List of Sendai International Music Competition winners
| Sendai International Music Competition | |
|---|---|
|
Sendai International Music Competition logo | |
| Awarded for | Exceptional piano and violin performance |
| Country |
 Japan |
| Presented by | Sendai International Music Competition |
| First awarded | 2001 |
| Last awarded | 2010 |
| Official website | http://www.simc.jp/index_j.html (Japanese) |
The Sendai International Music Competition is a tri-annual violin and piano music competition held in Sendai, Japan, presented in association with the Sendai International Music Competition Organizing Committee, City of Sendai and the Sendai Cultural Foundation.[1] In the competition there is no overall winner, rather there are six winners each from the violin and piano categories, with the first-placed winners receiving the highest prize. Although the competition is international, most award-winners have been from either Europe or Asia. The first award-winner from outside those continents was American Sean Kennard, who finished fifth in the 2004 competition's piano category.
The competition consists of five stages: preliminary rounds, screening auditions, an elimination round in which the contestants play a concerto with a string quartet or quintet, then the semi-final and the final, where all pieces are performed in the company of the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra.[2] After the contestants have been placed through the different stages the judges must select six contestants for the final,[3] where the positioning of the winners is later decided by the judges, from sixth to first in both categories.[4]
The first competition was held in 2001. Most of the twelve winners were from Asia, with Chinese Mengla Huang topping the violin category and the Italian Giuseppe Andaloro taking first prize in the piano section. In the second tournament in 2004, the competition received a more worldwide range of winners; contestants coming from Asia, Europe and North America finished in the prize winning places. Japanese Saeka Matsuyama won the violin part in the final and Xiaotang Tan from China came in first place in the piano category. In the 2007 finals, which contained five Russian contestants, the violin section was topped by Russian Alena Baeva while in the piano category the Japanese Yuya Tsuda came first. The 2010 violin competition was won by the German/South Korean Clara-Jumi Kang, while Vadym Kholodenko of Ukraine won the piano competition. As of 2010 there have been four competitions with the next to be contested in 2013.[5]
Prize winners
2001
| Category | Place | Winner | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violin | First | Mengla Huang |  China |
| Second | Svetlin Roussev |  Bulgaria | |
| Third | Mi Sa Yang |  South Korea | |
| Fourth | Yukiko Ishibashi | Japan | |
| Fifth | Rintaro Omiya | South Korea | |
| Sixth | Kei Shirai | Japan | |
| Piano | First | Giuseppe Andaloro |  Italy |
| Second | Jin Sang Lee | South Korea | |
| Third | Wang Yu Jia | China | |
| Fourth | Daria Rabotkina |  Russia | |
| Fifth | Roberto Plano | Italy | |
| Sixth | Amir Tebenikhin |  Kazakhstan |
2004
| Category | Place | Prize winners | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violin | First | Saeka Matsuyama | Japan |
| Second | Maksim Brylinskiy |  Ukraine | |
| Third | Dan Zhu | China | |
| Fourth | Andreas Janke | Japan | |
| Fifth | Valya Dervenska | Bulgaria | |
| Sixth | Yuki Manuela Janke | Japan | |
| Piano | First | Xiaotang Tan | China |
| Second | Masataka Takada | Japan | |
| Third | Michael Namirovsky |  Israel | |
| Fourth | Elizaveta Dmitrieva | Russia | |
| Fifth | Sean Kennard |  USA | |
| Sixth | Florence Boissolle |  France |
2007
| Category | Place | Prize winners | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violin | First | Alena Baeva | Russia |
| Second | Erin Keefe | USA | |
| Third | A-Rah Shin | South Korea | |
| Fourth | Andrey Baranov | Russia | |
| Fifth | Sayaka Chiba | Japan | |
| Sixth | Haurka Nagao | Japan | |
| Piano | First | Yuya Tsuda | Japan |
| Second | Yi-Chih Lu |  Taiwan | |
| Third | Oxana Shevchenko | Russia | |
| Fourth | Ilya Ovchinnikov | Russia | |
| Fifth | Ka-Ling Colleen Lee | China | |
| Sixth | Vyacheslav Gryaznov | Russia |
2010
| Category | Place | Prize winners | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violin | First | Clara-Jumi Kang |  Germany/ South Korea |
| Second | Andrey Baranov | Russia | |
| Third | Nagao Haruka | Japan | |
| Fourth | Kim Bomsori | South Korea | |
| Fifth | Kim Dami | South Korea | |
| Sixth | Giora Schmidt | USA | |
| Piano | First | Vadym Kholodenko | Ukraine |
| Second | Maria Masycheva | Russia | |
| Third | Marianna Prjevalskaya |  Spain | |
| Fourth | Sato Hiroo | Japan | |
| Fifth | Moon Zheeyoung | South Korea | |
| Sixth | Kwan Yi | USA |
2013
| Category | Place | Prize winners | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violin | First | Richard Lin | Taiwan |
| Second | Narita Tatsuki | Japan | |
| Third | Tomii Chieri | Japan | |
| Fourth | Anna Savkina | Russia | |
| Fifth | Kim Bomsori | South Korea | |
| Sixth | Suliman Tekalli | USA | |
| Piano | First | Sunwoo Yekwon | South Korea |
| Second | Suh Hyung-Min | South Korea | |
| Third | Artem Yasynskyy | Ukraine | |
| Fourth | Sun-A Park | USA | |
| Fifth | Katada Airi | Japan | |
| Sixth | Hong Jihwan | South Korea |
References
- General
- 2001 Violin Prize-Winners. Sendai International Music Competition. Retrieved on 22 May 2008.
- 2001 Piano Prize-Winners. Sendai International Music Competition. Retrieved on 22 May 2008.
- 2004 Violin Prize-Winners. Sendai International Music Competition. Retrieved on 22 May 2008.
- 2004 Piano Prize-Winners. Sendai International Music Competition. Retrieved on 22 May 2008.
- 2007 Prize-Winners. Sendai International Music Competition. Retrieved on 22 May 2008.
- Specific
- ↑ "Organization : Sendai International Music Competition". Sendai International Music Competition. Retrieved 22 May 2008.
- ↑ "Japan: Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra". Cultural Profiles. Retrieved 23 May 2008.
- ↑ "Competition Code : Sendai International Music Competition — Article 17 (Competition Judgment)". Sendai International Music Competition. Retrieved 22 May 2008.
- ↑ "Competition Code : Sendai International Music Competition — Article 21 (Decision of Prizewinners)". Sendai International Music Competition. Retrieved 22 May 2008.
- ↑ "Sendai International Music Competition — Home page". Sendai International Music Competition. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
External links
- Official website (Japanese)