

              1. Eva Szalai (hun)    
              2. Julia Kozlova
              3. Nadezhda Pisareva (rus)
              4. Christophe Zhang 

Other finalists:
                  Liana Khatchaturian (arm)
                  Anna Potapova (rus)

Total: 10 pianists took part in this junior category

 

International Piano Competition, Sakai (jpn)
28 May - 1 June 2008

Piano - Senior Category

              1. Shintaro Kawahara (jpn)  
              2. ---.
              3. Rena Yoshihara (jpn)

Other finalist:
                  Natsumi Matsumoto (jpn)

Total: 44 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale di Musica "Pietro Argento", Gioia del Colle (it)
28 May - 1 June 2008

Piano - Category F

              1. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)  
              2. (ex aequo:) Alexei Lebedev (rus) 
                                      Yang Yang (chn)
              3. ---.

Other finalists:
                  Saori Kondo (jpn)
                  Edmundas Lapenas (lit)
                  Samantha Simone (it)
                  Tomasz Sosniak (pol)
                  Anna Tyshayeva (ukr)
                  Lenka Zalcikova

Total: 24 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Marco Fortini", Bologna (it)
28 - 31 May 2008

Category D

                 1. Salva Vashakashvili (geor)
                 2. Ena Ovona (bosn)
                 3-1. Dana Rosselbayeva (kzk) 
                 3-2. Assel Abitseltova (kzk) 
                 3-2. Matteo Cardelli (it) 

Total: 12 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Premio Pianistico Internazionale "Sigismund Thalberg", Napoli (it) (AAF)
26 - 30 May 2008

     1. ---.
     2. (ex aequo:) Miya Kazaoka (jpn)  
                             Alexander Yakolvev (rus) 
     3. Sofia Vasheruk (rus)

Total: 9 pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional "Joaquín Rodrigo", Madrid (esp)
22 - 30 May 2008

Piano

    1. Edward Neeman (usa)
    2. Evgeni Starodubtsev (rus)  

Total: 7 pianists took part

 

Prix Amadèo for Piano, Aachen (frg) (AAF)
30 May 2008: result of preselection

24 pianists selected to participate
in the competition, 11 - 13 July 2008

Maxim Boeckelmann
Rebecca Capova (irl)
Luis Andres Castellanos
Thomas Chiron (f)
Guri Chitaishvili (geor)
Toni Ming Geiger
Jayson Gillham (aus)
Luisa Imorde
Hye In Kim (cor)
Ji-Hye Kim (cor)
Sae-Nal Kim (cor)
Zamira Kumarzhanova (kzk)
Alexandre Lacombe (f)
Ju Eun Lee (cor)
Josiane Marfurt (ch)
Olga Monakh (ukr)
Karolina Anna Nadolska (pol)
Ngoc-Vinh Nguyen
Akihito Okuda (jpn)
Harim Sandra Song (cor)
Aliya Turetayeva (kzk)
Jia Wang (chn)
Mimi Jue Wang (chn)
Jia Julian Zhichao (chn)

Total: 49 pianists applied
24 pianists selected to participate

 

Jose Iturbi International Music Competition, Los Angeles (CA, usa) (AAF)
May 2008: result of preselection

24 pianists selected to participate
in the competition, 16 - 21 June 2008

Ron Abramski (gb)
Irina Bogdanova (rus)
Sean Chen (usa)
Hye-Won Cho (cor)
Tommaso Cogato (it)
Gleb Ivanov (rus)
Mariya Kim (ukr)
Anna Kurasawa (jpn)
Dimitri Levkovich (ukr/can)
Anastasiya Markina (rus)
Yevgeniy Milyavskiy (usa)
Miroslava Mintcheva (bul)
Margarita Muzychenko (rus)
Emi Nakajima (usa)
Junghye Shin (cor)
Laura Sibella (f)
Stepan Simonian (rus)
Konstantin Sukhovetski (rus)
Chetan Tierra (usa)
Agnieszka Ufniarz (pol)
Xiaofeng Wu (chn)
Chun-chieh Yen (tai)
Maor Zur (isr)
Darrett Zusko (can)

Total: 24 pianists selected to participate

 

Rachmaninov International Music Competition, Los Angeles (CA, usa)
May 2008: result of preselection

24 pianists selected to participate
in the competition, 12 - 22 June 2008

Artem Abashev (rus)
Diana Aidos (kzk)
Evgeniy Andreev (rus)
Michael Bulychev-Okser (rus)
Moye Chen (chn)
Samuel Choi (usa)
Fazliddin Husanov (uzb)
Alina Kabanova (rus)
Macha Kanza (f)
Pavel Komashenko (rus)
Ayako Kubota (jpn)
Vladimir Kuznetsov (rus)
Lixia Li (chn)
Zhenni Li (chn)
Tae Yeon Lim (cor)
Chen Lin (chn)
Eeva Mattila (fin)
Ksenia Morozova (rus)
Alexei Muratov (rus)
Aya Nagatomi (jpn)
Miku Omine (jpn)
Markus Schweickert (frg)
Alisa Semenikhina (rus)
Kay Zavislak (usa)

Total: 24 pianists selected to participate

 

Jeunesses Musicales Montreal International Competition, Montreal (can) (Fed.)
20 - 30 May 2008

          1. Nareh Arghamanyan (arm)   
          2. (ex aequo:) Alexander Moutouzkine (rus)  
                                 Masataka Takada (jpn)
          3. ---.

Other finalists:
              Sara Daneshpour (usa)   
              Sergei Saratovski (rus)
              Elizabeth Schumann (usa)

Total: 23 of the 24 selected pianists took part

 

Juliusz Zarębski Music Competition, Lomianki (pol)
27 May 2008  (Piano - Category E)

Piano - Category E

            1. ---.
            2. (ex aequo:) Malgorzata Garstka (pol)  
                                    Karolina Trojakowska 
            3. Klaudia Kolata (pol)

Total: approx. 5 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Washington International Music Competition, Washington (DC, usa)
24 - 25 May 2008

        1. ---.
        2. Sofya Gulyak (rus)   
        3. ---.

Other finalists:
            Sean Kennard (usa)
            Grace Eunhae Kim (cor/usa) 
            Esther Park (usa)
            Jakub Tchorzewski (pol)
            Wayne Weng (tai/can) 

Total: approx. 15 pianists took part

 

Concours de Piano "Teresa Llacuna", Poet-Laval (f)
24 - 25 May 2008

Category Diplome de Concert

            1. Duanduan Hao (chn)   
            2. (ex aequo:) Alessandro Mercando (it)  
                                    Vikram Rajan (ind)

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico, Avezzano (it)
22 - 25 May 2008

Premio Europeo Esecuzione Pianistica

            1. Marcos Madrigal (cub)   
            2. Giovanni Cardilli (it)
            3. (ex aequo:) Ilaria Baleani (it)  
                                   Daniele Buccio (it)

Total: 6 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "A.M.A. Calabria", Lamezia Terme (it)
20 - 25 May 2008

     1. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)   
     2. ---.
     3. Olivia Huizhi Sham (aus)
     4. (ex aequo:) Fazliddin Husanov (uzb) 
                            Rie Shimada (jpn)
     5. Polina Bogdanova (rus)

Other finalists:
         Noriyasu Arai (jpn)
         Sue Woon Hyung (cor)
         Jung Kug Park (cor) 

Total: 25 pianists took part

 

Concours FLAME, Paris (f)
14 - 18 May 2008

Piano - Category B

                1. Yun-Yang Lee (tai)   
                2. Yedam Kim (cor)   
                3. Christophe Alvarez (f)

Special prize (participation in masterclass):
                    Marine Marcel (f)

Total: 46 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale Vocale e Strumentale "Anemos", Roma (it)
14 - 18 May 2008

Piano - Category D

                1-1. Marina Boschi (it)   
                1-2. Marco Baccelli (it)   
                1-3. Sun Hee You (cor)

No more contestants in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale per Pianoforte e Orchestra, Cantu (it) (AAF)
11 - 18 May 2008

Classical Piano Concerto

             1. Federico Colli (it)   
             2. Alexander Schimpf (frg)   
             3. Scipione Sangiovanni (it)

Total: 47 pianists took part in this category

Romantic Piano Concerto

         1. (ex aequo:) Federico Colli (it)
                                 Irina Dubovik (rus)   
         2. ---.
         3. Jun Asai (usa)

Total: 69 pianists took part in this category

 

International Competition for Young Pianists "Zlatko Grgosevic", Zagreb (crt)
14 - 18 May 2008

"Zagreb 2008"

                1. Boris Radulovic (serb)   
                2. Natalia Zagalskaya (rus) 

Total: approx. 11 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Music Competition 'Maria Canals' - Barcelona (esp) (Fed.) (AAF)
8 - 18 May 2008

   1. Martina Filjak (crt)   
   2. Ilya Maximov (rus)   
   3. Jun Ishimura (jpn)

Total: 65 pianists took part

 

Concurso de Piano Internacional Rotaract-Rotary, Palma de Mallorca (esp) (AAF)
14 - 17 May 2008

Piano - Category 2

                     1. Jingxian Xie (chn)   
                     2. Fatima Merdanova (rus)   
                     3. Arisa Sakai (jpn)

Total: 26 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Arcangelo Speranza", Taranto (it)
13 - 17 May 2008

   1. ---.
   2. Jin Woo Park (cor)   
   3. Andreas Hering (frg)  

Total: 7 pianists took part

 

Jeunesses Musicales International Music Competition, Montreal (can) (Fed.)
May 2008: result of preselection

24 pianists selected to participate
in the competition, 20 - 30 May  2008

Nareh Arghamanyan (arm)
Carlos Avila (usa)
Sanja Bizjak (serb)
Jiny Choi (cor)
Sara Daneshpour (usa)
Dorel Golan (isr)
Gintaras Janusevicius (lit)
Lang Ning Liu (chn)
Vladimir Milosevic (serb)
Aleksander Moutouzkine (rus)
Kotaro Nagano (jpn)
Michelle Yelin Nam (cor)
Andrejs Osokins (lat)
Eun-Shik Park (cor)
Sergei Saratovski (rus)
Elizabeth Schumann (usa)
Yu-lin Shen (tai)
Irina Shkurindina (rus)
Piotr Tomasz Szczepanik (pol)
Masataka Takada (jpn)
Marie-Helene Trempe (can)
Aiko Yajima (jpn)
Chun-chieh Yen (tai)
Wei-Jen Yuan (tai)

Total: 24 pianists selected to participate

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale “Mozart”, Frascati (it)
9 - 10 May 2008

Category "Premio Mozart"

                  1. Hyo-Jee Kang (cor) 
                  2. Jana Tumova (cz)
                  3. Cristian-Mihai Dimea (rum)

Total: 12 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Pianistica "Premio Mauro Paolo Monopoli", Barletta (it)
5 - 10 May 2008

1. ---.
2. (ex aequo:) Shi-wei Chen (tai) 
                        Alexander Yakovlev (rus) 
3. Kateryna Titova (rus) + Aud. Prize
4. Yixin Pan (chn)
5. (ex aequo:) Salvatore Monzo (it) 
                        Riccardo Scilipoti (it)

Total: approx. 12 pianists took part

 

Tivoli International Piano Competition, Copenhagen (dan) (AAF)
May 2008: result of preselection

12 pianists selected to participate
in the competition, 27 July - 2 August 2008

Christophe Alvarez (f)
Jewgeni Bozhanov (bul)
Evgheny Brakhman (rus)
Inna Faliks (usa)
Martina Filjak (crt)
Soyeon Kim (cor)
Yaron Kohlberg (isr)
Michail Lifits (uzb)
Michael Namirovsky (isr)
Mayumi Sakamoto (jpn)
Alexei Sychev (rus)
Wei-Jen Yuan (tai)

Total: 92 pianists applied
12 selected to participate

 

International Piano Competition, Santander (esp) (Fed.)
May 2008: result of preselection

20 pianists selected to participate
in the competition, 25 July - 7 August 2008

Alina Artemyeva (ukr)
Lucas Blondeel (b)
Jie Chen (chn)
Emmanuel Christien (f)
Francois Dumont (f)
Kotaro Fukuma (jpn)
Vyacheslav Griaznov (rus)
Violetta Khachikian (rus)
Ka Ling Colleen Lee (hk)
Hyo-Sun Lim (cor)
Akiko Nikami (jpn)
Yuma Osaki (jpn)
Sergei Sobolev (rus)
Anastasiya Terenkova (rus)
Jue Wang (chn)
Mu-ye Wu (chn)
Andrey Yaroshinskiy (rus)
Avan Yu (can)
Yubo Zhou (chn)
Zhang Zuo (chn)

Total: 184 pianists applied
20 selected to participate

 

International Rachmaninov Competition for Young Pianists, Tambov (rus)
29 April - 8 May 2008

    1. Elena Los (rus)

    2. Dmitry Masleev (rus)
    3. Pavel Netuk (rus)

 

Other finalists:

        Viktoria Epikhina (rus) (Spec. Prize) 

        Ulyana Filyaeva (rus)

        Vadim Kuklinsky (rus)   

Total: 19 pianists took part

 

Concurs Internacional de Piano, Vila de Capdepera (esp)
27 April - 4 May 2008

Category 5

 

                 1. Jae-Kyung Yoo (cor)

                 2. Maryna Goshkieva (rus)   

                 3. (ex aequo:) Elisa d'Auria (it)

                                        Astrid Steinschaden (a)

Total: approx. 25 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, Carlet (esp)
29 April - 3 May 2008

Category A

 

               1. Lilian Akopova (arm)

               2. Jonathan Floril (ecu)   

               3. Xaiver Torres Cuenca (esp)

Total: 10 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concours International de Musique "Jean Francaix", Vanves (f)
26 - 27 April 2008

     1. Nicolas Ryad (syr)

     2. ---.

     3. Madoka Fukami (jpn) 

 

Other finalists:

         Min-Jeong Jeon (cor)

         Adelaide Panaget (f)

         Katarzyna Wasiak (pol) - Spec. Prize  

         Bojona Zdravkovic (serb)

Total: 28 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Musique "Jean Francaix", Vanves (f)
25 - 27 April 2008

     1. Nicolas Ryad (syr)

     2. ---.

     3. Madoka Fukami (jpn) 

 

Other finalists:

         Min-Jeong Jeon (cor)

         Adelaide Panaget (f)

         Katarzyna Wasiak (pol) - Spec. Prize  

         Bojona Zdravkovic (serb)

Total: 28 pianists took part

 

Seoul International Music Competition, Seoul (cor)
14 - 27 April 2008

         1. Mariya Kim (ukr/frg)  

         2. Oleksiy Gorlach (ukr)  

         3. Tae-Hyung Kim (cor)  

         4. (ex aequo:) Hyo-Sun Lim (cor)  

                               Eric Zuber (usa)
         5. ---.

         6. Marianna Prjevalskaya (esp)

Total: 35 of the 55 selected pianists took part

 

Missouri Southern International Piano Competition, Joplin (MO, usa)
21 - 26 April 2008

Senior Category

 

    1. Avan Yu (can)  

    2. Tian Lu (chn)  

    3. Peggy Pei-zhang Sung (hk)  

 

Other finalists:

        Lishan Xue (chn)  

        Fang Zhang (chn)

Total: approx. 20 selected pianists took part

Junior Category

 

    1. Bezhod Abdurayimov (uzb)  

    2. Anna Han (usa)  

    3. Yale Work (usa)  

 

Other finalists:

        Daniel Hsu (usa)  

        Jung-Eun Kim (cor)

Total: approx. 15 selected pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano "Nikolai Rubinstein", Paris (f)
Cat. Excellence: 25 April 2008

Category Excellence

 

    1. ---.

    2. Olga Andryushenko (rus)  
    3. (ex aequo:) Riccardo Bozolo (it)  
                           Katherine Nikitine (rus) 

Total: 5 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concourso Pianistico Internazionale "Roma 2008", Rome (it)
9 - 22 April 2008

    1. Ilya Maximov (rus)  

    2. Tanya Karyagina (kzk)  

Total: 13 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano, La Mayenne (f)
18 - 20 April 2008

    1. Guillaume Fournier (f)  

    2. Alexandre Struve (f)  

    3. Cornelius Michailidis (gr)  

 

Other finalists:

        Elodie Meuret (f)
        Yukiko Kawabata (jpn)
        Asami Watanabe (jpn)

Total: 29 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Citta di Marsala", Marsala (it) (AAF)
14 - 20 April 2008

    1. Scipione Sangiovanni (it)  

    2. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)  

    3. (ex aequo:) Jun Ishimura (jpn)  

                          Yoon-Jee Kim (cor)

 

Other finalist:

        Tae-Hee Kim (cor)

Total: 15 pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano "Maria Campina", Faro (prt)
14 - 19 April 2008

Category A

 

    1. Alexei Lebedev (rus)

    2. Maryna Goshkieva (rus)  

    3. (ex aequo:) Rafael Costa (brs)  
                            Domingo Manuel Soares Costa (prt) 

Total: 7 pianists took part in this highest category

Category B

 

No prizewinners 

Total: 3 pianists took part in this category

Category C

 

    1. Alena Khmelinskaya (rus)

    2. Ghil Bae (hol)  

    3. Julia Azevedo (prt) 

Total: 5 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Delia Steinberg International Piano Competition, Madrid (esp) (AAF)
16 - 18 April 2008

    1. Jia Wang (chn)

    2. (ex aequo:) Sung-Soo Cho (cor) 

                            Ki Su Bang (cor)

    3. James Jae-Won Moon (aus/cor)

 

Other finalists:

        Maja Irgalina (it) 

        Shin Myung Rho (cor)

        Ambrosio Valero (it)  

Total: 58 pianists took part

 

Concours Musical de France, Paris (f)
13 - 14 April 2008 (Paris - Cat. Diplome de Concert)

Cat. Diplome de Concert

 

     1. Agnes Datkiewicz (pol) > Finalist 

     1. Denis Ivanov (rus) > Finalist 

     1. (first mentioned) Yauhen Tsymbalist 

     1. Ilya Buyalsky (ukr)

     1. Daria Redina (rus)

Total: 12 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concours International de Piano, Fribourg (ch)
12 - 13 April 2008

Category 5

 

              1. ---.

              2. Fiona Hengartner (ch)

              3. Yang Wu (chn) 

No more contestants in this highest category

 

International Piano Competition, Rhodes (gr)
6 - 13 April 2008

      1. Soyeon Kim (cor)

      2. Timur Gasratov (ukr)
      3. Takashi Sato (jpn)

 

Other finalists:

          Alexei Chernov (rus)
          Evgeni Izotov (rus)

          Gintaras Janusevicius (lit)  

          Eduard Kunz (rus)

Total: 76 pianists took part

 

Utrecht Franz Liszt International Piano Competition, Utrecht (hol) (Fed.) (AAF)
1 - 12 April 2008

         1. Vitaly Pisarenko (rus)

         2. Nino Gvetadze (geor) + Aud. Prize 
         3. Anzhelika Fuks (hun)

Total: 22 of the 24 selected pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Premio Jaen", Jaen (esp) (Fed.) (AAF)
3 - 11 April 2008

    1. Yunyi Qin (chn)
    2. Olga Kozlova (rus)
    3. Stefan Ciric (serb)

Total: 49 pianists took part

 

Sviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition, Moscow (rus) (AAF)
10 April 2008: result of preselection

35 pianists selected to participate
in the competition, 15 - 29 June 2008

Christopher Atzinger (usa)
Enrique Bernaldo de Quirós Martín (esp)
Yuri Blinov (belo)
Jewgeni Bozhanov (bul)
Alexander Brazhe (rus)
Jae-Hyuck Cho (cor)
Zlata Chochieva (rus)
Franz Eichberger (frg)
Martina Filjak (crt)
Julian Gorus (bul)
Vyacheslav Griaznov (rus)
Georgi Gromov (rus)
Ch'uqi Hwaen (pru)
Dmitry Karpov (rus)
Sergei Kasprov (rus)
Fumio Kawamura (jpn)
Sung Hoon Kim (cor)
Denis Losev (rus)
Dmitry Lyudkov (rus)
Mikhail Mordvinov (rus)
Julia Mustonen (fin)
Alexander Osminin (rus)
Jong-Gyung Park (cor)
Averill Piers-Baker (can)
Ioannis Potamoussis (gr)
Fabio Romano (it)
Oleg Samokhin (rus)
Zhi-hua Tang (chn)
Niek Van Oosterum (hol)
Toomas Vana (est)
Jue Wang (chn)
Irina Zahharenkova (est)
Linlei Zhu (chn)
Asaf Zohar (isr)
Alexei Zuev (rus)

Total: 111 pianists applied
35 selected to participate

 

Evangelia Tjiarri Annual International Piano Competition, Larnaka (cyp) (AAF)
5 - 7 April 2008

      Grand Prix: Kaliya Kalcheva (bul)  [Cat. A]      

Category B

 

                    1. Nikolay Pestov (rus) 
                    2. Kamile Radzvilaite (lit) 
                    3. Maja Matijevic (serb) 

Total: 9 pianists took part in this highest category

Category A

 

  1.  Svjatoslav Korolev (dan)
  2. (ex aequo:) Anna Emilia Maruskova (cyp)
                          Rafael António Kyrychenko (prt)
  3. Anna Pavlou (cyp) 

Total: 12 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale - Premio "Encore! Shura Cherkassky", Milano (it)
3 - 6 April 2008

       1. (ex aequo:) Regina Chernychko (ukr)    
                               Maria Perrotta (it)

       2. Timur Gasratov (belo)
       3. Viktoriya Yermolyeva (ukr)

 

Other finalists:

           Rebecca Cap (irl)
           Giovanni Doria-Miglietti (it)
           Irene Veneziano (it)

Total: 32 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale di Musica Carlo Soliva --- "Premio Valter Maria Massaza", Casale Monferato (it)
1 - 6 April 2008

    1. Bowen Liu (chn)    

    2. Jozsef Balog (hun)
    3. Arthur Ancelle (f)

Total: 11 pianists took part

 

Rencontre Internationale de Piano, Mee s/Seine (f)
4 April 2008

        1. Evgeni Izotov (rus) 

        2. Yuma Osaki (jpn)

Total: 5 invited pianists took part

 

Concorso Musicale "Un ricetto in musica", Candelo (it)
29 - 30 March 2008

Piano solo - "Ernesto Falla"
Category E

 

Absolute winner: Irene Veneziano (it) 
                       1. Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor) 
                       1. Ilze Zvaigznekalne (lat)
                       2. Shanshan Jin (chn)
                       2. Anna Tyshaeva (rus)
                       3. Alexey Lebedev (rus)  

                       4. Hun Lee (cor)

Other finalists:   Noriko Imae (jpn)
                          Akiko Shiochi (jpn)

Total: 18 pianists took part in this highest age category

 

Internationaler Rachmaninow Wettbewerb fuer junge Pianisten, Darmstadt (frg)
25 - 30 March 2008

Category C

 

                    1. German Ukolov (rus)
                    2. Aleksandra Sikorskaya (rus)  
                    3. Kirill Yashin (rus)  

                    4. Anatoly Shilyaev (rus)

                    5. Rabiga Dyussembayeva (kzk) 

Other finalist:  Timur Enkeev (uzb)

Total: 14 pianists took part in this highest age category

Category B

 

        1. Anastasiya Semenova (rus)

        2. Elena Nefedova (rus)  
        3. Yian Elisa Tran Vinh (frg)  

        4. Anastasiya Kowbik (rus)
        5. Anton Genkin (ukr) 

Other finalist:  Alexandra Wijpkema (hol)

Total: 10 pianists took part in this category

Category A

 

                    1. Polina Romm (rus)
                    2. Oleg Chudjakov (rus)  
                    3. Inge Du (frg)  

                    4. Zi Ye (frg)

                    5. Anna Rudakova (rus) 

Total: 22 pianists took part in this youngest age category

 

Vladimir Krainev's Young Pianists Competition, Kharkov (ukr) (AAF)
19 - 29 March 2008

Senior Category

 

          1. (ex aequo:) Tetyana Dorokhova (rus)
                                  Hanna Gogava (geor)
          2. (ex aequo:) Atsushi Imada (jpn)  
                                  Ruzanna Mynasyan (arm)
                                  Mark Serdyuk (ukr)
          3. (ex aequo:) Arsen Yakovenko (ukr)  
                                  Anastasiya Yasko (rus)

Total: 22 pianists took part in this highest age category

Junior Category

 

               Grand Prix: Georgia Kipiani (ukr)
          1. (ex aequo:) Yamato Komatsu (jpn)
                                  Qi Xu (chn)
          2. Kyung-A Lee (cor)  
          3. (ex aequo:) Dmitro Belyak (ukr)  
                                  Katerina Garanich (ukr)
                                  Vladislav Khairutdinov (ukr)

Total: 9 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia, Sydney (aus) (Fed.)
March 2008: result of preselection

36 pianists selected to participate
in the competition, 16 July - 2 August 2008

Charlie Albright (usa)
Fernando Altamura (it)
Sean Chen (usa)
Marco Ciampi (it)
Ran Dank (isr)
Christopher Devine (hol)
Manuel Esteves de Araujo (prt)
John Fisher (aus)
Balazs Fülei (hun)
David Chinying Fung (aus)
Adam Herd (aus)
Elizaveta Ivanova (rus)
Miya Kazuoka (jpn)
Tomoki Kitamura (jpn)
Tatjana Kolesova (rus)
Eduard Kunts (rus)
Ka Ling Colleen Lee (hk)
Mi Yeon Lee (cor)
Jose Menor Martín (esp)
Hoang Minh Pham (aus)
Vitaliy Pysarenko (ukr)
Yoon-Soo Rhee (cor)
Sergei Saratovski (rus)
Takashi Sato (jpn)
Konstantin Shamray (rus)
Yekwon Sunwoo (cor)
Daniil Tsvetkov (kzk)
Mariangela Vacatello (it)
Xun Wang (chn)
Wojciech Wisniewski (pol)
Alexei Yemtsov (ukr/aus)
Chun-chieh Yen (tai)
Feng Zhang (chn)
XiXi Zhou (chn)
Hao Zhu (chn)
Eric Zuber (usa)

Five pianists on stand-by:
(in order of merit)
Ryan MacEvoy McCullough (usa)
Aiko Yajima (jpn)
Oksana Shevtchenko (rus)
Hee-Yeon Choue (cor)
Gayane Saakyane (lat)

Total: 240 pianists applied
36 selected to participate
five additional pianists on stand-by

 

Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition, Tel Aviv (isr) (Fed.) (AAF)
9 - 27 March 2008

   1. ---.

   2. (ex aequo:) Ching-Yun Hu (tai)  

                           Roman Rabinovitch (isr)  

   3. Khatia Buniatishvili (geor)

 

three finalists

 

Other semifinalists:

   4. David Fung (aus) 
   5. Irina Zahharenkova (est)

   6. Inessa Sinkevych (ukr)

Total: 37 of the 42 selected pianists took part

 

Nagoya International Piano Competition, Nagoya (jpn)
19 - 24 March 2008

     1. Kaoru Jitsukawa (jpn) 
     2. (ex aequo:) Varvara Nepomnyaschaya (rus)  

                             Jong Hai Park (cor)

 

Other finalists:
         Jun Asai (jpn)
         Chihiro Kubo (jpn)  
         Marcel Szabo (hun)

Total: 41 pianists took part

 

International Thailand International Piano Competition, Bangkok (thl)
12 - 22 March 2008

    1. Tian Lu (chn) 
    2. Yang Song (chn)

    3. Polina Bogdanova (rus)  

 

Other finalists:
        Hannah Son (cor)  

        Shuenda Wong (mal)

Total: 14 pianists took part

 

Isidor Bajic Piano Memorial International Competition, Novi Sad (serb)
7 - 17 March 2008

Category C

 

         1. Antoniy Baryshevskiy (ukr) + Aud. Prz. 
         2. Tijana Andrejic (serb)
         3. Elena Kolesnitchenko (ukr)  

Total: 31 pianists took part in this highest category

Category B

 

         1. (ex aequo:) Benedek Horvath (hun)
                                 Stefan Rakic (serb)
         2. (ex aequo:) Luca Toncian (a)
                                 Sara Vujadinovic (serb)         
         3. Timofej Sidorov (rus)

Total: 12 pianists took part in this category

Category A

 

        1. (ex aequo:) Daniel Beider (frg)

                                Alexander Dermanovic (serb) 
        2. (ex aequo:) Nenad Ivovic (serb)

                                Nemanja Stevanov (serb) 
        3. (ex aequo:) Mina Mijovic (serb)

                                Emilija Petkovic (serb) 

Total: 19 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Concours International de Musique du Maroc, Casablanca (mrc)
13 - 16 March 2008

      1. Tae-Hyung Kim (cor)
      2. Daniil Tsvetkov (kzk) 

Total: 6 invited pianists took part

 

Murray Dranoff International Two-Piano Competition, Miami (usa) (Fed.) (AAF)
9 - 16 March 2008

   1. Irina Silivanova & Maxim Puryzhinskiy (rus) 
   2. Susan & Sarah Wang (usa)
   3. Piano Duo Humburger: Richard & Valentin Humburger (frg)  

Total: 10 invited piano duos took part

 

Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Hilton Head Island (usa) (AAF)
3 - 10 March 2008

        1. Ran Dank (isr)  
        2. Elena Beriyeva (geor)
        3. Takashi Yamamoto (jpn)

Total: 20 invited pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, San Sebastian (esp)
7 - 9 March 2008

Category Medio 3

 

    1. Tomasz Franciszek Ritter (pol) 
    2. Pedro Manuel Soares Ferriera Gomes (prt)

Total: 13 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Smetana International Piano Competition, Pilsen (cz)
2 - 9 March 2008

Category 3

 

         1. (ex aequo:) Ekaterina Bernikova (rus)  
                                 Eri Goto (jpn)

         2. ---.
         3. (ex aequo:) Elena Kusnetsova (rus)
                                 Jiri Pesek (cz)

Total: 19 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Iowa International Piano Competition, Sioux (Iowa, usa)
6 - 8 March 2008

Three finalists

 

                1. Miao Hou (chn)  
                2. Esther Park (usa)
                3. Chun-chieh Yeh (tai)

 

Other semi-finalists:
                4. Polina Bespalko (rus)
                5. Cathal Breslin (irl)
                6. Julia Siciliano (usa)

Total: 11 of the 12 invited pianists took part

 

Gina Bachauer International Junior and Young Artists Competition, Salt Lake City (Utah, usa) (AAF)
6 March 2008: result of preselection

33 pianists selected to participate
in the Junior Competition
16 - 21 June 2008

Izumi Aoi (jpn)
Stephanie Cai (usa)
Karin Chan (chn)
Chie-rui Chang (tai)
Yandi Chen (chn)
Cheng Chen (chn)
Aika Dan (jpn)
Yu-tong Gao (chn)
Anna Han (usa)
Hilda Huang (usa)
Hinako Inoue (jpn)
Maya Kawasaki (jpn)
Welly Le (usa)
Kyung A Lee (cor)
George Li (usa)
Tami Lin (tai)
Jan Lisiecki (can)
Weston Mizumoto (usa)
Yuhi Ozaki (jpn)
Hyo-Eun Park (cor)
Poony Poon (hk)
Xu Qi (chn)
Ching Toa Aristo Sham (hk)
Daniel Song (cor)
Qilin Sun (chn)
Yi-fan Sun (chn)
Rieko Tsuchida (jpn)
Jan Vojtek (cz)
Yi-jia Wang (chn)
Nayaka Wianto (ndn)
Zhi Ge (Angela) Xu (chn)
Jiyuan Zhang (chn)
Sanna Zhang (can)

30 pianists selected to participate
in the Young Artists Competition
23 - 28 June 2008

Asami Arai (jpn)
Yuzheng David Cai (chn)
Yen Yu (Jenny) Chen (tai)
Joonghun Cho (cor)
Song Choi (usa)
Yong Hoon Chun (cor)
Anna Dmytrenko (ukr)
Jonathan Floril (esp)
Karsten Gimre (usa)
Kimberly Hou (usa)
Nan Song Huang (chn)
Minkyung Kim (cor)
Marie Kiyone (jpn)
David Yoshiaki Ko (jpn)
Julia Kociuban (pol)
Ingmar Anthony Lazar (f)
Tony Dong Yi Lee (aus)
Ning Yuen Lie (chn)
Page Young Moon (usa)
Ivan Moshchuk (rus)
Chloe Pang (usa)
Beatrice Rana (it)
Kenric Tam (usa)
Annika Marie Treutler (frg)
Hin Yat Mozar Tsang (hk)
Sara Vujadinovic (serb)
Naomi Woo (can)
Chengcheng Yao (chn)
Sijing Ye (chn)
Hao Tian (Tim) Zhang (chn)

 

Concours International de Piano XX et XXI Siecle, Orleans (f) (AAF)
25 February - 4 March 2008

  1. Florence Cioccolani (f) 

 

Other prizewinners:
     Adam Marks (usa)  
     Antal Sporck (hol)

 

--- Three finalists ---

 

Additional prizewinners:

     Yusuke Ishii (jpn)
     Keiko Kurachi (jpn)

     Franco Venturini (it)

     Hayk Melikyan (arm)

Total: 30 pianists took part 

 

Concorso Internazionale di Musica"Citta di Pinerolo", Pinerolo (it) (AAF)
27 February - 2 March 2008

   1. Eduard Kunz (rus)  
    2. Vadim Ageev (rus) 
   3. Kristian Lindberg (n)

 

Other finalists:
      Andrejs Osokins (lat)
      Yumi Sato (jpn) 

Total: 32 pianists took part 

 

Rencontre Internationale des Jeunes Pianistes, Bern (ch)
1 March 2008

       1. Tae-Hyung Kim (cor) 
       2. Stephen Beus (usa)

Total: 4 invited pianists took part 

 

Concours International de Piano (du Conservatoire Russe 'Alexander Scriabin'), Paris (f)
25 - 27 February 2008

Category Superieur 2


              1. Olga Andryushenko (rus) 
              1. Elena Gasheva (rus)
              1. Nicolas Horvath (f)
              1. Ji-Youn Kim (cor)
              1. Nikita Lebedev (rus)
              1. Pavel Shatskiy (rus) 
              2. Alexei Lebedev (rus)
              2. Augustin Voegele (f)
              2. Yang Yang (chn)
              3. Soo Jin Ban (cor)
              3. Marie Kase (jpn)
              3. Narey Park (cor) 
              3. Young-Eun Woo (cor)

Total: 15 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Scriabin", Grosseto (it)
20 - 24 February 2008

   1. ---.

   2. (ex aequo:) Artem Abashev (rus) 
                          Patrick Hemmerle (f)  
                          Natalia Kuchaeva (rus) + Aud. Prize  

Total: 27 pianists took part 

 

International Competition Etudes and Scales for Young Pianists, Zagreb (crt)
20 - 24 February 2008

Category 5

 

                            1. ---.

                            2. ---.  

                            3. ---.

                            4. ---.

                            5. ---. 

Total: 3 pianists took part in this highest category

Category 4

 

              1. Marijan Duzel (crt)

              2. Stipe Bilic (crt)

              3. ---.

              4. Tomislav Damjanovic (crt)

              5. Ermin Tkalec (slvn)

Total: 13 pianists took part in this category

 

Maria Callas International Piano Competition, Athens (gr) (Fed.)
14 - 24 February 2008

   1. ---.

   2. Mei-yi Foo (mal)
   3. (ex aequo:) Eleni Mavromoustaki (gr) 

                          Galina Tchistyakova (rus) 

Total: 14 pianists took part

 

Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition (Juniors), Minneapolis (usa) (AAF)
18 February 2008: result of preselection

20 pianists selected to participate
in the competition, 4 - 11 July 2008

Anja Xiaoxing Cui (frg)
Anna Denisova (rus)
Frank Duepree (frg)
Nansong Huang (chn)
Arthur Khmara (belo)
Noa Leigh Kleisen (hol)
David Yoshiaki Ko Jpn)
Julia Kociuban (pol)
Vladimir Levitsky (rus)
Tami Lin (can)
Jan Lisiecki (can)
Yuqing Damon Meng (chn)
Osip Nikiforov (rus)
Song Yang (chn)
T. J. Keanu Tario (usa)
Reed Tetzloff (usa)
Andrew Wang (can)
Benjamin Woo (can)
Sijing Ye (chn)
Hao Tian Tim Zhang (can)

 

Concours International de Piano de Brest, Brest (f)
Categories X-Y-Z: 16 - 18 February 2008

Category Z - Chopin

 

    1. Yun-yang Lee (tai)

    2. (ex aequo:) Vincent Adragna (f)  
                            Thibaud Epp (f)

    3. (ex aequo:) Joanna Owczarek (pol) 
                            Vikram Rajan (ind)

    4. (ex aequo:) Futa Okumura (jpn)  
                            Minami Teramoto (jpn)

Total: 25 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Piano Campus International Piano Competition, Pontoise (f) (AAF)
15 - 17 February 2008

       1. Lilit Griogoryan (arm)

       2. Ye-Dam Kim (cor)

       3. Michael Morozov (rus)

Total: 12 invited pianists took part

 

Mozart Competition for Young Piano Players, Brno (cz)
15 - 17 February 2008

Category 6

 

   1. Anne Sofie Mojzesova (cz)

   1. Stefanie-Anastasia Richter (a)  

   2. Martin Hyl (cz) 
    3. Martyna Kucinskaite (lit)

 

Corpus Christi International Competition for Piano and Strings, Corpus Christi (usa)
14 - 17 February 2008

Piano
two finalists

 

           1. Behzod Abduraimov (uzb)

           2. Sheng-yuan Kuan (tai)

 

Other semifinalists:
         #3. Jin Uk Kim (cor/usa)
         #4. Tina Chong
         #5. Kris Becker (usa)
         #6. Soyeon Park (cor)

Total: 13 of the 17 accepted pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Giovanile Internazionale "Pia Tebaldini", Brescia (it)
16 February 2008

Final results (from all categories)

 

    1. Linda Lee (cor)             [Cat. B]
    2. Monika Zlatarek (crt)   [Cat. C]

 

Other finalists:

        Federica Astengo (it)   [Cat. C]
        Giorgio Baruffi (it)       [Cat. D]  
        Leonardo Donati (it)    [Cat. B] + Aud. Prize
        Igor Horvat (crt)          [Cat. D]  
        Mia Mihalic (crt)           [Cat. B]
        Federico Mottica (it)    [Cat. C]
        Dora Petkovic (crt)      [Cat. B]
        Sara Saccardo (it)       [Cat. B]

Preliminary results - Category D

 

    1. ---.

    2. (ex aequo:) Giorgio Baruffi (it)    > finals    
                            Igor Hovat (crt)        > finals

    3. (ex aequo:) Veronica Bottos (it) 
                            Rosana Cepanec (crt)
                            Chiara Oberto (it)

No more contestants in this highest category

 

UNISA International Piano Competition, Pretoria (rsa) (Fed.)
24 January - 9 February 2008

           1. Ben Schoeman (rsa) 
           2. Alexei Yemtsov (ukr/aus)

           3. Chun Wang (chn)

           4. Pallavi Mahidhara (usa)
           5. Martina Filjak (crt)
           6. Szczepan Konczal (pol)

Total: 32 of the 33 invited pianists took part

 

Iowa International Piano Competition, Sioux (Iowa, usa)
February 2008: result of preselection

12 pianists selected to participate
in the competition, 6 - 8 March 2008

 

           Polina Bespalko (rus)
           Jan Bratoz (slvn)  
           Cathal Breslin (irl)
           Rujie Sandra Gu (chn) 
           Miao Hou (chn)
           Sergei Morozov (rus)
           Esther Park (usa)
           Irena Portenko (ukr)
           Julia Siciliano (usa)
           Amy Hsueh-Lin Toscano (tai/usa) 
           Ya-hsin Wu (tai)
           Chun-chieh Yen (tai)

 

A. Scriabin International Piano Competition, Moscow (rus)
24 January - 4 February 2008

Three finalists

 

 1. Georgy Voilochnikov (rus) 
 2. Alexei Tchernov (rus)
 3. Dmitry Karpov (rus)


 4. Artem Abashev (rus)
 5. Daniil Trifonov (rus)
 6. Inna Korneeva (rus)

Total: 18 pianists took part

 

International Young Pianists Competition "Frederic Chopin", Narva (est)
27 January - 3 February 2008

Category 3

 

               1. ---.

               2. Andrey Telkov (rus) 

               3. Aleksandra Kamenskaja (est)  

 

Other finalists:
                   Laura Iacovache-Pana (fin)
                   Dorota Bajon (pol)

Total: 8 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Grand Concours de Piano Madeleine de Valmalète, Paris (f)
27 January 2008

Category Excellence

 

                Prix Honneur: Leda Parac 
                1. unan. Benedikt Strauss 
                1. unan. Yuzin Choi (cor)
                2. unan. Young-Eun Woo (cor)
                2. Mika Yukawa (jpn)
                2. Ju-Jin Yang (cor)
                2. Sophie Suzzoni
                2. Aya Hogi (jpn)
                2. Na-Yeon Kim (cor)

Total: 17 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Chopin Piano Competition, Corpus Christi (TX, usa)
19 January 2008

       1. ---.
       2. ---.
       3. Kamala Schelling (usa)

Total: 3 selected pianists took part

 

Chopin - Asia International Piano Competition, Finals: Tokyo (jpn)
Finals Asian Competition: 11-14 January 2008

Concerto Category C

 

   1. Hyun-Jung Kim (cor)
   2. Rikono Takeda (jpn)
   3. Takuma Naito (jpn)

Other finalists:
      Haruka Ebina (jpn)
      Koki Kuroiwa (jpn)
      Atsuko Yamazaki (jpn)                         
      Ayako Endo (jpn)

No more participants in this highest category

Concerto Category B

 

   1. Su-Yeon Kim (cor)
   2. (ex aequo:) Fuyuko Nakamura (jpn)  
                           Ryoko Kagiya (jpn)
   3. (ex aequo:) Eu-jyn Ryan Chow (sing)  
                           Mayaka Nakagawa (jpn)  

Other finalists:
      Kosuke Akimoto (jpn)
      Akemi Kagawa (jpn)
      Kevin Indra Lasmono (ndn)
      Victor Nathanael (ndn)

No more participants in this category

Concerto Category A

 

   1. (ex aequo:) Nayaka Clarence (ndn)

                           Yihao Li
   2. Kanade Tsurusawa (jpn)
   3. (ex aequo:) Seika Ishida (jpn)

                           Soudai Kambara (jpn)      
                           Maika Zasu (jpn)

Total: 16 pianists took part in this category

 

Boesendorfer USasu International Piano Competition, Tempe (AZ, usa) (AAF)
6 - 12 January 2008

   1. Sangyoung Kim (cor)  
   2. Yoni Levyatov (isr)
   3. Chaoyin Cai (chn)

Other finalists:
      Jae-Won Cheung (cor)
      Eunae Lee (cor)
      Brandon Stewart (usa)
      Larry Weng (usa)
      Kwan-Kyu Yi (cor)

Total: 25 pianists took part

 

Schimmel USasu International Piano Competition for Young Pianists, Tempe (AZ, usa) (AAF)
6 - 12 January 2008

Young Artists Senior Competition
Ages 16-18


    1. Ilia Ulianitsky (isr) 
    2. Ashley Hsu (usa)
    3. Devon Joiner (can) 

 

Other finalists:

        Alice Hwang (cor/usa)

        Connie Kim-Sheng (usa)

 

Total: 7 pianists took part in this senior category

Young Artists Junior Competition
Ages 13-15


    1. Xinzhe Jiang (chn) 

    2. Joonghun Cho (cor)
    3. ---.

 

Other finalists:

        Fantee Jones (usa)
        Allen Yuan (usa)

 

Total: 6 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Maria Yudina International Music Competition, St. Petersburg (rus)
3 - 9 January 2008

Piano solo - Category 3

 

   1. ---.

   2. (ex aequo:) Maria Dvoretskaya (rus)   
                           Maxim Tavrikov (rus)

Piano solo - Category 2

 

Grand Prix: Dimitar Dimitrov (bul)
              1. Raisa Kagramanova (rus)
              2. (ex aequo:) Ekaterina Maretskaya (belo) 
                                     Yana Lisak (rus)

Piano solo - Category 1

 

   1. Maria Lysenko (rus)

   2. Elizaveta Frolova (rus)  

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