Competition Results 2009

The results of 148 international piano competitions (plus the results of 22 preselections) that have been held in 2009 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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Takamatsu International Piano Competition, Takamatsu (jpn) (AAF)
16 December: result of preselection

40 pianists selected to take part
in the competition
(17 - 28 March 2010)

See their names on
the competition's website:

www.tipc.jp 

243 pianists applied
40 pianists selected to take part

 

Sussex International Piano Competition, Worthing (gb) (AAF)
15 December: result of preselection

37 pianists selected to take part
in the competition
(6 - 11 April 2010)

Arta Arnicane (lat)
Elena Beriyeva (geor)
Desislava Bobrina (rus)
Christina Brandner (frg)
Alexei Chernov (rus)
Berenika Glixman (isr)
Hee-Sung Jang (cor)
Martyna Jatkauskaite (lit)
Alexander Karpeev (rus)
Violetta Khachikian (rus)
Christiane Klonz (frg)
Kenichiro Kojima (jpn)
Konstantin Kondrashov (rus)
Laurie Merchant (usa)
Ling-Ju Lai (chn)
Konstantin Lapshin (rus)
Jennifer Lee (nzl)
Dvoskina Markovna (rus)
Michael Namirovsky (isr)
Helen Nicholas (gb)
Eun-Shik Park (cor)
Sun-A Park (usa)
Alex Lee Peh (mal)
Vikram Rajan (ind)
Keenan Reesor (usa)
Olivia Sham (aus)
Anastasiya Terenkova (rus)
Surugue Thibaut (f)
Ilona Timtchenko (rus)
Helene Tysman (f)
Simon Watterton (gb)
Wayne Weng (tai)
Natalia Williams-Wandoch (pol)
Jonathan Wilson (aus)
Shuenda Wong (mal)
Irina Zahharenkova (est)
Wei Zhu (chn)

 

Internationaler Beethoven-Wettbewerb, Bonn (frg) (Fed.) (AAF)
2 - 12 December 2009

               1. Hinrich Alpers (frg) + Aud. prize*
               2. Jordi Bitloch (f) + Aud. prize**
               3. Einav Yarden (isr)

*: Audience favorite prize, judged at the semifinals
**: Audience prize, awarded at the finals

Total: 28 of the 32 selected pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Campillos (esp) (AAF)
5 - 8 December 2009

      1. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)
      2. (ex aequo:) Ilya Rashkovsky (rus)  
                              Arcadie Triboi (rum)
      3. Szczepan Konczal (pol)

Other finalists:
          Evgeny Cherepanov (rus)    
          Yedam Kim (cor)
          Mark Kontuashvili (rus)
          Pablo Martinez Martinez (esp)
          Bernadetta Raatz (pol)
          Jae-Kyung Yoo (cor)

Total: 38 of the 50 selected pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Giuliano Pecar", Gorizia (it)
23 - 28 November 2009

      1. ---.
      2. (ex aequo:) Liza Mazalova (rus)  
                              Yoshifumi Morita (jpn)  

Other finalists:
          Min-Jung Baek (cor)    
          Xianji Liao (chn)
          Marya Lysenko (rus)
          Vikram Rajan (ind)

Total: approx. 20 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Andorra (and)
21 - 28 November 2009

      1. Kho-Woon Kom (cor)
      2. Viktor Stanislavski (isr)  
      3. Irina Sidorenko (rus)    
      4. Daniyar Yessimkhanov (kzk)   
      5. Kateryna Titova (ukr)

Total: 53 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Ferrol (esp)
21 - 28 November 2009

      1. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)
      2. Daniil Tsvetkov (kzk)
      3. Viviana Pia Lasaracina (it)    

Total: 33 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition*, Paris (f)
sponsored by the Automobile Club France 
26 November 2009

            Winner: Tae-Hyung Kim (cor)
      Spec. Prize: Marouan Benabdallah (mrc/hun)       

Total: 5 selected pianists took part

 

Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Hamamatsu (jpn) (Fed.) (AAF)
8 - 23 November 2009

                   1. Seong Jin Cho (cor)
                   2. Elmar Gasanov (rus) + Aud. prize   
                   3. Jae-Weon Huh (cor)
                   4. Francois Dumont (f)
                   5. Hyun-Jung Kim (cor)
                   6. Soo-Jung Ann (cor)   

Total: 85 of the 103 selected pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Campillos (esp) (AAF)
20 November: result of preselection

50 pianists selected to take part
in the competition
(5 - 8 December 2009)

Diana Al-Hassani (irq)
Arta Arnicane (lat)
David Báll (hun)
Ekaterina Bernikova (rus)
Evgeny Cherepanov (rus)
Ksenia Dyachenko (rus)
Elmar Gasanov (rus)
Vladimir Gligoric (serb)
Maya Irgalina (belo)
Mzia Jajanidze (geor)
Min Jeong Jeong (cor)
Xiayi Jiang (chn)
Age Juurikas (est)
Vladimir Khomiakov (rus)
Ji Young Kim (cor)
Kyung-Ah Kim (cor)
Ye-Dam Kim (cor)
Yoon-Jee Kim (cor)
Yuliya Kiseleva (tat)
Dmitro Klimenko (ukr)
Szczepan Konczal (pol)
Yuki Kondo (jpn)
Daniel Kontuashvili (rus)
Reiko Kuwahara (jpn)
Viviana Pia Lasaracina (it)
Eric Ledesma Barcelo (esp)
Chenna Lu (chn)
Pablo Martinez Martinez (esp)
Gunel Mirzayeva (azer)
Mattia Mistrangelo (it)
Daria Mitina (rus)
Akiko Nikami (jpn)
Endri Nini (alb)
Lucio Perotti (it)
Maxim Podkurkov (rus)
Bernadetta Raatz (pol)
Vasilios Rakitzis (gr)
Ilia Rashkovsky (rus)
Andrey Stukalov (rus)
Mari Tammik Tchekushina (rus)
Mark Taratushkin (rus)
Daria Tchaikovskaya (frg)
Raphael Theissen (b)
Arcadie Triboi (rum)
Bruno Vlahek (crt)
Yulia Vorontsova (rus)
Shuenda Wong (mal)
Alexander Yakovlev (rus)
Jae-Kyung Yoo (cor)
Rinaldo Zhok (ir)

Approx. 200 pianists applied
50 pianists selected to take part

 

International Piano Competition "Jose Roca", Valencia (esp)
17 - 20 November 2009

      1. Marianna Prjevalskaya (rus)  
      2. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)
      3. Yoon-Soo Rhee (cor)    

Total: 15 pianists took part

 

Internationaler Klavierwettbewerb "Havellaendische Festspiele", Paewesin (frg)
6 - 8 November 2009

         1. Sorin Creciun (rum)
         2. Min-Jong Jeong (cor)   
         3. Hwanhee Yoo (cor)

Total: 24 selected pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Spanish Composers", Las Rozas (esp) (AAF)
7 - 14 November 2009

              1. Alexei Chernov (rus)
              2. Olga Kozlova (rus)   
              3. Ilona Timchenko (rus)

Other finalist:
                  Pavel Raikerous (rus)

Total: 24 of the 30 selected pianists took part

 

First Asia-Pacific International F. Chopin Piano Competition, Daegu (cor)
27 October - 12 November 2009

Senior Category

               1. ---.
               2. Marina Koka (jpn)                  
               3. Linlei Zhu (chn)

Junior Category

       1. (ex aequo:) Aimi Kobayashi (jpn)  
                               ShiyuYang (chn)
       2. Yoo-Jung Yoon (cor)   
       3. (ex aequo:) Jingquan Xie (chn)
                              Jiyuan Zhang (chn) 

 

Concours International de Piano "Claude Bonneton", Sete (f)
10 - 11 November 2009

       1. Sunghoon Hwang (cor)
       2. Marion Julien (f)   
       3. Louis Lancien (f)

Total: approx. 17 pianists took part

 

Honens International Piano Competition, Calgary (can) (Fed.)
22 October - 6 November 2009

            1. Georgy Tchaidze (rus)
            2. Evgeny Starodubtsev (rus)   
            3. Gilles Vonsattel (ch)

Other finalists:
                Natacha Kudritskaya (ukr)
                Kirill Zvegintsov (ukr)

Total: 19 of the 21 selected pianists took part

 

Young Pianist of the North Competition, Gosforth (gb) (AAF)
29 October - 1 November 2009

Main category

         1. Meng Sun (frg)
         2. (ex aequo:) Chia-chen Chiang (tai)  
                                 Alexander Vorontsov (frg)  
         3. Miro Kari (fin)
         4. ---.

Total: 9 pianists took part in this highest category 

 

China Shanghai International Piano Competition, Shanghai (chn) (AAF)
23 October - 1 November 2009

             1. Duanduan Hao (chn)
             2. Cunmo Yin (chn)  
             3. Oxana Shevchenko (kzk)      
             4. Siquan Li (chn)      
             5. Kang-Eun Cho (cor)      
             6. Stephanie Proot (b)      

Total: 22 of the 23 selected pianists took part

 

Internationaler Klavierwettbewerb "F. Liszt", Bayreuth / Weimar (frg) (Fed.) (AAF)
22 October - 1 November 2009

         1. Gabor Farkas (hun) + Aud. Prize  
         2. Oleksandr Poliykov (ukr)   
         3. Lin Zi Pan (chn)

Total: 56 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition in memory of Emil Gilels, Odessa (ukr)
20 - 31 October 2009

      Grand Prize: ---.
      1. (ex aequo:) Christopher Falzone (usa)    
                              Diana Gultzova (ukr)
                              Kateryna Kulikova (ukr)
      2. (ex aequo:) Tian Lu (chn)
                              Daria Scarano (usa)
                              German Ukolov (rus)
      3. (ex aequo:) Vladimir Gligoric (serb)   
                              Kateryna Yergiyeva (ukr)

Other finalists:
          Macha Kanza (f) 
          Alexander Koryakin (rus)

Total: 34 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Roma 2009", Rome (it)
14 - 28 October 2009

      1. Denis Zhdanov (ukr)    
      2. Scipione Sangiovanni (it)
      3. Claudia Cordero Valeta (it)   

Total: 8 pianists took part

 

Bremer Klavierwettbewerb, Bremen (frg)
19 - 27 October 2009

      1. Violetta Khachikian (arm)    
      2. Oskar Jezior (frg)   
      3. Varvara Nepomnyashaya (rus)    

Total: 31 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Luciano Gante", Pordenone (it)
22 - 25 October 2009

      1. ---.
      2. Lorenzo Cossi (it)    
      3. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)   

 

Concours Europeen de Piano Ouistreham Rive (CEPOR), Normandy (f) (AAF)
14 - 25 October 2009

Three finalists

             1. ---.
             2.  Jean Dube (f)  
             3. (ex aequo:) Lussine Khatchatryan (arm)    
                                    Olga Monakh (ukr)    

             4. Alessandro Trebeschi (it)
             5. Henrik Mawe (sw)
             6. Gloria Campaner (it)

Total: 13 of the 23 selected pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Ennio Porrino", Cagliari (it) (AAF)
20 - 24 October 2009

      1. Galina Chistyakova (rus)   
      2. Sung Chang (cor)  
      3. Mattia Mistrangelo (it)    

Total: 27 pianists took part

 

"G.B. Viotti" International Music Competition, Vercelli (it) (Fed.)
14 - 24 October 2009

                 1. ---.
                 2. Stefan Ciric (serb) + Aud. Prize
                 3. Christian Chamorel (ch)   

Other finalist:
                     Yifan Hu (chn)    

Total: 42 of the 60 selected pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano "Marguerite Long", Paris (f) (Fed.) (AAF)
14 - 24 October 2009

                 1. ---.
                 2. Maria Masycheva (rus)  
                 3. Guillaume Vincent (f)
                 4. Yunjie Chen (chn)    
                 5. Takaya Sano (jpn)

Other finalist:
                     Kazuya Saito (jpn)     

Total: 20 of the 26 selected pianists took part

 

Premio Pianistico Internazionale "Stefano Marizza", Trieste (it)
19 - 21 October 2009

      1. Hyun-Jue Moon (cor)     
      2. (ex aequo:) Andrey Stukalov (rus)    
                              Naoko Switon-Sonoda (jpn)  

Total: 11 pianists took part

 

Liszt-Garrison Festival and Piano Competition, Baltimore (MD, usa)
15 - 18 October 2009

          1. Esther Park (usa)     
          2. Michael Berkovsky (isr)    

 

International Piano Competition "Jacques Klein", Rio de Janeiro (brs)
12 - 18 October 2009

                1. Sasha Grynyuk (ukr)     
                2. Tina Chong (can)    
                3. Simon Ghraichy (leb/f)

Total: approx. 20 selected pianists took  part

 

Dudley International Piano Competition, Dudley (gb)
10 - 18 October 2009

Three finalists

         1. Emmanuel Despax (f)     
         2. Mengyang Pan (chn)  
         3. Maja Irgalina (belo)

         4. Martyna Jatkauskaite (lit)    

Total: approx. 17 pianists took  part

 

International Piano Competition "F. Chopin", Darmstadt (frg) (AAF)
9 - 18 October 2009

         1. Claire Huangci (usa)     
         2. Jingdan Gu (chn)  
         3. Da Sol Kim (cor)
         4. Tzu-yi Chen (tai)    
         5. Jacek Kortus (pol)
         6. Michal Kozłowski (pol)
       #7. Pawel Wakarecy (pol)    
       #8. Aljosa Jurinic (crt)

Total: 62 pianists took  part

 

Concours International de Piano "Gabriel Faure", Pamiers (f)
16 - 17 October 2009

        1. Yedam Kim (cor)  
        2. Shingo Kawamura (jpn)
        3. Erika Kobayashi (jpn)    

Total: 8 selected pianists took part

 

Louisiana International Piano Competition, Alexandria (LA, usa)
12 - 17 October 2009

                   1. Daniil Tsvetkov (kzk)  
                   2. John Fisher (usa)    
                   3. Kun Yao (can)

Total: 23 of the 29 selected pianists took part

 

San Antonio International Piano Competition, San Antonio (TX, usa)
11 - 17 October 2009

    1. Ryo Yanagitani (can)
    2. Andrea Lam (aus)
    3. Christopher Atzinger (usa)    

Other finalists:
        Jia Ran (chn)
        Dizhou Zhao (chn) 

Total: 9 selected pianists took part

 

Tbilisi International Piano Competition, Tbilisi (geor) (Fed.) (AAF)
1 - 14 October 2009

              Grand Prize: ---.
              1. Evgheny Brakhman (rus)    
              2. Dinara Klinton (rus)  
              3. (ex aequo:) Vakhtang Jordania (geor)     
                                      Szczepan Konczal (pol)
              4. Giuliano Mazzoccante (it)
              5. Scipione Sangiovanni (it)

Total: 25 of the 43 selected pianists took part

 

Kissinger Internationaler KlavierOlymp, Bad Kissingen (frg)
8 - 11 October 2009

      1. Kiryl Keduk (belo)    
      2. Boris Kusnezow (rus/frg)     
      3. Kateryna Titova (ukr)  

Total: 6 selected pianists took part

 

Seattle International Piano Competition, Seattle (usa)
10 October 2009

Professional Category

      1. Ilia Radoslavov (bul)    
      2. Sun-A Park (usa)     
      3. Christopher Atzinger (usa)  

Total: 6 selected pianists took part

 

Southern Highlands International Piano Competition, Bowral (aus) (AAF)
3 - 10 October 2009

Four finalists

        1. Milos Mihailovic (serb)    
        2. Dimitri Levkovich (ukr/can)     
        3. Vladimir Milosevic (serb)  
        4. Aleyson Scopel (brs)

        5. Roger Cui (aus)
        6. (ex aequo:) Tristan Lee (aus)
                                Lachlan Glen (aus)

Total: 21 of the 26 selected pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Premio Franz Liszt", Ascoli Piceno / Grottammare (it) (AAF)
1 - 4 October 2009

        1. Alexey Sychev (rus)
        2. Olga Kozlova (rus)     
        3. (ex aequo:) Galina Tchistyakova (rus)    
                                Ilona Timchenko (rus)  
        4. (ex aequo:) Christopher Falzone (usa) + Aud. Prize  
                                Maurizio Zaccaria (it)   

Other finalist:
            Nikolay Leshchenko (rus)

Total: approx. 20 pianists took part

 

Internationaler Klavierwettbewerb "Anton G. Rubinstein", Dresden (frg)
20 September - 4 October 2009

        1. Alexey Gorlatch (ukr)
        2. Maria Derevyagina (rus)     
        3. Hyun-Il Seo (cor)

Total: 16 selected pianists took part

 

Concours Grieg, Oslo (n) (AAF)
22 - 27 September 2009

Piano solo

        1. ---.
        2. Annika Treutler (frg)
        3. (ex aequo:) Boris Kusnezow (rus)     
                                Galina Tchistyakova (rus)   

Two Piano competition

        1. Francesco & Vincenzo de Stefano (it)     

Piano Four-Hands Duo competition

        1. Cara Hesse & Laura Pauna (rsa)             

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Ettore Pozzoli", Seregno (it) (AAF)
15 - 22 September 2009

        1. Christopher Falzone (usa)
        2. Domenico Monaco (it)
        3. Evgeny Cherepanov (rus)     

Other semifinalists:
            Lorenzo Cossi (it)    
             Alexey Grigoriev (rus)
            Mihkel Poll (est)
            Jae-Kyung Yoo (cor)

Total: 46 pianists took part

 

Tbilisi International Music Competition, Tbilisi (geor) (Fed.) (AAF)
September 2009: result of preselection

43 pianists selected to take part
in the competition
(1 - 14 October, 2009)

see the list of names on:

www.tbilisipiano.org.ge

 

Viotti International Music Competition, Vercelli (it) (Fed.)
September 2009: result of preselection

60 pianists selected to take part
in the competition
(23 - 31 October, 2009)

see the list of names on:

www.concorsoviotti.it/candidates.html

 

Concorso Internazionale "Valsesia Musica", Varallo (it) (AAF)
6 - 15 September 2009

     1. (ex aequo:) Sung Chang (cor)  
                             Ilona Timtchenko (rus)    
     2. Esther Park (usa)    
      3. (ex aequo:) Kae Ozawa (jpn)
                             Elia Tagliavia (it)

Other finalist:
         Leon Buche (frg)

Total: 58 pianists took part

 

Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, Leeds (gb) (Fed.)
26 August - 13 September 2009

            1. Sofya Gulyak (rus)
            2. Alexey Gorlach (ukr)
            3. Alessandro Taverna (it)
            4. David Kadouch (f)
            5. Rachel Wai-Ching Cheung (hk)    
             6. Jianing Kong (chn)

Others in semifinals:
                Alexei Chernov (rus)
                Ching-Yun Hu (tai)
                Zhichao Julian Jia (chn)
                Benjamin Moser (frg)
                Alexander Schimpf (frg)
                Kateryna Titova (ukr)

Total: 68 of the 81 selected pianists took part

 

IArturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize - Piano Academy Eppan, Eppan (it)
7 - 12 September 2009

Winner

Martina Filjak (crt)

Total: 6 selected pianists took part

 

International Music Competition "J. Brahms", Poertschach (a) (AAF)
30 August - 6 September 2009

Piano

         1. Nathaniel Gouin (f)    
         2. Christoph Declara (frg)    
         3. Ryu Saito (jpn)

Other finalists:
             Min-Kyong Jung (cor)
             Daria Żurawlowa (pol)

Total: 27 pianists took part

 

International Music Competition "George Enescu", Bucharest (rum) (Fed.) (AAF)
30 August - 6 September 2009

         1. Amir Tebenikhin (kzk)
         2. Violetta Khachikian (rus)    
         3. Jong-Do An (cor)

Other semifinalists:
           Zlata Chochieva (rus)
          Sorin Creciun (rum)
          Ilya Rashkovsky (rus)

Total: 46 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition “The Muse”, Santorini (gr)
4 - 5 September 2009

        1. Min-Jeong Jeong (cor)     
        2. Feruza Khaydarova (uzb)
        3. (ex aequo:) Chihiro Kubo (jpn)   
                                Pavel Shatski (rus)     

Other finalists:
            Zi Qi Fang (chn)
            Ioannis Giannopoulos (gr)  
            Tatyana Kraeva (rus)
            Sofya Tsigankova (rus)
            Daniar Yessimkhanov (kzk)   
            Maor Zur (isr)

Total: approx. 32 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano "Les Nuits Pianistiques", Aix-en-Provence (f)
31 August - 5 September 2009

Concours International

         1. Giulio Biddau (f)    
         2. Yun-yang Lee (cor)    
         3. (ex aequo:) Natasha Kudritskaya (ukr)   
                                 Keiko Kurachi (jpn)

Other finalist:
             Simon Zaoui (f)

Total: 20 pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianisico "Ferruccio Busoni", Bolzano (it) (Fed.)
26 August - 4 September 2009

Three finalists
(finalissimo)

               1. Michail Lifits (frg) + Aud. Prize
               2. Alexei Lebedev (rus)
               3. Gesualdo Coggi (it)

Others in Finals with orchestra (phase 1)
               4. Oksana Shevtchenko (rus) + Press Prize 
               5. (ex aequo:) Sun-Ho Lee (cor)
                                       Jie Yuan (chn)

Total: 22 of the 27 selected pianists took part

 

Concours Clara Haskil, Vevey (ch) (Fed.)
27 August - 3 September 2009

          1. Adam Laloum (f)

Other finalists:
              Francois Dumont (f)
              Nima Sarkechik (f)

Other semifinalists:
              Min Soo Hong (cor)
              Benjamin Kim (usa)
              Yoonhee Yang (cor)

Total: 42 selected pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale di Musica "Palma d'Oro", Finale Ligure (it)
26 - 29 August 2009

          1. Aimo Pagin (f)
          2. ---.'
          3. (ex aequo:) Piotr Kosinski (pol)  
                                  Tomohiro Matsuhashi (jpn)  
                                  Yumi Sato (jpn)

Total: 15 selected pianists took part

 

PTNA Competition, Tokyo (jpn) (AAF)
20 - 24 August 2009: semifinals and finals

Superior Grade

                      1. Mizuho Nakada (jpn)
                      2. Daiki Kato (jpn)
                       3. Matthew Law (jpn)

Other finalist:    Kumiko Katsuda (jpn)

Other semifinalists:
                           Yuria Itoh (jpn)
                          Atsushi Imada (jpn)
                          Ayano Waki (jpn)

Total: 58 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Concerto Competition for Young Pianists, Manchester (gb) (AAF)
15 - 22 August 2009

Category 2

                      1. Tudor-Dan Scripcariu (rum)
                      2. Sung-Jae Kim (cor)
                       3. (ex aequo:) Sungpil Kim (cor)
                                              Yoon-Seok Shin (cor) 

Total: 11 of the 12 selected pianists took part in this highest category

Category 1

                      1. (ex aequo:) Dominic Degavino (gb)
                                              Jonathan Mak (can)
                                              Yuanfan Yang (gb)

 Total: 11 of the 12 selected pianists took part in this junior category 

 

Wiener Pianistenwettbewerb, Vienna (a)
12 - 20 August 2009

Category C

            1. ---.
            2. Takatoshi Mukai (jpn)
            3. (ex aequo:) Maryanna Brodska (ukr)  
                                    Jinyoung Chae (cor)

Other finalists:
                Mizuho Itakura (jpn)
                Ronald Rigo
                Yasuko Sugimoto (jpn)

Total: 12 pianists took part in this highest category

Category B

No finalists

Total: 3 pianists took part in this middle category   

Category A

            1. Natalie Schwamova (cz)
            2. Nejc Kamplet 
            3. Zuzan Sabikova (cz) 

Other finalists:
                Monica-Andreea Dorofte
                Risa Okada (jpn)

Total: 7 pianists took part in this junior category    

 

 

ASEAN Concerto Competition, Jakarta (ndn) (AAF)
7 - 16 August 2009

Category C (highest)

       1. Gee Hyung Ha (cor)                                         
       2. ---.
       3. ---.

Other finalist:
           Nichapat Valaiphatchra (ndn)

Total: 4 pianists took part in this highest category

Category B

       1. (ex aequo:) Joseph Nakaya Clarence (ndn)   
                               Jiaqi Jin (chn)
       2. ---.
       3. Kansiri Laothamatas (thl)

Total: 28 pianists took part in this middle category

Category A

       1. (ex aequo:) Do Hoang Linh Chi (vtn)              
                               Tin Jing Fang (chn)
                               Jennifer C. Salim (ndn)
       2. Janice Carissa (ndn)
       3. (ex aequo:) Vidia Karlan (ndn)
                               Nguyen Luong Minh (vtn)

Total: 39 pianists took part in this junior category

 

LISMA International Music Competition, New York (usa)
13 - 15 August 2009

Piano - Category A

                Grand Prize: Veselin Nenov 
                                 2. ---.
                                 3. Beyoung Hon Park 

Total: approx. 4 pianists took part in this highest category

 

BSI Concours International de Piano "Vituoses du Futur", Crans-Montana (ch) (AAF)
11 - 15 August 2009

       1. Christopher Falzone (usa)
       2. (ex aequo:) Varvara Nepomnyashchaya (rus)   
                               Alexey Sychev (rus)
       3. (ex aequo:) Luca Buratto (it)
                               Da Bin Son (cor)

Total: 16 pianists took part

 

Rosario Marciano International Piano Competition, Vienna (a)
6 - 8 August 2009

          1. Varvara Nepomnyaschaya (rus)
          2. (ex aequo:) Seika Ishida (jpn)
                                  Maya Morimoto (jpn)      

Total: 18 pianists took part

 

Cleveland International Piano Competition, Cleveland (OH, usa) (Fed.) (AAF)
29 July - 9 August 2009

          1. Martina Filjak (crt)
          2. Dimitri Levkovich (ukr/can)
          3. William Hong-Chun Youn (cor)      
          4. Evgheny Brakhman (rus)

Total: 32 of the 35 selected pianists took part

 

European Piano Competition, Normandy (f) (AAF)
2 August: result of preselection

23 pianists selected to take part
in the competition
(14 - 25 October 2009)

Soojin Anjou (usa)
Konrad Binienda (pol)
Gloria Campaner (it)
Jean Dube (f)
Rositsa Dusheva (bul)
Roope Grondahl (fin)
Xiayi Jiang (chn)
Lussine Khatchatryan (arm)
Henrik Mawe (sw)
Rafal Michalski (pol)
Cristiana Mihart (rum)
Olga Monakh (ukr)
Alexia Mouza (gr)
Yuka Munehisa (jpn)
Karolina Nadolska (pol)
Asuka Nakamura (jpn)
Pavlin Nechev (bul)
Haruka Ogawa (jpn)
Yoon-Soo Rhee (cor)
Scipione Sangiovanni (it)
Daria Tchaikovskaya (rus)
Anastasiya Terenkova (rus)
Alessandro Trebeschi (it)

 

Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Hamamatsu (jpn) (Fed.) (AAF)
1 August: result of preselection

103 pianists selected to take part
in the competition
(8 - 23 November 2009)

see the list of names on:
http://www.hipic.jp/eng/7th/entrant/list.php

 

Kazuko Yasukawa Memorial International Piano Competition, Tokyo (jpn)
19 - 31 July 2009

     1. Yu Nitahara (jpn)
     2. Kiyomi Misaki (jpn)
      3. Keita Ohbashi (jpn)   

 

New Orleans Young Artists International Piano Competition, New Orleans (usa) (AAF)
19 - 26 July 2009

          1. Sean Yeh (usa)
          2. Aleksandra Swigut (pol)
           3. Connie Kim-Sheng (usa)

Other finalists:
              Andrew Tung (usa)
               Fifi Zhang (usa)

 

Total: 12 selected pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition "Vendome Prize", Lisbon (prt) (AAF)
20 - 25 July 2009

       1. Denis Kozhukin (rus)
       2. Dmitry Levkovich (ukr/can)  

 

Total: 14 selected pianists took part

 

Internationaler Klavier- und Kompositionswettbewerb "Carl Filtsch", Sibiu (rum)
9 - 15 July 2009

Category C
Interpretation

           1. Adela Liculescu (rum)
           2. ---.
           3. (ex aequo:) Paul Buruiana (rum)
                                   Andrey Fomin (ukr)
                                   Svetlin Hristov (bul) 

Other finalists:
               Marya Bachinsky (rum)
               Denitsa Dobreva (bul)
               Shiko Iwamoto (jpn) 
               Vitaly Kyyanytsya (ukr)

 

Total: 14 pianists took part in this highest category

Category C
Composition

           1. Andrey Fomin (ukr)
           2. (ex aequo:) Saida Kalykova (kzk)
                                   Tatiana Pakhomenka (belo)
           3. (ex aequo:) Svetlin Hristov (bul) 
                                   Vitaly Kyyanytsya (ukr)

 

International Piano Competition "Prix Amadeo", Aachen (frg) (AAF)
9 - 12 July 2009

           1. Esther Park (usa)
           2. Claire Huangci (chn)
           3. Da Sul Jung (cor)
           4. Hanwen Jin (chn)

 

Total: 28 of the 40 selected pianists took part

 

Concurs Internacional de Piano "Ricard Viñes", Lleido (esp)
9 - 12 July 2009

Category A

               1. Evgueny Starodubtsev (rus)
               2. Scipione Sangiovanni (it)
               3. Jingjing Wang (chn)

 

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

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Giuseppe Terracciano", Giffoni Sei Casali (it)
6 - 12 July 2009

Category "Esecuzione Pianistica"

           1. (ex aequo:) Timur Gasratov (ukr)
                                   Alexander Yakovlev (rus)     
           2. Ryo Horiuchi (jpn)
           3. ---.
           4. (ex aequo:) Pietro Iannotti (it)
                                   Zarina Shimanskaya (rus)     

Other finalists:
               Denisa Mirica (rum)
               Zhora Sargsyan (arm)
               Elia Tagliavia (it)

 

Total: 16 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Cincinnati World Piano Competition, Cincinnati (OH, usa)
Artist Division: 7 - 12 July 2009

Artist Division
Three finalists

           1. Alexander Beridze (geor)
           2. (ex aequo") Dmitri Levkovich (ukr/can)
                                   Dizhou Zhao (chn)
           3. ---.

Other semifinalists:
           4. Fanny Azzuro (f)
           5. Elisabeth Schumann (usa)
           6. Grigor Khatchatryan (arm) 

 

Total: 16 pianists took part in this highest category

 

IBLA Ragusa International Music Competition, Ibla Ragusa (it)
2 - 12 July 2009

Top winners - Piano

               Gloria Campaner (it)
               Tamara Licheli (geor)
               Jacopo Giovannini (it)

 

Total: approx. 56 solo pianists took part

 

Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition, Minneapolis (MN, usa) (AAF)
29 June - 10 July 2009

              1. Alessandro Taverna (it)
              2. Pavel Yeletskiy (belo)
              3. Helene Tysman (f)
              4. Eric Zuber (usa)
              5. Howard Na (usa)
              6. Grace Eunhae Kim (cor)

 

Total: 21 of the 24 selected pianists took part

 

San Antonio International Piano Competition, San Antonio (TX, usa)
June/July: result of preselection

10 pianists selected to take part
in the competition
(11 - 17 October 2009)

Angelo Arciglione (it)
Yunjie Chen (chn)
Yoonjung Han (cor)
Ran Jia (chn)
Andrea Lam (aus)
Hanchien Lee (tai)
Alberto Nose (it)
Hoang Minh Pham (aus)
Ryo Yanagitani (can)
Dizhou Zhao (chn)

 

IIYM International Piano Competition, Kansas City (usa)
28 - 29 June 2009

      1. Fantee Jones (usa)
      2. Alan Woo (usa) + Aud. Prize  
      3. Reiko Tsuchida (jpn)

Other finalists:
          Xiao Pan (usa)     
          Christine Wu (usa)
          Min Joo Yi (usa)

Total: approx. 12 pianists were selected to take part

 

European Union Piano Competition, Prague - Ostrava (cz)
24 - 29 June 2009

      1. Josu de Solaun Soto (esp) + Aud. Prize  
      2. Matej Arendarik (slvk)

Other finalists:
          Fiachra Garvey (irl)     
          Raul Peixoto da Costa (prt)

Total: 24 of the 27 selected pianists took part

 

Tchaikovsky International Competition for Young Musicians, Suwon (cor)
17 - 28 June 2009

Piano

          1. Nansong Huang (chn)
          2. (ex aequo:) Su Yeon Kim (cor)
                                  Yu Chong Wu (chn)     
          3. Jung-Eun Kim (cor)
          4. Dmitry Matboroda (rus)
          5. Zuhao Liu (chn)

 

Beethoven International Piano Competition, Vienna (a) (Fed.)
13 - 23 June 2009

          1. Alexander Schimpf (frg)
          2. ---.
          3. (ex aequo:) Chi Ho Han (cor)
                                  Ji-Hoon Jun (cor)

Total: 34 of the 36 selected pianists took part

 

Honens International Piano Competition, Calgary (can) (Fed.)
19 June 2009: result of preselection

21 pianists selected to take part
in the competition
(22 October - 6 November, 2009)

Michael S. Brown (usa)
Michael Bukhman (isr)
Yunjie Chen (chn)
Yue Chu (chn)
Ran Dank (isr)
Jonathan Floril (ecu)
Stanislav Khrystenko (ukr)
Sang-Young Kim (cor)
Natalya Kudrytska (ukr)
Alexei Lebedev (rus)
Ka Ling Colleen Lee (hk)
Soyeon Clara Lee (cor)
Michael Namirovsky (isr)
Tom Poster (gb)
Evgeni Starodubtsev (rus)
Georgij Tchaidze (rus)
Gilles Vonsattel (ch)
Daniel Wnukowski (pol)
Chun-chieh Yen (tai)
Feng Zhang (chn)
Kyrylo Zveginzov (ukr)

From all applicants, 93 pianists were chosen to audition
21 were selected to compete in Calgary

 

Muenchener Klavierpodium der Jugend, Munich (frg)
18 - 21 June 2009

Category 5

Prizewinners

                    Ah Ruem Ahn (cor)
                    Leon Buche (frg)
                    Steve Karkoschka (frg)
                    Piotr Koscik (pol)
                    Annika Maria Treutler (frg)
                    Sujeong Yun (cor)
                    Jesus Maria Herrera Moreno (esp)     

Total: 18 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Valtidone International Music Competition - Premio Silvio Bengalli, Pianello del Val Tidone (it) (AAF)
18 - 20 June 2009

Premio Silvio Bengalli

     1. Lukas Geniusas (lit)
     2. Alexia Mouza (gr)
     3. Elena Sadchikova (rus)  
     4. Eri Yamamoto (it)
     5. Balazs Fulei (hun)

Total: 54 pianists took part

 

Jose Iturbi International Music Competition, Los Angeles (CA, usa) (AAF)
15 - 20 June 2009

Piano

        1. Dimitri Levkovich (ukr)
        2. Goran Filipec (crt)
        3. Alexey Kudryashov (rus)

Other finalists:
            Joshua Chandra (usa)
            Vladimir Khomiakov (rus) - Aud. Prize    
            Rustam Muradov (rus)

Total: 20 of the 24 selected pianists took part

 

World Music Masters Competition, Monte Carlo (Monaco) (AAF)
16 - 19 June 2009

               1. Sergei Tarasov (rus)   
               2. Alberto Nose (it)

Total: 12 of the 13 selected pianists took part

 

Top of the World International Piano Competition, Tromso (n) (AAF)
14 - 19 June 2009

           1. Mariangela Vacatello (it)   
           2. Mayumi Sakamoto (jpn)
           3. Sergei Salov (ukr) + Aud. Prize

Total: 22 of the 24 selected pianists took part

 

Concours Geza Anda, Zuerich (ch) (Fed.)
6 - 16 June 2009

      1. Jinsang Lee (cor) + Aud. Prize  
      2. Alexei Zuev (rus)
      3. Tatiana Kolesova (rus)   

Total: 32 pianists took part

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale - Premio Monterosa - Kawai, Varallo (it)
13 - 14 June 2009

Category F

          1. (Absolute winner) Stefano Guarascio (it)    
          1. Hae-Sung Yoon (cor)
          2. (ex aequo:) Ottavio Fornieri (it)
                                  Andrea Viscardi (it)
          3. Agne Paskauskaite (lit)

Total: 6 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concours International "Marguerite Long", Paris (f) (Fed.) (AAF)
15 June 2009: result of preselection

26 pianists selected to take part
in the competition
(14 - 24 October, 2009)

Ryoji Ariyoshi (jpn)
Eric Artz (f)
Suzana Bartal (rum)
Yunjie Chen (chn)
Tomohiro Hatta (jpn)
Patrick Hemmerle (f)
Hyo-Jung Kim (cor)
So-Hee Kim ()
Rostislav Krimer (belo)
Louis Lancien (f)
Ho Jeong Lee (cor)
Hyo-Joo Lee (cor)
Mi Yeon Lee (cor)
Yesol Lee (cor)
Dimitri Levkovich (ukr)
Katherine Mahan (usa)
Maria Masycheva (rus)
Masahiko Omori (jpn)
Samuel Parent (f)
Kazuya Saito (jpn)
Takaya Sano (jpn)
Tsimur Shcharbakov (belo)
Di Yi Tang (chn)
Guillaume Vincent (f)
David Violi (f)
Aiko Yajima (jpn)

From all applicants, 26 pianists were chosen to compete

 

Russian Music International Piano Competition, San Jose (CA, usa) (AAF)
5 - 14 June 2009

Advanced Category

                  1. Yunjie Chen (chn)
                  2. Jee In Hwang (cor) + Aud. Prize
                  3. Esther Park (usa)

Total: 30 pianists took part in this highest category

 

European Music Competition, Moncalieri (it)
6 - 13 June 2009

Piano - Category G

                1. Miriam Conti (it)
                2-1. Eun-Jae Chung (cor)   
                2-2. Davide Ridella (it)
                2-3. Goivanni Guastini (it)
                3-1. Natsuko Yoshida (jpn)   
                3-2. Maria Marta Moraru (it)

Total: 9 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Aloha International Piano Competition, Honolulu (Hawai)
6 - 13 June 2009

Young Artist Level

     1. Michael Stewart 
     2. Christie Janczyk     

 

International Piano Competition "Step towards Mastery", St. Petersburg (rus)
6 - 8 June 2009

Category C

                            1. ---.
                            2. Pavel Strutovsky (rus)
                            3. Jiale Li (chn) 

Other finalist:           Vladimir Kuzin (rus)

Total: approx. 16 pianists took part in this highest category

Grand Prize Winner

Andrey Shichko (belo)  [Cat. B]

 

Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Pianistica, Corato (it)
6 - 8 June 2009

    1. Tatiana Nikolaeva-Soldatenkova (rus)  
    2. Daniela Quacquarelli (it)
    3. (ex aequo:) Narumi Sugimoto (jpn)   
                            Francesca Tortora (it)

Other finalists:
        Pietro Cresini (it)
        Soyeon Kang (cor) 
        Azamat Sydykov (rus)
        Davide Valluzzi (it)

Total: 18 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Beethoven International Music Competition, Hradec nad Moravici (cz)
5 - 8 June 2009

    1. Veneta Neynska (bul)
    2. Jiri Pesek (cz)
    3. (ex aequo:) Viktor Urvalov (rum)   
                            Karel Vrtiska (cz)

Other finalist:
         Piotr Switon (pol)

Total: 12 pianists took part

 

Gran Premio Internazionale di Esecuzione Pianistica "Mendelssohn", Taurisano (it) (AAF)
31 May - 7 June 2009

       1. ---.
       2. (ex aequo:) Aljosa Jurinic (crt)   
                               Denys Zhdanov (ukr)
       3. ---.
       4. ---.

Total: 22 of the 40 selected pianists took part

 

Premio Pianistico Internazionale "Marco Fortini", Bologna (it)
4 - 6 June 2009

Category D

                      1-1. Enrico Cicconofri (it)
                      1-2. Leonardo Colafelice (it)   
                      1-3. Christoph Stober (frg)
                        2. Alessandro Tosi (it)
                        3. ---.

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

 

Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth (TX, usa) (Fed.) (AAF)
22 May - 6 June 2009

          1. (ex aequo:) Nobuyuki Tsujii (jpn)  
                                  Haochen Zhang (chn)    
          2. Yeol Eun Son (cor)

Other finalists:
               Evgeni Bozhanov (bul)
               Mariangela Vacatello (it) + Aud. Prize  
               Di Wu (chn)

Other semifinalists:
               Ran Dank (isr)
               Alessandro Deljavan (it)
               Kyu Yeon Kim (cor)
               Eduard Kunz (rus)
               Andrea Lam (aus)
               Michail Lifits (frg)

Total: 29 of the 30 invited pianists took part

 

Leeds International Piano Competition, Leeds (gb) (Fed.)
June 2009: result of preselection

79 pianists selected to take part
in the competition
(26 August - 13 September, 2009)

see the list of names on:

www.leedspiano.com/Home/The_2009_Competition/Accepted_Competitors.aspx

 

Concorso Internazinale di Musica "Pietro Argento", Gioia del Colla (it) (AAF)
27 - 31 May 2009

Piano - Category F

                 1. Anastasia Dedik (rus)
                 2. Kanako Kajima (jpn)
                 3. Shuo Zhang (chn)
                 3. Sue Woon Hyung (cor)

Other finalists:
                     Huh-Lak Choi (cor)
                     Shuai Liu (chn)                     

Total: 13 pianists took part in this highest category

Piano - Category E

                 1. Tatiana Chistyakova (rus)
                 1. Giancarlo Direnzo (it)
                 1. Nadezda Olshvang
                 1. Giovanni Antonio Strangio (it) 
                 2. Irina Boychenko
                 2. Monika Vavrikova  
                 3. Adela Donavalova
                 3. Sara Lacarbonara (it)
                 3. Paolo di Francesco (it) 

Total: 16 pianists took part in this next-highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazinale "A.M.A. Calabria", Lamezia Terme (it)
25 - 31 May 2009

    1. Evgeny Starodubtsev (rus)   
    2. ---.
    3. Daria Kovaleva (rus)

Total: 11 pianists took part

 

Concours FLAME, Paris (f)
16 - 25 May 2009

Category B - Finalists

                  1. Anna Peletsis (rus)
                  2. (ex aequo:) Desislava Bobrina (bul/rus)
                                          Tatiana Dardykina (rus)
                  3. Marine Marcel (f)

Other finalists:
                      Julien Brocal (f)
                      Lalageh Ebrahimian (usa)
                      Ada Gorbunova (rus)
                      Chak Ma Kim (cor)
                      Qiaochu Li (chn)

Total: 44 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Premio Europeo di Esecuzione Pianistica, Avezzano (it)
18 - 24 May 2009

Premio

                  1. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)
                  2. Ryo Horiuchi (jpn)
                  3. E-Hyun Chang (cor)

Total: 8 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano, Carlet (esp)
18 - 23 May 2009

Category A

                        1. Nao Yuki (jpn)
                        2. Cecilia Yixin Pan (chn)
                        3. Riyad Nicolas (syr)

Total: 15 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale di Interpretazione Musicale, Maccagno (it)
18 - 23 May 2009

Interpretazione Pianoforte

                     1. ---.
                     2. Francesca Carola (it)
                     2. Yuri Maeda (jpn)
                     3. Matteo Andri (it)

Total: 4 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Arcangelo Speranza", Taranto (it) (AAF)
19 - 22 May 2009

    1. Giuseppe Greco (it)
    2. Scipione Sangiovanni (it)
    3. Hayoung Jeong (cor)

Other finalists:
        Timur Gasratov (ukr)
        Marina Goshkieva (rus)
        Age Juurikas (est)
        Hwan-hee Yoo (cor)

Total: 27 pianists took part

 

International Competition for Piano and Orchestra, Cantu (it) (AAF)
11 - 18 May 2009

Classical Concerto

                1. Qing Zhi Chen (chn)
                2. (ex aequo:) Mari Kawagishi (it)
                                        Jan Lisiecki (pol) + Aud. Prize  

Total: 60 pianists took part in this category

Romantic Concerto

                1. Andrey Gugnin (rus)
                2. Martyna Jatkauskaite (lit) + Aud. Prize
                3. Gloria Campaner (it)

Total: 68 pianists took part in this category

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Maria Golia", Settimo Torinese (it)
12 - 15 May 2009

           1. Georgi Gromov (rus)    
           2. (ex aequo:) Lin Lin Fan (chn)
                                   Andrei Gologan (rum)
                                   Jakub Tuszynski (pol)
           3. (ex aequo:) Megumi Ikeda (jpn)
                                   Yoon-Jee Kim (cor)

Total: 20 pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano Rotary, Palma de Mallorca (esp) (AAF)
15 - 17 May 2009

Category A

                1. Kateryna Titova (ukr)
                2. Mzia Jajanidze (geor)
                3. Justine Verdier (f)

Total: 32 pianists took part in this highest category

Category B

                1. (ex aequo:) Bertha Sadnoyan (arm)
                                        David Zarziwky (pol)
                2. Joao Pedro Cunha (prt)
                3. Francisco Ribas Tur (esp)

Total: 12 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Delia Steinberg International Piano Competition, Madrid (esp) (AAF)
12 - 15 May 2009

           1. (ex aequo:) Evgeny Starodubtsev (rus)    
                                   Jae-Kyung Yoo (cor)
           2. ---.
           3. (ex aequo:) Vanessa Benelli (it)
                                   Ha Rim Song (cor)

Other finalists:            Yoo-Jeong Kang (cor)
                                   Ji-Eun Sung (cor)
                                   Naoko Sonoda (jpn)

Total: 39 pianists took part

 

Dublin International Piano Competition, Dublin (irl) (Fed.) (AAF)
1 - 15 May 2009

                1. Alexei Gorlatch (ukr)
                2. Jong-Hai Park (cor)
                3. Soo Jung Ann (cor)
                4. Eric Zuber (usa)
                5. Naomi Kudo (jpn)
                6. Soo-Yeon Ham (cor)

Total: 40 of the 45 selected pianists took part

 

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize - Piano Academy Eppan, Eppan (it)
13 May 2009: result of preselection

6 pianists selected to take part
in the Masterclass of the Academy.
The ABM Prize to be awarded as a special grant
(7-12 September, 2009)

                  Nareh Arghamanyan (arm)
                  Martina Filjak (crt)
                  Claire Huangci (chn/usa)
                  Vitaly Pisarenko (ukr)
                  Konstantin Shamray (rus)
                  Yeol-Eum Son (cor)

26 pianists applied
6 pianists selected to take part

 

International Piano Competition "Chopin", Szafarnia (pol)
8 - 10 May 2009

Category C

       1. Daria Kochetkowa (rus)
       2. Lukasz Krupinski (pol)
       3. Dorota Demidowicz (pol)     

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Mozart", Frascati (it)
8 - 10 May 2009

Premio Mozart

       1. ---.
       2. Chih-yun Chen (tai)
       3. Olga Shcherbatova (rus)    

Other finalists:
           Kana Goto (jpn)
           Simone Temporali (it)
           Han Ji Young (cor)

Total: 16 pianists took part in this highest category

 

International Piano Competition "Antrn Garcia Abril", Teruel (esp)
7 - 10 May 2009

Category A

                     1. Ilona Timchenko (rus)
                     2. Hye-Youn Park (cor)
                     3. Ksenia Dyachenko (rus)

Other finalists:  Giuliano Adorno (it)
                         David Canals Gomez (esp)
                         Marina de Lucas Garcia (esp)

Total: 9 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concours International de Piano "Ile de France" - Opus Yvelines", Maisons-Laffitte (f)
7 - 10 May 2009

Category Diplome de Concert

                     1. Seul-Ki Cheon (cor)
                     2. Miho Nagata (jpn)
                     3. Endri Nini (alb)
                     4. Florian Puddu (f)

Other finalists:  Eric Artz (f)
                         Floriane Bourreau (f)
                         Valentine Buttard (f/usa) + Spec. Prize 
                         Hitomi Kanata (jpn)

Total: 44 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Manchester International Concerto Competition for Young Pianists, Manchester (gb) (AAF)
9 May 2009: result of preselection

24 pianists selected to take part
in the competition
(15 - 22 August, 2009)

Senior Category

  Manos Charalabopoulos (gr)
Gamal Khamis (gb)
Sung-Jae Kim (cor)
Sungpil Kim (cor)
Noa Leigh Kleisen (hol)
Alasdair MacAskill (gb)
Kentaro Nagai (jpn)
Nadezhda Pisareva (rus)
Tudor-Dan Scripcariu (rum)
Kelvin Ah Shi Yan (mal)
Yoon-Seok Shin (cor)
Alexander Soares (gb)

Junior Category

 

  Iyad Alsughair (jord)
Gabrielle Chou (usa)
Monika Darzinkeviciute (lit)
Dominic Degavino (gb)
Luke Jones (gb)
Cason Kang (sing)
Hugo Kitano (usa)
Dong-Lin Long (chn)
Jonathan Mak (can)
Nicholas Amit Ryba (usa)
Yuanfan Yang (gb)
Minghang Zhang (chn)

67 pianists applied
24 pianists selected to participate

 

Concorso Internazionale di Esecuzione Pianistica "Premio Mauro Paolo Monopoli", Barletta (it)
4 - 9 May 2009

Three finalists

       1. Yumi Sato (jpn)     
       2. Georgy Gromov (rus)
       3. (ex aequo:) Satoshi Kawauchi (jpn)  + Aud. Prize 
                               Yoshito Numasawa (jpn)
       4. ---.

Other semifinalist:
       5. Stanislav Bachkovskiy (rus)

Total: 23 pianists took part

 

Gran Premio Internazionale di Esecuzione Pianistica "Mendelssohn", Taurisano (it) (AAF)
8 May 2009: result of preselection

40 pianists selected to take part
in the competition
(31 May - 7 June, 2009)

Miona Babic (mont)
Vanessa Benelli Mosell (it)
Tzu-yi Chen (tai)
Seul-ki Cheon (cor)
Alexei Chernov (rus)
Regina Chernychko (ukr)
Hee-Yeon Choue (cor)
Davide Cirrito (it)
Anastassia Dedik (rus)
Sebastian Di Bin (it)
Andrey Dubov (rus)
Roberto Franca (it)
Diana Gabrielian (arm)
Emi Hasegawa (jpn)
Iyunna Iwasaki (jpn)
Lja Jensen-Abbott (usa)
Shanshan Jin (chn)
Aljosa Jurinic (crt)
Tatjana Karyagina (kzk)
Jeong Hyun Kim (cor)
Kyeong Jin Kim (cor)
Sae-Nal Kim (cor)
Olga Kozlova (rus)
Svetlana Kuznetsova (rus)
Agata Lukasiewicz (pol)
Teresa Malirova (cz)
Fatima Merdanova (rus)
Jonathan Eli Nafshi (isr)
Michael Namirovsky (isr)
Antonio Ortíz Ramirez (esp)
Eun-Hye Rhee (cor)
Megumi Shimanuki (jpn)
Vestards Shimkus (rus)
Elena Tarasova (rus)
Ekaterina Venchikova (rus)
Silvije Vidovic (crt)
Jae-Kyung Yoo (cor)
Lin Lin Zhang (chn)
Denis Zhdanov (ukr)
Dan-Dan Zheng (chn)

87 pianists applied
40 pianists selected to participate

 

Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Lago di Monate" - "Premio Domenico Cimarosa", Monate - Travedona (it)
1 - 3 May 2009

Premio Domenico Cimarosa

       1. (ex aequo:) Tatyana Larionova (belo)    
                               Giuseppe Merli (it)
       2. Elia Tagliavia (it)

Total: 7 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale "Musica Insieme", Musile di Piave (Venezia) (it)
1 - 3 May 2009

Piano - Category D

       1. (Absolute winner:) Taro Funayama (jpn)    
       1. Eun-Jae Chung (cor)
       2. Vladimir Halicek (cz)
       3. Carmen Anastasio

No more contestants in this highest category

 

Cleveland International Piano Competition, Cleveland (Ohio, usa) (AAF)
1 May 2009: result of preselection

35 pianists selected to take part in the
Cleveland Int'l Piano Competition
(29 July - 9 August, 2009)

Kristhyan Benitez (ven)
Evgeni Bozhanov (bul)
Evgheny Brakhman (rus)
Michael Brown (usa)
Anna Bulkina (rus)
Sean Yow Chen (usa)
Martina Filjak (crt)
Angelika Fuks (ukr)
Sooyeon Ham (cor)
Jae Weon Huh (cor)
Sang-Young Kim (cor)
Olga Kozlova (rus)
Martin Labazevitch (pol/usa)
Istvan Lajko (hun)
Ju Eun Lee (cor)
Dimitri Levkovich (ukr/can)
Kuok-Wai Lio (chn)
Pallavi Mahidhara (usa)
Maria Masycheva (rus)
Edward Neeman (aus)
Alexander Osminin (rus)
Esther Park (usa)
Jong-Hai Park (cor)
Hoang Minh Pham (aus)
Marina Radyushyna (ukr)
Anna Shelest (ukr/usa)
Kyoko Soejima (jpn)
Yekwon Sunwoo (cor)
Gerhard Vielhaber (frg)
Chun Wang (chn)
Kwan Kyu Yi (cor)
Hong-Chun (William) Youn (cor)
Yunqing Zhou (chn)
Eric Zuber (usa)
Zhang Zuo (chn)

Approx. 260 pianists applied
35 pianists selected to participate

 

Top of the World International Piano Competition, Tromso (n) (AAF)
30 April 2009: result of preselection

24 pianists selected to take part in the
First Top of the World Int'l Piano Competition
Tromso (Norway)
(14 - 19 June, 2009)

Jie Chen (chn)
Julie Coucheron (n)
Boris Feiner (isr)
Dorel Golan (isr)
Sofia Gulyak (rus)
Yaron Kohlberg (isr)
Dimitris Kostopoulos (n)
Eduard Kunts (rus)
Piotr Machnik (pol)
Mikhail Mordvinov (rus)
Kristian Lindberg (n)
Roberto Plano (it)
Evelina Puzaite (lit)
Mayumi Sakamoto (jpn)
Sergei Salov (ukr)
Rikke Sandberg (dan)
Nikolai Saratovski (rus)
Yang Song (chn)
Vladimir Sverdlov (rus)
Mariangela Vacatello (it)
Lukas Vondracek (cz)
Gottlieb Wallisch (a)
Ilya Yakushev (rus)
Eric Zuber (usa)

Due to a few withdrawals, the following four
pianists have also been invited:

Charles Albright (usa)
Jun Ishimura (jpn)
Maria Masycheva (rus)
Vasily Primakov (rus)

 

361 pianists applied
24 pianists selected to participate

 

London International Piano Competition, London (gb) (Fed.)
18 - 28 April 2009

       1. Behzod Abdurayimov (uzb)     
       2. Alessandro Taverna (it)
       3. Andrejs Osokins (lat)

Educational Awards:
           Federico Colli (it)
           Tuomas Kyyhkynen (fin)
           Stephanie Proot (b)

Total: 24 selected pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano, Mayenne (f)
24 - 26 April 2009

    1. Yedam Kim (cor) + Aud. Prize
    2. Louis Lancien (f)
    3. (ex aequo:) Gaspard Dehaene (b)

                            Chia-hung Lin (chn)

 

Total: 13 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Kosice (slvk)
23 - 26 April 2009

Category 3

 

    1. Nikola Dragosavac (serb)
    2. Alexander Vorontsov (frg)
    3. Adam Bronislaw Kotula (pol)
    4. Darya Medveckaya (belo)
    5. Jakub Sotkovsky (cz)
    6. Lina Marija Balciunaite (lit)  
    7. Jana Otahalova (cz)

    8. Joosep Teppo (est)

    9. Julia Novosedlikova (slvk)

  10. Dorota Lofajova (slvk)

 

International Piano Competition "Ciudad de Huesca", Huesca (esp)
20 - 25 April 2009

    1. Alexander Yakovlev (rus)  
    2. Asami Hirayama (jpn)
    3. Anastasia Starkova (rus)

 

Other finalists:

        Balasz Fulei (hun)

        Takafumi Mori (jpn)

        Daniyar Yessimkhanov (kzk)  

 

Total: 20 pianists took part

 

Concurso Internacional de Piano "Premio Jaen", Jaen (esp) (Fed.) (AAF)
16 - 24 April 2009

    1. Antoniy Baryshevsky (ukr)     
    2. Shinnosuke Inugai (jpn)
    3. Jingjing Wang (chn)

 

Total: 33 pianists took part

 

International Music Competition "Jean Francaix", Vanves (f)
17 - 19 April 2009

Piano

 

    1. Evgeny Starodubtsev (rus)     
    2. ---.
    3. (ex aequo:) Yuki Kondo (jpn)  

                            Yun-yang Lee (tai)  

                            Petr Limonov (rus)

 

Other finalists:

        Mika Akiyama (jpn)

        Clement Griffault (f)

 

Total: 31 pianists took part

 

Concours Brin d'herbe, Orleans (f)
14 - 19 April 2009

Level 2

 

           1. (ex aequo:) Paul Juranville (f)     
                                   David Salmon (f)

 

Total: 9 pianists took part in this highest category

Level 1

 

    1. (ex aequo:) Melvil Chapoutot (f)     
                            Ianina Gateau (f)

 

Other prizewinners:

                            Tamara Kutsnashvili (geor)

                            Lea Lacaze-Tanaka (f)

                            Marina Muellerperth (frg)
                            Soyeon Park (cor)
                            Claire Paviot (f)

 

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

 

International Competition for Young Pianists - EPTA, Osijek (crt) (AAF)
15 - 18 April 2009

Category C

 

                      1. ---.
                      2. Marijan Duzel (crt)
                      3. Stipe Bilic (crt)
                      4. ---.

 

Other finalists:   Nikolina Liljak (crt)
                          Oleksandr Zhleyazo (ukr)

 

Total: 7 pianists took part in this highest category

Category B

 

                      1. Kristian Keil (crt)
                      2. Ana Dadic (crt)
                      3. Sven Mrden (crt)
                      4. (ex aequo:) Tanja Cinc (slvn)
                                              Roland Grlica (crt)

 

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

Category A

 

                      1. Pham Hoang Ahn (vtn)
                      2. Petra Saric (crt)
                      3. Manuela Georgieva (bul)
                      4. ---.

 

Total: approx. 8 pianists took part in this junior category

 

International Competition for Young Pianists "Arthur Rubinstein in Memoriam", Bydgoszcz (pol)
3 - 8 April 2009

    1. (ex aequo:) Anna Fedorova (ukr)
                           Ji-Yeong Mun (cor)
    2. Nikodem Wojciechowski (pol)     
    3. Peng Lin (chn)
    4. Piotr Kosinski (pol)

    5. ---.
    6. Anna Yukho (belo)

 

Total: 16 pianists took part

 

Evangelia Tjiarri Annual International Piano Competition, Larnaka (cyp) (AAF)
4 - 6 April 2009

 

  Grand Prix:  Alexander Ullman (gb)   

 

Category B

 

        1. Quoc-Vinh Nguyen (vtn/frg)    

        2. Rita Skudraite (lit)
        3. ---.

 

Total: 8 pianists took part in this highest category

Category A

 

    1. Maria Kustas (rus)    

    2. Pavlou Lambis (cyp)
    3. Stefanie Anastasiya Richter (a)  

 

Total: 13 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Young Musician International Contest for Pianists, Violinists and Cellists, Tallinn (est)
4 - 6 April 2009

Piano - Category B

 

           1. Vladislavs Klevickis (lat)

           2. Ugne Danute Vazgile-Viciute (lit)
           3. (ex aequo:) Sijin Liang (chn)

                                   Vladislav Saforov (est)

 

Other finalist:

                Mangirdas Janusaitis (lit)

 

Total: 15 pianists took part in this higest category

 

Virginia Waring International Piano Competitoin, Palm Desert (CA, usa) (AAF)
29 March - 5 April 2009

Concerto Competition

 

     1. Miao Hou (chn)
     2. Stanislav Khrystenko (rus)
     3. Chie Watanabe (jpn)

 

Total: 18 pianists took part

Solo Competition

 

     1. Stanislav Khrystenko (rus)
     2. (ex aequo) Miao Hou (chn)
                           Chie Watanabe (jpn)   

 

Total: 18 pianists took part

 

Isabel Scionti International Piano Competition, Kingsville (TX, usa)
2 - 4 April 2009

Senior Concerto Competition

 

                      1. Evan Mitchell (usa)
                      2. Christopher Falzone (usa)
                      3. Christopher McKiggan (usa)

 

Total: 19 pianists took part in this highest category

Senior Solo Competition

 

                      1. Mauricio Arias (rus)
                      2. Christopher McKiggan (usa)

                      3. So-Yeon Cho (cor)

 

Other finalists:

                          Qian Chen (chn)

                          Christopher Falzone (usa)

                          Evan Mitchell (usa)

 

Total: 27 pianists took part in this solo dvision

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Isabel Scionti Award

 

Christopher Falzone (usa)

 

 

Concours Musical de France, Paris (f)
29-30 March & 4-5 April 2009

Category Concert Diploma

 

Prix CMF  Andrey Zlobin

1. Floriane Bourreau

 

Total: approx. 8 pianists took part in this higest category

 

Jose Iturbi International Music Competition, Los Angeles (usa) (AAF)
1 April 2009: result of preselection

24 pianists selected to take part in the
Jose Iturbi Int'l Music Competition
Los Angeles
(15 - 20 June, 2009)

  Kostyantin Alekseev (rus)
Giovanni Doria-Miglietta (it)
Rabiga Dyussembayeva (kzk)
Wael Farouk (eg)
Goran Filipec (crt)
Karen Hakobyan (arm)
Mudi Han (chn)
Xu Han (chn)
Vladimir Khomiakov (rus)
Stanislav Khrystenko (ukr)
Alina Kiryaeva (ukr)
Vyacheslav Kiselev (rus)
Alexey Kudryashov (rus)
Dimitri Levkovich (ukr)
Ksenia Morozova (rus)
Rustam Muradov (rus)
Julia Mustonen (fin)
Emi Trish Nakajima (usa)
John Robert Provine (usa)
Anna Shelest (ukr/usa)
Jia Shi (chn)
Chetan Tierra (usa)
Krystian Tkaczewski (pol)
Alexander Vasadze (geor)

 

24 pianists selected to participate

 

Due to a few withdrawals, the following pianists
were invited to replace some of the above:

 

Joshua Chandra (usa)
Yekwon Sunwoo (cor)
Kateryna Titova (ukr)

 

International Music Competition "Jeunesses Musicales", Belgrade (serb) (Fed.)
20 - 31 March 2009

Piano

 

     1. ---.
     2. Dong-Kyu Kim (cor) + Aud. Prize  
     3. Eniko Gorog (serb)

 

Other finalists (in order of merit):
         Aliaksandar Muzykantau (belo)

         Minka Popovic (serb)

         Vladimir Gligoric (serb)
         Tomoaki Yoshida (jpn)

 

Total: 41 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano, Epinal (f) (Fed.)
21 - 29 March 2009

  1. Ksenia Rodionova rus)  
  2. Chao Wang (chn)
  3. Kana Okada (jpn)
  4. Yulia Lapchinskaya (rus)

 

Total: 73 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano "Piano Open", Merignac (f)
25 - 29 March 2009

  1. Maria Masycheva (rus)  
  2. Hyun-Jee Moon (cor)
  3. ---.

 

Other finalists:

      Hisako Hirata (jpn)
      Sung-Hoon Hwang (cor)    

 

Total: 27 pianists took part

 

Concorso Musicale "Flegreo", Bacoli (it)
Category G: 28 March 2009

Category G

 

            Absolute winner: Giacinto Cagnazzi (it) 
                               1. Diego di Mare (it)
                               1. Sara d'Allocco (it)
                               1. Gianluca Imperato (it)
                               1. Rayna Karjieva 
                               2. Marianna Voza 
                               2. Antonella d'Orio (it)

                               3. Francesca Bellocchi (it) 
                               3. Annamaria Cuorno (it) 

 

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

 

International Music Competition "Maria Canals", Barcelona (esp) (Fed.) (AAF)
14 - 27 March 2009

Piano

 

       1. Vestard Shimkus (lat)
       2. Jong Yun Kim (cor)
       3. Scipione Sangiovanni (it)

 

Other semifinalists:
           Vladimir Khomyakov (rus)
            Sofia Vasheruk (rus)
           William Hong Chun Youn (cor)    

 

Total: 56 pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano "Milosz Magin", Paris (f)
19 - 24 March 2009

Category Concertiste

 

       1. Gracjan Szymczak (pol)
       2. ---.
       3. (ex aequo:) Raphael Epstein (f)   
                               Nyamsuren Tuemnnasan (mong)   

 

Other finalist:

           Hyun-Jung Chung (cor)

 

Total: 7 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concorso Internazionale di Musica "Un ricetto in musica" - Premio "Ernesto Falla", Candelo (it)
19 - 22 March 2009

Piano - Category E

 

        Absolute winner: Seonwha Lee (cor)    

                 1. Maria Semeraro (it)
                 1. Francesca Tortora (frg)
                 2. Hsiao-yen Chen (chn)
                 3. Marco Grieco (it)
                 4. Mattia Rosetti (it)

 

Total: 8 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Rencontre International de Piano, Mee-sur-Seine (f)
20 March 2009

       1. Stephanie Proot (b)
       2. Einav Yarden (isr)

 

Total: 6 invited pianists took part

 

Beethoven International Piano Competition, Vienna (a)
March 2009: result of preselection

36 pianists selected to take part in the
Beethoven Int'l Piano Competition
Vienna
(13 - 23 June, 2009)

  Dmitry Ablogin (rus)
Soojin Anjou (cor)
Clemens Berg (frg)
Anna Buchberger (frg)
Christian Chamorel (ch)
I-ting Chen (tai)
Lin Chen (chn)
Szu-han Chiu (tai)
Maarten den Hengst (hol)
Christopher Devine (hol)
Andreas Donat (a)
Chi Ho Han (cor)
Wakane Ito (jpn)
Ji-Hoon Jun (cor)
Yuka Katori (jpn)
Yoshinao Kihara (jpn)
Yusuke Kikuchi (jpn)
Sangwon Kim (cor)
Anna Magdalena Kokits (a)
Elena Kolesnitchenko (ukr)
Jianing Kong (chn)
Alexander Kostritsa (rus)
Sheng-yuan Kuan (tai)
Yi-chih Lu (tai)
Aleksandra Mikulska (pol)
Maasa Nakazawa (jpn)
Sandra Nam (usa)
Akiko Nikami (jpn)
Joo-Hyeon Park (cor)
Alexander Schimpf (frg)
Inesa Synkevich (usa)
Amir Tebenikhin (kzk)
Mana Tokuno (jpn)
Christoph Traxler (a)
Meng-Tzu Tsai (tai)
Larry Weng (usa)


Total: 207 pianists applied
139 pianists auditioned
36 pianists selected to participate

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianstico "Premio Benedetto XIII", Gravina in Puglia (it)
12 - 15 March 2009

       1. Maxim Kulabukhov (ukr)
       2. Jae-Kyung Yoo (cor)
       3. Marco Grieco (it)

 

Total: approx. 22 pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Hilton Head (SC, usa) (AAF)
2 - 9 March 2009

Three finalists

 

       1. Michail Lifits (frg)
       2. Chetan Tierra (usa)
       3. Marouan Benabdallah (mrc/hun) 

 

Other semifinalists:
           Michael Bukhman (isr)
            Yunjie Chen (chn)
           Wei-Jen Yuan (tai)

 

Total: 19 of the 20 selected pianists took part

 

International Piano Competition, Sioux (Iowa. usa)
2 - 9 March 2009

Three finalists

 

       1. Denis Evstukhin (rus)
       2. Dmitri Vorobiev (rus)
       3. Ryo Yanagitani (can)

 

Other semifinalists:
       4. Rui Shi (chn)
        5. Yury Shadrin (rus)
       6. Natalia Lavrova (usa)
       

Total: 12 selected pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano, Casablanca (mrc)
5 - 7 March 2009

       1. Alexei Chernov (rus)
       2. Ilya Rashkovsky (rus)
       3. Vyacheslav Kiselev (rus)
       

Total: 7 selected pianists took part

 

Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth (TX, usa) (AAF)
5 March 2009: result of preselection

30 pianists selected to take part in the
Van Cliburn Int'l Piano Competition
(22 May - 7 June, 2009)

  Stephen Beus (usa)
Evgeni Bozhanov (bul)
Yue Chu (jdb)
Ran Dank (isr)
Alessandro Deljavan (it)
Yoonjung Han (cor)
Kyu Yeon Kim (cor)
Naomi Kudo (usa)
Natacha Kudritskaya (ukr)
Eduard Kunz (rus)
Andrea Lam (aus)
Soyeon Lee (cor)
Ang Li (can)
Michail Lifits (frg)
Spencer Myer (usa)
Ilya Rashkovskiy (rus)
Mayumi Sakamoto (jpn)
Yeol Eum Son (cor)
Victor Stanislavsky (isr)
Chetan Tierra (usa)
Nobuyuki Tsujii (jpn)
Mariangela Vacatello (it)
Vassilis Varvaresos (gr)
Lukas Vondracek (cz)
Di Wu (chn)
Amy J. Yang (chn)
Feng Zhang (chn)
Haochen Zhang (chn)
Ning Zhou (chn)
Zhang Zou (chn)


Total: 225 pianists applied
151 pianists auditioned
30 pianists selected to participate

 

Internationaler "Franz Liszt" Wettbewerb fuer junge Pianisten, Weimar (frg) (AAF)
23 February - 4 March 2009

Category 3
(Highest age category)

 

             1. ---.

             2. Kausikan Rajeshkumar (gb)  
             3. Valeriya Mirosh (ukr)

 

Other finalist:
                 Mukumi Naufal (uzb)

 

Total: 8 pianists took part in this highest category

Category 2

 

   1. Mayuko Motoyama (jpn)

   2. Ruslan Strogiy (est)  
   3. (ex aequo:) Inge Du (frg)
                           Maria Verbaite (lit)   

 

Total: 30 pianists took part in this middel category

Category 1

 

   1. Asagi Nakata (jpn)
   2. Nuron Mukumiy (uzb)  
   3. Yumin Shin (cor)

 

Total: 20 pianists took part in this junior category

 

Concours International de Piano "Interlaken Classics", Bern (ch)
28 February 2009

       1. Yekwon Sunwoo (cor)
       2. Takashi Sato (jpn)
       

Total: 4 selected pianists took part

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Scriabin", Grosseto (it)
20 - 24 February 2009

  1. Alexei Chernov (rus)
  2. ---.

  3. (ex aequo:) Denis Masliuk (ukr)
                          Ilya Rashkovsky (ukr)  

 

Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Pia Tebaldini", Brescia (it)
16 - 17 February 2009

Absolute winners


  1. Maximilian Trebo (it)  [Cat. C]
  2. Johannes Schneider (frg)  [Cat. B]  

 

Other finalists - Scholarships

       Luisa Imorde (frg)  [Cat. E]
       Alvise Pascucci (it)  [Cat. E]
       Leonardo Pierdomenico (it)  [Cat. D]   
       Debora Tempestini (it)  [Cat. B]

Further finalists

       Lana Bubas (crt)  [Cat. B]
       Leonardo Donati (it)  [Cat. B]
       Chiara Giacomelli (it)  [Cat. A]
       Nicolas Giacomelli (it)  [Cat. B]
       Caterina Moretti (it)  [Cat. A]
       Leonardo Vaccari (it)  [Cat. B]

 

Highest category E


     1. Luisa Imorde (frg) > Finals
     1. Alvise Pascucci (it) > Finals   

     2. ---.
     3. Benedikt Boch (frg)

 

Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition, Minneapolis (MN, usa) (AAF)
16 February 2009: result of preselection

24 pianists selected to take part in the
Minneasota Int'l Piano-e-Competition
(29 June - 10 July 2009)

  Chao-yin Cai (chn)
Lindsay Garritson (usa)
Elmar Gasanov (rus)
Vyacheslav Griaznov (rus)
Ran Jia (chn)
Andrej Jusow (frg)
Grace Eunhae Kim (cor)
Eduard Kunts (rus)
Hanchien Lee (tai)
Howard Na (usa)
Piotr Rozanski (pol)
Yukiko Sekino (jpn)
Alexander Seredenko (can)
Rui Shi (chn)
Andrew Staupe (usa)
Konstantin Sukhovetski (rus)
Young-Ah Tak (cor)
Alessandro Taverna (it)
Anastasiya Terenkova (rus)
Helene Tysman (f)
Clara Hui Yang (chn)
Pavel Yeletskiy (belo)
Denis Zhdanov (ukr)
Eric Zuber (usa)

Three alternates:
Chi Wu (chn)
Charlie Albright (usa)
Hao Zhu (chn)

Total: 153 pianists applied
71 pianists invited to audition
24 pianists selected to participate

 

Corpus Christi Int'l Competition for Piano and Strings, Corpus Christi (TX, usa)
14 - 15 February 2009

Piano
Two finalists


     1. Samuel Oram (usa)
     2. Andrew Staupe (usa)

 

Other semifinalists:
     3. (ex aequo:) Hye-Yeon Park (cor)
                             Lo-An Lin (tai)
     4. Anton Smirnov (rus)
     5. Christopher Falzone (usa)
     6. Anna Bulkina (rus)

 

Total: 14 pianists took part

 

London International Piano Competition, London (gb)
February 2009: result of preselection

24 pianists selected to take part in the
7th London Int'l Piano Competition
(18 - 28 April 2009)

  Behzod Abdurayimov (uzb)
Evgeni Bozhanov (bul)
Alexei Chernov (rus)
Seong-Jin Choi (cor)
Ran Dank (isr)
Josu de Solaun Soto (esp)
Mei Yi Foo (mal)
Oleksandr Grynyuk (ukr)
Sofya Gulyak (rus)
Nikolaas Kende (b)
Benjamin Kim (usa)
Da Sol Kim (cor)
Soyeon Kim (cor)
Elena Kiseleva (rus)
Tatjana Kolesova (rus)
Olga Kozlova (rus)
Tuomas Kyyhkynen (fin)
Jin Sang Lee (cor)
Yun Tian Liu (chn)
Stephanie Marie Proot (b)
Ishay Shaer (isr)
Olga Stezhko (belo)
Alessandro Taverna (it)
Hwan-Hee Yoo (cor)

Total: 24 pianists selected to participate

 

Vibrarte International Music Competition, Paris (f)
3 - 9 February 2009

Piano


               1. Natasia Kudritskaya (rus)
               2. (ex aequo:) Florian Noack (b)
                                       Anastasya Terenkova (rus)

 

Other finalists:
                   Florence Boisolle (f)
                   Meng Yang Pan (chn)
                   Gabriela Ungureanu (rum)

 

Total: approx. 21 of the 24 selected pianists took part

 

Concours International de Piano, Lagny sur Marne (f)
7 - 8 February 2009

Category International

 

                1. Eric Artz (f)
                2. Eunji Lee (cor)
                3. (ex aequo:) Marine Dechambre 
                                        Yukino Kano (jpn) 

 

Total: approx. 33 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concours International de Piano, Brest (f)
7 - 8 February 2009

Category Z - Chopin

 

        1. Fabrice Bibas 
        2. Camille Phelep 
        3. (ex aequo:) Yedam Kim (cor) 
                                Martin Surot (f) 
        4. (ex aequo:) Hisako Hirata (jpn) 
                                Gael Riouxel   

 

Total: 27 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Concours International "Piano Campus", Pontoise (f) (AAF)
6 - 8 February 2009

        1. Sae-Nal Kim (cor)
        2. Maria Masycheva (rus) + Aud. Prz.
        3. Yixin Pan (chn)

 

Total: 11 of the 12 selected pianists took part

 

Internationales Kärntner Sparkasse Wörthersee Musikstipendium, Velden (a)
2 - 8 February 2009

     1. Nareh Arghamanyan (arm)
     2. Beatrice Rana (it)
     3. Zhee-Young Moon (cor)

 

Total: approx. 40 pianists took part

 

Concours de Piano "Madeleine de Valmalete", Paris (f)
31 January 2009

Category Excellence

 

          Prix d'honneur: Nina Buchmann (frg)   
                    1. Sophie Suzzoni
                    2. Silvia Amiech
                    2. Maiko Osada (jpn)

                    2. Won-Kyeong Seo (cor)

 

Total: 12 pianists took part in this highest category

 

Maria Yudina International Music Competition, St. Petersburg (rus)
January 2009

Piano Solo - Category 3


     1. Jen-tin Chen (tai)
     2. Megumi Ikeda (jpn)    

Piano Solo - Category 2


     1. ---.
     2. (ex aequo:) Keiko Soejima (jpn)    
                             Maria Michailidi (rus)

Piano Solo - Category 1


     1. Vyacheslav Sheleopv (rus)
     2. (ex aequo:) Michail Dolgov (rus)    
                             Artem Burnatov (rus)

 

Dublin International Piano Competition, Dublin (irl) (AAF)
January 2009: result of preselection

45 pianists selected to take part in the
8th Dublin Int'l Piano Competition
(1 - 15 May 2009)

Soo-Jung Ann (cor)
Michael Berkovsky (isr)
Evgeni Bozhanov (bul)
Rebecca Cap (irl)
Wai-Ching Rachel Cheung (hk)
Shaun Choo (sing)
Emmanuel Christien (f)
Ran Dank (isr)
Christopher Falzone (usa)
David Fung (aus)
Tanya Gabrielian (usa)
Fiachra Garvey (irl)
Oleksiy Gorlach (ukr)
Masataka Goto (jpn)
Oleksandr Grynyuk (ukr)
Sooyeon Ham (cor)
Jae Weon Huh (cor)
So-Mang Jeagal (cor)
Oliver Jia (sw)
Hyun-Jung Kim (cor)
Philip Kopatchevsky (rus)
Olga Kozlova (rus)
Rachel Naomi Kudo (usa)
Sam Man Kun Law (irl)
Steven Lin (usa)
Fionnuala Moynihan (irl)
Dimitris Papadimitriou (gr)
Esther Park (usa)
Jong-Hai Park (cor)
Marianna Prjevalskaya (esp)
Yoon-Soo Rhee (cor)
Nima Sarkechik (f)
Keina Sato (jpn)
Cliodna Shanahan (irl)
Olga Stezhko (belo)
Li-chun Su (tai)
Lukasz Trepczynski (pol)
Yana Vasilyeva (rus)
Gerhard Vielhaber (frg)
Slawomir Wilk (pol)
James Willshire (gb)
Mu-ye Wu (chn)
Yevgeny Yontov (isr)
Jie Yuan (chn)
Eric Zuber (usa)

Total: 45 pianists selected to participate

 

Concorso Musicale Europeo "Città di Valentino", Valentino (it)
18 - 25 January 2009

Category H - Esecuzione Pianistica


Absolute winner: Maurizio Zaccaria (it)  
       1. Young Mi Choi (cor)
       2. (ex aequo:) Marco Grieco (it)  
                               Stefano Schirosi (it) 
       3. ---.
       4. Francesco di Stefano (it)

No more participants in this highest category

 

International Chopin Piano Competition, Corpus Christi (TX, usa)
17 January 2009

   1. Kris Becker (usa)  
   2. Xiaodan Chen (chn)  

 

Honens International Piano Competition, Calgary (can)
January 2009: result of preselection

93 pianists selected to take part in the
auditions for the 6th Honens Competition
(auditions in Calgary / New York / Munich --- March 2009)

 

See their names on:


www.honens.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=89

 

 

Boesendorfer USasu International Piano Competition, Tempe (AZ, usa) (AAF)
4 - 10 January 2009

   1. Stanislav Khrystenko (ukr)  
   2. Daniyar Yessimkhanov (kzk)
   3. Yue Chu (chn)

 

Other finalists:

       Christopher Falzone (usa)  - Spec. Prize
       David Fung (aus)

       Dmitri Levkovich (ukr/can) - Spec. Prize
       Konstantin Sukhovetski (rus)
       Eric Zuber (usa)

Total: 26 of the 28 selected pianists took part

 

Schimmel USasu International Piano Competition for Young Pianists, Tempe (AZ, usa) (AAF)
4 - 10 January 2009

Young Artists Senior Competition
Ages 16-18


    1. ---.
    2. Reed Tetzloff (usa)
    3. Yung-Hoon Chun (cor) 

 

Total: 8 pianists took part in this senior category

            Young Artists Junior Competition           
Ages 13-15


    1. Qi Kong (chn) 

    2. Chung-Man Kim (cor)
    3. Miao Yang (chn)

 

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