The Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition was founded in 2002 by Alexander Braginsky in collaboration with the Yamaha Corporation. It took place every two years in Minneapolis–Saint Paul before the 2008 edition was delayed to 2009 due to the arrangement of a junior edition of the competition. The -e- refers to the competition's focus on Internet and Disklavier technologies. The e-competition is one of the biggest, most significant competitions available for young artists. Many of its past competitors have gone on to achieve significant success on the global competition/concert stage.
The last competition was held in 2021; the competition has since been discontinued.
Prize winners Senior competition Year 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize 4th prize 5th prize 6th prize 2002 Mei-Ting Sun Victoria Korchinskaya not awarded Edisher Savitski Tatyana Kolessova Wen-Yin Chan 2004 Jie Chen Yung Wook Yoo Denis Evstioukhine Tatyana Kolesova Hanna Shybayeva Inesa Synkevych 2006 Edisher Savitski Ryo Yanagitani Victoria Korchinskaya Mikhail Mordvinov Einav Yarden Gregory DeTurck2009 Alessandro Taverna Pavel Yeletskiy Hélène Tysman Eric Zuber Howard Na Grace Eun Hae Kim2014 Peter Friis Johansson Alexey Chernov Frank Dupree Marianna Prjevalskaya Chen Guang not awarded2018 KaJeng Wong Timur Mustakimov Su Yeon Kim colspan="3"
Junior competition Year Category 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize 4th prize 5th prize2008 Frank Düpree Nansong Huang not awarded Jan Lisiecki Osip Nikiforov not awarded Vladimir Levitsky2011 Aristo Sham Tristan Teo Su Yeon Kim Annie Zhou Misora S. Ozaki not awarded20132013 contestants Eric Lu Carmen Knoll Yuanfan Yang JiaXin Min Christopher Son Richardson2015 Nathan Lee Elliot Wuu Arsenii Mun YanZhou Li Christopher Son Richardson2017 Shuan Hern Lee Youl Sun Andrew Li Rio Kai Rui Yongqiu Liu2019 Kevin Chen Yu Lei Eric Guo Solomon Ge Caleb Borick2021Sparks (>10) Taige Wang Thannapas Luanpitpong Sihong Li Isabel Feng Masanobu PiresAspires (>14) Yanyan Bao Xinran Shi Jiayou Xu Xuanxiang Wu Zhiwei ChenYoung Artists (>17) Jinyoung Kweon Hao Rao Yuetong Wang Maria Eydman Nathaniel Zhang
References
, press release, Reuters, July 14, 2008.
External links International Piano-e-Competition