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.

Jury

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Prizes

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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 Vlassenko Memorial Prize   Daniil Tsvetkov
I Round Encouragement Award   Feng Zhang
Quarter-Finals Encouragement Award   Alexei Yemtsov
Semi-finals Encouragement Award   Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
Youngest finalist   Tomoki Kitamura
Youngest Australian competitor   Hoang Pham

Works commissioned for the competition

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Competition results (by rounds)

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First round

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16–17 July 2008

  •   Charlie Albright
  •   Fernando Altamura
  •   Manuel Araujo
  •   Marco Ciampi
  •   Sean Chen
  •   Ran Dank
  •   Christopher Devine
  •   John Fisher
  •   Balázs Fülei
  •   David Fung
  •   Adam Herd
  •   Elizaveta Ivanova
  •   Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
  •   Miya Kazauka
  •   Tomoki Kitamura
  •   Tatyana Kolesova
  •   Eduard Kunz
  •   Ka-Ling Colleen Lee
  •   Miyeon Lee
  •   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

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

Semifinals

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23–25 July 2008

  •   Charlie Albright
  •   Ran Dank
  •   Tomoki Kitamura
  •   Tatyana Kolesova
  •   Miyeon Lee
  •   Hoang Pham
  •   Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
  •   Takashi Sato
  •   Konstantin Shamray
  •   Daniil Tsvetkov
  •   Mariangela Vacatello
  •   Eric Zuber

Final

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29 July – 2 August 2008

References

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