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The Premio Mario Zanfi, also known as the Franz Liszt Competition in Parma, is an international piano competition held at the Parma Conservatory since 1981. Past jurors include Lazar Berman

Lazar Berman

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, Louis Kentner

Louis Kentner

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, Jenő Jandó

Jeno Jandó

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, Leslie Howard

Leslie Howard (musician)

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, Azio Corghi

Azio Corghi

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, Gleb Axelrod

Gleb Axelrod

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and Boris Petrushansky

Boris Petrushansky

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. It's a member of the Alink-Argerich

Martha Argerich

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Foundation.

Prize winners

Year
1981	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
	Roger Muraro	not awarded	Kemal Gekić Kemal Gekic Kemal Gekić is an American classical pianist and Professor of Piano at the Florida International University. He is renowned for his performances of Franz Liszt's works. He is of Bosnian ancestry, his parents are from Livno in Bosnia and Herzegovina-External links:** at the FIU School of Music...
1984	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize	Mention of honor
	Bernd Glemser Bernd Glemser Bernd Glemser is a German pianist. A student of Vitaly Margulis, in 1989 he became Germany's youngest piano professor at Saarbrücken's Musikochschule....	Fred Höricke	Michael Gaechter	Chiharu Hanaoka
1986	1st prize	2nd 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... )	3rd prize
	Wonmi Kim	Giovanni Bellucci	Rie Nakajima
		Vittorio Bresciani
1989	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize	Mentions of honor
	not awarded	Fred Höricke	Irina Nikolayeva	Elena Kuschnerova Elena Kuschnerova - Biography :Elena Kuschnerova was born into a musical family in Moscow and trained at the Moscow Central Music School and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. She currently lives in Germany...
				Sergei Reznikov
1992	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
	Nikolai Maloff	Masatoshi Matsumoto	Katariina Liimatainen
1996	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
	Alexander Onkin	Ave Nahkur	Ekaterina Magdalitz
2000	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd 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... )
	Massimiliano Motterle	not awarded	Alexei Gulenco
			Wojciech Waleczek
2007	1st prize	3nd prize	3rd prize
	not awarded	Pietro Ceresini	not awarded

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