Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition explained

The Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition was founded in 2002 by Alexander Braginsky in collaboration with the Yamaha Corporation. It took place every two years in Minneapolis–Saint Paul before the 2008 edition was delayed to 2009 due to the arrangement of a junior edition of the competition. The -e- refers to the competition's focus on Internet and Disklavier technologies. The e-competition is one of the biggest, most significant competitions available for young artists. Many of its past competitors have gone on to achieve significant success on the global competition/concert stage.

Prize winners

Senior competition

Year 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize 4th prize 5th prize 6th prize
2002 Mei-Ting Sun[1] Victoria Korchinskaya not awarded Edisher Savitski Tatyana Kolessova Wen-Yin Chan
2004 Yung Wook Yoo Denis Evstioukhine Tatyana Kolesova Inesa Synkevych
2006 Edisher Savitski Ryo Yanagitani Victoria Korchinskaya Mikhail Mordvinov Einav Yarden Gregory DeTurck
2009 Pavel Yeletskiy Howard Na Grace Eun Hae Kim
2014 Alexey Chernov Frank Dupree Marianna Prjevalskaya Chen Guang not awarded
2018 KaJeng Wong Timur Mustakimov Su Yeon Kim

Junior competition

Year Category1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize 4th prize 5th prize
2008 Frank Düpree
Nansong Huang
not awarded Jan Lisiecki
Osip Nikiforov
not awarded Vladimir Levitsky
2011 Tristan Teo Su Yeon Kim Annie Zhou
Misora S. Ozaki
not awarded
2013[2] Carmen Knoll Yuanfan Yang JiaXin Min Christopher Son Richardson
2015 Elliot Wuu Arsenii Mun YanZhou Li Christopher Son Richardson
2017 Shuan Hern Lee Youl Sun Andrew Li Rio Kai Rui Yongqiu Liu
2019 Kevin Chen Yu Lei Eric Guo Solomon Ge Caleb Borick
2021Sparks (>10) Taige Wang Thannapas Luanpitpong Sihong Li Isabel Feng Masanobu Pires
Aspires (>14) Yanyan Bao Xinran Shi Jiayou Xu Xuanxiang Wu Zhiwei Chen
Young Artists (>17) Jinyoung Kweon Hao Rao Yuetong Wang Maria Eydman Nathaniel Zhang

References

  1. Web site: Juilliard Student Is Winner of Piano 'E-Competition'. The New York Times. June 18, 2002. May 23, 2016.
  2. http://www.piano-e-competition.com/ecompetition/competitors_2013.asp 2013 contestants

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