IX Sydney International Piano Competition

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.

Contents

Jury

Prizes

Winner
1st Grand Prize Konstantin Shamray
2nd Prize Tatyana Kolesova
3rd Prize Ran Dank
4th Prize Takashi Sato
5th Prize Tomoki Kitamura
6th Prize Eric Zuber
Australian SQ engagement Konstantin Shamray
People's Choice Prize Konstantin Shamray
Best Female competitor Tatyana Kolesova
Best Australian competitor Hoang Pham
Best Australian Music performance Tomoki Kitamura
Best Mozart Concerto performance Konstantin Shamray
Best overall Concerto performance Ran Dank
Best 19th/20th century Concerto performance Konstantin Shamray
Best Beethoven performance Konstantin Shamray
Best Chopin performance Takashi Sato
Best Liszt performance Eric Zuber
Best Liszt Study performance Charlie Albright
Best Rachmaninoff performance Ran Dank
Best Chamber Music performance Tatyana Kolesova
Best Mozart performance Konstantin Shamray
Best Schubert performance Tomoki Kitamura
Best Debussy Prélude performance Ran Dank
Best Russian Music performance Tatyana Kolesova
Best Romantic Music overall performance Yoonsoo Rhee
Best Haydn Sonata performance Yoonsoo Rhee
Lev Vlasenko Memorial Prize Daniil Tsvetkov
I Round Encouragement Award Feng Zhang
Quarter-Finals Encouragement Award Alexei Yemtsov
Semi-finals Encouragement Award Mariangela Vacatello
Youngest finalist Tomoki Kitamura
Youngest Australian competitor Hoang Pham

Works commissioned for the competition

Competition results (by rounds)

First Round

16–17 July 2008

  • 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

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
  • Sergey Saratovsky
  • Takashi Sato
  • Konstantin Shamray
  • Daniil Tsvetkov
  • Mariangela Vacatello
  • Alexei Yemtsov
  • Hao Zhu
  • Eric Zuber

Semifinals

23–25 July 2008

  • Yoonsoo Rhee
  • Takashi Sato
  • Konstantin Shamray
  • Daniil Tsvetkov
  • Mariangela Vacatello
  • Eric Zuber

Final

29 July-2 August 2008

References