The III Sendai International Music Competition took place in Sendai from May 18-June 24, 2007.
Violin Competition
Palmares Winner 1st Prize Alena Baeva 2nd Prize Erin Keefe 3rd Prize A-Rah Shin 4th Prize Andrey Baranov 5th Prize Sayaka Chiba 6th Prize Haruka Nagao Audience Prizes Haruka Nagao Alena Baeva Erin Keefe
Jury Tomotada Soh (chairman) Kiyoshi Okayama (vice-chairman) Gérard Poulet (vice-chairman) Daniel Gaede Yuzuko Horigome Lewis Kaplan Nam-Yun Kim Konstanty Kulka Victor Pikayzen Arve Tellefsen Lina Yu
Competition results
Elimination round
May 20–22. A-Rah Shin - 86.70 Alena Baeva - 84.55 Erin Keefe - 81.91 Zhijiong Wang - 81.40 Shanshan Yao - 80.82 Haruka Nagao - 80.40 Aya Kiyonaga - 79.70 Andrey Baranov - 78.73 Sayaka Chiba - 78.40 Minjeong Suh - 78.40 Aska Kawamata - 78.00 Hannah Choi - 77.91 Momoko Arai Lea Birringer Sakura Chiba Aleksandra Fedotova Yusuke Hayashi Samika Honda Tadasuke Ijima Hayato Ishibashi Jason Issokson Fuyu Iwaki Maxim Kosinov Yevgeniy Kostrytskyy Dmitry Lukin Maria Machowska Svetlana Makarova Sergey Malov Tomer Marcus Pedro Meireles Tsuyoshi Moriya Kinneret Sieradzki Vladimir Soluianov Eri Takamura Eugen Tichindeleanu Gerardo Ubaghs Xu Yang Asami Yamada Masanobu Yoda Kosuke Yoshikawa
Semifinals
May 26–28. Erin Keefe - 88.64 Andrey Baranov - 87.91 Alena Baeva - 83.09 Shin A-Rah - 82.80 Haruka Nagao - 78.90 Sayaka Chiba - 78.90 Shanshan Yao - 78.73 Zhijiong Wang - 77.80 Aya Kiyonaga - 73.90 Hannah Choi - 73.55 Aska Kawamata - 72.27 Minjeong Suh - 70.00
Finals
June 1–2 1st Prize Alena Baeva - 6 votes Erin Keefe - 2 votes Sayaka Chiba - 1 vote 2nd Prize Erin Keefe - 5 votes Shin A-Rah - 2 votes Andrey Baranov - 1 vote Haruka Nagao - 1 vote 3rd Prize Shin A-Rah - 5 votes Andrey Baranov - 4 votes 4th Prize Andrey Baranov - 4 votes Sayaka Chiba - 3 votes Haruka Nagao - 3 votes 5th Prize Sayaka Chiba - 6 votes Haruka Nagao - 4 votes
Piano Competition
Palmares Winner 1st Prize Yuya Tsuda 2nd Prize Yi-Chih Lu 3rd Prize Oxana Shevchenko 4th Prize Ilya Ovchinnikov 5th Prize Ka-Ling Colleen Lee 6th Prize Vyacheslav Gryaznov Audience Prizes Alexander Osminin Oxana Shevchenko Yuya Tsuda
Jury Minoru Nojima (chairman) Katsumi Ueda (vice-chairman) Peter Rösel (vice-chairman) Willem Brons Daejin Kim Michie Koyama Dominique Merlet Cécile Ousset Elisso Virsaladze Oxana Yablonskaya Guangren Zhou
Competition results
Elimination round
June 10–12. Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 91.27 Ilya Ovchinnikov - 87.82 Yuya Tsuda - 87.64 Yi-Chih Lu - 85.73 Vyacheslav Gryaznov - 85.45 Alexander Osminin - 85.20 Brian Hsu - 85.09 Yoshihiro Nagase - 81.64 Shorena Tsintsavadze - 81.55 Oxana Shevchenko - 81.18 Esther Birringer - 81.00 Megumi Shimanuki - 80.50 Ainobu Ota - 80.30 Angelo Arciglione László Borbely Moye Chen Árpád Dányi Tanya Gabrielian Jing Gong Cyril Guillotin Christopher Guzmán Duanduan Hao Shinnosuke Inugai Kazuo Irie Chie Kamino Jun Kaneko Alexander Karpeyev Takuro Maeda Maiko Mine Olga Monakh Koki Murata Sandra Nam Takaya Sano Nina Sarapyan Anna Shakina Jia Shi Yuki Sunamura Hsiang Tu
Semifinals
June 16–18. Oxana Shevchenko - 88.73 Ilya Ovchinnikov - 86.64 Yuya Tsuda - 86.09 Vyacheslav Gryaznov - 84.73 Yi-Chih Lu - 84.55 Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 83.82 Megumi Shimanuki - 79.90 Esther Birringer - 79.64 Brian Hsu - 79.09 Yoshihiro Nagase - 78.18 Ainobu Ota - 75.43 Alexander Osminin - 73.30 Shorena Tsintsavadze - 00.00 (disqualified)
Finals
June 22–23 1st Prize Yuya Tsuda - 8 votes Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 1 vote Ilya Ovchinnikov - 1 vote Oxana Shevchenko - 1 vote 2nd Prize Yi-Chih Lu - 6 votes Oxana Shevchenko - 5 votes 3rd Prize Oxana Shevchenko - 7 votes Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 2 votes Ilya Ovchinnikov - 2 votes 4th Prize Ilya Ovchinnikov - 6 votes Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 5 votes 5th Prize Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 8 votes Vyacheslav Gryaznov - 3 votes
See also List of Sendai International Music Competition winners
References Sendai International Music Competition - 3rd Sendai IMC Highlight