The IX Sydney International Piano Competition took place at the Seymour Centre in Sydney from 16 July to 2 August 2008.
It was won by Konstantin Shamray.
Jury
Warren Thomson (chairman) Michael Brimer Manana Doidjashvili Aquiles Delle Vigne Norma Fisher Choong-Mo Kang Ian Munro Arie Vardi Zhou Guangren
Prizes Winner 1st Grand Prize Konstantin Shamray 2nd Prize Tatyana Kolesova 3rd Prize Ran Dank 4th Prize Takashi Sato 5th Prize Tomoki Kitamura6th Prize Eric Zuber Australian SQ engagement Konstantin Shamray People's Choice Prize Konstantin Shamray Best Female competitor Tatyana Kolesova Best Australian competitor Hoang Pham Best Australian Music performance Tomoki Kitamura Best Mozart Concerto performance Konstantin Shamray Best overall Concerto performance Ran Dank Best 19th/20th century Concerto performance Konstantin Shamray Best Beethoven performance Konstantin Shamray Best Chopin performance Takashi Sato Best Liszt performance Eric Zuber Best Liszt Study performance Charlie Albright Best Rachmaninoff performance Ran Dank Best Chamber Music performance Tatyana Kolesova Best Mozart performance Konstantin Shamray Best Schubert performance Tomoki Kitamura Best Debussy Prélude performance Ran Dank Best Russian Music performance Tatyana Kolesova Best Romantic Music overall performance Yoonsoo Rhee Best Haydn Sonata performance Yoonsoo Rhee Lev Vlassenko Memorial Prize Daniil Tsvetkov I Round Encouragement Award Feng Zhang Quarter-Finals Encouragement Award Alexei Yemtsov Semi-finals Encouragement Award Shizuka Susanna Salvemini Youngest finalist Tomoki Kitamura Youngest Australian competitor Hoang Pham
Works commissioned for the competition Andrew Ford - Thin air Roger Smalley - Morceau de Concours
Competition results (by rounds) First round 16–17 July 2008
Charlie Albright Fernando Altamura Manuel Araujo Marco Ciampi Sean Chen Ran Dank Christopher Devine John Fisher Balázs Fülei David Fung Adam Herd Elizaveta Ivanova Shizuka Susanna Salvemini Miya Kazauka Tomoki Kitamura Tatyana Kolesova Eduard Kunz Ka-Ling Colleen Lee Miyeon Lee Ryan McEvoy McCullough José Menor Martín Hoang Pham Yoonsoo Rhee Sergey Saratovsky Takashi Sato Konstantin Shamray Yekwon Sunwoo Daniil Tsvetkov Mariangela Vacatello Xun Wang Wojciech Wisniewski Alexei Yemtsov Chun-Chieh Yen Feng Zhang Xi-Xi Zhou Hao Zhu Eric Zuber
Quarterfinals 21–22 July 2008
Charlie Albright Fernando Altamura Sean Chen Ran Dank Christopher Devine David Fung Tomoki Kitamura Tatyana Kolesova Miyeon Lee José Menor Martín Hoang Pham Yoonsoo Rhee Shizuka Susanna Salvemini Sergey Saratovsky Takashi Sato Konstantin Shamray Daniil Tsvetkov Mariangela Vacatello Alexei Yemtsov Hao Zhu Eric Zuber
Semifinals 23–25 July 2008
Charlie Albright Ran Dank Tomoki Kitamura Tatyana Kolesova Miyeon Lee Hoang Pham Shizuka Susanna Salvemini Takashi Sato Konstantin Shamray Daniil Tsvetkov Mariangela Vacatello Eric Zuber
Final 29 July – 2 August 2008
Concertos Ran Dank — Mozart: 20th, Prokofiev: 3rd Tomoki Kitamura — Mozart: 17th, Beethoven: 4th Tatyana Kolesova — Mozart: 20th, Saint-Saëns: 2nd Takashi Sato — Mozart: 27th, Beethoven: 5th Konstantin Shamray — Mozart: 27th; Prokofiev: 2nd Eric Zuber — Mozart: 20th, Tchaikovsky: 1st
References Sydney International Piano Competition