Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition

The Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition is a music competition for young pianists that takes place in Bolzano, Italy. It was founded in 1949 by Cesare Nordio in memory of the pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni.

History

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Ferrucio Busoni

The first Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition was organized by Cesare Nordio in 1949 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the death of the pianist and composer. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was a supporter of the competition and was a member of the inaugural jury. Alfred Brendel won the 4th prize in this competition. For a few years a piano composition competition took place together with the piano competition.[1]

In 1956, the young Maurizio Pollini took part in the competition, performing the Fantasia Contrappuntistica by Kenneth Leighton, which won the prize for composition; in 1957 Martha Argerich won the first prize. Other prize winners include Bruno Canino, Agustin Anievas, Joaquín Achúcarro, Jerome Rose, Garrick Ohlsson, Alberto Nosè and Wu Muye.[2]

Members of the jury have included: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Nikita Magaloff, Igor Markevitch, Carlo Maria Giulini, Garrick Ohlsson, Bruno Canino, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Paul Badura-Skoda, Rafael Orozco, Joaquín Soriano, Gerhard Oppitz, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Michele Campanella, Leif Ove Andsnes, Adam Harasiewicz, Hiroko Nakamura, Martha Argerich, Andrzej Jasiński, Lilya Zilberstein, Tadeusz Żmudziński, Valery Afanassiev and Eliso Virsaladze.[3]

Winners

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Complete list of winners:[2]

Winners of the top prizes for each year
Year First prize Second prize Third prize
1949 not awarded   Lodovico Lessona [it]   Rossana Orlandini
4th prize:   Alfred Brendel
1950 not awarded   Karl-Heinz Schlüter   Jacques Coulaud
1951 not awarded not awarded   Karl Engel and   Walter Klien
1952   Sergio Perticaroli   Andrzej Wasowski   Marisa Candeloro and   Agostino Orizio
1953   Ella Goldstein   Monte Hill Davis   Esteban Sanchez Herrero
1954   Aldo Mancinelli   Gabriel Tacchino   Günter Ludwig
1955 not awarded   Germaine Devéze   Günter Ludwig
1956   Jörg Demus Ivan Davis James Mathis.
4th prize: Bruno Canino and Michael Ponti
1957   Martha Argerich   Ivan Davis and   Jerome Lowenthal   Jeaneane Dowis
1958  José Kahan   Ronald Turini   Fabio Peressoni and   Michael Ponti
  4th prize: Bruno Canino
1959 not awarded   Cécile Ousset and   John Perry   Imre Antal and   Leonhard Hokanson
4th prize:   Joaquín Achúcarro
1960 not awarded   Agustin Anievas and   James Mathis   Imre Antal
1961   Jerome Rose   Norma Fisher and   Howard Aibel   Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak
1962 not awarded   Brenton Dale Bartlett   Iván Erőd and   Reynaldo Reyes
1963 not awarded   Gernot Kahl   José Maria Contreras
1964   Michael Ponti   François-Joël Thiollier   Ivan Drenikov
1965 not awarded   Bojidar Noev   James Dick
1966   Garrick Ohlsson   Richard Goode
1967 not awarded   Ivan Klánský   Pietro Maranca
1968   Vladimir Selivochin   Mark Zeltser   Benedikt Köhlen and   Craig Sheppard
1969   Ursula Oppens   Annamaria Cigoli   Akiko Kitagawa
1970 not awarded Selection prize:   Maria Luisa Lopez-Vito
1971 not awarded   Nina Tichman   Ilan Rogoff and   Marioara Trifan
1972   Arnaldo Cohen not awarded   Peter Bithell and   David Oei
1973 not awarded   Roland Keller and   Andrzej Ratusiński   Elza Kolodin
1974   Robert Benz   Pascal Devoyon   Diane Walsh
1975 not awarded   Staffan Scheja   Laszlo Simon and   Terence Judd
1976   Roberto Cappello   Daniel Rivera   Susan Ann Howes and   Adrienne Shannon
1977 not awarded   Ayami Ikeba and   Véronique Roux   Joop Celis and   Kyoto Ito
1978   Boris Bloch   Dennis Lee   Arnulf von Arnim
4th prize:   Josep Colom
1979   Catherine Vickers not awarded   Alyce Le Blanc
1980 not awarded   Ruriko Kikuchi,   Rolf Plagge and   Hai-Kyung Suh
1981   Margarita Höhenrieder   Lev Natochenny   Boyan Vodenitcharov
1982 not awarded   Hung-Kuan Chen   Daniel Blumenthal and   Yukino Fujiwara
1983 not awarded   Robert McDonald   Frederick Blum and   Arthur Greene
1984   Louis Lortie   Matthias Fletzberger   Bernd Glemser
1985   José Carlos Cocarelli   Uriel Tsachor and   Akira Wakabayashi   Natalia Vlassenko
1986 not awarded   Benjamin Frith and   Pedrag Muzijevic   R. Clipper Erickson and   Igor Kamenz
1987   Lilya Zilberstein   Valery Kuleshof   Ian Munro and   Alfredo Perl
1988 not awarded   Igor Kamenz and   Benjamin Pasternack   Fabio Bidini
1989 not awarded   Aleksandar Madžar   Francesco Cipolletta and   Valery Grohovsky
1990 not awarded   Karina Yavlenskaya   Midori Nohara
1991 not awarded   Olivier Cazal and   Igor Kamenz   Stanislav Judenich
1992   Anna Kravtchenko   Fabio Bidini   Mark Anderson and   Sergei Babayan
1993   Roberto Cominati   Vitaly Samoschko   Olivier Cazal
1994   Mzia Simonishwili   Iwao Murakami   Corrado Rollero
1995   Alexander Shtarkman   Sergei Tarasov
1996 not awarded   Jan Gottlieb Jiracek   Michael Dantschenko
1997 not awarded   Yoon-Soo Lee   Dimitri Vorobieff
1998 not awarded   Olaf John Laneri   Catherine Chi
1999   Alexander Kobrin   Alberto Nosè   Min-Soo Sohn
2000 not awarded not awarded   Ayako Kimura and   Carl Wolf
2001   Alexander Romanovsky   Hea-Jung Cho   Dong-Min Lim
2003 not awarded   Maria Stembolskaia   Lyubov Gegetchkori and   Mu-Ye Wu
2004/2005   Giuseppe Andaloro   Mariangela Vacatello   Hye-Jin Kim
2006/2007  Matthew Ward   Sofya Gulyak and   Dinara Nadzhafova   Lilian Akopova
2008/2009   Michail Lifits   Alexey Lebedev   Gesualdo Coggi
2010/2011 not awarded   Anna Bulkina and   Antonii Barishevskyi   Tatiana Chernichka
2012/2013 not awarded   Rodolfo Leone   Akihiro Sakiya and   Dmitry Shishkin
2014/2015   Ji-Yeong Mun   Alberto Ferro   Roman Lopatynskyi
2016/2017   Ivan Krpan [hr]   Jae-Yeon Won   Anna Geniushene
2018/2019   Emanuil Ivanov   Shiori Kuwahara   Giorgi Gigashvili
2021   Jae Hong Park   Do-Hyun Kim   Lukas Sternath
2023   Arsenii Mun   Anthony Ratinov   Ryota Yamazaki

References

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  1. ^ "History of the Competition". International Piano Competition Foundation Ferruccio Busoni Bolzano Bozen. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2009.
  2. ^ a b "Hall of Fame". International Piano Competition Foundation Ferruccio Busoni Bolzano Bozen. Archived from the original on 24 June 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Jury since 1949". Archived from the original on 1 June 2010. Retrieved 15 August 2009.
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