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
Ferrucio Busoni

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. 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, Alberto Nosè and Wu Muye.[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 awarded Lodovico Lessona Rossana Orlandini
4th prize: Alfred Brendel
1950not awarded Karl-Heinz Schlüter Jacques Coulaud
1951not awardednot awarded Karl Engel and Walter Klien
1952 Sergio Perticaroli Andrzej Wasowski Marisa Candeloro and Agostino Orizio
1953 Ella Goldstein Monte Hill Davis Esteban Sanchez Herrero
1954 Aldo Mancinelli Gabriel Tacchino Günter Ludwig
1955not awarded Germaine Devéze Günter Ludwig
1956 Jörg DemusIvan DavisJames Mathis.
4th prize: Bruno Canino and Michael Ponti
1957Martha Argerich Ivan Davis and Jerome Lowenthal Jeaneane Dowis
1958not awarded Ronald Turini and José Kahan Fabio Peressoni and Michael Ponti
4th prize: Bruno Canino
1959not awarded Cécile Ousset and John Perry Imre Antal and Leonhard Hokanson
4th prize: Joaquín Achúcarro
1960not awarded Agustin Anievas and James Mathis Imre Antal
1961 Jerome Rose Norma Fisher and Howard Aibel Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak
1962not awarded Brenton Dale Bartlett Iván Erőd and Reynaldo Reyes
1963not awarded Gernot Kahl José Maria Contreras
1964 Michael Ponti François-Joël Thiollier Ivan Drenikov
1965not awarded Bojidar Noev James Dick
1966 Garrick Ohlsson Richard Goode
1967not awarded Ivan Klánský Pietro Maranca
1968 Vladimir Selivochin Mark Zeltser Benedikt Köhlen and Craig Sheppard
1969 Ursula Oppens Annamaria Cigoli Akiko Kitagawa
1970not awardedSelection prize: Maria Luisa Lopez-Vito
1971not awarded Nina Tichman Ilan Rogoff and Marioara Trifan
1972 Arnaldo Cohennot awarded Peter Bithell and David Oei
1973not awarded Roland Keller and Andrzej Ratusiński Elza Kolodin
1974 Robert Benz Pascal Devoyon Diane Walsh
1975not awarded Staffan Scheja Laszlo Simon and Terence Judd
1976 Roberto Cappello Daniel Rivera Susan Ann Howes and Adrienne Shannon
1977not awarded Ayami Ikeba and Véronique Roux Joop Celis and Kyoto Ito
1978 Boris Bloch Dennis Lee Arnulf von Arnim
4th prize: Josep Colom
1979 Catherine Vickersnot awarded Alyce Le Blanc
1980not awarded Ruriko Kikuchi, Rolf Plagge and Hai-Kyung Suh
1981 Margarita Höhenrieder Lev Natochenny Boyan Vodenitcharov
1982not awarded Hung-Kuan Chen Daniel Blumenthal and Yukino Fujiwara
1983not awarded Robert McDonald Frederick Blum and Arthur Greene
1984 Louis Lortie Matthias Fletzberger Bernd Glemser
1985 José Carlos Cocarelli Uriel Tsachor and Akira Wakabayashi Nataljia Vlassenko
1986not awarded Benjamin Frith and Pedrag Muzijevic R. Clipper Erickson and Igor Kamenz
1987 Lilya Zilberstein Valery Kuleshof Ian Munro and Alfredo Perl
1988not awarded Igor Kamenz and Benjamin Pasternack Fabio Bidini
1989not awarded Aleksandar Madžar Francesco Cipolletta and Valery Grohovsky
1990not awarded Karina Yavlenskaya Midori Nohara
1991not awarded Olivier Cazal and Igor Kamenz Stanislav Judenich
1992 Anna Kravtchenko Fabio Bidini Mark Anderson and Sergei Babayan
1993 Roberto Cominati Vitaly Samoschko Olivier Cazal
1994 Mzia Simonishwili Iwao Murakami Corrado Rollero
1995 Alexander Shtarkman Sergei Tarasov
1996not awarded Jan Gottlieb Jiracek Michael Dantschenko
1997not awarded Yoon-Soo Lee Dimitri Vorobieff
1998not awarded Olaf John Laneri Catherine Chi
1999 Alexander Kobrin Alberto Nosè Min-Soo Sohn
2000not awardednot awarded Ayako Kimura and Carl Wolf
2001 Alexander Romanovsky Hea-Jung Cho Dong-Min Lim
2003not awarded Maria Stembolskaia Lyubov Gegetchkori and Mu-Ye Wu
2004/2005 Giuseppe Andaloro Mariangela Vacatello Hye-Jin Kim
2006/2007 Matthew Ward Sofya Gulyak and Dinara Nadzhafova Lilian Akopova
2008/2009 Michail Lifits Alexey Lebedev Gesualdo Coggi
2010/2011not awarded Anna Bulkina and Antonii Barishevskyi Tatiana Chernichka
2012/2013not awarded Rodolfo Leone Akihiro Sakiya and Dmitry Shishkin
2014/2015 Ji-Yeong Mun Alberto Ferro Roman Lopatynskyi
2016/2017 Ivan Krpan Jae-Yeon Won Anna Geniushene
2018/2019 Emanuil Ivanov Shiori Kuwahara Giorgi 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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