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 arrangement of a junior edition of the competition. The -e- refers to the competition's focus on Internet and Disklavier technologies.
Prize winners
Senior competition
| Year | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize | 4th prize | 5th prize | 6th prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 |   Mei-Ting Sun |   Victoria Korchinskaya | not awarded | .svg.png){kind=small} Edisher Savitski | Tatyana Kolesova |  Wen-Yin Chan |
| 2004 | Jie Chen |  Yung Wook Yoo | Denis Evstioukhine | Tatyana Kolesova |  Hanna Shybayeva |   Inesa Synkevych |
| 2006 |  Edisher Savitski | Ryo Yanagitani | Victoria Korchinskaya | Mikhail Mordvinov | Einav Yarden | Gregory DeTurck |
| 2009 |  Alessandro Taverna | Pavel Yeletskiy |  Hélène Tysman | Eric Zuber | Howard Na | .svg.png){kind=small} Grace Eun Hae Kim |
| 2014 |   Peter Friis Johansson | Alexey Chernov |  Frank Dupree |  Marianna Prjevalskaya | Chen Guang | not awarded |
Junior competition
| Year | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize | 4th prize | 5th prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Frank Düpree Nansong Huang | not awarded | Jan Lisiecki Osip Nikiforov | not awarded | Vladimir Levitsky |
| 2011 |  Aristo Sham | Tristan Teo | Su Yeon Kim | Annie Zhou Misora Ozaki | not awarded |
| 2013[1] | Eric Lu | Carmen Knoll |  Yuanfan Yang | JiaXin Min | Christopher Son Richardson |
References
- "Juilliard Student Is Winner of Piano E-Competition", The New York Times, June 18, 2002.
- "Winners of First e-Piano Junior Competition Revealed", press release, Reuters, July 14, 2008.