List of Sendai International Music Competition winners

Sendai International Music Competition

Sendai International Music Competition logo
Awarded for Exceptional piano and violin performance
Country  Japan
Presented by Sendai International Music Competition
First awarded 2001
Last awarded 2010
Official website http://simc.jp/simc/top_en/ (English)

The Sendai International Music Competition is a tri-annual violin and piano music competition held in Sendai, Japan, presented in association with the Sendai International Music Competition Organizing Committee, City of Sendai and the Sendai Cultural Foundation.[1] In the competition there is no overall winner, rather there are six winners each from the violin and piano categories, with the first-placed winners receiving the highest prize. Although the competition is international, most award-winners have been from either Europe or Asia. The first award-winner from outside those continents was American Sean Kennard, who finished fifth in the 2004 competition's piano category.

The competition consists of four stages: a pre-selection round, followed by a preliminary round, and then the semi-final and the final rounds in which all pieces are performed with an orchestra.[2] The competition is split into two categories: violin and piano.[3] The number of contestants who progress from the preliminary round to the semi-finals cannot exceed 12 and the contestants passing through to the final cannot exceed six.[2] In the preliminary, semi-final, and final stages of the competition the performances are chosen from a predetermined repertoire; the contestants must choose a different piece for each round.[4] The judging panel decides the placing of the prizewinners from first through sixth.[2]

The first competition was held in 2001. Most of the twelve winners were from Asia, with Chinese Mengla Huang topping the violin category and the Italian Giuseppe Andaloro taking first prize in the piano section. In the second tournament in 2004, the competition received a more worldwide range of winners; contestants coming from Asia, Europe and North America finished in the prize winning places. Japanese Saeka Matsuyama won the violin part in the final and Xiaotang Tan from China came in first place in the piano category. In the 2007 finals, which contained five Russian contestants, the violin section was topped by Russian Alena Baeva while in the piano category the Japanese Yuya Tsuda came first. The 2010 violin competition was won by the German/South Korean Clara-Jumi Kang, while Vadym Kholodenko of Ukraine won the piano competition. As of 2013 there have been five competitions with the next to be contested in 2016.[5]

Prize winners

2001

Category Place Winner Country
Violin First Mengla Huang  China
Second Svetlin Roussev  Bulgaria
Third Mi Sa Yang  South Korea
Fourth Yukiko Ishibashi  Japan
Fifth Rintaro Omiya  South Korea
Sixth Kei Shirai  Japan
Piano First Giuseppe Andaloro  Italy
Second Jin Sang Lee  South Korea
Third Wang Yu Jia  China
Fourth Daria Rabotkina  Russia
Fifth Roberto Plano  Italy
Sixth Amir Tebenikhin  Kazakhstan

2004

Category Place Prize winners Country
Violin First Saeka Matsuyama  Japan
Second Maksim Brylinskiy  Ukraine
Third Dan Zhu  China
Fourth Andreas Janke  Japan
Fifth Valya Dervenska  Bulgaria
Sixth Yuki Manuela Janke  Japan
Piano First Xiaotang Tan  China
Second Masataka Takada  Japan
Third Michael Namirovsky  Israel
Fourth Elizaveta Dmitrieva  Russia
Fifth Sean Kennard  USA
Sixth Florence Boissolle  France

2007

Category Place Prize winners Country
Violin First Alena Baeva  Russia
Second Erin Keefe  USA
Third A-Rah Shin  South Korea
Fourth Andrey Baranov  Russia
Fifth Sayaka Chiba  Japan
Sixth Haurka Nagao  Japan
Piano First Yuya Tsuda  Japan
Second Yi-Chih Lu  Taiwan
Third Oxana Shevchenko  Russia
Fourth Ilya Ovchinnikov  Russia
Fifth Ka-Ling Colleen Lee  Hong Kong
Sixth Vyacheslav Gryaznov  Russia

2010

Category Place Prize winners Country
Violin First Clara-Jumi Kang  Germany/ South Korea
Second Andrey Baranov  Russia
Third Nagao Haruka  Japan
Fourth Kim Bomsori  South Korea
Fifth Kim Dami  South Korea
Sixth Giora Schmidt  USA
Piano First Vadym Kholodenko  Ukraine
Second Maria Masycheva  Russia
Third Marianna Prjevalskaya  Spain
Fourth Sato Hiroo  Japan
Fifth Moon Zheeyoung  South Korea
Sixth Kwan Yi  USA

2013

Category Place Prize winners Country
Violin First Richard Lin  Taiwan
Second Narita Tatsuki  Japan
Third Tomii Chieri  Japan
Fourth Anna Savkina  Russia
Fifth Kim Bomsori  South Korea
Sixth Suliman Tekalli  USA
Piano First Sunwoo Yekwon  South Korea
Second Suh Hyung-Min  South Korea
Third Artem Yasynskyy  Ukraine
Fourth Sun-A Park  USA
Fifth Katada Airi  Japan
Sixth Hong Jihwan  South Korea

References

General
Specific
  1. ↑ "Organization : Sendai International Music Competition". www.simc.jp. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "Competition Code". Sendai International Music Competition. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Sendai International Music Competition". www.city.sendai.jp. Retrieved 2008-05-23.
  4. ↑ "Repertoire". Sendai International Music Competition. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "Home". Sendai International Music Competition. Retrieved 31 January 2016.

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