The Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition is a music competition for young pianists that takes place in Bolzano, Italy. It was founded in 1949 by Cesare Nordio in memory of the pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni.
History
The first Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition was organized by Cesare Nordio in 1949 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the death of the pianist and composer. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was a supporter of the competition and was a member of the inaugural jury. Alfred Brendel won the 4th prize in this competition. For a few years a piano composition competition took place together with the piano competition.
In 1956, the young Maurizio Pollini took part in the competition, performing the Fantasia Contrappuntistica by Kenneth Leighton, which won the prize for composition; in 1957 Martha Argerich won the first prize. Other prize winners include Bruno Canino, Agustin Anievas, Joaquín Achúcarro, Jerome Rose, Garrick Ohlsson, Alberto Nosè and Wu Muye.
Members of the jury have included: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Nikita Magaloff, Igor Markevitch, Carlo Maria Giulini, Garrick Ohlsson, Bruno Canino, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Paul Badura-Skoda, Rafael Orozco, Joaquín Soriano, Gerhard Oppitz, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Michele Campanella, Leif Ove Andsnes, Adam Harasiewicz, Hiroko Nakamura, Martha Argerich, Andrzej Jasiński, Lilya Zilberstein, Tadeusz Żmudziński, Valery Afanassiev and Eliso Virsaladze.
Winners
Complete list of winners: +YearFirst prizeSecond prizeThird prize1949 Rossana Orlandini4th prize: Alfred Brendel1950 Karl-Heinz Schlüter Jacques Coulaud1951 Karl Engel and Walter Klien1952 Sergio Perticaroli Andrzej Wasowski Marisa Candeloro and Agostino Orizio1953 Ella Goldstein Monte Hill Davis Esteban Sanchez Herrero1954 Aldo Mancinelli Gabriel Tacchino Günter Ludwig1955 Germaine Devéze Günter Ludwig1956 Jörg DemusIvan DavisJames Mathis.4th prize: Bruno Canino and Michael Ponti1957 Martha Argerich Ivan Davis and Jerome Lowenthal Jeaneane Dowis1958 José Kahan Ronald Turini Fabio Peressoni and Michael Ponti 4th prize: Bruno Canino1959 Cécile Ousset and John Perry Imre Antal and Leonhard Hokanson4th prize: Joaquín Achúcarro1960 Agustin Anievas and James Mathis Imre Antal1961 Jerome Rose Norma Fisher and Howard Aibel Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak1962 Brenton Dale Bartlett Iván Erőd and Reynaldo Reyes1963 Gernot Kahl José Maria Contreras1964 Michael Ponti François-Joël Thiollier Ivan Drenikov1965 Bojidar Noev James Dick1966 Garrick Ohlsson Richard Goode1967 Ivan Klánský Pietro Maranca1968 Vladimir Selivochin Mark Zeltser Benedikt Köhlen and Craig Sheppard1969 Ursula Oppens Annamaria Cigoli Akiko Kitagawa1970Selection prize: Maria Luisa Lopez-Vito1971 Nina Tichman Ilan Rogoff and Marioara Trifan1972 Arnaldo Cohen Peter Bithell and David Oei1973 Roland Keller and Andrzej Ratusiński Elza Kolodin1974 Robert Benz Pascal Devoyon Diane Walsh1975 Staffan Scheja Laszlo Simon and Terence Judd1976 Roberto Cappello Daniel Rivera Susan Ann Howes and Adrienne Shannon1977 Ayami Ikeba and Véronique Roux Joop Celis and Kyoto Ito1978 Boris Bloch Dennis Lee Arnulf von Arnim4th prize: Josep Colom1979 Catherine Vickers Alyce Le Blanc1980 Ruriko Kikuchi, Rolf Plagge and Hai-Kyung Suh1981 Margarita Höhenrieder Lev Natochenny Boyan Vodenitcharov1982 Hung-Kuan Chen Daniel Blumenthal and Yukino Fujiwara1983 Robert McDonald Frederick Blum and Arthur Greene1984 Louis Lortie Matthias Fletzberger Bernd Glemser1985 José Carlos Cocarelli Uriel Tsachor and Akira Wakabayashi Natalia Vlassenko and Takahashi Yamamoto1986 Benjamin Frith and Pedrag Muzijevic R. Clipper Erickson and Igor Kamenz1987 Lilya Zilberstein Valery Kuleshof Ian Munro and Alfredo Perl1988 Igor Kamenz and Benjamin Pasternack Fabio Bidini1989 Aleksandar Madžar Francesco Cipolletta and Valery Grohovsky1990 Karina Yavlenskaya Midori Nohara1991 Olivier Cazal and Igor Kamenz Stanislav Judenich1992 Anna Kravtchenko Fabio Bidini Mark Anderson and Sergei Babayan1993 Roberto Cominati Vitaly Samoschko Olivier Cazal1994 Iwao Murakami Corrado Rollero1995 Sergei Tarasov1996 Jan Gottlieb Jiracek Michael Dantschenko1997 Yoon-Soo Lee Dimitri Vorobieff1998 Olaf John Laneri Catherine Chi1999 Alexander Kobrin Alberto Nosè Min-Soo Sohn2000 Ayako Kimura and Carl Wolf2001 Alexander Romanovsky Hea-Jung Cho Dong-Min Lim2003 Maria Stembolskaia Lyubov Gegetchkori and Mu-Ye Wu 2004/2005 Giuseppe Andaloro Mariangela Vacatello Hye-Jin Kim2006/2007Matthew Ward Sofya Gulyak and Lilian Akopova2008/2009 Michail Lifits Alexey Lebedev Gesualdo Coggi2010/2011 Anna Bulkina and Antonii Barishevskyi Tatiana Chernichka2012/2013 Rodolfo Leone Akihiro Sakiya and Dmitry Shishkin2014/2015 Ji-Yeong Mun Alberto Ferro Roman Lopatynskyi2016/2017 Jae-Yeon Won Anna Geniushene2018/2019 Emanuil Ivanov Shiori Kuwahara Giorgi Gigashvili2021 Jae Hong Park Do-Hyun Kim Lukas Sternath2023 Arsenii Mun Anthony Ratinov Ryota Yamazaki2025 Yifun Wu Sandro Nebieridze Christos Fountos
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