The International Franz Liszt Piano Competition ("Liszt Competition") is an international piano competition. It is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.
The Competition is held in Utrecht in the Netherlands. It first took place in 1986, one hundred years after the death of Franz Liszt.
Each time the Liszt Competition has been held it has seen over two hundred selected participants. Since 2014, only 14 contestants are selected after the International Selection Rounds hosted in USA, Asia and Europe.
List of Prizewinners Source Official webpageInternational Franz Liszt Piano Competition – official page Year First prize Second prize Third prize 1986 Martijn van den Hoek, Gregorio Nardi, Michael Lewin, 1989 Enrico Pace, Alexei Orlovetski, Wibi Soerjadi, 1992 Sergey Pashkevich, Evelina Vorontsova, Evelina Borbély, 1996 Igor Roma, – Tomoko Narata, and Chi Wu, (tied) 1999 Masaru Okada, Mariangela Vacatello, Yundi Li, 2002 Jean Dubé, Ilona Timchenko, Giancarlo Crespeau, 2005 Yingdi Sun, Anton Salnikov, Christiaan Kuyvenhoven, 2008 Vitaly Pisarenko, Nino Gvetadze, Anzhelika Fuks, / 2011 Masataka Goto, Olga Kozlova, Oleksandr Poliykov, 2014 Mariam Batsashvili, Peter Klimo, Mengjie Han, 2017 Alexander Ullman, Minsoo Hong, Dina Ivanova, 2022 Yukine Kuroki, Yeon-Min Park, and Derek Wang, (tied) 2026 Alexander Kashpurin, Thomas Kelly, Kang Tae Kim,
See also List of classical music competitions
References
International Franz Liszt Piano Competition – official page World Federation of International Music Competitions Directory of International Piano Competitions Piano Competitions & Music Competitions at Bakitone International