The International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition is a piano competition. It has been held in Seregno, Italy since 1959 every two years.
History The contest was founded by Gina Gambini, widow of the Italian pianist, Ettore Pozzoli, wishing to honour the memory of her husband by giving musicians from all over the world an opportunity to show their artistic skills. Up to now, more than 1.500 pianists coming from all over the world have participated in the 25 editions of the competition that has taken place in the city in northern Italy. In 1959, the first pianist to win the International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition was Maurizio Pollini. The last edition (XXVI°) took place in September 2009, celebrating the 50th year of the Competition foundation and was won by young American pianist Christopher Falzone.
Prize winners 1959 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) Maurizio Pollini Gino Brandi Wally Rizzardo1961 1st prize (ex-a.) 2nd prize Pier Narciso Masi France Redon Fabio Peressoni1963 1st prize 2nd Prize Laura De Fusco Alberto Colombo1965 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) François-Joël Thiollier Yoshiya Iwamoto Riccardo Risaliti1967 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) not awarded Speidel Sontraud Ewa Wolak1969 1st prize 2nd prize Franco Angeleri Antonio Bacchelli Anna Maria Cigola1971 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) Pierre Réach Vincenzo Balzani Tajka Hiroshi1973 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) Raimondo Campisi Noemi Gobbi Michael Krist1975 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) Daniel Rivera Boris Bloch Roberto Cappello1977 1st prize 2nd prize Pietro Rigacci Elisabeth Rigollet1979 1st prize 2nd prize Rolf Plagge Giovanni Umberto Battel1981 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) Hüseyin Sermet Barry Douglas Megumi Umene1983 1st prize 2nd prize Hugh Tinney Boris Slutsky1985 1st prize 2nd prize Klára Würtz Mariana Gurkova1987 1st prize 2nd prize Seizo Azuma not awarded1989 1st prize 2nd prize William Stephenson Andrew Wilde1991 1st prize 2nd prize not awarded Anna Emilova Stoytcheva1993 1st prize 2nd prize Maria Stembolskaya Sergei Yerokhin1995 1st prize 2nd prize not awarded Dmitri Krivonos1997 1st prize 2nd prize not awarded Paolo Wolfango Cremonte1999 1st prize 2nd prize Filippo Gamba Lorenzo Di Bella2001 1st prize 2nd prize not awarded Denys Proshayev2003 1st prize 2nd prize not awarded Fumio Kawamura2005 1st prize 2nd prize Martin Cousin Yoonjung Han2007 1st prize 2nd prize Alexandre Pirojenko Victor Stanislavsky2009 1st prize 2nd prize Christopher Falzone Domenico Monaco2011 1st prize 2nd prize Alexey Chernov Alexander Yakovlev2015 1st prize(ex-a.)2nd prize Anastasia Rizikov not awarded Yoshito Numasawa2017 1st prize 2nd prize not awarded Axel Trolese Elizaveta Kliuchereva2019 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) Evgeny Konnov Andrei Leshkin Elia Cecino2021 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) not awarded Yuto Takezawa Diego Petrella2023 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) not awarded Vladimir Skomorokhov Riito Shimata2025 1st prize 2nd prize Rui Ming Michelle Candotti
See also List of classical music competitions World Federation of International Music Competitions
References
External links Official International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition website Directory of International Piano Competitions