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 (PIANO). Prize winners of the Cleveland International Piano Competition have included renowned artists like Nicholas Angelich, Sergei Babayan, Angela Hewitt, Daejin Kim, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Kotaro Fukuma and 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

Year	First	Second	Third	Fourth
2024	Template:Flagicon Zijian Wei	Template:Flagicon Evren Ozel	Template:Flagicon Maxim Lando	Template:Flagicon Giuseppe Guarrera
2021	Template:Flagicon Martín García García	Template:Flagicon Lovre Marušić	Template:Flagicon Byeol Kim	Template:Flagicon Yedam Kim
2016	Template:Flagicon Nikita Mndoyants	Template:Flagicon Leonardo Colafelice	Template:Flagicon Dinara Klinton	Template:Flagicon Georgiy Tchaidze
2013	Template:Flagicon Stanislav Khristenko	Template:Flagicon Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev	Template:Flagicon François Dumont	Template:Flagicon Jiayan Sun
2011	Template:Flagicon Alexander Schimpf	Template:Flagicon Alexei Chernov	Template:Flagicon Eric Zuber	Template:Flagicon Kyu Yeon Kim
2009	Template:Flagicon Martina Filjak	Template:Flagicon Dmitri Levkovich	Template:Flagicon William Youn	Template:Flagicon Evgeny Brakhman
2007	Template:Flagicon Alexander Ghindin	Template:Flagicon Yaron Kohlberg	Template:Flagicon Alexandre Moutouzkine	Template:Flagicon Ran Dank
2005	Template:Flagicon Chu-Fang Huang	Template:Flagicon Sergey Kuznetsov	Template:Flagicon Stanislav Khristenko	Template:Flagicon Spencer Myer
2003	Template:Flagicon Kotaro Fukuma	Template:Flagicon Soyeon Lee	Template:Flagicon Konstantin Soukhovetski	Template:Flagicon Andrius Zlabys
2001	Template:Flagicon Roberto Plano	Template:Flagicon Minsoo Sohn	Template:Flagicon Özgür Aydin	Template:Flagicon Gilles Vonsattel
1999	Template:Flagicon Antonio Pompa-Baldi	Template:Flagicon Vassily Primakov	Template:Flagicon Shoko Inoue	Template:Flagicon Sean Botkin
1997	Template:Flagicon Per Tengstrand	Template:Flagicon Gulnora Alimova	Template:Flagicon Ning An	Template:Flagicon Dror Biran
1995	Template:Flagicon Margarita Shevchenko	Template:Flagicon/Template:Flagicon Marina Lomazov	Template:Flagicon Dmitri Teterin	Template:Flagicon Giampaolo Stuani
1993	Template:Flagicon Amir Katz	Not awarded	Template:Flagicon Seizo Azuma Template:Flagicon Yuko Nakamichi	Template:Flagicon Katsunori Ishii

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

See also

• List of classical music competitions

External links

• Cleveland International Piano Competition
• Piano Competitions & Music Competitions at Bakitone International