The 17th Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition took place in the Festival Palace of Santander, Spain from July 27 to August 8, 2012. Twenty pianists from ten countries took part in the competition.Selected pianists for the Paloma O'Shea competition. Mundoclasico.com For the fifth time the First Prize was not awarded; Ahn Ah-ruem won the Second Prize while Tamar Beraia and János Palojtay shared the Third Prize. Beraia was awarded the Audience Prize.The Santander Paloma O'Shea Piano Competition's First Prize is not awarded. RTVE.es, 08/08/12
Jury Antoni Ros Marbà (chairman) Peter Alward (vice-chairman) Luis Pereira Leal (vice-chairman) Lorenzo Fasolo Ralf Gothóni Márta Gulyás Elisabeth Leonskaja Oleg Maisenberg Tomás Marco Ferenc Rados Gérard Wyss Jenő Nyári (preselection) Luis Fernando Pérez (preselection)
Results Contestant R1 R2 SF F Notes Ahn Ah-ruem Tamar Beraia Awarded the Audience Prize János Palojtay Benedek Horváth Daniele Rinaldo Samson Tsoy Yulia Chaplina Vladislav Kozhukhin Marta Liébana Nadezhda Pisareva Song Zihui Diana Tkachenko Charlie Albright Polina Bogdanova Marko Hilpo Kim Tae-hyung Eduard Kiprskiy Marcos Madrigal Scipione Sangiovanni Sung Jenna
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