Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi
Not to be confused with José Iturbi International Music Competition.
The Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi (also referred to as the José Iturbi International Piano Competition[1]) is an international piano competition held in Valencia, Spain. It is named after virtuoso José Iturbi, born in Valencia. Created in 1981, it has been held ever since in the month of September and is part of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.
After four annual editions, in 1986 it became a biennial competition. In 2004 Valencia's Palau de la Música replaced the city's Teatro Principal as the competition's headquarters. In 2013 the competition was changed to a triennial periodicity. The competition consists of five rounds, as shown in the chart below. The prize has always included a cash award, recital and orchestral engagements, and a recording contract. As of 2013, the winner is awarded €18,000 in cash. On two occasions, 1982 and 1992, a First Prize was not awarded.
The Valencia Orchestra takes part in the finals.
| Round | Requirements |
|---|---|
| First Preliminary Round | * A sonata by Scarlatti or Soler * Dos pieces among Chopin's Impromptus, Mazurkas and Nocturnes * One or more works by Fauré, Debussy or Ravel * A work of musical and pianistic importance chosen by the competitor |
| Second Preliminary Round | * A sonata or variations by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert * A piece among Albéniz, Granados and De Falla's main piano compositions |
| Semifinals | * A recital lasting no more than 55 minutes that includes a romantic composition of musical and pianistic importance and the edition's mandatory work |
| First final | * A piano concerto by Beethoven |
| Second final | * A piano concerto among Mozart's 14th, 17th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 26th Concertos, Chopin's 1st and 2nd Concertos, Schumann's Concerto, Liszt's 1st and 2nd Concertos, Brahms' 1st and 2nd Concertos, Tchaikovsky 1st Concerto, Saint-Saëns' 2nd Concerto, Ravel's Concerto in G, and Rachmaninov's 2nd and 3rd Concertos and his Paganini Rhapsody |
Participation
Participants are of all nationalities and are, as of the current eligibility requirements, 17-32 years of age.
Winners
| Year | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 |  Elza Kolodin |  Edson Elias |  Hüseyin Sermet |
| 1982 | Not awarded | Not awarded |  Michel Gal |
| 1983 |  Patrick O'Byrne |  Youri Pochtar |  Mary Kathleen Ernst |
| 1984 | .svg.png){kind=small} Christian Beldi | Not awarded | Not awarded |
| 1986 |  Rowena Arrieta |  Emiko Kumagai | Yumiko Urabe |
| 1988 |  Igor Kamenz |  Brenno Ambrosini | Jovianney Emmanuel Cruz |
| 1990 | Aleksey Orlovetsky | ? | ? |
| 1992 | Not awarded | ? |  Mariana Gurkova |
| 1994 |   Miri Yampolsky |  Mauricio Vallina | Atsuko Seki |
| 1996 | Uta Weyand |  Jenny Lin |  Jung-Eun Kim |
| 1998 |  Duncan Gifford | - | - |
| 2000 | Roman Zaslavsky |  Ángel Sanzo | Sheila Arnold |
| 2002 |  Maria Zisi | Severin von Eckardstein
|
Not awarded |
| 2004 | Alexandre Moutouzkine | Jean-Frédéric Neuburger | Ingmar Schwindt |
| 2006 | Josu de Solaun Soto | Valentina Igoshina | Andrei Yaroshinsky |
| 2008 |  Zhengyu Chen | Soyeon Kim | Marianna Prjevalskaya |
| 2010 | Andrei Yaroshinsky |  Arta Arnicane | Aleksey Lebedev |
Jurors
| 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|
 Sulamita Aronovsky Sergei Dorensky Miguel Ángel Herranz Jaime Ingram Kim Mi-kyung Natalie Michailidou Fernando Puchol Joaquín Soriano Leslie Wright Oxana Yablonskaya | Antonio di Cristofano Bella Davidovich Petras Geniusas Peter Lang Stanislav Pochekin Fernando Puchol Jesús Ángel Rodríguez Joaquín Soriano Maria Tipo Fujiko Yamada | Emilio Baró Michel Béroff Michel Dalberto Elza Kolodin Marián Lapšanský Paik Kun-woo Fernando Puchol Joaquín Soriano Rosa Torres-Pardo Tamás Ungár |  Jens Harald Bratlie Adolfo Bueso Akiko Ebi David Lively Pavel Nersessian Cristina Ortiz Fernando Puchol Joaquín Soriano Uta Weyand Oxana Yablonskaya |
Results
| Edition | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Semifinal | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Orlando Alonso Catalina Butcaru Dora Deliyska Geraldene Dutroncy Sonja Fräki Irina Georgieva Hong Kook-hee Hyung Sue-woon Kyoko Kashii Marianna Katerelou Kim Ji-yiun Lee Yoo-soon Maria McGarry Katia Corcoy Salvatore Monzo Eleonora Morozova Theodosia Ntokou Natalya Osenchakova Stefania Passamonte Ekaterina Popova Anna Solovieva-Drubich Inesa Synkevich Shun Tominaga Yoon Eun-kyung |  Cathal Breslin Anna Fedorova Nikolai Gangnus Fuyuka Kusa Lin Weichi Inocencio Negrín Vincenzo Oliva Cameron Roberts Pavel Shatskiy Wu Xiaofeng Bojana Zdravković Denis Zhdanov | Yukiko Akagi Claudio Carbó Miguel Ángel Castro Filip Kopachevsky Yukako Morikawa Antonio Ortiz | 4th Patrick Hemmerle 4th  Sofya Melikyan5th Natalya Kuchaeva |  Josu de Solaun Valentina Igoshina Andrey Yaroshinsky |
| 2008 | Mario Alonso Honoré Béjin Enrique Bernaldo de Quirós Ingfrid Breie Nyhus Cathal Breslin Chi Wu Martina Filjak Sofya Gulyak Karalina Kyrylchik Daiva Lavrinavičiūtė Lee Liwei José Menor Theodosia Ntokou Vincenzo Oliva Park Jin-woo Park Joo-hyeon Ivana Ristova Daniil Sayamov Sergei Sobolev Masataka Takada Yoshida Tomoaki Andrey Yaroshinsky | Tatyana Bezmenova Sebastian Di Bin Nazareno Ferrugio Alexey Lebedev Fumie Onda Maria Tetriyakova | Ron Abramsky Christian Chamorel Shinnosuke Inugai Koo Yun-jung Martin Labazevich Tristan Pfaff | 4th Ángel Cabrera 5th Angelo Arciglione6th Lee Yu-mi | Chen Zhengyu Kim So-yeon  Marianna Prjevalskaya |
| 2010 | Elisa D'Auria Juan Balat Kristhyan Benítez Fabiane de Castro Chen Shi-wei Cho Min-hye Ksenia Dyachenko Hyoung Ana Jeong Ha-young Jeong Min-jeong Eduard Kunz Mattia Mistrangelo Alexander Shaykin Evgeny Starodubtsev Alessandro Taverna Wang Jia Wang Jingjing | Miguel Ángel Castro Pietro Ceresini Frederic Chen I Mi-yeon Sung Jenna Xavier Torres | Alessandro Trebeschi Yana Vasilyeva | 4th Christian Chamorel 5th Moon Zee-young6th Giulio Biddau | Andrey Yaroshinsky Arta Arnicane Alexey Lebedev |
| 2013 | Diego Alonso Kristhyan Benítez Fang Lingchih Hong Eun-hye Li Chengwei Pablo Martínez Vincenzo Oliva Alessandro Taverna Arcadie Triboi Rui Urayama Wu Shao Chieh | Kanji Kozuta Li Siqian Leonel Morales Michelle Nam Sung Jenna | Michael Davidov Antonio Galera Marina Goshkieva Jeong Ha-young Jung Da-sul Anastasia Zorina | 4th Mizuho Nakada 5th José Ramón García6th Enrique Lapaz | Tomoaki Yoshida Ilya Maximov Tetiana Shafran |
References
- ↑ Westphal, Matthew (25 June 2007). "First Annual José Iturbi International Music Competition Concludes at UCLA With Two Top Prizes of $50,000". Playbill. Retrieved 6 February 2012.