Missouri Southern International Piano Competition

The Missouri Southern Competition was a biannual international piano competition organized by the Missouri Southern State University first held in 1987. It was dissolved in 2008 following the retirement of its director, Vivian León.

Selected list of jurors edit

Prize winners edit

Year 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
1987
Senior division   Alan Chow   Heather Staves     Boris Slutsky
Junior division   Diana Chiang   Michael Spaid   Tina Tandela
1988
Senior division   Jackson Leung   Cheng Fei Mao   Xiang-Dong Kong
Junior division   Beau Mansfield   Kôji Attwood   Sarah E. Finch
1990
Senior division   Mia Chung   Steven Heyman   Hayuru Taima
Junior division   Christine Peery not awarded   Candice Lee
1992
Senior division   Elisabeth Smirnova   Read Gainsford   Richard Dowling
Junior division   Albert Kim   Andrew Armstrong   Atsuko Oba
1994
Senior division   Carl Cranmer   Roberto Corlianò   Sasha Starcevich
Junior division   Melanie Hadley   Shen Wen   Paul Hadley
1996
Senior division   Natasha Khislenko   Atsuko Oba   Derison Duarte
Junior division   Jian Liu   Tian Tian   Dmitri Levkovich
1998
Senior division   Kriszta Kovács   Daria Monastyrski   Anton Mordasov
Junior division   Daniela Bracchi   Diana Ionescu   Wen-Yin Chan
  Yundi Li
2000
Senior division   Petronel Malan   Elissei Babanov   Yoshikazu Nagai
Junior division   Di Wu   Kyu-Yeon Kim   Chufang Huang
2002
Senior division   Robert Henry   Li Wang   Young-Ah Tak
Junior division     Avan Yu   Jonathan Ware   Sun-Ho Lee
2004
Senior division   Jie Chen not awarded   Sandro Russo
Junior division   Wenbin Jin   Chenyang Xu   Si-Chen Ma
2006
Senior division   Tatiana Tessman   Sergei Saratovsky   Sang-Il Han
Junior division   Xiaoqiu Xue   Lo-An Lin   Mi-Eun Kim
2008
Senior division     Avan Yu   Tian Lu   Peggy Pei-Zhang Sung
Junior Division   Behzod Abduraimov   Anna Han   Yale Work

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