Cleveland International Piano Competition

The Cleveland International Piano Competition is an American piano competition that takes place biennially in Cleveland, Ohio. The initial Competition in 1975 and the nine others that followed were sponsored jointly by the Robert Casadesus Society and the Cleveland Institute of Music to honor the memory of French pianist Robert Casadesus. As a result, the Competition was then called the Casadesus International Piano Competition. In 1994, a new organization was formed: the Piano International Association of Northern Ohio (PIANO). Prize winners of the Cleveland International Piano Competition have included renowned artists like Nicholas Angelich, Sergei Babayan, Angela Hewitt, Daejin Kim, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Kotaro Fukuma and among others.

Cleveland International Piano Competition
LocationSeverance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio
CountryUnited States
First awarded1975; 49 years ago (1975)
Websitehttp://www.clevelandpiano.org

The first Competition with the new name of "Cleveland" took place in August 1995. The 2001 Competition finals were held at Severance Hall with the Cleveland Competition Orchestra conducted by Jahja Ling. The success of this venture led to negotiations in 2003 with the Musical Arts Association resulting in the engagement of the Cleveland Orchestra to play for the four finalists at Severance Hall.

The Cleveland International Piano Competition is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.

Past prize winners

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Year First Second Third Fourth
2024   Zijian Wei   Evren Ozel   Maxim Lando   Giuseppe Guarrera
2021   Martín García García   Lovre Marušić   Byeol Kim   Yedam Kim
2016   Nikita Mndoyants   Leonardo Colafelice   Dinara Klinton   Georgiy Tchaidze
2013   Stanislav Khristenko   Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev   François Dumont   Jiayan Sun
2011   Alexander Schimpf   Alexei Chernov   Eric Zuber   Kyu Yeon Kim
2009   Martina Filjak   Dmitri Levkovich   William Youn   Evgeny Brakhman
2007[1]   Alexander Ghindin   Yaron Kohlberg   Alexandre Moutouzkine   Ran Dank
2005   Chu-Fang Huang   Sergey Kuznetsov   Stanislav Khristenko   Spencer Myer
2003   Kotaro Fukuma   Soyeon Lee   Konstantin Soukhovetski   Andrius Zlabys
2001   Roberto Plano   Minsoo Sohn   Özgür Aydin   Gilles Vonsattel
1999   Antonio Pompa-Baldi   Vassily Primakov   Shoko Inoue   Sean Botkin
1997   Per Tengstrand   Gulnora Alimova   Ning An   Dror Biran
1995   Margarita Shevchenko  /  Marina Lomazov   Dmitri Teterin   Giampaolo Stuani
1993   Amir Katz Not awarded   Seizo Azuma
  Yuko Nakamichi
  Katsunori Ishii
Year First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth
1991   Ilya Itin   Anders Martinson   Markus Pawlik   Jean-François Bouvery   Timothy Bozarth   Hsin-Bei Lee
1989   Sergei Babayan   Nicholas Angelich   Megumi Kaneko   Pascal Godart   François Chaplin   Eglé Januleviciuté
1987   Thierry Huillet   Asaf Zohar   Jonathan Bass   Beatrice Hsin-Chen Long   Takayuki Ito   Hiroko Atsumi
1985   Daejin Kim   Benedetto Lupo   Hélène Jeanney   Neil Rutman   Yves Henry   Dan-Wen Wei
1983   Youngshin An   Mayumi Kameda   Stéphane Lemelin   Roy Kogan   Dimitry Cogan   Silke-Thora Matthies
1981   Philippe Bianconi   Dan Riddle   Rémy Loumbrozo   Roy Kogan   Timothy Smith   Michael Boriskin
1979   Edward Newman   Jean-Yves Thibaudet   Angela Hewitt   Frederick Blum   Peter Vinograde   Douglas Weeks
1977   Nathalie Béra-Tagrine   Barry Salwen   Douglas Montgomery   Laura Silverman   Géry Moutier   Sandra Shuler
1975   John Owings   Julian Martin   John-Patrick Millow   Roe Van Boskirk   Katsurako Mikami   Paweł Chęciński

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Rosenberg, Donald (2007). "reviews of the Cleveland International Piano Competition". The Plain Dealer. Archived from the original on 2008-07-09. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
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