The Sussex International Piano Competition is a music competition that takes place in

Worthing Worthing () is a seaside town in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 111,400 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Brighton and Ho ...

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. It was founded in 2010 by Worthing Symphony Orchestra (WSO) artistic director and conductor John Gibbons. It takes place at the

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in Worthing, a venue noted for its acoustics, which, according to the organisers, are some of the best in Europe. The competitors are accompanied by the Worthing Symphony Orchestra. The second edition of the competition was won by Poom Prommachart of Thailand, who in the Grand Final played

Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one o ...

’s 3rd piano concerto. The third edition of the competition was won by Varvara Tarasova of Russia who played Chopin's second piano concerto. Yi-Yang Chen won the fourth edition of the competition having played Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 in the Grand Final. The international jury for the second edition of the competition was drawn from across the music industry and included composer/pianist John McCabe (President of the British Music Society),

Philip Fowke Philip Fowke (born 28 June 1950) is an English pianist. Biography Philip Francis Fowke studied at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) with Gordon Green, a pupil of Egon Petri. In 1974 he made his London debut with a recital at the Wigmore Hall (B ...

(UK), Yuki Negishi (Japan), Judith Clark (Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra) and the competition’s 2010 inaugural winner Arta Arnicane (Latvia). Patrons of the event include

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, Rick Wakeman, and BBC presenters

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and

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. The jury for the third competition in 2015 included

İdil Biret İdil Biret (born 21 November 1941) is a Turkish concert pianist. Education Biret began her lessons at the age of five with , who had studied under Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot. When she was seven, the Turkish parliament enacted a special ...

from

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and winner of the second Sussex International Piano Competition, Poom Prommachart. The jury for the competition's fourth edition included previous winners Arta Arnicane (2010) and Varvara Tarasova (2015).

Prize Winners

References

External links

Sussex International Piano Competition official site

Directory of International Piano Competitions
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