The Missouri Southern Competition was a biannual international piano competition organized by the Missouri Southern State University first held in 1987. It was dissolved in 2008 following the retirement of its director, Vivian León.
| Year | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | ||||
| Senior division |  Alan Chow |  Heather Staves | Boris Slutsky | |
| Junior division | Diana Chiang | Michael Spaid |  Tina Tandela | |
| 1988 | ||||
| Senior division |  Jackson Leung |  Cheng Fei Mao | Xiang-Dong Kong | |
| Junior division | Beau Mansfield | Kôji Attwood | Sarah E. Finch | |
| 1990 | ||||
| Senior division | Mia Chung | Steven Heyman | Hayuru Taima | |
| Junior division | Christine Peery | not awarded |  Candice Lee | |
| 1992 | ||||
| Senior division | Elisabeth Smirnova |  Read Gainsford | Richard Dowling | |
| Junior division | Albert Kim | Andrew Armstrong |  Atsuko Oba | |
| 1994 | ||||
| Senior division | Carl Cranmer |  Roberto Corlianò | Sasha Starcevich | |
| Junior division | Melanie Hadley | Shen Wen | Paul Hadley | |
| 1996 | ||||
| Senior division | Natasha Khislenko | Atsuko Oba |  Derison Duarte | |
| Junior division | Jian Liu | Tian Tian | Dmitri Levkovich | |
| 1998 | ||||
| Senior division |  Kriszta Kovács |  Daria Monastyrski | Anton Mordasov | |
| Junior division | Daniela Bracchi |  Diana Ionescu | Wen-Yin Chan | |
| Yundi Li | ||||
| 2000 | ||||
| Senior division |  Petronel Malan | Elissei Babanov | Yoshikazu Nagai | |
| Junior division | Kyu-Yeon Kim | Chufang Huang | ||
| 2002 | ||||
| Senior division | Robert Henry | Young-Ah Tak | ||
| Junior division | Sun-Ho Lee | |||
| 2004 | ||||
| Senior division | Jie Chen | not awarded | Sandro Russo | |
| Junior division | Wenbin Jin | Chenyang Xu | Si-Chen Ma | |
| 2006 | ||||
| Senior division | Tatiana Tessman | Sergei Saratovsky | Sang-Il Han | |
| Junior division | Xiaoqiu Xue | Lo-An Lin | Mi-Eun Kim | |
| 2008 | ||||
| Senior division | Avan Yu | Tian Lu | Peggy Pei-Zhang Sung | |
| Junior Division |  Behzod Abduraimov | Anna Han | Yale Work |
