IX Sydney International Piano Competition
Appearance
The IX Sydney International Piano Competition took place at the Seymour Centre in Sydney from 16 July to 2 August 2008.
It was won by Konstantin Shamray.
Jury
[edit]Warren Thomson (chairman)
Michael Brimer
Manana Doidjashvili
Aquiles Delle Vigne
Norma Fisher
Choong-Mo Kang
Ian Munro
Arie Vardi
Zhou Guangren
Prizes
[edit]Winner | |
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1st Grand Prize | ![]() |
2nd Prize | ![]() |
3rd Prize | ![]() |
4th Prize | ![]() |
5th Prize | ![]() |
6th Prize | ![]() |
Australian SQ engagement | ![]() |
People's Choice Prize | ![]() |
Best Female competitor | ![]() |
Best Australian competitor | ![]() |
Best Australian Music performance | ![]() |
Best Mozart Concerto performance | ![]() |
Best overall Concerto performance | ![]() |
Best 19th/20th century Concerto performance | ![]() |
Best Beethoven performance | ![]() |
Best Chopin performance | ![]() |
Best Liszt performance | ![]() |
Best Liszt Study performance | ![]() |
Best Rachmaninoff performance | ![]() |
Best Chamber Music performance | ![]() |
Best Mozart performance | ![]() |
Best Schubert performance | ![]() |
Best Debussy Prélude performance | ![]() |
Best Russian Music performance | ![]() |
Best Romantic Music overall performance | ![]() |
Best Haydn Sonata performance | ![]() |
Lev Vlassenko Memorial Prize | ![]() |
I Round Encouragement Award | ![]() |
Quarter-Finals Encouragement Award | ![]() |
Semi-finals Encouragement Award | ![]() |
Youngest finalist | ![]() |
Youngest Australian competitor | ![]() |
Works commissioned for the competition
[edit]- Andrew Ford - Thin air
- Roger Smalley - Morceau de Concours
Competition results (by rounds)
[edit]First round
[edit]16–17 July 2008
Charlie Albright
Fernando Altamura
Manuel Araujo
Marco Ciampi
Sean Chen
Ran Dank
Christopher Devine
John Fisher
Balázs Fülei
David Fung
Adam Herd
Elizaveta Ivanova
Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
Miya Kazauka
Tomoki Kitamura
Tatyana Kolesova
Eduard Kunz
Ka-Ling Colleen Lee
Miyeon Lee
Ryan McEvoy McCullough
José Menor Martín
Hoang Pham
Yoonsoo Rhee
Sergey Saratovsky
Takashi Sato
Konstantin Shamray
Yekwon Sunwoo
Daniil Tsvetkov
Mariangela Vacatello
Xun Wang
Wojciech Wisniewski
Alexei Yemtsov
Chun-Chieh Yen
Feng Zhang
Xi-Xi Zhou
Hao Zhu
Eric Zuber
Quarterfinals
[edit]21–22 July 2008
Charlie Albright
Fernando Altamura
Sean Chen
Ran Dank
Christopher Devine
David Fung
Tomoki Kitamura
Tatyana Kolesova
Miyeon Lee
José Menor Martín
Hoang Pham
Yoonsoo Rhee
Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
Sergey Saratovsky
Takashi Sato
Konstantin Shamray
Daniil Tsvetkov
Mariangela Vacatello
Alexei Yemtsov
Hao Zhu
Eric Zuber
Semifinals
[edit]23–25 July 2008
Final
[edit]29 July – 2 August 2008
- Concertos