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 one of the prestigious music competitions and is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions since 1991.[1] The winners of competition of different years are famous pianists, including the winner of the first competition in 1982 Marc-André Hamelin. The competition is held in four rounds, the last of which is a piano concert with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra.[2]
Prize Winners (since 1982)
Classical Category
|
Year |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
|
1982 |
Marc=André Hamelin |
Anton Nel |
Marc Raubenheimer |
|
1984 |
Hiromi Okada |
Michael Gurt |
Eduardo Alfonso |
|
1986 |
Orazio Maione |
Douglas Luri |
Paola Bruni |
|
1988 |
Marcus Thomas |
Fabio Bidini |
Francesco Cipolletta |
|
1990 |
Olivier Cazal |
Herve Billaut |
Ilya Tchernaev |
|
1992 |
Francois Guy André Pisarev Russia |
|
Veronika Reznikovskaya |
|
1994 |
Laura Mikkola |
Ohad Ben-Ari |
Sergei Tarasov |
|
1996 |
Albert Tiu |
Dmitri Teterin |
Andreas Woyke |
|
2000 |
Dmitry Vorobieff |
Carlo Guaitoli |
Jin Ju |
|
2004 |
Spencer Myer |
Konstantin Soukhovetski |
Tatjana Kolesova |
|
2008 |
Ben Schoeman |
Alexei Yemtsov |
Chun Wang |
|
2012 |
Lukáš Vondráček |
Heejae Kim |
Stanislav Khristenko |
|
2016 |
Daniel Petrica Ciobanu |
Philipp Scheucher |
Seom Seung Lee |
|
2020 |
Evgeny Konnov |
Danilo Mascetti |
Hao Wei Lin |
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