The Panama International Piano Competition is held at the Teatro Nacional in Panama City every two years. It was established in 2004 by Jaime and Nelly Ingram.[1] The 7th Competition is scheduled to take place in October 2016.[2] Award winners receive cash prizes. Additional special prizes are available for the best performance of one of the first two Sonatas composed by Alberto Ginastera, best performance of a Brazilian composition, and best performance of a work composed by Joaquín Rodrigo.[3]
Asterisk (*) denotes winner of Audience Choice Award
| Year | Prize | Winner | Country | Jurors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004[4] | 1st | Yung Wook Yoo | Jaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury) Efraín Paesky Roger Woodward Frank Fernández Fernando Puchol Solomon Mikowsky Sequeira Costa Sergei Dorensky | |
| 2nd | Tatjana Mitchko* | |||
| 3rd | Alexander Moutouzkine | |||
| 4th | Inesa Sinkevych |  Israel | ||
| 5th | Eduardo Fernández |  Spain | ||
| 6th | Amir Tebenikhin |  Kazakhstan | ||
| 2006[5] | 1st | Mario Alonso Herrero | Spain | Jaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury) Akiko Ebi Carmen Graf-Adnet Leonid Kuzmin Miguel Proença Joaquín Soriano Blanca Uribe Ralph Votapek |
| 2nd | Kookhee Hong* | |||
| 3rd | Jingjing Wang |  China | ||
| 4th | Marcos Madrigal |  Cuba | ||
| 5th | Anna Khanina | |||
| 2008[6] | 1st | Jingjing Wang | China | Jaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury) Andreas Bach Sequeira Costa Aquiles Delle Vigne Natalia Mitchailidou Ramzi Yassa Leslie Wright |
| 2nd | Fernando Altamura |  Italy | ||
| 3rd | Edward Neeman |  United States | ||
| 4th | Olga Kozlova | |||
| 5th | Carles Marín | Spain | ||
| 6th | Chun Chieh Yen | |||
| 7th | Oxana Shevchenko* | Kazakhstan | ||
| 8th | Jorge Jiménez | Spain | ||
| 2010[7] | 1st | Alexander Moutouzkine | Jaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury) Solomon Mikowsky Aquiles Delle Vigne Elías López Sobá Thomas Mastroianni Víctor Rodríguez Warren Thomson Dan-Wen Wei | |
| 2nd | Alexandra Beliakovich |  Belarus | ||
| 3rd | Takafumi Mori |  Japan | ||
| 4th | Anna Kurasawa* | Japan | ||
| 5th | Robert Buxton | United States | ||
| 2012[8] | 1st | not awarded | Jaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury) Ann Schein Caio Pagano Artur Pizarro Fernando Puchol Luis Ascot Olivier Gardon Luis Troetsch | |
| 2nd | Marianna Prjevalskaya | Spain | ||
| 3rd | Jina Seo | |||
| 4th | Fernando Cruz | Spain | ||
| 5th | Yuki Ishimaru | Japan | ||
| 2014[9] | 1st | Kho Woon Kim | Jaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury) Mamiko Suda Luis Ascot Caio Pagano Claudio Vásquez Harold Martina Solomon Mikowsky Fernando Puchol | |
| 2nd | Marcos Madrigal | Cuba | ||
| 3rd | Maiko Ami | Japan | ||
| 4th | Willanny Darias | Cuba | ||
| 5th | Marcel Tadokoro | Japan | ||
| 2016[10] | 1st | Jinhyung Park | ||
| 2nd | Yeon Min Park | |||
| 3rd | ||||
| 4th | Po Wei Ger | |||
| 5th | Armen Sarkisian | United States |