The Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition was founded in 2002 by 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...

 in collaboration with the 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...

 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. The -e- refers to the competition's focus on Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 and Disklavier

Disklavier

Disklavier is the brand name for a group of piano-related products made by Yamaha Corporation. It was introduced in the United States in 1987....

 technologies.

Senior competition

Year
2002	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize	4th prize
	Mei-Ting Sun Mei-Ting Sun Mei-Ting Sun , born 14 March 1981, is a classical pianist.A native of Shanghai, Sun arrived in New York at the age of nine. He entered the Professional Children's School and the Mannes College of Music, where he studied ear training with Marie Powers, theory with Robert Cuckson, and piano with...	Victoria Korchinskaya	not awarded	Edisher Savitski
				5th prize
				Tatyana Kolesova
				6th prize
				Wen-Yin Chan
2004	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize	4th prize
	Jie Chen Jie Chen Jie Chen is a Chinese pianist.Chen studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music. She debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 16, and has concertized around the world, including performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.She has won...	Yung Wook Yoo	Denis Evstioukhine	Tatyana Kolesova
				5th prize
				Hanna Shybayeva
				6th prize
				Inesa Synkevych
				Honour mentions
				Ko-Eun Lee
				Jia Ran
2006	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize	4th prize
	Edisher Savitski	Ryo Yanagitani	Victoria Korchinskaya	Mikhail Mordvinov
				5th prize
				Einav Yarden
				6th prize
				Gregory DeTurck
2009 IV Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition The Fourth Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition took place in Minneapolis – Saint Paul from June 29 to July 10, 2009.-Jury: Alexander Braginsky David Dubal Akiko Ebi Gabriel Kwok Nikolai Petrov Jerome Rose Jeremy Siepmann Arie Vardi-Awards:-Preliminary Round:February 12–15, Yamaha Artist...	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize	4th 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...	Pavel Yeletskiy	Hélène Tysman	Eric Zuber
				5th prize
				Howard Na
				6th prize
				Grace Eun Hae Kim

Junior competition

Year
2008	1st prize (ex-a. Ex aequo et bono Ex aequo et bono is a phrase derived from Latin that is used as a legal term of art... )	2nd prize	3rd prize	4th prize
	Frank Düpree	not awarded	Jan Lisiecki Jan Lisiecki Jan Lisiecki is a classical pianist. Born in Calgary, Canada to Polish parents, Lisiecki is most well known as being extremely accomplished in piano as well as in academics at a young age....	not awarded
	Nansong Huang		Osip Nikiforov	5th prize
				Vladimir Levitsky
				6th prize
				not awarded

External links

• http://www.piano-e-competition.com/ Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition