The Fourth

Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition The Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition was founded in 2002 by Alexander Braginsky in collaboration with the Yamaha Corporation. It took place every two years in Minneapolis–Saint Paul before the 2008 edition was delayed to 2009 due to the ...

took place in

Minneapolis–Saint Paul Minneapolis–Saint Paul is a metropolitan area in the Upper Midwestern United States centered around the confluence of the Mississippi, Minnesota and St. Croix rivers in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is commonly known as the Twin Cities ...

from June 29 to July 10, 2009.

Jury

Alexander Braginsky Alexander Iosifovich Braginsky (russian: Александр Иосифович Брагинский, ''Aleksandr Iosifovič Braginskij''; May 29, 1944) is a Russian-born pianist and pedagogue, currently living in the United States. Life and care ...

(nonvoting chairman) *

David Dubal David Dubal (born Cleveland, Ohio) is an American pianist, teacher, author, lecturer, broadcaster, and painter. Musician and painter Dubal has given piano recitals and master classes worldwide, and has also judged international piano competitions ...

Akiko Ebi is a Japanese-French pianist. Ebi was born in Osaka. She studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts, and won the piano prize of the 41st Music Competition of Japan. Her international career began with her winning second prize in the 1975 Marg ...

* Gabriel Kwok * Nikolai Petrov *

Jerome Rose JEROME ROSE, hailed as "the Last Romantic of our own age" is an American pianist and educator, (born 12 August 1938 in Los Angeles). JEROME ROSE is one of America's most distinguished pianists, has been heard in major concert halls across five co ...

* Jeremy Siepmann * Arie Vardi

Awards

Competition results, by rounds

Preliminary round

''February 12–15,

Yamaha Yamaha may refer to: * Yamaha Corporation, a Japanese company with a wide range of products and services, established in 1887. The company is the largest shareholder of Yamaha Motor Company (below). ** Yamaha Music Foundation, an organization estab ...

Artist Services Inc. (Piano Salon), New York City''.

1st round

''June 30-July 4,

Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis Orchestra Hall is a concert hall that is located on 11th Street at Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. The home of the Minnesota Orchestra, it is a major landmark of the southern portion of Nicollet Mall and hosts many events throu ...

''. * China Chao-yin Cai * Russia Elmar Gasanov * Russia Vyacheslav Gryaznov * China Ran Jia * Ukraine Germany Andrej Jussow * South Korea Grace Eunhae Kim * Russia

Eduard Kunz Eduard Kunz (russian: Эдуард Кунц), (born October 30, 1980 in Omsk, Soviet Union) is a Russian pianist. He reached the 2nd round in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011. Biography Eduard was born in Siberia from an assi ...

* Taiwan Hanchien Lee * USA Howard Na * Poland Piotr Rozanski * Japan Yukiko Sekino * Canada Alexander Seredenko * China Rui Shi * USA Andrew Staupe * Russia

Konstantin Soukhovetski Konstantin Alekseyevich Soukhovetski (born January 19, 1981) was born into a family of artists, and began playing the piano at the age of four. He studied at the Moscow Central School under the auspices of the Moscow Conservatory, where his speci ...

* South Korea Young-Ah Tak * Italy Alessandro Taverna * Russia Anastasya Terenkova * France Hélène Tysman * China Clara Hui Yang * Belarus Pavel Yeletskiy * China Dizhou Zhao * Ukraine Denis Zhdanov * USA Eric Zuber

References

External links

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