Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition

The Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition is a music competition for young pianists that takes place in Bolzano, Italy.

History

The first Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition was organized by Cesare Nordio in 1949 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the death of pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni

Ferrucio Busoni

. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was a supporter of the competition and was part of the jury of the first competition. 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 and Alberto Nosè.[2]

Members of the jury have included: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Nikita Magaloff, Igor Markevitch, Carlo Maria Giulini, Garrick Ohlsson, Bruno Canino, 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
From left to right: Dmitry Shishkin, Akihiro Sakiya, Rodolfo Leone, finalists of the competition held in 2013

Complete list of winners:[2]

Winners of the top prizes for each year
YearFirst prizeSecond prizeThird prize
1949not awardedLodovico LessonaRossana Orlandini
4th prize: Alfred Brendel
1950not awardedKarl-Heinz SchlüterJacques Coulaud
1951not awardednot awardedKarl Engel and Walter Klien
1952Sergio PerticaroliAndrzej WasowskiMarisa Candeloro and Agostino Orizio
1953Ella GoldsteinMonte Hill DavisEsteban Sanchez Herrero
1954Aldo MancinelliGabriel TacchinoGünter Ludwig
1955not awardedGermaine DevézeGünter Ludwig
1956Jörg DemusIvan DavisJames Mathis.
4th prize: Bruno Canino and Michael Ponti
1957Martha ArgerichIvan Davis and Jerome LowenthalJeaneane Dowis
1958not awardedRonald Turini and José KahanFabio Peressoni and Michael Ponti
4th prize: Bruno Canino
1959not awardedCécile Ousset and John PerryImre Antal and Leonhard Hokanson
4th prize: Joaquín Achúcarro
1960not awardedAgustin Anievas and James MathisImre Antal
1961Jerome RoseNorma Fisher and Howard AibelDubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak
1962not awardedBrenton Dale BartlettIván Erőd and Reynaldo Reyes
1963not awardedGernot KahlJosé Maria Contreras
1964Michael PontiFrançois-Joël ThiollierIvan Drenikov
1965not awardedBojidar NoevJames Dick
1966Garrick OhlssonRichard Goode
1967not awardedIvan KlánskýPietro Maranca
1968Vladimir SelivochinMark ZeltserBenedikt Köhlen and Craig Sheppard
1969Ursula OppensAnnamaria CigoliAkiko Kitagawa
1970not awardedSelection prize: Maria Luisa Lopez-Vito
1971not awardedNina TichmanIlan Rogoff and Marioara Trifan
1972Arnaldo Cohennot awardedPeter Bithell and David Oei
1973not awardedRoland Keller and Andrzej RatusińskiElza Kolodin
1974Robert BenzPascal DevoyonDiane Walsh
1975not awardedStaffan SchejaLaszlo Simon and Terence Judd
1976Roberto CappelloDaniel RiveraSusan Ann Howes and Adrienne Shannon
1977not awardedAyami Ikeba and Véronique RouxJoop Celis and Kyoto Ito
1978Boris BlochDennis LeeArnulf von Arnim
4th prize: Josep Colom
1979Catherine Vickersnot awardedAlyce Le Blanc
1980not awardedRuriko Kikuchi, Rolf Plagge and Hai-Kyung Suh
1981Margarita HöhenriederLev NatochennyBoyan Vodenitcharov
1982not awardedHung-Kuan ChenDaniel Blumenthal and Yukino Fujiwara
1983not awardedRobert McDonaldFrederick Blum and Arthur Greene
1984Louis LortieMatthias FletzbergerBernd Glemser
1985José Carlos CocarelliUriel Tsachor and Akira WakabayashiNataljia Vlassenko
1986not awardedBenjamin Frith and Pedrag MuzijevicR. Clipper Erickson and Igor Kamenz
1987Lilya ZilbersteinValery KuleshofIan Munro and Alfredo Perl
1988not awardedIgor Kamenz and Benjamin PasternackFabio Bidini
1989not awardedAlexandar MadzarFrancesco Cipolletta and Valery Grohovsky
1990not awardedKarina YavlenskayaMidori Nohara
1991not awardedOlivier Cazal and Igor KamenzStanislav Judenich
1992Anna KravtchenkoFabio BidiniMark Anderson and Sergei Babayan
1993Roberto CominatiVitaly SamoschkoOlivier Cazal
1994Mzia SimonishwiliIwao MurakamiCorrado Rollero
1995Alexander ShtarkmanSergei Tarasov
1996not awardedJan Gottlieb JiracekMichael Dantschenko
1997not awardedYoon-Soo LeeDimitri Vorobieff
1998not awardedOlaf John LaneriCatherine Chi
1999Alexander KobrinAlberto NosèMin-Soo Sohn
2000not awardednot awardedAyako Kimura and Carl Wolf
2001Alexander RomanovskyHea-Jung ChoDong-Min Lim
2003not awardedMaria StembolskaiaLyubov Gegetchkori and Mu-Ye Wu
2004/2005Giuseppe AndaloroMariangela VacatelloHye-Jin Kim
2006/2007not awardedSofya Gulyak and Dinara NadzhafovaLilian Akopova
2008/2009Michail LifitsAlexey LebedevGesualdo Coggi
2010/2011not awardedAnna Bulkina and Antonii BarishevskyiTatiana Chernichka
2012/2013not awardedRodolfo LeoneAkihiro Sakiya and Dmitry Shishkin
2014/2015Ji-Yeong MunAlberto FerroRoman Lopatynskyi
2016/2017Ivan KrpanJae-Yeon WonAnna Geniushene
2018/2019Emanuil IvanovShiori KuwaharaGiorgi Gigashvili

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