III Sendai International Music Competition explained

The III Sendai International Music Competition took place in Sendai from May 18-June 24, 2007.

Violin Competition

Palmares

	Winner
1st Prize	Alena Baeva
2nd Prize	Erin Keefe
3rd Prize	A-Rah Shin
4th Prize	Andrey Baranov
5th Prize	Sayaka Chiba
6th Prize	Haruka Nagao
Audience Prizes	Haruka Nagao
	Alena Baeva
	Erin Keefe

Jury

• • Tomotada Soh (chairman)
  • Kiyoshi Okayama (vice-chairman)
  • Gérard Poulet (vice-chairman)
  • Daniel Gaede
  • Yuzuko Horigome
  • Lewis Kaplan
  • Nam-Yun Kim
  • Konstanty Kulka
  • Victor Pikayzen
  • Arve Tellefsen
  • Lina Yu

Competition results

Elimination round

May 20–22.

• • A-Rah Shin - 86.70
  • Alena Baeva - 84.55
  • Erin Keefe - 81.91
  • Zhijiong Wang - 81.40
  • Shanshan Yao - 80.82
  • Haruka Nagao - 80.40
  • Aya Kiyonaga - 79.70
  • Andrey Baranov - 78.73
  • Sayaka Chiba - 78.40
  • Minjeong Suh - 78.40
  • Aska Kawamata - 78.00
  • Hannah Choi - 77.91
  • Momoko Arai
  • Lea Birringer
  • Sakura Chiba
  • Aleksandra Fedotova
  • Yusuke Hayashi
  • Samika Honda
  • Tadasuke Ijima
  • Hayato Ishibashi
  • Jason Issokson
  • Fuyu Iwaki
  • Maxim Kosinov
  • Yevgeniy Kostrytskyy
  • Dmitry Lukin
  • Maria Machowska
  • Svetlana Makarova
  • Sergey Malov
  • Tomer Marcus
  • Pedro Meireles
  • Tsuyoshi Moriya
  • Kinneret Sieradzki
  • Vladimir Soluianov
  • Eri Takamura
  • Eugen Tichindeleanu
  • Gerardo Ubaghs
  • Xu Yang
  • Asami Yamada
  • Masanobu Yoda
  • Kosuke Yoshikawa

Semifinals

May 26–28.

• • Erin Keefe - 88.64
  • Andrey Baranov - 87.91
  • Alena Baeva - 83.09
  • Shin A-Rah - 82.80
  • Haruka Nagao - 78.90
  • Sayaka Chiba - 78.90
  • Shanshan Yao - 78.73
  • Zhijiong Wang - 77.80
  • Aya Kiyonaga - 73.90
  • Hannah Choi - 73.55
  • Aska Kawamata - 72.27
  • Minjeong Suh - 70.00

Finals

June 1–2

• • 1st Prize
  • Alena Baeva - 6 votes
  • Erin Keefe - 2 votes
  • Sayaka Chiba - 1 vote
  • 2nd Prize
  • Erin Keefe - 5 votes
  • Shin A-Rah - 2 votes
  • Andrey Baranov - 1 vote
  • Haruka Nagao - 1 vote
  • 3rd Prize
  • Shin A-Rah - 5 votes
  • Andrey Baranov - 4 votes
  • 4th Prize
  • Andrey Baranov - 4 votes
  • Sayaka Chiba - 3 votes
  • Haruka Nagao - 3 votes
  • 5th Prize
  • Sayaka Chiba - 6 votes
  • Haruka Nagao - 4 votes

Piano Competition

Palmares

	Winner
1st Prize	Yuya Tsuda
2nd Prize	Yi-Chih Lu
3rd Prize	Oxana Shevchenko
4th Prize	Ilya Ovchinnikov
5th Prize	Ka-Ling Colleen Lee
6th Prize	Vyacheslav Gryaznov
Audience Prizes	Alexander Osminin
	Oxana Shevchenko
	Yuya Tsuda

Jury

• Minoru Nojima (chairman)
• Katsumi Ueda (vice-chairman)
• Peter Rösel (vice-chairman)
• Willem Brons
• Daejin Kim
• Michie Koyama
• Dominique Merlet
• Cécile Ousset
• Elisso Virsaladze
• Oxana Yablonskaya
• Guangren Zhou

Competition results

Elimination round

June 10–12.

• • Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 91.27
  • Ilya Ovchinnikov - 87.82
  • Yuya Tsuda - 87.64
  • Yi-Chih Lu - 85.73
  • Vyacheslav Gryaznov - 85.45
  • Alexander Osminin - 85.20
  • Brian Hsu - 85.09
  • Yoshihiro Nagase - 81.64
  • Shorena Tsintsavadze - 81.55
  • Oxana Shevchenko - 81.18
  • Esther Birringer - 81.00
  • Megumi Shimanuki - 80.50
  • Angelo Arciglione
  • László Borbely
  • Moye Chen
  • Árpád Dányi
  • Tanya Gabrielian
  • Jing Gong
  • Cyril Guillotin
  • Christopher Guzmán
  • Duanduan Hao
  • Shinnosuke Inugai
  • Kazuo Irie
  • Chie Kamino
  • Jun Kaneko
  • Alexander Karpeyev
  • Takuro Maeda
  • Maiko Mine
  • Olga Monakh
  • Koki Murata
  • Sandra Nam
  • Takaya Sano
  • Nina Sarapyan
  • Anna Shakina
  • Jia Shi
  • Yuki Sunamura
  • Hsiang Tu

Semifinals

June 16–18.

• • Oxana Shevchenko - 88.73
  • Ilya Ovchinnikov - 86.64
  • Yuya Tsuda - 86.09
  • Vyacheslav Gryaznov - 84.73
  • Yi-Chih Lu - 84.55
  • Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 83.82
  • Megumi Shimanuki - 79.90
  • Esther Birringer - 79.64
  • Brian Hsu - 79.09
  • Yoshihiro Nagase - 78.18
  • Alexander Osminin - 73.30
  • Shorena Tsintsavadze - 00.00 (disqualified)

Finals

June 22–23

• • 1st Prize
  • Yuya Tsuda - 8 votes
  • Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 1 vote
  • Ilya Ovchinnikov - 1 vote
  • Oxana Shevchenko - 1 vote
  • 2nd Prize
  • Yi-Chih Lu - 6 votes
  • Oxana Shevchenko - 5 votes
  • 3rd Prize
  • Oxana Shevchenko - 7 votes
  • Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 2 votes
  • Ilya Ovchinnikov - 2 votes
  • 4th Prize
  • Ilya Ovchinnikov - 6 votes
  • Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 5 votes
  • 5th Prize
  • Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 8 votes
  • Vyacheslav Gryaznov - 3 votes

See also

• List of Sendai International Music Competition winners

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20080928114921/http://www.simc.jp/2007/index_e.html Sendai International Music Competition - 3rd Sendai IMC Highlight