Hilton Head International Piano Competition

The Hilton Head International Piano Competition is an annual piano competition held since 1996 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Hilton Head Island or Hilton Head is a resort town in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. It is north of Savannah, Georgia, and south of Charleston. The island gets its name from Captain William Hilton...

's First Presbyterian Church.

Selected list of jurors

Joseph Banowetz

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José Feghali

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Peter Frankl

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Kemal Gekić

Kemal Gekic

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John Giordano

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Enrique Graf

Enrique Graf was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and is now an American citizen.After winning all of the national competitions in Uruguay, he went to the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University to study with Leon Fleisher on a full scholarship from Peabody and the Organization of American...

Ian Hobson Leslie Howard

Leslie Howard (musician)

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Jerome Lowenthal

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Dominique Merlet John O'Conor

John O'Conor

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Piotr Paleczny

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Daniel Pollack

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Menahem Pressler

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Jerome Rose

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Ann Schein Carlyss

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Andre-Michel Schub

-Biography:Schub came to New York City with his family, when he was eight months old. He began his piano studies with his mother when he was four, and later continued his work with Jascha Zayde. He attended Princeton University, and then transferred to the Curtis Institute of Music, where he...

Christopher Taylor

Christopher Taylor (pianist)

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Valerie Tryon

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Arie Vardi

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Mikhail Voskresensky

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Janice Weber

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Prize winners

year	first prize	second prize	third prize	medalists
1996	Heather Conner	Steven Spooner Steven Spooner Steven Spooner is an American pianist, and currently Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.-Biography:... /Charles Hulin
1997	Sandra Wright Shen Sandra Wright Shen Sandra Wright Shen, a concert pianist, was born in Taiwan. Her father Harold Wright was an American businessman in Taiwan and her mother Sandy Lin Wright was a housewife of Taiwanese descent. She received her Bachelor of Music in 1994 with a piano performance major and organ minor from the...	José Ramón Méndez	Derison Duarte
1998	Marina Lomazov	Theodora Satolia	Inna Faliks
1999	Min-Soo Sohn	Gabrieilius Alekna	Kinwai Shum
2000	Petronel Malan Petronel Malan Petronel Malan is a South African concert pianist.Grammy-nominated South African pianist Malan is an exclusive recording artist for the internationally recognized label Hänssler Classic based in Holzgerlingen near Stuttgart in Germany...	Cuong Hung Van	Georgi Slavchev
2001	Edisher Savitski	Yuri Blinov	Hea Jung Cho
2002	Konstantin Soukhovetski Konstantin Soukhovetski Konstantin Soukhovetski was born into a family of artists, and began playing the piano at the age of four. He studied at the Moscow Central School under the auspices of the Moscow Conservatory, where his special subjects also included composition and acting...	Dustin Gledhill	Esther Jung-A Park
2003	Chu-Fang Huang	Sean Kennard Sean Kennard - Early years :Sean Kennard was born in San Diego, California to an American father and Japanese mother. He grew up in Hawaii and his family moved to Philadelphia when he began studying at the Curtis Institute of Music, at age 13....	Jean-François Latour
2004	Andrew Le	Hong Xu	Elizabeth Schumann
2005	Di Wu Di Wu (pianist) Di Wu is a Chinese pianist.-Early life and education:Born into a musical family in Nanjing, Jiangsu, Di Wu entered Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music at age 12. She made her professional debut at age 14 with the Beijing Philharmonic, and has since toured widely to positive reviews...	Chen-Xin Xu	Ryo Yanagitani
2006	Dmitri Levkovich	Diyi Tang	Daniil Sayamov
2007	Eric Zuber	Alexey Koltakov	Charlie Albright Charlie Albright Charlie Albright is an American-born classical pianist. He is a 2010 Gilmore Young Artist, an official Steinway Artist, and is under management with Young Concert Artists, Inc...
2008	Ran Dank Ran Dank Ran Dank is an Israeli classical pianist, who currently lives in New York, USA.-Early life:Dank started playing the piano at the age of seven with Yaakov Krantz. He went on to work with Liora Peleg at the Givaataim Conservatory, and from 1994 until 2002 he studied with Professor Vadim Monastirsky...	Yelena Beriyeva	Takashi Yamamoto	Hoang Pham Daria Rabotkina Young-Ah Tak
2009	Michail Lifits Michail Lifits Michail Lifits is a prizewinning concert pianist of German nationality who was born into a family of musicians in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1982.-Biography:...	Chetan Tierra	Marouan Benabdallah	Michael Bukhman Yunjie Chen Wei-Jen Yuan

External links

Hilton Head International Piano Competition official website

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