XVI José Iturbi International Piano Competition
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The XVI José Iturbi International Piano Competition
took take place in Valencia from September 15–27, 2008. It was won by Zhengyu Chen, who became the first Chinese pianist to attain the 1st prize.
Awarded to the best qualified Valencian competitor. Awarded to the best qualified Spanish competitor. Awarded to the best Spanish contemporary music performer. Awarded to the best Concerto performer. Awarded to the best Spanish music performer.
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Orquesta de Valencia. Max Bragado, conductor.
José Iturbi International Piano Competition
The José Iturbi Competition is an international piano competition named after the famed Spanish virtuoso José Iturbi, who later became a famous Hollywood actor. Created in 1981, it has been held ever since in the month of September and is part of the World Federation of International Music...
took take place in Valencia from September 15–27, 2008. It was won by Zhengyu Chen, who became the first Chinese pianist to attain the 1st prize.
Jury
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Joaquín SorianoJoaquín SorianoJoaquín Soriano is a Spanish pianist.Trained in Valencia, he was a disciple of Vlado Perlemuter at the Conservatoire National de Paris...
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Antonio di Cristofano -
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... -
Petras GeniusasPetras GeniušasPetras Geniušas is a Lithuanian classical pianist.In his career he has been working with Alfred Schnittke, Bronius Kutavičius, Osvaldas Balakauskas and Leonid Desyatnikov, composers who have dedicated several of their compositions to the pianist... -
Peter Lang - Stanislav Pochekin
- Fernando Puchol
- Jesús Ángel Rodríguez
- Maria TipoMaria Tipo-Biography:Tipo was born in Naples. She was taught originally by her mother, Ersilia Cavallo, who was a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni, she went on to study under Alfredo Casella and Guido Agosti.At only seventeen, she won the Geneva international piano competition...
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Fujiko Yamada
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Prizes
| Winner | Prize | Sponsor | |
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| 1st Grand Prize |  Zhengyu Chen |
18.000 € + CD + Concert tour | Diputación de Valencia |
| 2nd Prize |  Soyeon Kim |
12.000 € + Concerts in Valencia | Diputación de Valencia |
| 3rd Prize |  Marianna PrjevalskayaMarianna Prjevalskaya Marianna Prjevalskaya is a Russian pianist and a naturalised Spanish citizen, having settled in A Coruña in 1992. She was awarded the 2008 José Iturbi Competition's 3rd prize.-References:* Yale University* Toradze Piano Studio... |
6.000 € + Concerts in Valencia | Diputación de Valencia |
| 4th Prize | Ángel Cabrera |
4.000 € | Bancaja |
| 5th Prize | Angelo Arciglione Angelo Arciglione Angelo Arciglione is an Italian pianist.-References:* Cleveland.com* Sendai International Music Competition... |
3.000 € | Ayuntamiento de Valencia |
| 6th Prize | Yu-Mi Lee |
1.900 € | Sociedad Filarmónica de Valencia |
| void | 1.600 € | Bancaja | |
| Best Chopin performance | void | 2.500 € | Mrs. Heide Wolf |
| Marianna Prjevalskaya |
1.900 € | Kawai-España Kawai The of Japan is best known for its grand and upright pianos, electronic keyboards and electronic synthesizers. The company was established in August 1927, and has its headquarters in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka.-Pianos:... |
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| Soyeon Kim |
1.900 € | Yamaha-Música Ibérica 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... |
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| Zhengyu Chen |
1.900 € | Clemente Pianos | |
| Ángel Cabrera |
1.600 € | Diputación de Valencia | |
Awarded to the best qualified Valencian competitor. Awarded to the best qualified Spanish competitor. Awarded to the best Spanish contemporary music performer. Awarded to the best Concerto performer. Awarded to the best Spanish music performer.
Compositions commissioned for the competition
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- Emilio Calandín - Tres naipes del I Ching
- Miguel Gálvez-TaroncherMiguel Gálvez-TaroncherMiguel Gálvez-Taroncher is a Spanish composer, trained in Vienna.Gálvez-Taroncher is a teacher at Granada's Conservatory, and the Jove Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana's composer in residence...
- Chronos / Kayros - Enrique Sanz-Burguete - A Matilde
First Round
September 16 and 17. Palau de la Música - Sala RodrigoJoaquín Rodrigo
Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez , commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a composer of classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being nearly blind from an early age, he achieved great success...
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- Domenico ScarlattiDomenico ScarlattiGiuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
/ Antonio SolerAntonio SolerAntonio Francisco Javier José Soler Ramos, usually known as Padre Antonio Soler, known in Catalan as Antoni Soler i Ramos was a Spanish Catalan composer whose works span the late Baroque and early Classical music eras...
Sonata + Two pieces among Fryderyk Chopin's Nocturnes, Impromptus, Mazurkas and Waltzes + Gabriel FauréGabriel FauréGabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
/ Claude DebussyClaude DebussyClaude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
/ Maurice RavelMaurice RavelJoseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
composition + Ad libitum.-
Ron Abramski - Mario Alonso Herrero
- Angelo ArciglioneAngelo ArciglioneAngelo Arciglione is an Italian pianist.-References:* Cleveland.com* Sendai International Music Competition...
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Honoré Béjin Garcia - Enrique Bernaldo de Quirós Martín
- Tatyana Bezmenova
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Ingfrid Breie Nyhus - Northern IrelandNorthern IrelandNorthern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
Cathal Breslin - Ángel Cabrera
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Christian ChamorelChristian ChamorelChristian Chamorel is a Swiss pianist.He was trained at Lausanne, Munich and Zürich's Conservatories, graduating in 2004 and 2006; while a student he was prized by the Yamaha, Leenaards and Kiefer Hablitzel foundations. He has performed through Western Europe since... - Zhengyu Chen
- Wu Chi
- Sebastian Di Bin
- Nazareno Ferrugio
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Martina FiljakMartina FiljakMartina Filjak is a Croatian pianist.She started playing piano at the age of 5 and held her first public performance aged 6. She completed her studies at the Music Academy of Zagreb, the Vienna Conservatoire, the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover and additionally at the Como Piano Academy.Filjak... - Sofya GulyakSofya GulyakSofya Gulyak is a Russian pianist. In 2006 she won the 1st Prize in the Sigismund Thalberg International Piano Competition. In 2007 she won the William Kapell Competition and shared the Concorso F. Busoni 2nd prize with Dinara Nadzhafova...
- Shinnosuke Inugai
- Soyeon Kim
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Karalina Kirylchyk -
Yun Jung Koo -
Martin Labazevitch - Daiva Lavrinavičiūtė
- Aleksey Lebedev
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Li-Wei Lee - Yu Mi Lee
- José Menor Martín
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Theodosia Ntokou - Vincenzo Oliva
- Fumie Onda
- Jin Woo Park
- Joo Hyeon Park
- Tristan PfaffTristan PfaffTristan Pfaff is a French pianist, trained at the Paris Conservatory under Michel Béroff.-References:* 2007 Scottish International Piano Competition...
- Marianna PrjevalskayaMarianna PrjevalskayaMarianna Prjevalskaya is a Russian pianist and a naturalised Spanish citizen, having settled in A Coruña in 1992. She was awarded the 2008 José Iturbi Competition's 3rd prize.-References:* Yale University* Toradze Piano Studio...
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Ivana Ristova - Daniil Sayamov
- Sergey Sobolev
- Masataka Takada
- Yoshida Tomoaki
- Maria Tretiyakova
- Andrey Yaroshinsky
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Quarter-finals
September 18, 19 and 20. Palau de la Música - Sala RodrigoJoaquín Rodrigo
Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez , commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a composer of classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being nearly blind from an early age, he achieved great success...
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- Joseph HaydnJoseph HaydnFranz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
/ Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
/ Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
Sonata or Variations + Fryderyk Chopin Etude + Isaac AlbénizIsaac AlbénizIsaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms .-Life:Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz...
(IberiaIberia (Albéniz)Iberia is a suite for piano composed between 1905 and 1909 by the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz. It comprises four books of three pieces each; a complete performance lasts about an hour and a half....
) / Enrique GranadosEnrique GranadosEnrique Granados y Campiña was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism...
(GoyescasGoyescasGoyescas, Op. 11, subtitled Los majos enamorados , is a piano suite written in 1911 by Spanish composer Enrique Granados. This piano suite is usually considered Granados's crowning creation and was inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya, although the piano pieces have not been authoritatively...
) / Manuel de FallaManuel de FallaManuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish Andalusian composer of classical music. With Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina he is one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century....
(Fantasía Bética, Cuatro piezas españolas) composition- Ron Abramski
- Angelo ArciglioneAngelo ArciglioneAngelo Arciglione is an Italian pianist.-References:* Cleveland.com* Sendai International Music Competition...
- Tatyana Bezmenova
- Ángel Cabrera
- Christian ChamorelChristian ChamorelChristian Chamorel is a Swiss pianist.He was trained at Lausanne, Munich and Zürich's Conservatories, graduating in 2004 and 2006; while a student he was prized by the Yamaha, Leenaards and Kiefer Hablitzel foundations. He has performed through Western Europe since...
- Zhengyu Chen
- Sebastian Di Bin
- Nazareno Ferrugio
- Shinnosuke Inugai
- Soyeon Kim
- Yun Jung Koo
- Martin Labazevitch
- Aleksey Lebedev
- Yu-Mi Lee
- Fumie Onda
- Tristan PfaffTristan PfaffTristan Pfaff is a French pianist, trained at the Paris Conservatory under Michel Béroff.-References:* 2007 Scottish International Piano Competition...
- Marianna PrjevalskayaMarianna PrjevalskayaMarianna Prjevalskaya is a Russian pianist and a naturalised Spanish citizen, having settled in A Coruña in 1992. She was awarded the 2008 José Iturbi Competition's 3rd prize.-References:* Yale University* Toradze Piano Studio...
- Maria Tretiyakova
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Semi-finals
September 21 and 22. Palau de la Música - Sala RodrigoJoaquín Rodrigo
Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez , commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a composer of classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being nearly blind from an early age, he achieved great success...
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- RomanticRomantic musicRomantic music or music in the Romantic Period is a musicological and artistic term referring to a particular period, theory, compositional practice, and canon in Western music history, from 1810 to 1900....
composition/s + Mandatory contemporary composition.-
Ron Abramsky - Angelo ArciglioneAngelo ArciglioneAngelo Arciglione is an Italian pianist.-References:* Cleveland.com* Sendai International Music Competition...
- Ángel Cabrera
- Christian ChamorelChristian ChamorelChristian Chamorel is a Swiss pianist.He was trained at Lausanne, Munich and Zürich's Conservatories, graduating in 2004 and 2006; while a student he was prized by the Yamaha, Leenaards and Kiefer Hablitzel foundations. He has performed through Western Europe since...
- Zhengyu Chen
- Shinnosuke Inugai
- Soyeon Kim
- Yun Jung Koo
- Martin Labazevitch
- Yu-Mi Lee
- Tristan PfaffTristan PfaffTristan Pfaff is a French pianist, trained at the Paris Conservatory under Michel Béroff.-References:* 2007 Scottish International Piano Competition...
(withdrawal) - Marianna PrjevalskayaMarianna PrjevalskayaMarianna Prjevalskaya is a Russian pianist and a naturalised Spanish citizen, having settled in A Coruña in 1992. She was awarded the 2008 José Iturbi Competition's 3rd prize.-References:* Yale University* Toradze Piano Studio...
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Final
September 26 and 27. Palau de la Música - Sala IturbiJosé Iturbi
José Iturbi was a Spanish conductor, harpsichordist and pianist. He appeared in several Hollywood films of the 1940s, notably playing himself in the 1943 musical, Thousands Cheer and in the 1945 film, Anchors Aweigh...
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- Angelo ArciglioneAngelo ArciglioneAngelo Arciglione is an Italian pianist.-References:* Cleveland.com* Sendai International Music Competition...
--- Fryderyk Chopin: 2ndPiano Concerto No. 2 (Chopin)The Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21, is a piano concerto composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1830. Chopin wrote the piece before he had finished his formal education, at around 20 years of age. It was first performed on 17 March 1830, in Warsaw, Poland, with the composer as soloist. It was...
. - Ángel Cabrera --- Fryderyk Chopin: 2nd.
- Zhengyu Chen --- Ferenc Liszt: 1stPiano Concerto No. 1 (Liszt)Franz Liszt composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S.124 over a 26-year period; the main themes date from 1830, while the final version dates 1849. The concerto consists of four movements, which are performed without breaks in between, and lasts approximately 20 minutes...
. - Soyeon Kim --- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1stPiano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)The Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between November 1874 and February 1875. It was revised in the summer of 1879 and again in December 1888. The first version received heavy criticism from Nikolai Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky's desired pianist....
. - Yu-Mi Lee --- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1st.
- Marianna PrjevalskayaMarianna PrjevalskayaMarianna Prjevalskaya is a Russian pianist and a naturalised Spanish citizen, having settled in A Coruña in 1992. She was awarded the 2008 José Iturbi Competition's 3rd prize.-References:* Yale University* Toradze Piano Studio...
--- Fryderyk Chopin: 1stPiano Concerto No. 1 (Chopin)The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11, is a piano concerto written by Frédéric Chopin in 1830. It was first performed on 11 October of that year, in Warsaw, with the composer as soloist, during one of his "farewell" concerts before leaving Poland....
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Orquesta de Valencia. Max Bragado, conductor.