2008 Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi Explained

Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi XVI took take place in Valencia from September 15–27, 2008. It was won by Zhengyu Chen, who became the first Chinese pianist to attain the 1st prize.

Jury

• • Joaquín Soriano (president)
  • Antonio di Cristofano
  • Bella Davidovich
  • Petras Geniusas
  • Peter Lang
  • Stanislav Pochekin
  • Fernando Puchol
  • Jesús Ángel Rodríguez
  • Maria Tipo
  • Fujiko Yamada

Prizes

	Winner	Prize	Sponsor
1st Grand Prize	Zhengyu Chen	18.000 € + CD + Concert tour	Diputación de Valencia
2nd Prize	Soyeon Kim	12.000 € + Concerts in Valencia	Diputación de Valencia
3rd Prize		6.000 € + Concerts in Valencia	Diputación de Valencia
4th Prize	Ángel Cabrera	4.000 €	Bancaja
5th Prize		3.000 €	Ayuntamiento de Valencia
6th Prize	Yu-Mi Lee	1.900 €	Sociedad Filarmónica de Valencia
7th Prize	void	1.600 €	Bancaja
Best Chopin performance	void	2.500 €	Mrs. Heide Wolf
Kawai Prize	Marianna Prjevalskaya	1.900 €	Kawai-España
Yamaha Premium	Soyeon Kim	1.900 €	Yamaha-Música Ibérica
Clemente Pianos Prize	Zhengyu Chen	1.900 €	Clemente Pianos
Diputación Prize	Ángel Cabrera	1.600 €	Diputación de Valencia

• Awarded to the best qualified Valencian competitor.
• Awarded to the best qualified Spanish competitor.
• Awarded to the best Spanish contemporary music performer.
• Awarded to the best Concerto performer.
• Awarded to the best Spanish music performer.

Compositions commissioned for the competition

• • Emilio Calandín - Tres naipes del I Ching
  • Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher - Chronos / Kayros
  • Enrique Sanz-Burguete - A Matilde

Competition Results (by rounds)

First round

September 16 and 17. Palau de la Música - Sala Rodrigo.

• Domenico Scarlatti / Antonio Soler Sonata + Two pieces among Frédéric Chopin's Nocturnes, Impromptus, Mazurkas and Waltzes + Gabriel Fauré / Claude Debussy / Maurice Ravel composition + Ad libitum.
  • Ron Abramski
  • Mario Alonso Herrero
  • Angelo Arciglione
  • Honoré Béjin Garcia
  • Enrique Bernaldo de Quirós Martín
  • Tatyana Bezmenova
  • Ingfrid Breie Nyhus
  • Northern Ireland Cathal Breslin
  • Ángel Cabrera
  • Christian Chamorel
  • Zhengyu Chen
  • Wu Chi
  • Sebastian Di Bin
  • Nazareno Ferrugio
  • Martina Filjak
  • Sofya Gulyak
  • Shinnosuke Inugai
  • Soyeon Kim
  • Karalina Kirylchyk
  • Yun Jung Koo
  • Martin Labazevitch
  • Daiva Lavrinavičiūtė
  • Aleksey Lebedev
  • Li-Wei Lee
  • Yu Mi Lee
  • José Menor Martín
  • Theodosia Ntokou
  • Vincenzo Oliva
  • Fumie Onda
  • Jin Woo Park
  • Joo Hyeon Park
  • Tristan Pfaff
  • Marianna Prjevalskaya
  • Ivana Ristova
  • Daniil Sayamov
  • Sergey Sobolev
  • Masataka Takada
  • Yoshida Tomoaki
  • Maria Tretiyakova
  • Andrey Yaroshinsky

Quarter-finals

September 18, 19 and 20. Palau de la Música - Sala Rodrigo.

• Joseph Haydn / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata or Variations + Frédéric Chopin Etude + Isaac Albéniz (Iberia) / Enrique Granados (Goyescas) / Manuel de Falla (Fantasía Bética, Cuatro piezas españolas) composition
  • Ron Abramski
  • Angelo Arciglione
  • Tatyana Bezmenova
  • Ángel Cabrera
  • Christian Chamorel
  • Zhengyu Chen
  • Sebastian Di Bin
  • Nazareno Ferrugio
  • Shinnosuke Inugai
  • Soyeon Kim
  • Yun Jung Koo
  • Martin Labazevitch
  • Aleksey Lebedev
  • Yu-Mi Lee
  • Fumie Onda
  • Tristan Pfaff
  • Marianna Prjevalskaya
  • Maria Tretiyakova

Semi-finals

September 21 and 22. Palau de la Música - Sala Rodrigo.

• Romantic composition/s + Mandatory contemporary composition.
  • Ron Abramsky
  • Angelo Arciglione
  • Ángel Cabrera
  • Christian Chamorel
  • Zhengyu Chen
  • Shinnosuke Inugai
  • Soyeon Kim
  • Yun Jung Koo
  • Martin Labazevitch
  • Yu-Mi Lee
  • Tristan Pfaff (withdrawal)
  • Marianna Prjevalskaya

Final

September 26 and 27. Palau de la Música - Sala Iturbi.

• • Angelo Arciglione --- Frédéric Chopin: 2nd.
  • Ángel Cabrera --- Frédéric Chopin: 2nd.
  • Zhengyu Chen --- Ferenc Liszt: 1st.
  • Soyeon Kim --- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1st.
  • Yu-Mi Lee --- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1st.
  • Marianna Prjevalskaya --- Frédéric Chopin: 1st.

Orquesta de Valencia. Max Bragado, conductor.

External links

• Diputación de Valencia - Valencia International Piano Competition José Iturbi