Competition Results 2008

The results of 105 international piano competitions (plus the results of 12 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.

(Click on the year for competition results of 2007 or 2006 or 2005)
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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

 

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

 

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 (cz)  
              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: approx. 10 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)