2006 Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi
XV Jose Iturbi International Piano Competition took place in Valencia, from September 14 to the 30th, 2006. The competition is held every two years and is a member of the Geneva World Federation of International Music Competitions. Pianist Josu De Solaun Soto was given the First Grand Prize, becoming the first Spanish pianist to be awarded such distinction in the 25 years of the competition's existence. The prize included over $25,000, recital and orchestral engagements and a recording contract.
Jury
Joaquín Soriano (president)
Sulamita Aronovsky
Sergei Dorensky- Miguel Ángel Herranz
Jaime Ingram
Mi Kyung Kim
Natalie Michailidou- Fernando Puchol
Leslie Wright (substituting 
Jean-Bernard Pommier)- Oxana Yablonskaya
PRIZES
- FIRST GRAND PRIZE ------ Josu de Solaun.
- SECOND PRIZE ------------- Valentina Igoshina.
- THIRD PRIZE ---------------- Andrei Yaroshinsky.
- Fourth prize (ex-aequo) ------- Patrick Hemmerle -----
Sofya Melikyan. - Fifth prize ----------------------- Natalya Kuchaeva.
- Best Valencian pianist -------------------------------------------------------- Josu de Solaun.
- Best Spanish pianist ------------------------------------------------------------ Josu de Solaun.
- Best interpreter of Spanish contemporary music (ex-aequo) ----- Miguel Ángel Castro ----- Filip Kopachevsky.
- Best Interpreter of a Beethoven concerto ------------------------------ Patrick Hemmerle.
- Best Interpreter of a Chopin piece ----------------------------------- Patrick Hemmerle.
- Best Interpreter of Spanish music --------------------------------------------- Patrick Hemmerle --------- Sofya Melikyan
- FIRST GRAND PRIZE ------
Compositions commissioned for the competition
- Joan Cerveró - Verdi
- Carlos Fontcuberta - Après tout [ Performance by Miguel Á. Castro ]
- Voro García Fernández - Etoiles filantes
Competition Results (by Rounds)
First Round
Yukiko Akagi
Orlando Alonso
Cathal Breslin
Catalina Teodora Butcaru- Claudio Carbó Montaner
- Miguel Ángel Castro
- Josu de Solaun Soto
Dora Deliyska- Geraldene Dutroncy
Anna Fedorova
Sonja Fräki- Nikolai Gangnus
- Irina Georgieva
- Patrick Hemmerle
Dagmar Hofman- Kookhee Hong
- Sue Woon Hyung
- Valentina Igoshina
- Kyoko Kashii
- Marianna Katerelou
- Ji-Youn Kim
- Filip Kopachevsky
- Natalya Kuchaeva
- Fuyuka Kusa
- Yoo Soon Lee
Wei Chi Lin
Maria McGarry- Sofya Melikyan
- Katia Michel Corcoy
Salvatore Monzo- Yukako Morikawa
- Eleonora Morozova
- Inocencio Negrín
- Theodosia Ntokou
- Vincenzo Oliva
- Antonio Ortiz Ramírez
- Natalya Osenchakova
- Stefania Passamonte
Ekaterina Popova
Cameron Roberts- Pavel Shatskiy
- Anna Solovieva-Drubich
Inesa Sinkevych- Shun Tominaga
- Xiaofeng Wu
- Andrei Yaroshinsky
- Eunkyung Yoon
Bojana Zdravkovic- Denis Zhdanov
Second Round
- Yukiko Akagi
- Cathal Breslin
- Claudio Carbó Montaner
- Miguel Ángel Castro
- Josu de Solaun Soto
- Anna Fedorova
- Nikolai Gangnus
- Patrick Hemmerle
- Valentina Igoshina
- Filip Kopachevsky
- Natalya Kuchaeva
- Fuyuka Kusa
- Wei Chi Lin
- Sofya Melikyan
- Yukako Morikawa
- Inocencio Negrín
- Vincenzo Oliva
- Antonio Ortiz Ramírez
- Cameron Roberts
- Pavel Shatskiy
- Xiaofeng Wu
- Andrei Yaroshinsky
- Bojana Zdravkovic
- Denis Zhdanov
Third Round
- Yukiko Akagi
- Claudio Carbó Montaner
- Miguel Ángel Castro
- Josu de Solaun Soto
- Patrick Hemmerle
- Valentina Igoshina
- Filip Kopachevsky
- Natalia Kuchaeva
- Sofya Melikyan
- Yukako Morikawa
- Antonio Ortiz Ramírez
- Andrei Yaroshinsky
Fourth Round
September 26 and 27, Iturbi Hall, Palau de la Música de Valencia (Valencia Music Palace)
- Josu de Solaun Soto --- Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for piano and orchestra nº3
- Patrick Hemmerle --- Ludwig van Beethoven: 'Concerto for piano and orchestra nº1
- Valentina Igoshina --- Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for piano and orchestra nº4
- Natalya Kuchaeva --- Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for piano and orchestra nº5
- Sofya Melikyan --- Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for piano and orchestra nº3
- Andrei Yaroshinsky --- Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for piano and orchestra nº3
Orquesta de Valencia. Yaron Traub, conductor.
Fifth Round
September 29, Iturbi Hall, Palau de la Música de Valencia (Valencia Music Palace)
- VALENTINA IGOSHINA --- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for piano and orchestra nº1
- ANDREI YAROSHINSKY --- Sergei Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
- JOSU DE SOLAUN --- Sergei Rachmaninov: Concerto for piano and orchestra nº2.
Orquesta de Valencia. Yaron Traub, conductor.