Midwest International Piano Competition

The Midwest International Piano Competition is a piano competition held biannually at the University of Northern Iowa School of Music since 2014. It awards more than $25,000 in prize money, with a first prize of $10,000, and has two categories: Senior for up to 32 years old and Junior for up to 17 years old.[1] The jury members of the inaugural competition included Arthur Greene, Alexander Toradze, and Miroslav Brejcha.[2]

Prize winners edit

Senior category edit

Year 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
2016   Timur Mustakimov   Allison Lee   Zhenni Li
2014   Margaryta Golovko     Elina Akselrud   Tomer Gewirtzman

Junior category edit

Year 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
2016   J.J. (Jun Li) Bui   Arthur Wang   Jeffrey Chin
2014   Michael Lu
 
Mayuki Miyashita
  William Yang   Yinuo Wang

References edit

  1. ^ "Ukrainian Pianist Margaryta Golovko Wins First Prize in Midwest International Piano Competition". Iowa Public Radio. 2014-06-07. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
  2. ^ "UNI School of Music to present International Piano Competition | Newsroom". Uni.edu. 2014-06-07. Retrieved 2014-08-11.

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