International Awards and Prizes
News updates:
In recent months students
of the International Piano Academy Lake Como have garnered
an impressive number of international awards. One must not
forget that our academy has only seven students yearly.
Here follows the list of honors:
LONDON, England (April 2009)
Behzod Abduraimov (Uzbekistan) won the
1st Prize at the London International
Piano Competition. Behzod who is only 18 years old, first
studied at the academy in 2007, since then he is an invited
student of the school. At present he studies with
Stanislav Ioudenitch at Park University in Missouri.
FORT WORTH, Texas, USA (June 2009)
Alessandro Deljavan (Italy) won the John
Giordano Jury Chairman Discretionary Award at the Van
Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth,
Texas.
ZUERICH, Switzerland (June 2009)
Roberto Plano (Italy) was
awarded the Special Prize of the Géza Anda Foundation
at the Géza Anda Piano Competition in Zuerich,
Switzerland..
LISBON, Portugal (July 2009)
Denis Kozhukhin (Russia) won the
prestigious VENDOME Prize in Portugal.
CLEVELAND, USA (August 2009)
Martina Filjak (Croatia) won the
1st Prize at the Cleveland International Piano
Competition, USA.
CLEVELAND, USA (August 2009)
William Hong-Chun Youn (South Korea) won
the 3rd Prize at the Cleveland International Piano
Competition, USA.
VEVEY, Switzerland (September 2009)
François Dumont (France) was one of the
three finalists at the Clara Haskil International Piano
Competition, Vevey, Switzerland.
BOLZANO, Italy (September 2009)
Alexey Lebedev (Russia), a special student
of the academy, won the 2nd Prize at the Ferruccio Busoni
International Piano Competition, Bolzano, Italy.
GENEVA, Switzerland (October 2009)
Alessandro Deljavan has been awarded
“Jeudis du Piano 2008/2009” (Prix du Jury – Prix Jean
Clostre)
HAMAMATSU CITY , Japan
(November 2009)
François Dumont (France) won the 4th Prize
at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition,
Japan
KALAMAZZO, Michigan USA (January 2010)
Kirill Gerstein (Russia) won the
prestigious Gilmore Artist Award
Students of the
International Piano Foundation "Theo Lieven" and the
International Piano Academy Lake Como have won an
impressive array of prizes in some of the most prestigious
international competitions, amongst
which:
Van Cliburn -
Fort Worth - 1st prize
Queen Elizabeth - Brussels - Two 1st prizes
A. Rubinstein - Tel Aviv - 1st prize
G. Bachauer - Salt Lake City - 1st and 2nd prizes
F. Chopin - Warsaw - 2nd prize
U. Micheli - Milan - 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes
F. Busoni - Bolzano - 2nd and 3rd prizes
D. Ciani - Milan -1st prize
A. Casagrande - Terni - 2nd and 3rd prizes
E. Honens - Calgary -1st and 3rd prizes
M. Canals - Barcelona - 1st prize
P. O'Shea - Santander - 2nd prize
F. Schubert - Dortmund -Two 1st prizes and 2nd prize
M. Argerich Competition
Buenos Aires -1st prize
Sanremo Classico - Two 1st prizes
Viotti - Vercelli -Three 1st prizes
Cantù - Four 1st prizes and 3rd prize
Sulmona - 1st prize
E. Porrino - Cagliari - 1st prize
A. Rendano - Cosenza -1st prize
Cleveland -Two 1st prizes
Maria Callas - Athens - 1st and 3rd prizes
Geza Anda - Zurich -1st prize
Valsesia Musica - Varallo (VC) -1st prize
Carlos Gomes Prize 2005 - Brazil "Pianist of the Year"
Gyeongnam International 2005 - S.Korea 1st prize
ARD Munich International Piano Competition 2006-1st Prize
Leeds International Piano Competition 2006 - 3rd Prize
Due to their excellence, the students of the two schools
have received some of the most coveted awards in music:
Gilmore Artist Award
Gilmore Young Artist
Victoire de la Musique - Paris
Avery Fisher Award - New York
Most of the students of the two schools have already
embarked on successful international careers and have
already performed in the greatest concert halls of the
world. They have recorded with important classical music
labels:
Accord, Arktos, Arts, Bis, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon,
Doron, EMI, Ermitage,
Harmonia Mundi, Lyrinx, Naxos, Philips, Foné, Sony,
Virgin.