XV Jose Iturbi International Piano Competition took place in Valencia, from September 14 to the 30th, 2006. The competition is held every two years and is a member of the Geneva World Federation of International Music Competitions. Pianist Josu De Solaun Soto was given the First Grand Prize, becoming the first Spanish pianist to be awarded such distinction in the 25 years of the competition's existence. The prize included over $25,000, recital and orchestral engagements and a recording contract.
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| First Grand Prize | bgcolor=gold |  Josu de Solaun | |||
| Second Prize | bgcolor=lightgrey |  Valentina Igoshina | |||
| Third Prize | bgcolor=burlywood | Andrei Yaroshinsky | |||
| Fourth Prize |  Sofya Melikyan | ||||
| Fifth Prize | Natalya Kuchaeva | ||||
| Sixth Prize | Void | ||||
| Best Valencian pianist | Josu de Solaun | ||||
| Best Spanish pianist | Josu de Solaun | ||||
| Best interpreter of Spanish music | Sofya Melikyan | ||||
| Best interpreter of Spanish contemporary music | Philipp Kopachevsky | ||||
| Best interpreter of a Beethoven concerto |  Patrick Hemmerle | ||||
| Best interpreter of a Chopin piece | Patrick Hemmerle |
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 Yukiko Akagi |  Cathal Breslin | Claudio Carbó | |||||||
| Miguel Ángel Castro | Josu de Solaun |  Anna Fedorova | |||||||
| Nikolai Gangnus | Patrick Hemmerle |  Dagmar Hofman | |||||||
| Valentina Igoshina | Marianna Katerelou | ||||||||
| Philipp Kopachevsky | Natalya Kuchaeva | Fuyuka Kusa | |||||||
 Lin Weichi | Sofya Melikyan | ||||||||
| Yukako Morikawa | Inocencio Negrín |  Vincenzo Oliva | |||||||
| Antonio Ortiz |  Cameron Roberts | ||||||||
| Pavel Shatskiy | Wu Xiaofeng | ||||||||
| Andrei Yaroshinsky |  Bojana Zdravković | Denis Zhdanov | |||||||
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| Yukiko Akagi | Claudio Carbó | Miguel Ángel Castro | Josu de Solaun | ||||||
| Patrick Hemmerle | Valentina Igoshina | Philipp Kopachevsky | |||||||
| Natalya Kuchaeva | Sofya Melikyan | Yukako Morikawa | |||||||
| Antonio Ortiz | Pavel Shatskiy | ||||||||
| Andrei Yaroshinsky | Denis Zhdanov |
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| Josu de Solaun | Patrick Hemmerle | ||||||||
| Valentina Igoshina | Natalia Kuchaeva | Sofya Melikyan | Yukiko Morikawa | ||||||
| Andrei Yaroshinsky | |||||||||
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| Josu de Solaun (Beethoven's 3rd) | Patrick Hemmerle (Beethoven's 1st) | Valentina Igoshina (Beethoven's 4th) | |||
| Natalya Kuchaeva (Beethoven's 5th) | Sofya Melikyan (Beethoven's 3rd) | Andrei Yaroshinsky (Beethoven's 3rd) | |||
| Accompaniment: Valencia Orchestra. Yaron Traub, conductor. | |||||
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| Josu de Solaun (Rachmaninov's 2nd) | Valentina Igoshina (Tchaikovsky's 1st) | Andrey Yaroshinsky (Rachmaninov's Rhapsody) | |||
| Accompaniment: Valencia Orchestra. Yaron Traub, conductor. | |||||