Draft:Unisa International Music Competition

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The Unisa International Music Competition (piano category) has been held every 4 years since 1982 in Pretoria, South Africa and is open to all pianists up to 30 years old. It is the biggest music competition in South Africa and is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions since 1991.[1] The competition takes place at the University of South Africa in ZK Matthews Great Hall. The winners of competition of different years are famous pianists, including the winner of the first competition in 1982 Marc-André Hamelin. The competition consists of four rounds, the last of which is a piano concert with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra.[2]

Prize Winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1982 Marc-André Hamelin
 Canada
Anton Nel
 South Africa
Marc Raubenheimer
 South Africa
1984 Hiromi Okada
 Japan
Michael Gurt
 United States
Eduardo Alfonso
 Uruguay
1986 Orazio Maione
 Italy
Douglas Luri
 Brazil
Paola Bruni
 Italy
1998 Marcus Thomas
 Germany
Fabio Bidini
 Italy
Francesco Cipolletta
 Italy
1990 Olivier Cazal
 France
Hervé Billaut
 France
Ilya Tchernaev
 Bulgaria
1992 François-Frédéric Guy
 France

Andrey Pisarev
 Russia

Not awarded Veronika Reznikovskaya
 Russia
1994 Laura Mikkola
 Finland
Ohad Ben-Ari
 Finland[dubious ]
Sergei Tarasov
 Russia
1996 Albert Tiu
 Philippines
Dmitri Teterin
 Russia
Andreas Woyke
 Germany
2000 Dmitry Vorobieff
 Russia
Carlo Guaitoli
 Italy
Jin Ju
 China
2004 Spencer Myer
 United States
Konstantin Soukhovetski
 Russia
Tatjana Kolesova
 Russia
2008 Ben Schoeman
 South Africa
Alexei Yemtsov
 Ukraine
Chun Wang
 China
2012 Lukáš Vondráček
 Czech Republic
Heejae Kim
 South Korea
Stanislav Khristenko
 Ukraine
2016 Daniel Petricia Ciobanu
 Romania
Philipp Scheucher
 Australia
Seom Seung Lee
 South Korea
2020 Evgeny Konnov
 Russia
Danilo Mascetti
 Italy
Hao Wei Lin
 Taiwan

References

  1. ^ "Pretoria - Unisa International Music Competition". www.wfimc.org.
  2. ^ "The classical finalists performed with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra". www.unisa.ac.za.

External links

  • Unisa
  • World Federation of International Music Competitions
  • Artistic director of the competition- Professor Karendra Devroop
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