XIII Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition
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The XIII International Chopin Piano Competition took place in Warsaw
from October 1-22, 1995.
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
from October 1-22, 1995.
Palmares
| Winner | |
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| 1st Grand Prize | not awarded |
| 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... ) |
 Philippe GiusianoPhilippe Giusiano Philippe Giusiano is a French classical pianist.In 1990 he took part at the XII Fryderyk Chopin Competition, where he obtained an Honourable Mention. Five years later Giusiano took part in the XIII competition and made it to the finals along with Alexei Sultanov and Gabriela Montero... |
  Alexei SultanovAlexei Sultanov Alexei Sultanov was a Russian-American classical pianist of Uzbek origin.His father was a cellist, his mother was a violinist, and his grandmother was a well-known Uzbek actress. At the age of 6, he began piano lessons in Tashkent with Tamara Popovich... (refusal) |
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| 3rd Prize |  Gabriela MonteroGabriela Montero Gabriela Montero is a Venezuelan-American pianist.Born in Caracas, Venezuela, of an American-born mother and a Venezuelan father, Gabriela Montero was barely a seven-month-old infant when her parents, at the insistence of her maternal grandmother, placed a toy piano in her playpen. It had been... |
| 4th Prize | Rem Urasin Rem Urasin Rem Urasin is a Russian pianist.In 1992 he won the Chopin Competition in Moscow; he has performed internationally since. From 1994-99 he was trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Naumov .... |
| 5th Prize |  Rika Miyatani |
| 6th Prize |  Magdalena Lisak |
| Best performance of a Mazurka | not awarded |
| Best performance of a Polonaise | not awarded |
| Best performance of a Concerto | not awarded |
| 7th |  Nelson Goerner |
| 8th | Nami Ejiri |
| 9th |  Andrey PonochevnyAndrey Ponochevny Andrey Ponochevny is a prize-winning pianist born in Minsk, Belarus on December 31, 1976. He graduated at the Belarussian State Academy of Music in 2001, and soon afterward was awarded the Bronze Medal at the XIII Tchaikovsky competition. Mr. Ponochevny, who had settled in the American scene after... |
| 10th | Katia Skanavi Katia Skanavi Katia Skanavi is a Russian pianist of Greek descent.Skavani started a concert career after being awarded the XXII Long-Thibaud Competition's 3rd prize at 18. In 1994 she won Athens' Maria Callas Grand Prize.-References:*... |
Jury
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- Jan EkierJan EkierJan Ekier is a Polish pianist and composer widely known for his authoritative edition of Chopin's music for the Polish National Edition. He was born in Kraków, Poland...
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Paul Badura-SkodaPaul Badura-SkodaPaul Badura-Skoda is an Austrian pianist.He won first prize in the Austrian Music Competition in 1947. In 1949, he performed with distinguished conductors like Wilhelm Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan... - Halina Czerny-StefańskaHalina Czerny-StefanskaHalina Czerny-Stefańska was a Polish pianist.She studied piano under her father, Stanislaw Szwarcenberg-Czerny, as well as with Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, and later with Józef Turczyński and Zbigniew Drzewiecki in Warsaw...
- Bella DavidovichBella DavidovichBella Mikhaylovna Davidovich is a Jewish Soviet-born American pianist.Davidovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, into a family of musicians and began studying piano when she was six. Three years later, she was the soloist for a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1. In 1939, she moved to...
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Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger - Lidia Grychtołówna
- Adam HarasiewiczAdam HarasiewiczAdam Harasiewicz is a Polish classical concert pianist.He won the first prize at the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in 1955....
- Barbara Hesse-BukowskaBarbara Hesse-BukowskaBarbara Hesse-Bukowska is a Polish pianist. She graduated from Warsaw's State Higher School of Music in June 1949, and took part a few months later in the first postwar edition of the International Chopin Piano Competition, winning the 2nd prize...
- Andrzej JasińskiAndrzej JasinskiAndrzej Jasiński is a Polish pianist.In 1959 he graduated with honors from the University of Music in Katowice in the piano class of Władysława Markiewiczówna. The following year he won the Maria Canals Competition, and subsequently completed his training under Magda Tagliaferro...
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Ivan KlánskýIvan KlánskýIvan Klánský is a Czech pianist.He was awarded 2nd prizes at the 1967 Concorso Busoni , the 1968 J.S. Bach Competition in Leipzig and the 1976 Paloma O'Shea Competition. He has performed internationally since. In addition, he has recorded for Naxos Records, Supraphon and Praga .Klánský holds a... - Hitoshi Kobayashi
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Lee Kum-Sing - Dominique Merlet
- Victor MerzhanovVictor Merzhanov-Biography:Studied at Tambov Musical College with Solomon Starikov and Alexander Poltoratsky. Between 1936-1941 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory in the classes of Samuil Feinberg and Alexander Goedicke , graduating with distinction....
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Li Ming Qiang - Hiroko NakamuraHiroko Nakamurais a Japanese pianist. She is the youngest, and the second Japanese prizewinner at the 7th International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition...
- Piotr PalecznyPiotr PalecznyPiotr Paleczny is a Polish classical pianist, winner of the 3rd prize of the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in 1970....
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Sergio Perticaroli -
Edith Picht-AxenfeldEdith Picht-AxenfeldEdith Picht-Axenfeld was a German pianist and harpsichordist.She started her concert career in 1935, and took part two years later in the third Fryderyk Chopin Competition, where she was awarded a 6th prize; this launched her career... - Bernard RingeissenBernard RingeissenBernard Ringeissen is a French classical pianist.He was born in Paris in 1934. His first teacher, at age 7, was Georges de Lausnay. He entered the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieure de Musique in 1947, aged 12, and won the Premier Prix when he was sixteen. He had further study with Marguerite...
- Harold C. SchonbergHarold C. SchonbergHarold Charles Schonberg was an American music critic and journalist, most notably for The New York Times. He was the first music critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism...
- Regina SmendziankaRegina SmendziankaRegina Smendzianka was a Polish pianist.Regina Smendzianka was born in Toruń, and began her public performances as a child of eight surprising the audience with her mature interpretation of the classical works...
- Zbigniew Sliwinski
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Arie VardiArie VardiArie 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...
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First Round
September 2-8.-
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Soojin AhnSoojin AhnSoojin Ahn is a Korean American classical pianist. She started playing the piano at age three in her native South Korea and moved to the U.S. at age 10.... - Mika Akiyama
- Susumu Aoyagi
- Andrew Armstrong
- Racha Arodaky
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Angela Au - Maurizio Baglini
- Tomasz Bartoszek
- Beata Bilinska
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Gergely BoganyiGergely BogányiComing from a musical family, Gergely Bogányi is one of the youngest ever pianists to have won the Kossuth Prize, becoming one of the leading pianists of his generation.- Education :... -
Anna Bogolyubova - Jean-François Buvery
- Jan Krzysztof Broja
- Luigi Cartia
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Chang Chen - Ruei-Bin Chen
- Ya-Fei Chuang
- Eun-Joo Chung
- Roberto Cominati
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Claudia Corona Castillo - Michele d'Ambrosio
- Tomasz Debowski
- Jean-François Dichamp
- Mariusz Drzewicki
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Natasa Dukan - Nami Ejiri
- Marina Evreison
- Masako Ezaki
- Michal Ferber
- Simone FerraresiSimone FerraresiSimone Ferraresi is an Italian classical pianist and composer, currently based in New York City.-References:* 1995 Frédéric Chopin International Piano Competition website.-External links:**...
- Massimiliano Ferrati
- Ingrid FliterIngrid FliterIngrid Fliter is an Argentinian pianist. She began her formal piano studies with Elizabeth Westerkamp. Her first public appearance in recital was at age 11, and she made her concerto debut at the Teatro Colón at age 16....
- Marylin Frascone
- Eliska Gazdova
- Philippe GiusianoPhilippe GiusianoPhilippe Giusiano is a French classical pianist.In 1990 he took part at the XII Fryderyk Chopin Competition, where he obtained an Honourable Mention. Five years later Giusiano took part in the XIII competition and made it to the finals along with Alexei Sultanov and Gabriela Montero...
- Nelson Goerner
- Grzegorz Gorczyca
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Ambre Lyn Hammond - Ayako Higuchi
- Ilya ItinIlya ItinIlya Itin is a Russian concert pianist of international acclaim currently residing in New York City.-Music Competition:...
- Megumi Ito
- Maria Ivanova
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Karina Jermaka - Adam Jezierzanski
- Petr Jirikovski
- Yoshizaku Jumei
- Mario Karacic
- Masahi Katayama
- Yuko Kawai
- Igal Kesselman
- Won Kim
- Piotr Klajn
- Tomasz Kolodziejek
- Maria Kopylova
- Pawel Kubica
- Olaf John Laneri
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Javier Lanis - Katherine Lee
- Ying-Chien Lin
- Magdalena Lisak
- Anne-Louise Turgeon
- Joanna Laweynowicz
- Rafal Luszczewski
- Marlena Maciejkowicz
- Aleksandar MadžarAleksandar Madžar (musician)Aleksandar Madžar is a Serbian pianist.Madžar first studied piano with Gordana Matinovic, Arbo Valdma and Eliso Virsaladze in Belgrade and Moscow, then with Edouard Mirzoian at the Strasbourg Conservatory and in Brussels with Daniel Blumenthal...
- Maki Maeda
- Ratimir MartinovicRatimir MartinovicRatimir Martinović is an award-winning Montenegrin pianist.-Biography:Martinović was born in Kotor, Montenegro, then Yugoslavia, where he completed the elementary music school; he continued his education in Novi Sad at the Isidor Bajić Music school and at the Academy of Art in the class of the...
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Janne Mertanen - Zrinka Mikelic
- Oleksandr Mikhailyuk
- Misa Miyamoto
- Peter Miyamoto
- Rika Miyatani
- Daria Monastyrski
- Gabriela MonteroGabriela MonteroGabriela Montero is a Venezuelan-American pianist.Born in Caracas, Venezuela, of an American-born mother and a Venezuelan father, Gabriela Montero was barely a seven-month-old infant when her parents, at the insistence of her maternal grandmother, placed a toy piano in her playpen. It had been...
- Manuel Montero Contreras
- Luca Monti
- Chie Mori
- Hideki Nagano
- Hisako Nagayoshi
- Jon NakamatsuJon NakamatsuJon Yasuhiro Nakamatsu is a Japanese American classical pianist who still resides in San Jose but mostly performs away from home. He is the son of David Y. Nakamatsu and Karen F. Maeda Nakamatsu .In June 1997 Nakamatsu won the Gold Medal at the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition...
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Nguen Bich Tra - Michio Nishihara Toro
- Koji Oikawa
- Masaru Okada
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Nicholas Ong - Anthony Padilla
- Jong-Gyung Park
- Oksana Petrechenko
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Peter Petrov - Daria Petrova
- Andrey PonochevnyAndrey PonochevnyAndrey Ponochevny is a prize-winning pianist born in Minsk, Belarus on December 31, 1976. He graduated at the Belarussian State Academy of Music in 2001, and soon afterward was awarded the Bronze Medal at the XIII Tchaikovsky competition. Mr. Ponochevny, who had settled in the American scene after...
- Olga Pushetchnikova
- Zbigniew Raubo
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Eliane Reyes - Marcela Rodríguez Hidalgo
- Michele Rovetta
- Katarzyna Rzeszutek
- Kei Saotome
- Georg Schneider
- Graham Scott
- Timur SergeyenyaTimur SergeyenyaTimur Sergeyenya is a Belarussian pianist trained at the Belarus State Conservatory under Irina Tsvetayeva and Valery Shatsky.-References:* Northern Flowers* RIA Novosti Image Library...
- Yuan Sheng
- Fumiko Shiraga
- Katia SkanaviKatia SkanaviKatia Skanavi is a Russian pianist of Greek descent.Skavani started a concert career after being awarded the XXII Long-Thibaud Competition's 3rd prize at 18. In 1994 she won Athens' Maria Callas Grand Prize.-References:*...
- Alex Slobodyanik
- Piotr Slopecki
- Anna Stempin
- Renata Stocko
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Constantinos Stylianou - Shigetoshi Suematsu
- Alexei SultanovAlexei SultanovAlexei Sultanov was a Russian-American classical pianist of Uzbek origin.His father was a cellist, his mother was a violinist, and his grandmother was a well-known Uzbek actress. At the age of 6, he began piano lessons in Tashkent with Tamara Popovich...
- Ivana ŠvarcIvana Švarc-GrendaIvana Švarc-Grenda is a Croatian pianist.Švarc-Grenda was trained at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, the Academy of the Arts in Berlin and Salzburg's Mozarteum, settling in Germany....
- Michal Szczepanski
- Maciej Szyrner
- Yuki Takao
- Yoko Takemura
- Zhihua Tang
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Tomaz Tobing - Igor Tsittser
- Marie Tsunoda
- Krystina Tucka
- Rem UrasinRem UrasinRem Urasin is a Russian pianist.In 1992 he won the Chopin Competition in Moscow; he has performed internationally since. From 1994-99 he was trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Naumov ....
- Junko Urayama
- Mark Vainer
- Frederic Vaysse-Knitter
- Natasa VeljkovicNatasa VeljkovicNataša Veljković is a Serbian pianist.She was trained under Arbo Valdma, Paul Badura-Skoda , Rudolf Firkusny and Harry Datyner...
- Katarzyna Vernet
- Sana Villerusha
- Jin-Ho Weng
- Filip Wojciechowski
- Elina Yanchenko
- Libby Yu
- Lu-Hui Yu
- Elena Zaitseva
- Anna Zasimova
- Pawel Zawadzki
- Connie Ying Zhang
- Ludmila Zhilenkova
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Second Round
October 10-13-
- Mika Akiyama
- Susumu Aoyagi
- Andrew Armstrong
- Maurizio Baglini
- Tomasz Bartoszek
- Beata Bilinska
- Gergely BoganyiGergely BogányiComing from a musical family, Gergely Bogányi is one of the youngest ever pianists to have won the Kossuth Prize, becoming one of the leading pianists of his generation.- Education :...
- Jan Krzysztof Broja
- Luigi Cartia
- Roberto Cominati
- Nami Ejiri
- Michal Ferber
- Massimiliano Ferrati
- Ingrid FliterIngrid FliterIngrid Fliter is an Argentinian pianist. She began her formal piano studies with Elizabeth Westerkamp. Her first public appearance in recital was at age 11, and she made her concerto debut at the Teatro Colón at age 16....
- Marylin Frascone
- Eliska Gazdova
- Philippe GiusianoPhilippe GiusianoPhilippe Giusiano is a French classical pianist.In 1990 he took part at the XII Fryderyk Chopin Competition, where he obtained an Honourable Mention. Five years later Giusiano took part in the XIII competition and made it to the finals along with Alexei Sultanov and Gabriela Montero...
- Nelson Goerner
- Ilya Itin
- Piotr Klajn
- Magdalena Lisak
- Rika Miyatani
- Gabriela MonteroGabriela MonteroGabriela Montero is a Venezuelan-American pianist.Born in Caracas, Venezuela, of an American-born mother and a Venezuelan father, Gabriela Montero was barely a seven-month-old infant when her parents, at the insistence of her maternal grandmother, placed a toy piano in her playpen. It had been...
- Chie Mori
- Koji Oikawa
- Andrey PonochevnyAndrey PonochevnyAndrey Ponochevny is a prize-winning pianist born in Minsk, Belarus on December 31, 1976. He graduated at the Belarussian State Academy of Music in 2001, and soon afterward was awarded the Bronze Medal at the XIII Tchaikovsky competition. Mr. Ponochevny, who had settled in the American scene after...
- Olga Pushetchnikova
- Zbigniew Raubo
- Timur SergeyenyaTimur SergeyenyaTimur Sergeyenya is a Belarussian pianist trained at the Belarus State Conservatory under Irina Tsvetayeva and Valery Shatsky.-References:* Northern Flowers* RIA Novosti Image Library...
- Yuan Sheng
- Katia SkanaviKatia SkanaviKatia Skanavi is a Russian pianist of Greek descent.Skavani started a concert career after being awarded the XXII Long-Thibaud Competition's 3rd prize at 18. In 1994 she won Athens' Maria Callas Grand Prize.-References:*...
- Alexei SultanovAlexei SultanovAlexei Sultanov was a Russian-American classical pianist of Uzbek origin.His father was a cellist, his mother was a violinist, and his grandmother was a well-known Uzbek actress. At the age of 6, he began piano lessons in Tashkent with Tamara Popovich...
- Ivana ŠvarcIvana Švarc-GrendaIvana Švarc-Grenda is a Croatian pianist.Švarc-Grenda was trained at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, the Academy of the Arts in Berlin and Salzburg's Mozarteum, settling in Germany....
- Yoko Takemura
- Rem UrasinRem UrasinRem Urasin is a Russian pianist.In 1992 he won the Chopin Competition in Moscow; he has performed internationally since. From 1994-99 he was trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Naumov ....
- Sana Villerusha
- Filip Wojciechowski
- Libby Yu
- Lu-Hui Yu
- Pawel Zawadzki
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Semi-finals
October 15 and 16-
- Andrew Armstrong
- Maurizio Baglini
- Luigi Cartia
- Roberto Cominati
- Nami Ejiri
- Philippe GiusianoPhilippe GiusianoPhilippe Giusiano is a French classical pianist.In 1990 he took part at the XII Fryderyk Chopin Competition, where he obtained an Honourable Mention. Five years later Giusiano took part in the XIII competition and made it to the finals along with Alexei Sultanov and Gabriela Montero...
- Nelson Goerner
- Magdalena Lisak
- Rika Miyatani
- Gabriela MonteroGabriela MonteroGabriela Montero is a Venezuelan-American pianist.Born in Caracas, Venezuela, of an American-born mother and a Venezuelan father, Gabriela Montero was barely a seven-month-old infant when her parents, at the insistence of her maternal grandmother, placed a toy piano in her playpen. It had been...
- Andrey PonochevnyAndrey PonochevnyAndrey Ponochevny is a prize-winning pianist born in Minsk, Belarus on December 31, 1976. He graduated at the Belarussian State Academy of Music in 2001, and soon afterward was awarded the Bronze Medal at the XIII Tchaikovsky competition. Mr. Ponochevny, who had settled in the American scene after...
- Katia SkanaviKatia SkanaviKatia Skanavi is a Russian pianist of Greek descent.Skavani started a concert career after being awarded the XXII Long-Thibaud Competition's 3rd prize at 18. In 1994 she won Athens' Maria Callas Grand Prize.-References:*...
- Alexei SultanovAlexei SultanovAlexei Sultanov was a Russian-American classical pianist of Uzbek origin.His father was a cellist, his mother was a violinist, and his grandmother was a well-known Uzbek actress. At the age of 6, he began piano lessons in Tashkent with Tamara Popovich...
- Rem UrasinRem UrasinRem Urasin is a Russian pianist.In 1992 he won the Chopin Competition in Moscow; he has performed internationally since. From 1994-99 he was trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Naumov ....
- Libby Yu
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Final
October 18 and 19-
- Philippe GiusianoPhilippe GiusianoPhilippe Giusiano is a French classical pianist.In 1990 he took part at the XII Fryderyk Chopin Competition, where he obtained an Honourable Mention. Five years later Giusiano took part in the XIII competition and made it to the finals along with Alexei Sultanov and Gabriela Montero...
- Magdalena Lisak
- Rika Miyatani
- Gabriela MonteroGabriela MonteroGabriela Montero is a Venezuelan-American pianist.Born in Caracas, Venezuela, of an American-born mother and a Venezuelan father, Gabriela Montero was barely a seven-month-old infant when her parents, at the insistence of her maternal grandmother, placed a toy piano in her playpen. It had been...
- Alexei SultanovAlexei SultanovAlexei Sultanov was a Russian-American classical pianist of Uzbek origin.His father was a cellist, his mother was a violinist, and his grandmother was a well-known Uzbek actress. At the age of 6, he began piano lessons in Tashkent with Tamara Popovich...
- Rem UrasinRem UrasinRem Urasin is a Russian pianist.In 1992 he won the Chopin Competition in Moscow; he has performed internationally since. From 1994-99 he was trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Naumov ....
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- No overall winner.