The Fourth Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition

Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition

The Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition was founded in 2002 by Alexander Braginsky in collaboration with the Yamaha company. It took place every two years in Minneapolis-Saint Paul before the 2008 edition was delayed to 2009 due to the arrangement of a junior edition of the competition...

took place in Minneapolis – Saint Paul from June 29 to July 10, 2009.

Jury

  Alexander Braginsky

Alexander Braginsky

-Life and work:He studied at the Moscow conservatory with Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, and, after Goldenweiser's death in 1961, with Theodore Gutman. In the early 1970s, he left Russia with his wife, Tatiana Remenikova, never to visit again until 2004...

 (nonvoting chairman) David Dubal

David Dubal

David Dubal is an American pianist, teacher, author, broadcaster and painter.Dubal has taught at the Juilliard School in New York since 1983 and the Manhattan School of Music since 1994. Mr. Dubal is the host of "The Piano Matters" a program of comparative piano performances that can be heard on ...

 Akiko Ebi

Akiko Ebi

-Biography:Akiko Ebi was born in Osaka. She studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts, and won the piano prize of the 41st Music Competition of Japan. Her international career began with her winning second prize in the 1975 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris. She continued her...

 Gabriel Kwok Nikolai Petrov Jerome Rose

Jerome Rose

-Biography:A pupil of Adolph Baller, Rose debuted with the San Francisco Symphony at the age of 15. A Mannes College and Juilliard School of Music graduate, he also studied with Leonard Shure and Rudolf Serkin at Marlboro Music School. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna as well...

 Jeremy Siepmann Arie Vardi

Arie Vardi

Arie Vardi is an Israeli classical pianist and piano pedagogue.He is currently teaching at the Buhmann-Mehta Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover and at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine...

Awards

Award	Winner	Notes
1st prize	Alessandro Taverna Alessandro Taverna Alessandro Taverna is an Italian pianist, representing Italy at international competitions. He trained at the Accademia Pianistica "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola with Franco Scala, Leonid Margarius and Boris Petrushansky; he later specialized with Arie Vardi at theHochschule für Musik und Theater...	Cash award of US $25,000.
2nd prize	Pavel Yeletskiy	Cash award of US $15,000.
3rd prize	Hélène Tysman	Cash award of US $10,000.
4th prize	Eric Zuber	Cash award of US $6,000.
5th prize	Howard Na	Cash award of US $5,000.
6th prize	Grace Eun Hae Kim	Cash award of US $4,000.
Schubert prize	Pavel Yeletskiy	Cash award of US $3,000 by The Schubert Club. Awarded to one contestant for the best performance of a Schubert Sonata. Yeletskiy performed the Schubert Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, D. 894 (Op. 78) Piano Sonata in G major, D. 894 (Schubert) The Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, D. 894 by Franz Schubert is a sonata for solo piano, completed in October 1826. The work is sometimes called the "Fantaisie", a title which the publisher Tobias Haslinger gave to the first movement of the work, and not Schubert himself... .

Preliminary Round

February 12–15, Yamaha

Yamaha

Yamaha may refer to:* Yamaha Corporation, a Japanese company with a wide range of products and services** Yamaha Motor Company, a Japanese motorized vehicle-producing company...

 Artist Services Inc. (Piano Salon), New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

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Dae Hyung Ahn 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...  Christopher Atzinger Chao-yin Cai Ying Cai Lie Chen Yunjie Chen Henry Wong Doe Leopoldo Erice   Inna Faliks   Jonathan Floril Elmar Gasanov Elmar Gasanov Elmar Gasanov is an Ukrainian pianist trained at the Moscow Conservatory representing Russia at international competitions.-Competition record:* 2000 - Vladimir Krainev IPC, Kharkiv: 1st prize... Irina Georgieva Pavel Gintov Sutini Goh Ayşedeniz Gökçin Anna Golubeva Vyacheslav Gryaznov Miao Hou |valign="top"| Shih-Wei Huang Ran Jia   Andrej Jussow Alexander Karpeyev Grace Eunhae Kim Eduard Kunz Eduard Kunz Eduard Kunz , born October 30 1980, Omsk, - Russian pianist.- Biography :Named among 10 tomorrow's great pianists by the BBC Music Magazine, Eduard Kunz has performed and broadcast frequently with almost every major orchestra in the UK including BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra,... István Lajkó Simon Larivière Hanchien Lee Shen Lu Maria Masycheva Scott Meek Howard Na Jonghwa Park Hye-Yeon Park Piotr Rozanski Yukiko Sekino Alexander Seredenko Anna Shelest Rui Shi |valign="top"| Mikhail Shilyaev Andrew Staupe 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... Alexei Sychev Young-Ah Tak Di-Yi Tang Alessandro Taverna Alessandro Taverna Alessandro Taverna is an Italian pianist, representing Italy at international competitions. He trained at the Accademia Pianistica "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola with Franco Scala, Leonid Margarius and Boris Petrushansky; he later specialized with Arie Vardi at theHochschule für Musik und Theater... Anastasya Terenkova   Amy Toscano Konstantin Travinskyy Hélène Tysman Dmitri Ulasiuk James Wilshire Chi Xu Clara Hui Yang Pavel Yeletskiy Denis Zhdanov Hao Zhu Eric Zuber Adam Zukiewicz

1st Round

June 30-July 4, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis

Orchestra Hall (Minneapolis)

Orchestra Hall, located at Nicollet Mall and 12th Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, is home to the Minnesota Orchestra. The Hall was built in 1974 and opened for the 1974 concert season...

. Chao-yin Cai Elmar Gasanov

Elmar Gasanov

Elmar Gasanov is an Ukrainian pianist trained at the Moscow Conservatory representing Russia at international competitions.-Competition record:* 2000 - Vladimir Krainev IPC, Kharkiv: 1st prize...

 Vyacheslav Gryaznov Ran Jia   Andrej Jussow Grace Eunhae Kim Eduard Kunz

Eduard Kunz

Eduard Kunz , born October 30 1980, Omsk, - Russian pianist.- Biography :Named among 10 tomorrow's great pianists by the BBC Music Magazine, Eduard Kunz has performed and broadcast frequently with almost every major orchestra in the UK including BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra,...

 Hanchien Lee Howard Na Piotr Rozanski Yukiko Sekino Alexander Seredenko Rui Shi Andrew Staupe 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...

Young-Ah Tak Alessandro Taverna Anastasya Terenkova Hélène Tysman Clara Hui Yang Pavel Yeletskiy Dizhou Zhao Denis Zhdanov Eric Zuber