Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition Explained

The Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition is a music competition for young pianists that takes place in Bolzano, Italy. It was founded in 1949 by Cesare Nordio in memory of the pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni.

History

The first Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition was organized by Cesare Nordio in 1949 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the death of the pianist and composer. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was a supporter of the competition and was a member of the inaugural jury. 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, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, 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

Complete list of winners:

!Year!!First prize!!Second prize!!Third prize
1949 Rossana Orlandini
4th prize: Alfred Brendel
1950 Karl-Heinz Schlüter Jacques Coulaud
1951 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
1955 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
1958José Kahan Fabio Peressoni and Michael Ponti
4th prize: Bruno Canino
1959 Cécile Ousset and John Perry Imre Antal and Leonhard Hokanson
4th prize: Joaquín Achúcarro
1960 Agustin Anievas and James Mathis Imre Antal
1961 Jerome Rose Norma Fisher and Howard Aibel Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak
1962 Brenton Dale Bartlett Iván Erőd and Reynaldo Reyes
1963 Gernot Kahl José Maria Contreras
1964 Michael Ponti François-Joël Thiollier Ivan Drenikov
1965 Bojidar Noev James Dick
1966 Garrick Ohlsson Richard Goode
1967 Ivan Klánský Pietro Maranca
1968 Vladimir Selivochin Mark Zeltser Benedikt Köhlen and Craig Sheppard
1969 Ursula Oppens Annamaria Cigoli Akiko Kitagawa
1970Selection prize: Maria Luisa Lopez-Vito
1971 Nina Tichman Ilan Rogoff and Marioara Trifan
1972 Arnaldo Cohen Peter Bithell and David Oei
1973 Roland Keller and Andrzej Ratusiński Elza Kolodin
1974 Robert Benz Pascal Devoyon Diane Walsh
1975 Staffan Scheja Laszlo Simon and Terence Judd
1976 Roberto Cappello Daniel Rivera Susan Ann Howes and Adrienne Shannon
1977 Ayami Ikeba and Véronique Roux Joop Celis and Kyoto Ito
1978 Boris Bloch Dennis Lee Arnulf von Arnim
4th prize: Josep Colom
1979 Catherine Vickers Alyce Le Blanc
1980 Ruriko Kikuchi, Rolf Plagge and Hai-Kyung Suh
1981 Margarita Höhenrieder Lev Natochenny Boyan Vodenitcharov
1982 Hung-Kuan Chen Daniel Blumenthal and Yukino Fujiwara
1983 Robert McDonald Frederick Blum and Arthur Greene
1984 Louis Lortie Matthias Fletzberger Bernd Glemser
1985 José Carlos Cocarelli Uriel Tsachor and Akira Wakabayashi Natalia Vlassenko
1986 Benjamin Frith and Pedrag Muzijevic R. Clipper Erickson and Igor Kamenz
1987 Lilya Zilberstein Valery Kuleshof Ian Munro and Alfredo Perl
1988 Igor Kamenz and Benjamin Pasternack Fabio Bidini
1989 Aleksandar Madžar Francesco Cipolletta and Valery Grohovsky
1990 Karina Yavlenskaya Midori Nohara
1991 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
1996 Jan Gottlieb Jiracek Michael Dantschenko
1997 Yoon-Soo Lee Dimitri Vorobieff
1998 Olaf John Laneri Catherine Chi
1999 Alexander Kobrin Alberto Nosè Min-Soo Sohn
2000 Ayako Kimura and Carl Wolf
2001 Alexander Romanovsky Hea-Jung Cho Dong-Min Lim
2003 Maria Stembolskaia
2004/2005 Giuseppe Andaloro Mariangela Vacatello Hye-Jin Kim
2006/2007Matthew Ward Sofya Gulyak and Dinara Nadzhafova Lilian Akopova
2008/2009 Michail Lifits Alexey Lebedev Gesualdo Coggi
2010/2011 Anna Bulkina and Antonii Barishevskyi Tatiana Chernichka
2012/2013 Rodolfo Leone Akihiro Sakiya and Dmitry Shishkin
2014/2015 Ji-Yeong Mun Alberto Ferro Roman Lopatynskyi
2016/2017 Jae-Yeon Won Anna Geniushene
2018/2019 Emanuil Ivanov Shiori Kuwahara Giorgi Gigashvili
2021 Jae Hong Park Do-Hyun Kim Lukas Sternath
2023 Arsenii Mun Anthony Ratinov Ryota Yamazaki

Notes and References

  1. Web site: History of the Competition. International Piano Competition Foundation Ferruccio Busoni Bolzano Bozen. 15 August 2009. 2 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150702065123/http://www.concorsobusoni.it/en/history-of-the-competition-ferruccio-busoni. dead.
  2. Web site: Hall of Fame. International Piano Competition Foundation Ferruccio Busoni Bolzano Bozen. 12 January 2015. 24 June 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150624014309/http://www.concorsobusoni.it/en/hall-of-fame. dead.
  3. Web site: Jury since 1949 . 15 August 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100601012957/http://www.concorsobusoni.it/en-94-1990.aspx . 1 June 2010 .