• Source: 2008 Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi

Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi XVI took take place in Valencia from September 15–27, 2008. It was won by Zhengyu Chen, who became the first Chinese pianist to attain the 1st prize.




Jury


Joaquín Soriano (president)
Antonio di Cristofano
Bella Davidovich
Petras Geniusas
Peter Lang
Stanislav Pochekin
Fernando Puchol
Jesús Ángel Rodríguez
Maria Tipo
Fujiko Yamada




Prizes



^1 Awarded to the best qualified Valencian competitor.
^2 Awarded to the best qualified Spanish competitor.
^3 Awarded to the best Spanish contemporary music performer.
^4 Awarded to the best Concerto performer.
^5 Awarded to the best Spanish music performer.




Compositions commissioned for the competition


Emilio Calandín - Tres naipes del I Ching
Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher - Chronos / Kayros
Enrique Sanz-Burguete - A Matilde




Competition Results (by rounds)






= First round

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September 16 and 17. Palau de la Música - Sala Rodrigo.

Domenico Scarlatti / Antonio Soler Sonata + Two pieces among Frédéric Chopin's Nocturnes, Impromptus, Mazurkas and Waltzes + Gabriel Fauré / Claude Debussy / Maurice Ravel composition + Ad libitum.
Ron Abramski
Mario Alonso Herrero
Angelo Arciglione
Honoré Béjin Garcia
Enrique Bernaldo de Quirós Martín
Tatyana Bezmenova
Ingfrid Breie Nyhus
Northern Ireland Cathal Breslin
Ángel Cabrera
Christian Chamorel
Zhengyu Chen
Wu Chi
Sebastian Di Bin
Nazareno Ferrugio
Martina Filjak
Sofya Gulyak
Shinnosuke Inugai
Soyeon Kim
Karalina Kirylchyk
Yun Jung Koo
Martin Labazevitch
Daiva Lavrinavičiūtė
Aleksey Lebedev
Li-Wei Lee
Yu Mi Lee
José Menor Martín
Theodosia Ntokou
Vincenzo Oliva
Fumie Onda
Jin Woo Park
Joo Hyeon Park
Tristan Pfaff
Marianna Prjevalskaya
Ivana Ristova
Daniil Sayamov
Sergey Sobolev
Masataka Takada
Yoshida Tomoaki
Maria Tretiyakova
Andrey Yaroshinsky




= Quarter-finals

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September 18, 19 and 20. Palau de la Música - Sala Rodrigo.

Joseph Haydn / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata or Variations + Frédéric Chopin Etude + Isaac Albéniz (Iberia) / Enrique Granados (Goyescas) / Manuel de Falla (Fantasía Bética, Cuatro piezas españolas) composition
Ron Abramski
Angelo Arciglione
Tatyana Bezmenova
Ángel Cabrera
Christian Chamorel
Zhengyu Chen
Sebastian Di Bin
Nazareno Ferrugio
Shinnosuke Inugai
Soyeon Kim
Yun Jung Koo
Martin Labazevitch
Aleksey Lebedev
Yu-Mi Lee
Fumie Onda
Tristan Pfaff
Marianna Prjevalskaya
Maria Tretiyakova




= Semi-finals

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September 21 and 22. Palau de la Música - Sala Rodrigo.

Romantic composition/s + Mandatory contemporary composition.
Ron Abramsky
Angelo Arciglione
Ángel Cabrera
Christian Chamorel
Zhengyu Chen
Shinnosuke Inugai
Soyeon Kim
Yun Jung Koo
Martin Labazevitch
Yu-Mi Lee
Tristan Pfaff (withdrawal)
Marianna Prjevalskaya




= Final

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September 26 and 27. Palau de la Música - Sala Iturbi.

Angelo Arciglione --- Frédéric Chopin: 2nd.
Ángel Cabrera --- Frédéric Chopin: 2nd.
Zhengyu Chen --- Ferenc Liszt: 1st.
Soyeon Kim --- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1st.
Yu-Mi Lee --- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1st.
Marianna Prjevalskaya --- Frédéric Chopin: 1st.
Orquesta de Valencia. Max Bragado, conductor.




External links


Diputación de Valencia - Valencia International Piano Competition José Iturbi

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• 2008 Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi
• Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi
• List of classical music competitions
• Angelo Arciglione
• World Federation of International Music Competitions
• Marianna Prjevalskaya
• Valentina Igoshina
• John O'Conor
• Edson Elias
• Mauricio Vallina