The 2015 Leeds International Piano Competition was the 18th edition of the tournament, and it was held in the University of Leeds and the Leeds Town Hall from 26 August to 13 September 2015, with the Hallé Orchestra acting in the final conducted by Mark Elder. Russian pianist Anna Tsybuleva won the competition.
Jury Fanny Waterman (chairman) Nikolai Demidenko Pascal Devoyon Danny Evans Adam Gatehouse Han Tong-il Jerome Lowenthal Robert McDonald Marios Papadopoulos Boris Petrushansky Anne Queffélec Eleanor Wong
Results Competitor R1 R2 SF F Anna Tsybuleva 1st Heejae Kim 2nd Vitaly Pisarenko 3rd Drew Petersen 4th Tomoki Kitamura 5th Wei Yun 6th Ashley Fripp Hong Hi-hwang Alexander Panfilov Shizuka Susanna Salvemini Szuyu Rachel Su Sun Jun Jamie Bergin Cho Jun-hwi Kiveli Dörken Giuseppe Guarerra Huh Jae-weon Daiki Kato Daniel Lebhardt Lee Taek-gi Rodolfo Leone Li Zhenni Yuka Morishige Park Joo-hyeon Costanza Principe Shin Chang-yong Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev Won Jae-yeon Yang Yuanfan Masaru Yoshitake Alina Bercu Anna Bulkina Jenny Chen Cho Jun Daniel Ciobanu Lindsay Garritson Eriko Gomita Guang Chen Julia Hamos Shalva Khotenashvili Kim Myung-hyun Kim Yoon-ji Lim Hyun-jin Lin Peng Mizuho Nakada Adi Neuhaus Nariya Nogi Oh Yeon-taek Kana Okada Célia Oneto Bensaid Park Hyo-eun Stephanie Proot Mihai Ritivoiu Tamila Salimdjanova Nikolai Saratovsky Shen Mengsheng Song Jeung-beum Nattapol Tantikarn Wang Chun Wong Chiyan Wu Chuyong Wu Zhenyi Yong Chang Yoon Joon
Reactions Andrew Clements from The Guardian found that while Tcybuleva's playing in the final was fluent:
"...she often seemed incapable of seeing the overall shape of the work [Brahms' 2nd Concerto], and her role in projecting it."
Clements further commented that "only Petersen and Kim gave any sense that they chose music they genuinely loved" (Rachmaninov's 1st and Beethoven's 4th respectively), while describing Pisarenko as "another pianist with steely technique and limited musical imagination in the current Russian mould."
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External links Official website