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

• Enrique Graf
• Tong-Il Han
• Martin Jones
• Ming-Qiang Li
• Oleg Volkov
• Ramzi Yassa

Prize winners

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 Wok

References

• Missouri Southern International Piano Competition