XIII George Enescu International Piano Competition
XIII George Enescu International Piano Competition took place in Bucharest, Romania, from September 15 to the 27th, 2014. The competition is held every two years and is a member of the Geneva World Federation of International Music Competitions. There have been 13 editions since the founding of the competition in 1958, and previous winners include Radu Lupu, Elisabeth Leonskaja, and Dmitri Alexeev. Spanish pianist Josu De Solaun Soto was given the First Prize, becoming the first Spanish pianist to be awarded such distinction in the 56 years of the competition's existence. The prize included $20,000, and recital and orchestral engagements.
Jury
Jean Claude Pennetier (president)
Rolf-Dieter Arens
Dana Borsan
Philippe Dinkel
Wolfgang Manz
Andrey Pisarev
Alan Weiss
Prizes
- FIRST PRIZE ------
Josu de Solaun.
- SECOND PRIZE -------------
Ilya Rashkovsky.
- THIRD PRIZE ----------------
Vassilis Varvaresos.
- FIRST PRIZE ------
Competition Results (by Rounds)
First Round
Dmitry Ablogin
Lilit Artemyan
Lia Bibileishvili
Evgeny Brakhman
Sofya Bugayan
Paul Coriolan Cartianu
Vladislav Chepinoga
Tatiana Chernichka
Regina Chernychko
Emily Chiang
Daniel Dascalu
Madalina-Claudia Danila
Balázs Demény
Cristian-Mihai Dirnea
Timofey Dolya
Sebastian Ene
Cédric Gremaud
Simeon Goshev
Sang-Il Han
Santa Ignace
Sang-Wook Jung
Tatiana Kachko
Yoon-Jee Kim
Peter Klimo
Soshi Koyama
Yu Mi Lee
Adela Liculescu
Dinu Alexandru Mihailescu
Mamikon Nakhapetov
Bogdan Marian Nicola
Woogil Park
Dmytro Pivnenko
Mihkel Poll
Ilya Rashkovskiy
Aleksandr Shaikin
Shizhe Shen
Denys Shramko
Coral Solomon
Josu De Solaun Soto
Nozomu Sugawara
Jenna Sung
Herin Sung
Ryutaro Suzuki
Paris Tsenikoglou
Tomoya Umeda
Vassilis Varvaresos
Aurelia Visovan
Asuna Yamanaka
Yui Yoshioka
Yelena Zorina
Kirill Zvegintsov
Second Round
Evgeny Brakhman
Tatiana Chernichka
Daniel Dascalu
Sang-Il Han
Peter Klimo
Adela Liculescu
Woogil Park
Dmytro Pivnenko
Ilya Rashkovskiy
Josu De Solaun Soto
Vassilis Varvaresos
Aurelia Visovan
Third Round
(At the Romanian Athenaeum)
Evgeny Brakhman
Adela Liculescu
Woogil Park
Ilya Rashkovskiy
Josu De Solaun Soto
Vassilis Varvaresos
Fourth Round
(At the Romanian Athenaeum, with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra and Justus Frantz, conductor)
Ilya Rashkovsky --- Sergei Rachmaninov: Concerto for piano and orchestra nº3.
Josu De Solaun Soto --- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for piano and orchestra nº1
Vassilis Varvaresos --- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for piano and orchestra nº1