Cleveland International Piano Competition


The Cleveland International Piano Competition is an American piano competition that takes place biennially in Cleveland, Ohio. The initial Competition in 1975 and the nine others that followed were sponsored jointly by the Robert Casadesus Society and the Cleveland Institute of Music to honor the memory of French pianist Robert Casadesus. As a result, the Competition was then called the Casadesus International Piano Competition. In 1994, a new organization was formed: the Piano International Association of Northern Ohio. Prize winners of the Cleveland International Piano Competition have included renowned artists like Nicholas Angelich, Sergei Babayan, Angela Hewitt, Daejin Kim, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, among others.
The first Competition with the new name of "Cleveland" took place in August 1995. The 2001 Competition finals were held at Severance Hall with the Cleveland Competition Orchestra conducted by Jahja Ling. The success of this venture led to negotiations in 2003 with the Musical Arts Association resulting in the engagement of the Cleveland Orchestra to play for the four finalists at Severance Hall.
The Cleveland International Piano Competition is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.

Past prize winners

YearFirstSecondThirdFourth
2016Nikita MndoyantsLeonardo ColafeliceDinara KlintonGeorgiy Tchaidze
2013 Stanislav Khristenko Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev François Dumont Jiayan Sun
2011 Alexander Schimpf Alexei Chernov Eric Zuber Kyu Yeon Kim
2009 Martina Filjak Dmitri Levkovich William Youn Evgeny Brakhman
2007 Alexander Ghindin Yaron Kohlberg Alexandre Moutouzkine Ran Dank
2005 Chu-Fang Huang Sergey Kuznetsov Stanislav Khristenko Spencer Myer
2003 Kotaro Fukuma Soyeon Lee Konstantin Soukhovetski Andrius Zlabys
2001 Roberto Plano Minsoo Sohn Özgür Aydin Gilles Vonsattel
1999 Antonio Pompa-Baldi Vassily Primakov Shoko Inoue Sean Botkin
1997 Per Tengstrand Gulnora Alimova Ning An Dror Biran
1995 Margarita Shevchenko/ Marina Lomazov Dmitri Teterin Giampaolo Stuani
1993 Amir KatzNot awarded Seizo Azuma
Yuko Nakamichi		 Katsunori Ishii

YearFirstSecondThirdFourthFifthSixth
1991 Ilya Itin Anders Martinson Markus Pawlik Jean-François Bouvery Timothy Bozarth Hsin-Bei Lee
1989 Sergei Babayan Nicholas Angelich Megumi Kaneko Pascal Godart François Chaplin Eglé Januleviciuté
1987 Thierry Huillet Asaf Zohar Jonathan Bass Beatrice Hsin-Chen Long Takayuki Ito Hiroko Atsumi
1985 Daejin Kim Benedetto Lupo Hélène Jeanney Neil Rutman Yves Henry Dan-Wen Wei
1983 Youngshin An Mayumi Kameda Stéphane Lemelin Roy Kogan/ Dimitry Cogan Silke-Thora Matthies
1981 Philippe Bianconi Dan Riddle Rémy Loumbrozo Roy Kogan Timothy Smith Michael Boriskin
1979 Edward Newman Jean-Yves Thibaudet Angela Hewitt Frederick Blum Peter Vinograde Douglas Weeks
1977 Nathalie Béra-Tagrine Barry Salwen Douglas Montgomery Laura Silverman Géry Moutier Sandra Shuler
1975 John Owings Julian Martin John-Patrick Millow Roe Van Boskirk Katsurako Mikami Paweł Chęciński