The International Franz Liszt Piano Competition ("Liszt Competition") is an international piano competition. It is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.
The Competition is held in Utrecht in the Netherlands. It first took place in 1986, one hundred years after the death of Franz Liszt.
Each time the Liszt Competition has been held it has seen over two hundred selected participants. Since 2014, only 14 contestants are selected after the International Selection Rounds hosted in USA, Asia and Europe.
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Year | First prize | Second prize | Third prize |
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1986 | Martijn van den Hoek, | Gregorio Nardi, Italy | Michael Lewin, |
1989 | Enrico Pace, Italy | Alexei Orlovetski, | Wibi Soerjadi, |
1992 | Sergey Pashkevich, | Evelina Vorontsova, | Evelina Borbély, |
1996 | Igor Roma, Italy | – | Tomoko Narata, Japan and Chi Wu, China (tied) |
1999 | Masaru Okada, Japan | Mariangela Vacatello, Italy | Yundi Li, China |
2002 | Jean Dubé, France | Ilona Timchenko, | Giancarlo Crespeau, France |
2005 | Yingdi Sun, China | Anton Salnikov, | Christiaan Kuyvenhoven, |
2008 | Vitaly Pisarenko, | Nino Gvetadze, Georgia | Anzhelika Fuks, Hungary/ Ukraine |
2011 | Masataka Goto, Japan | Olga Kozlova, | Oleksandr Poliykov, Ukraine |
2014 | Mariam Batsashvili, Georgia | Peter Klimo, | Mengjie Han, |
2017 | Alexander Ullman, United Kingdom | Minsoo Hong, | Dina Ivanova, |
2022 | Yukine Kuroki, Japan | Yeon-Min Park, and Derek Wang, (tied) | |