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

• Warren Thomson (chairman)
• Michael Brimer
• Manana Doidjashvili
• Aquiles Delle Vigne
• Norma Fisher
• Choong-Mo Kang
• Ian Munro
• Arie Vardi
• Zhou Guangren

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 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

• Andrew Ford - Thin air
• Roger Smalley - Morceau de Concours

Competition results (by rounds)

First round

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

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

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

29 July – 2 August 2008

• Concertos
  • Ran Dank — Mozart: 20th, Prokofiev: 3rd
  • Tomoki Kitamura — Mozart: 17th, Beethoven: 4th
  • Tatyana Kolesova — Mozart: 20th, Saint-Saëns: 2nd
  • Takashi Sato — Mozart: 27th, Beethoven: 5th
  • Konstantin Shamray — Mozart: 27th; Prokofiev: 2nd
  • Eric Zuber — Mozart: 20th, Tchaikovsky: 1st

References

• Sydney International Piano Competition