International Franz Liszt Piano Competition Explained

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.

Liszt of Prizewinners

Source Official webpage[1]

YearFirst prizeSecond prizeThird prize
1986Martijn van den Hoek, Gregorio Nardi, ItalyMichael Lewin,
1989Enrico Pace, ItalyAlexei Orlovetski, Wibi Soerjadi,
1992Sergey Pashkevich, Evelina Vorontsova, Evelina Borbély,
1996Igor Roma, ItalyTomoko Narata, Japan and Chi Wu, China (tied)
1999Masaru Okada, JapanMariangela Vacatello, ItalyYundi Li, China
2002Jean Dubé, FranceIlona Timchenko, Giancarlo Crespeau, France
2005Yingdi Sun, ChinaAnton Salnikov, Christiaan Kuyvenhoven,
2008Vitaly Pisarenko, Nino Gvetadze, GeorgiaAnzhelika Fuks, Hungary/ Ukraine
2011Masataka Goto, JapanOlga Kozlova, Oleksandr Poliykov, Ukraine
2014Mariam Batsashvili, GeorgiaPeter Klimo, Mengjie Han,
2017Alexander Ullman, United KingdomMinsoo Hong, Dina Ivanova,
2022Yukine Kuroki, JapanYeon-Min Park, and Derek Wang, (tied)

See also

References

  1. http://www.liszt.nl International Franz Liszt Piano Competition – official page