The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition has been held every 3 years since 1991 in
Hamamatsu
is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. the city had an estimated population of 791,707 in 340,591 households, making it the prefecture's largest city, and a population density of . The total area of the site was .
Overview
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Shizuoka
Shizuoka can refer to:
* Shizuoka Prefecture, a Japanese prefecture
* Shizuoka (city), the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture
* Shizuoka Airport
* Shizuoka Domain, the name from 1868 to 1871 for Sunpu Domain, a predecessor of Shizuoka Prefecture
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, Japan, and is open to pianists up to 30 years old.
History
The Piano Competition was inaugurated in 1991 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the founding of Hamamatsu City on July 1, 1911.
The Competition has been a member of the
World Federation of International Music Competitions The World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC) is an organization based in Geneva, Switzerland that maintains a network of the internationally recognized organisations that aim to discover the most promising young talents in classi ...
since 1998.
Top prize winners
The 1st prize winners are:
* 1991 –
Sergei Babayan
Sergei Babayan ( hy, Սերգեյ Բաբայան; born 1 January 1961) is an Armenian-American pianist. Described by ''Le Devoir'' as a "genius", Babayan won many international competitions, including the Robert Casadesus International Piano Comp ...
* 1994 –
Victor Liadov
* 1997 –
Alessio Bax
* 2000 –
Alexander Gavrylyuk
* 2003 –
Rafal Blechacz and
Alexander Kobrin (tied)
* 2006 –
Alexej Gorlatch, Ukraine
* 2009 –
Seong-Jin Cho
Seong-Jin Cho ( ko, 조성진; born May 28, 1994) is a South Korean pianist. He rose to fame within South Korea and the international classical music world in 2015 after winning the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition, becoming the first ...
, South Korea
* 2012 –
Ilya Rashkovsky
Ilya Rashkovskiy (born 17 November 1984, in Irkutsk) is a Russian pianist.
Education
Ilya Rashkovskiy debuted with the Irkutsk Chamber Orchestra at the age of eight. He studied from 1993 to 2000 at the Novosibirsk Special School of Music with ...
, Russia
* 2015 –
Alexander Gadjiev, Italy/Slovenia
* 2018 –
Can Çakmur
Can may refer to:
Containers
* Aluminum can
* Drink can
* Oil can
* Steel and tin cans
* Trash can
* Petrol can
* Metal can (disambiguation)
Music
* Can (band), West Germany, 1968
** ''Can'' (album), 1979
* Can (South Korean band)
Other
* Can ...
, Turkey
References
External links
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Music competitions in Japan
Piano competitions
Hamamatsu
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