International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition

The International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition, for tradition and amount of prize, is one of the oldest and most prestigious piano competitions in the world,[1] taking place in Seregno, Italy since 1959 and held every 2 years.

The Story

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The contest was founded by Gina Gambini, widow of the Italian pianist, Maestro Ettore Pozzoli, wishing to honour the memory of her husband by giving musicians from all over the world an opportunity to show their artistic skills. Up to now, more than 1.500 pianists coming from all over the world have participated in the 25 editions of the competition that has taken place in the city in northern Italy. In 1959, the first pianist to win the International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition was Maestro Maurizio Pollini, one of the major pianists in the world. The last edition (XXVI°) took place in September 2009, celebrating the 50th year of the Competition foundation and was won by the young American pianist, Maestro Christopher Falzone.

Prize winners

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1959 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.)
  Maurizio Pollini   Gino Brandi
  Wally Rizzardo
1961 1st prize (ex-a.) 2nd prize
  Pier Narciso Masi   France Redon
  Fabio Peressoni
1963 1st prize 2nd Prize
  Laura De Fusco   Alberto Colombo
1965 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.)
  François-Joël Thiollier   Yoshiya Iwamoto
  Riccardo Risaliti
1967 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.)
not awarded   Speidel Sontraud
  Ewa Wolak
1969 1st prize 2nd prize
  Franco Angeleri   Antonio Bacchelli
  Anna Maria Cigola
1971 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.)
  Pierre Réach   Vincenzo Balzani
  Tajka Hiroshi
1973 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.)
  Raimondo Campisi   Noemi Gobbi
  Michael Krist
1975 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.)
  Daniel Rivera   Boris Bloch
  Roberto Cappello
1977 1st prize 2nd prize
  Pietro Rigacci   Elisabeth Rigollet
1979 1st prize 2nd prize
  Rolf Plagge   Giovanni Umberto Battel
1981 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.)
  Hüseyin Sermet   Barry Douglas
  Megumi Umene
1983 1st prize 2nd prize
  Hugh Tinney     Boris Slutsky
1985 1st prize 2nd prize
  Klárá Würtz   Mariana Gurkova
1987 1st prize 2nd prize
  Seizo Azuma not awarded
1989 1st prize 2nd prize
  William Stephenson   Andrew Wilde
1991 1st prize 2nd prize
not awarded   Anna Emilova Stoytcheva
1993 1st prize 2nd prize
  Maria Stembolskaya   Sergei Yerokhin
1995 1st prize 2nd prize
not awarded   Dmitri Krivonos
1997 1st prize 2nd prize
not awarded   Paolo Wolfango Cremonte
1999 1st prize 2nd prize
  Filippo Gamba   Lorenzo Di Bella
2001 1st prize 2nd prize
not awarded   Denys Proshayev
2003 1st prize 2nd prize
not awarded   Fumio Kawamura
2005 1st prize 2nd prize
  Martin Cousin   Yoonjung Han
2007 1st prize 2nd prize
  Alexandre Pirojenko     Victor Stanislavsky
2009 1st prize 2nd prize
  Christopher Falzone   Domenico Monaco
2011 1st prize 2nd prize
  Alexey Chernov   Alexander Yakovlev
2015 1st prize(ex-a.) 2nd prize
  Anastasia Rizikov not awarded
  Yoshito Numasawa
2017 1st prize 2nd prize
not awarded   Axel Trolese
  Elizaveta Kliuchereva
2019 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.)
  Evgeny Konnov   Andrei Leshkin
  Elia Cecino
2021 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.)
not awarded   Yuto Takezawa
  Diego Petrella
2023 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.)
not awarded   Vladimir Skomorokhov
  Riito Shimata

See also

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References

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