International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition

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Intermission during first-round concert in 15th International Chopin Piano Competition, October 2005, Warsaw, Poland.

The International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition is a piano competition taking place in Warsaw since 1927 and held every 5 years since 1955.[1]

It was founded by the Polish pianist Jerzy Żurawlew, and named after Frédéric Chopin.

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[edit] Prize winners

Table showing: top 5 prize winners since 1927
::Year:: 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
1927 Soviet Union Lev Oborin Poland Stanisław Szpinalski Poland Róża Etkin Soviet Union Grigory Ginzburg  
1932 France Alexandre Uninsky (c) Hungary Imré Ungár Poland Bolesław Kon (c) Soviet Union Abram Lufer Hungary Lajos Kentner
1937 Soviet Union Yakov Zak Soviet Union Rosa Tamarkina Poland Witold Małcużyński United Kingdom Lance Dossor Hungary Agi Jambor
1942 No competition due to occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany in WWII
1949 Soviet Union Bella Davidovich (ex-a.)

Poland Halina Czerny-Stefańska

 Poland Barbara Hesse-Bukowska Poland Waldemar Maciszewski Soviet Union Georgy Muravlov Poland Władysław Kędra
1955 Poland Adam Harasiewicz Soviet Union Vladimir Ashkenazy People's Republic of China Fou Ts'ong France Bernard Ringeissen Soviet Union Naum Shtarkman
1960 Italy Maurizio Pollini Soviet Union Irina Zaritskaya Armenia Tanya Achot-Harutunian People's Republic of China Li Min-Chan Soviet Union Zinayda Ignatyeva
1965 Argentina Martha Argerich Brazil Arthur Moreira Lima Poland Marta Sosińska Japan Hiroko Nakamura United States Edward Auer
1970 United States Garrick Ohlsson Japan Mitsuko Uchida Poland Piotr Paleczny United States Eugene Indjic Soviet Union Natalya Gavrilova
1975 Poland Krystian Zimerman Soviet Union Dina Joffe Soviet Union Tatyana Fedkina Soviet Union Pavel Gililov United States Dean Kramer
1980 Vietnam Dang Thai Son Soviet Union Tatyana Shebanova Armenia Arutyun Papazyan Not awarded Japan Akiko Ebi

Poland Ewa Poblocka (ex-a.)
1985 Soviet Union Stanislav Bunin France Marc Laforet Poland Krzysztof Jabłoński Japan Michie Koyama Tunisia Jean-Marc Luisada
1990 Not awarded United States Kevin Kenner Japan Yukio Yokoyama Italy Corrado Rollero

Soviet Union Margarita Shevchenko (ex-a.)

 Soviet Union Anna Malikova

Japan Takako Takahashi (ex-a.)
1995 Not Awarded France Philippe Giusiano

Russia Alexei Sultanov (ex-a.)

 Venezuela United States Gabriela Montero Russia Rem Urasin Japan Rika Miyatani
2000 People's Republic of China Yundi Li Argentina Ingrid Fliter Russia Alexander Kobrin People's Republic of China Sa Chen Italy Alberto Nosè
2005 Poland Rafał Blechacz Not awarded South Korea Dong-Hyek Lim

South Korea Dong-Min Lim (ex-a.)

 Japan Shohei Sekimoto

Japan Takashi Yamamoto (ex-a.)

 Not awarded

[edit] References

  1. ^ Polish Music Information Center (January 2002). "THE FREDERIC CHOPIN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION". Polish culture. http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/im_km_pianistyczny_chopina. 

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