XVI International Chopin Piano Competition

The XVI International Chopin Piano Competition (Polish: XVI Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina) was held in Warsaw, Poland from 3 to 20 October 2010, for the first time organized by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. Prize winners' concerts were held October 21–23. The first prize was awarded to Yulianna Avdeeva.[1]

The Sixteenth International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition
Official poster
DateOctober 3–20, 2010 (2010-10-03 – 2010-10-20)
VenueNational Philharmonic, Warsaw
Hosted byFryderyk Chopin Institute
WinnerRussia Yulianna Avdeeva
Websitehttp://konkurs.chopin.pl
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Winners edit

 
Polish President Bronisław Komorowski awarding the first prize to Yulianna Avdeeva

The competition consisted of three stages and a final.

The following prizes were awarded:

Prize Winner
  €30,000 Yulianna Avdeeva   Russia
  €25,000 Lukas Geniušas   Russia
  Lithuania
€25,000 Ingolf Wunder   Austria
  €20,000 Daniil Trifonov   Russia
4th €15,000 Evgeni Bozhanov   Bulgaria
5th €10,000 François Dumont   France
6th not awarded
F €4,000 Nikolay Khozyainov   Russia
€4,000 Miroslav Kultyshev   Russia
€4,000 Pawel Wakarecy   Poland
€4,000 Hélène Tysman   France

In addition, five special prizes were awarded independently:

Special prize Winner
Best Performance of a Concerto Ingolf Wunder   Austria
Best Performance of Mazurkas Daniil Trifonov   Russia
Best Performance of a Polonaise Lukas Geniušas   Russia
  Lithuania
Best Performance of a Sonata Yulianna Avdeeva   Russia
Best Performance of the Polonaise-Fantaisie Ingolf Wunder   Austria

Jurors edit

The jury panel for the competition included:[2]

Participants edit

 
Polish President Bronisław Komorowski at the Laureates' Concert, October 2010

Results edit

Contestant I II III F
  Soo Jung Ann  
  Leonora Armellini      
  Yulianna Avdeeva       1
  Fares Marek Basmadji  
  Evgeni Bozhanov       4th
  Marek Bracha    
  Rachel Wai-Ching Cheung      
  Fei-Fei Dong      
  François Dumont       5th
  Denis Evstukhin  
  Anna Fedorova    
  Madoka Fukami  
  Lukas Geniušas       2
  Leonard Gilbert    
  Jayson Gilham      
  Eri Goto  
  Giuseppe Greco  
  Antoine de Grolée  
  Peng Cheng He    
  Bo Hu  
  Ching-Yun Hu    
  Shih-Wei Huang  
  Claire Huangci      
  Junna Iwasaki    
  Julian Zhi Chao Jia  
  Kaoru Jitsukawa  
  Aljoša Jurinić  
  Airi Katada    
  Lusine Khachatryan  
  Nikolay Khozyainov        
  Da-Sol Kim    
  Sung-Jae Kim  
  Marie Kiyone  
  Yaron Kohlberg  
  Jacek Kortus    
  Marcin Koziak      
  Sheng-Yuan Kwang  
    Rachel Naomi Kudo  
  Miroslav Kultyshev        
  Hanchien Lee  
  Eri Mantani  
  Guillaume Masson    
  Vladimir Matusevich  
  Maiko Mine  
  Shota Miyazaki  
  Kotaro Nagano    
  Mamikon Nakhapetov  
  Mariko Nogami  
  Kana Okada  
  Yuma Osaki    
  Ainobu Ota      
  Anke Pan  
  Esther Park  
  Nimrod David Pfeffer  
  Marianna Prjevalskaya    
  Ilya Rashkovsky    
  Joanna Różewska  
  Takaya Sano  
  Louis Schwizgebel-Wang  
  Yury Shadrin 1      
  Ishay Shaer  
  Meng-Sheng Shen  
  Natalia Sokolovskaya  
  Rina Sudo    
  Hyung-Ming Suh    
  Hannah Sun  
  Hiayi Sun    
  Mei-Ting Sun      
  Gracjan Szymczak  
  Xin Tong    
  Daniil Trifonov       3
  Hélène Tysman        
  Andrew Tyson      
  Irene Veneziano      
  Paweł Wakarecy        
  Yuri Watanabe    
  Ingolf Wunder       2
  Denis Zhdanov    
  Eric Zuber  

1 Withdrawal

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References edit

  1. ^ "Fryderyk Chopin - The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition". Archived from the original on 2010-12-30. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
  2. ^ "Fryderyk Chopin - The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition". Archived from the original on 2010-12-24. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
  3. ^ "Fryderyk Chopin - The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition". Archived from the original on 2010-12-30. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
  4. ^ "Fryderyk Chopin - The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition". Archived from the original on 2010-12-30. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
  5. ^ "Fryderyk Chopin - The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition". Archived from the original on 2011-01-01. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
  6. ^ "Fryderyk Chopin - The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition". Archived from the original on 2010-12-24. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
  7. ^ "Fryderyk Chopin - The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition". Archived from the original on 2010-12-09. Retrieved 2010-12-20.

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