XVII International Chopin Piano Competition

The XVII International Chopin Piano Competition was held in Warsaw, Poland on April 13–24, 2015 (preliminary round) and October 1–23, 2015 (main competition and concerts).[1] Prize winners' concerts were on October 21–23, 2015.

Frédéric Chopin, 1849

Seong-Jin Cho of South Korea won the competition.[2]

Jurors[3]

Preliminary Round jury

Competition jury

Competitor results

Seong-Jin Cho won the competition, playing the Piano Concerto in E minor, Opus 11 in the final. The prize money was €30,000. In addition, he also won the €3,000 prize for best polonaise, playing the Polonaise in A flat major, Opus 53 in the second stage.[4]

Charles Richard-Hamelin of Canada came second, Kate Liu of the United States came third, Eric Lu of the United States came fourth, Tony Yike Yang of Canada came fifth, and Dmitry Shishkin of Russia was placed sixth.[5]

Polish Radio Prize for the best performance of Mazurkas (€5,000): Kate Liu

Krystian Zimerman Prize for the best performance of a Sonata (€10,000): Charles Richard-Hamelin

Competitor[6]PreliminaryStage IStage IIStage IIIGrand Final
Mihyun Ahn
Jong Do An
Yu An
Soo Jung Ann
Miyako Arishima
Bat-Erdene Batbileg
Otis William Beasley
Tymoteusz Bies
Rafał Błaszczyk
Łukasz Piotr Byrdy
Michelle Candotti
Luigi Carroccia
Hsin-Jo Chan
Haoguo Chen
Xuehong Chen
Galina Chistiakova
Irina Chistiakova
Seong-Jin Cho
Shaun Yung Sheng Choo
Valentin Cotton
Aleksandra Hortensja Dąbek
Chisaki Doi
Fei-Fei Dong
Michał Dziewior
Thibaud Epp
Martina Frezzotti
Ashley Fripp
Madoka Fukami
Yasuko Furumi
Anton Gerzenberg
Saskia Giorgini
Katarzyna Gołofit[7]
Eriko Gomita
Adam Mikołaj Goździewski
Ivett Gyöngyösi
Anna Han
Chi Ho Han
Olof Hansen
Minsoo Hong
Ruoyu Huang
Zhi Chao Julian Jia
Wenbin Jin
Aljoša Jurinić
Joo Yeon Ka
Takuya Kambara
Airi Katada
Ruslan Kazakov
Daye Kim
Honggi Kim
Su Yeon Kim
Sung-Jae Kim
Sunhwa Kim
Yedam Kim
Yoon-Jee Kim
Yoonji Kim
Yurika Kimura
Dinara Klinton[8]
Carmen Knoll
Aimi Kobayashi
Kaito Kobayashi
Julia Kociuban
Aika Kondo
Qi Kong
Marek Kozák
Mischa Kozłowski
Łukasz Krupiński[9]
Krzysztof Książek[10]
Rachel Naomi Kudo[11]
Chulmin Lee
EunAe Lee
Jae Yoon Lee
Yurim Lee
George Li[12]
Ning Yuen Li[13]
Yihao Li
Kate Liu
Eric Lu[14]4th
Tian Lu
Xin Luo
Weiwen Ma
Aleksandr Maltsev
Roman Martynov
Nagino Maruyama
Guillaume Masson
Viktor Yuandong Mattsson
Vladimir Matusevich
Alessandro Mazzamuto
Nao Mieno
Łukasz Mikołajczyk
Nathalia Milstein
Paweł Motyczyński
Alexia Mouza
Jiyeong Mun[15]
Karolina Nadolska
Kotaro Nagano
Mayaka Nakagawa
Nozomi Nakagiri[16]
Fuyuko Nakamura
Yui Nakamura
Szymon Nehring
Anastasiia Nesterova
Grzegorz Niemczuk
Ronald Noerjadi
Mariko Nogami
Piotr Nowak
Arisa Onoda
Georgijs Osokins
Misora Ozaki
Linzi Pan
Jinhyung Park
Piotr Ryszard Pawlak
Zuzanna Pietrzak
Adam Piórkowski
François-Xavier Poizat
Tiffany Poon
Markiyan Popil
Kausikan Rajeshkumar
Kiana Reid
Charles Richard-Hamelin
Joanna Różewska-Kulasińska
Arisa Sakai
Tamila Salimdjanova
Cristian Ioan Sandrin
Motohiro Sato
Natalie Schwamová
Aristo Sham[17]
Boyang Shi
HyoJin Shin
Dmitry Shishkin6th
Alexandra Sikorskaya
Jeung Beum Sohn
Szuyu Su
Rina Sudo
Yekwon Sunwoo
Michał Szymanowski
Julia Maria Śliwa
Rikono Takeda
Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev
Alexei Tartakovsky
Hin-Yat Tsang
Kanade Tsurusawa
Anna Ulaieva
Alexander Ullman
Chao Wang
Chelsea Wang
Zhu Wang
Marcin Wieczorek
Andrzej Wierciński[18]
Evan Wong
Victoria Wong
Joshua Wright
Yuchong Wu
Qi Xu
Zi Xu
Tony Yike Yang5th
Yuliya Yermalayeva
Tianpeng Yu
Olga Zado (Zadorozhniuk)
Cheng Zhang
Chuhan Zhang
Annie Zhou
Ning Zhou
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References
  1. Calendar for The International Chopin Piano Competition 2015
  2. SEONG-JIN CHO WON THE 17TH CHOPIN COMPETITION
  3. The 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition – Jurors
  4. "South Korean Seong-Jin Cho wins Chopin piano competition". BBC. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  5. "South Korean Seong-Jin Cho Wins Chopin Piano Competition". ABC. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  6. The 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition – Competitors
  7. Withdrew
  8. Admitted as winner of the 2nd prize at 2013 International Paderewski Piano Competition
  9. Admitted as ex-aequo winner of the 2nd Prize on the 2015 Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw
  10. Admitted as ex-aequo winner of the 2nd Prize on the 2015 Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw
  11. Admitted as 2nd Prize winner of the 2015 USA National Chopin Piano Competition in Miami
  12. Withdrew
  13. Withdrew
  14. Admitted as winner of the 2015 USA National Chopin Piano Competition in Miami
  15. Withdrew
  16. Admitted as winner of the 2nd Prize at the 2012 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition
  17. Withdrew
  18. Admitted as winner of the 2015 Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw
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