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

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

Complete list of winners:[2]

Winners of the top prizes for each year
YearFirst prizeSecond prizeThird prize
1949not awardedItaly Lodovico LessonaItaly Rossana Orlandini
4th prize: Austria Alfred Brendel
1950not awardedWest Germany Karl-Heinz SchlüterFrance Jacques Coulaud
1951not awardednot awardedSwitzerland Karl Engel and Austria Walter Klien
1952Italy Sergio PerticaroliPoland Andrzej WasowskiItaly Marisa Candeloro and Italy Agostino Orizio
1953United States Ella GoldsteinUnited States Monte Hill DavisSpain Esteban Sanchez Herrero
1954Italy Aldo MancinelliFrance Gabriel TacchinoWest Germany Günter Ludwig
1955not awardedFrance Germaine DevézeWest Germany Günter Ludwig
1956Austria Jörg DemusIvan DavisJames Mathis.
4th prize: Bruno Canino and Michael Ponti
1957ArgentinaSwitzerlandMartha ArgerichUnited States Ivan Davis and United States Jerome LowenthalUnited States Jeaneane Dowis
1958MexicoJosé KahanCanada Ronald TuriniItaly Fabio Peressoni and United States Michael Ponti
Italy 4th prize: Bruno Canino
1959not awardedFrance Cécile Ousset and United States John PerryHungary Imre Antal and United States Leonhard Hokanson
4th prize: Spain Joaquín Achúcarro
1960not awardedUnited States Agustin Anievas and United States James MathisHungary Imre Antal
1961United States Jerome RoseUnited Kingdom Norma Fisher and United States Howard AibelSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak
1962not awardedCanada Brenton Dale BartlettHungary Iván Erőd and Philippines Reynaldo Reyes
1963not awardedWest Germany Gernot KahlPhilippines José Maria Contreras
1964United States Michael PontiFrance François-Joël ThiollierBulgaria Ivan Drenikov
1965not awardedBulgaria Bojidar NoevUnited States James Dick
1966United States Garrick OhlssonUnited States Richard Goode
1967not awardedCzechoslovakia Ivan KlánskýItaly Pietro Maranca
1968Soviet Union Vladimir SelivochinSoviet Union Mark ZeltserWest Germany Benedikt Köhlen and United States Craig Sheppard
1969United States Ursula OppensItaly Annamaria CigoliJapan Akiko Kitagawa
1970not awardedSelection prize: Philippines Maria Luisa Lopez-Vito
1971not awardedUnited States Nina TichmanIsrael Ilan Rogoff and United States Marioara Trifan
1972Brazil Arnaldo Cohennot awardedUnited Kingdom Peter Bithell and British Hong Kong David Oei
1973not awardedWest Germany Roland Keller and Poland Andrzej RatusińskiPoland Elza Kolodin
1974West Germany Robert BenzUnited States Pascal DevoyonUnited States Diane Walsh
1975not awardedSweden Staffan SchejaSweden Laszlo Simon and United Kingdom Terence Judd
1976Italy Roberto CappelloArgentina Daniel RiveraUnited Kingdom Susan Ann Howes and Canada Adrienne Shannon
1977not awardedJapan Ayami Ikeba and France Véronique RouxNetherlands Joop Celis and Japan Kyoto Ito
1978United States Boris BlochMalaysia Dennis LeeWest Germany Arnulf von Arnim
4th prize: Spain Josep Colom
1979Canada Catherine Vickersnot awardedUnited States Alyce Le Blanc
1980not awardedJapan Ruriko Kikuchi, West Germany Rolf Plagge and South Korea Hai-Kyung Suh
1981West Germany Margarita HöhenriederUnited States Lev NatochennyBulgaria Boyan Vodenitcharov
1982not awardedTaiwan Hung-Kuan ChenUnited States Daniel Blumenthal and Japan Yukino Fujiwara
1983not awardedUnited States Robert McDonaldUnited States Frederick Blum and United States Arthur Greene
1984Canada Louis LortieAustria Matthias FletzbergerWest Germany Bernd Glemser
1985Brazil José Carlos CocarelliIsrael Uriel Tsachor and Japan Akira WakabayashiSoviet Union Natalia Vlassenko
1986not awardedUnited Kingdom Benjamin Frith and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Pedrag MuzijevicSwitzerland R. Clipper Erickson and West Germany Igor Kamenz
1987Soviet Union Lilya ZilbersteinSoviet Union Valery KuleshofAustralia Ian Munro and Chile Alfredo Perl
1988not awardedWest Germany Igor Kamenz and United States Benjamin PasternackItaly Fabio Bidini
1989not awardedSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Aleksandar MadžarItaly Francesco Cipolletta and Soviet Union Valery Grohovsky
1990not awardedSoviet Union Karina YavlenskayaJapan Midori Nohara
1991not awardedFrance Olivier Cazal and Germany Igor KamenzSoviet Union Stanislav Judenich
1992Ukraine Anna KravtchenkoItaly Fabio BidiniUnited States Mark Anderson and Armenia Sergei Babayan
1993Italy Roberto CominatiUkraine Vitaly SamoschkoFrance Olivier Cazal
1994Georgia (country) Mzia SimonishwiliJapan Iwao MurakamiItaly Corrado Rollero
1995Russia Alexander ShtarkmanRussia Sergei Tarasov
1996not awardedGermany Jan Gottlieb JiracekUkraine Michael Dantschenko
1997not awardedSouth Korea Yoon-Soo LeeRussia Dimitri Vorobieff
1998not awardedItaly Olaf John LaneriCanada Catherine Chi
1999Russia Alexander KobrinItaly Alberto NosèSouth Korea Min-Soo Sohn
2000not awardednot awardedJapan Ayako Kimura and Germany Carl Wolf
2001Ukraine Alexander RomanovskySouth Korea Hea-Jung ChoSouth Korea Dong-Min Lim
2003not awardedRussia Maria StembolskaiaRussia Lyubov Gegetchkori and China Mu-Ye Wu
2004/2005Italy Giuseppe AndaloroItaly Mariangela VacatelloSouth Korea Hye-Jin Kim
2006/2007United StatesMatthew WardRussia Sofya Gulyak and Ukraine Dinara NadzhafovaRussia Lilian Akopova
2008/2009Germany Michail LifitsRussia Alexey LebedevItaly Gesualdo Coggi
2010/2011not awardedRussia Anna Bulkina and Ukraine Antonii BarishevskyiRussia Tatiana Chernichka
2012/2013not awardedItaly Rodolfo LeoneJapan Akihiro Sakiya and Russia Dmitry Shishkin
2014/2015South Korea Ji-Yeong MunItaly Alberto FerroUkraine Roman Lopatynskyi
2016/2017Croatia Ivan KrpanSouth Korea Jae-Yeon WonRussia Anna Geniushene
2018/2019Bulgaria Emanuil IvanovJapan Shiori KuwaharaGeorgia (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

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