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Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition

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The Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition is a music competition for young pianists that takes place in Bolzano, Italy. It was founded in 1949 by Cesare Nordio in memory of the pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni.

History

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Ferrucio Busoni

The first Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition was organized by Cesare Nordio in 1949 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the death of the pianist and composer. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was a supporter of the competition and was a member of the inaugural jury. Alfred Brendel won the 4th prize in this competition. For a few years a piano composition competition took place together with the piano competition.[1]

In 1956, the young Maurizio Pollini took part in the competition, performing the Fantasia Contrappuntistica by Kenneth Leighton, which won the prize for composition; in 1957 Martha Argerich won the first prize. Other prize winners include Bruno Canino, Agustin Anievas, Joaquín Achúcarro, Jerome Rose, Garrick Ohlsson, Alberto Nosè and Wu Muye.[2]

Members of the jury have included: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Nikita Magaloff, Igor Markevitch, Carlo Maria Giulini, Garrick Ohlsson, Bruno Canino, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Paul Badura-Skoda, Rafael Orozco, Joaquín Soriano, Gerhard Oppitz, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Michele Campanella, Leif Ove Andsnes, Adam Harasiewicz, Hiroko Nakamura, Martha Argerich, Andrzej Jasiński, Lilya Zilberstein, Tadeusz Żmudziński, Valery Afanassiev and Eliso Virsaladze.[3]

Winners

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Complete list of winners:[2]

Winners of the top prizes for each year
Year First prize Second prize Third prize
1949 not awarded Italy Lodovico Lessona [it] Italy Rossana Orlandini
4th prize: Austria Alfred Brendel
1950 not awarded West Germany Karl-Heinz Schlüter France Jacques Coulaud
1951 not awarded not awarded Switzerland Karl Engel and Austria Walter Klien
1952 Italy Sergio Perticaroli Poland Andrzej Wasowski Italy Marisa Candeloro and Italy Agostino Orizio
1953 United States Ella Goldstein United States Monte Hill Davis Spain Esteban Sanchez Herrero
1954 Italy Aldo Mancinelli France Gabriel Tacchino West Germany Günter Ludwig
1955 not awarded France Germaine Devéze West Germany Günter Ludwig
1956 Austria Jörg Demus Ivan Davis James Mathis.
4th prize: Bruno Canino and Michael Ponti
1957 ArgentinaSwitzerlandMartha Argerich United States Ivan Davis and United States Jerome Lowenthal United States Jeaneane Dowis
1958 MexicoJosé Kahan Canada Ronald Turini Italy Fabio Peressoni and United States Michael Ponti
Italy 4th prize: Bruno Canino
1959 not awarded France Cécile Ousset and United States John Perry Hungary Imre Antal and United States Leonhard Hokanson
4th prize: Spain Joaquín Achúcarro
1960 not awarded United States Agustin Anievas and United States James Mathis Hungary Imre Antal
1961 United States Jerome Rose United Kingdom Norma Fisher and United States Howard Aibel Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak
1962 not awarded Canada Brenton Dale Bartlett Hungary Iván Erőd and Philippines Reynaldo Reyes
1963 not awarded West Germany Gernot Kahl Philippines José Maria Contreras
1964 United States Michael Ponti France François-Joël Thiollier Bulgaria Ivan Drenikov
1965 not awarded Bulgaria Bojidar Noev United States James Dick
1966 United States Garrick Ohlsson United States Richard Goode
1967 not awarded Czechoslovakia Ivan Klánský Italy Pietro Maranca
1968 Soviet Union Vladimir Selivochin Soviet Union Mark Zeltser West Germany Benedikt Köhlen and United States Craig Sheppard
1969 United States Ursula Oppens Italy Annamaria Cigoli Japan Akiko Kitagawa
1970 not awarded Selection prize: Philippines Maria Luisa Lopez-Vito
1971 not awarded United States Nina Tichman Israel Ilan Rogoff and United States Marioara Trifan
1972 Brazil Arnaldo Cohen not awarded United Kingdom Peter Bithell and British Hong Kong David Oei
1973 not awarded West Germany Roland Keller and Poland Andrzej Ratusiński Poland Elza Kolodin
1974 West Germany Robert Benz United States Pascal Devoyon United States Diane Walsh
1975 not awarded Sweden Staffan Scheja Sweden Laszlo Simon and United Kingdom Terence Judd
1976 Italy Roberto Cappello Argentina Daniel Rivera United Kingdom Susan Ann Howes and Canada Adrienne Shannon
1977 not awarded Japan Ayami Ikeba and France Véronique Roux Netherlands Joop Celis and Japan Kyoto Ito
1978 United States Boris Bloch Malaysia Dennis Lee West Germany Arnulf von Arnim
4th prize: Spain Josep Colom
1979 Canada Catherine Vickers not awarded United States Alyce Le Blanc
1980 not awarded Japan Ruriko Kikuchi, West Germany Rolf Plagge and South Korea Hai-Kyung Suh
1981 West Germany Margarita Höhenrieder United States Lev Natochenny Bulgaria Boyan Vodenitcharov
1982 not awarded Taiwan Hung-Kuan Chen United States Daniel Blumenthal and Japan Yukino Fujiwara
1983 not awarded United States Robert McDonald United States Frederick Blum and United States Arthur Greene
1984 Canada Louis Lortie Austria Matthias Fletzberger West Germany Bernd Glemser
1985 Brazil José Carlos Cocarelli Israel Uriel Tsachor and Japan Akira Wakabayashi Soviet Union Natalia Vlassenko
1986 not awarded United Kingdom Benjamin Frith and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Pedrag Muzijevic Switzerland R. Clipper Erickson and West Germany Igor Kamenz
1987 Soviet Union Lilya Zilberstein Soviet Union Valery Kuleshof Australia Ian Munro and Chile Alfredo Perl
1988 not awarded West Germany Igor Kamenz and United States Benjamin Pasternack Italy Fabio Bidini
1989 not awarded Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Aleksandar Madžar Italy Francesco Cipolletta and Soviet Union Valery Grohovsky
1990 not awarded Soviet Union Karina Yavlenskaya Japan Midori Nohara
1991 not awarded France Olivier Cazal and Germany Igor Kamenz Soviet Union Stanislav Judenich
1992 Ukraine Anna Kravtchenko Italy Fabio Bidini United States Mark Anderson and Armenia Sergei Babayan
1993 Italy Roberto Cominati Ukraine Vitaly Samoschko France Olivier Cazal
1994 Georgia (country) Mzia Simonishwili Japan Iwao Murakami Italy Corrado Rollero
1995 Russia Alexander Shtarkman Russia Sergei Tarasov
1996 not awarded Germany Jan Gottlieb Jiracek Ukraine Michael Dantschenko
1997 not awarded South Korea Yoon-Soo Lee Russia Dimitri Vorobieff
1998 not awarded Italy Olaf John Laneri Canada Catherine Chi
1999 Russia Alexander Kobrin Italy Alberto Nosè South Korea Min-Soo Sohn
2000 not awarded not awarded Japan Ayako Kimura and Germany Carl Wolf
2001 Ukraine Alexander Romanovsky South Korea Hea-Jung Cho South Korea Dong-Min Lim
2003 not awarded Russia Maria Stembolskaia Russia Lyubov Gegetchkori and China Mu-Ye Wu
2004/2005 Italy Giuseppe Andaloro Italy Mariangela Vacatello South Korea Hye-Jin Kim
2006/2007 United StatesMatthew Ward Russia Sofya Gulyak and Ukraine Dinara Nadzhafova Russia Lilian Akopova
2008/2009 Germany Michail Lifits Russia Alexey Lebedev Italy Gesualdo Coggi
2010/2011 not awarded Russia Anna Bulkina and Ukraine Antonii Barishevskyi Russia Tatiana Chernichka
2012/2013 not awarded Italy Rodolfo Leone Japan Akihiro Sakiya and Russia Dmitry Shishkin
2014/2015 South Korea Ji-Yeong Mun Italy Alberto Ferro Ukraine Roman Lopatynskyi
2016/2017 Croatia Ivan Krpan [hr] South Korea Jae-Yeon Won Russia Anna Geniushene
2018/2019 Bulgaria Emanuil Ivanov Japan Shiori Kuwahara Georgia (country) Giorgi Gigashvili
2021 South Korea Jae Hong Park South Korea Do-Hyun Kim Austria Lukas Sternath
2023 Russia Arsenii Mun United States Anthony Ratinov Japan Ryota Yamazaki

References

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  1. ^ "History of the Competition". International Piano Competition Foundation Ferruccio Busoni Bolzano Bozen. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2009.
  2. ^ a b "Hall of Fame". International Piano Competition Foundation Ferruccio Busoni Bolzano Bozen. Archived from the original on 24 June 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Jury since 1949". Archived from the original on 1 June 2010. Retrieved 15 August 2009.
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