XIII International Chopin Piano Competition

The XIII International Chopin Piano Competition (Polish: XIII Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina) took place in Warsaw from October 1–22, 1995. As in the previous competition five years earlier, the first prize was not awarded.

Awards

The competition consisted of three stages and a final. The first prize was not awarded. Instead, Philippe Giusiano and Alexei Sultanov shared second prize. Sultanov, considered the favourite by the public, refused his award by boycotting the prize-winners' concert.

The following prizes were awarded:

For the first and only time in the history of the competition, none of the special prizes were awarded:

Jury

Competition Results (by rounds)

First round

October 2–8.

• Irene Inzerillo
• Soojin Ahn
• Mika Akiyama
• Susumu Aoyagi
• Andrew Armstrong
• Racha Arodaky
• Angela Au
• Maurizio Baglini
• Tomasz Bartoszek
• Beata Bilinska
• Gergely Boganyi
• Anna Bogolyubova
• Jean-François Buvery
• Jan Krzysztof Broja
• Luigi Cartia
• Chang Chen
• Ruei-Bin Chen
• Ya-Fei Chuang
• Eun-Joo Chung
• Roberto Cominati
• Claudia Corona Castillo
• Michele d'Ambrosio
• Tomasz Debowski
• Jean-François Dichamp
• Mariusz Drzewicki
• Natasa Dukan
• Nami Ejiri
• Marina Evreison
• Masako Ezaki
• Michal Ferber
• Simone Ferraresi
• Massimiliano Ferrati
• Ingrid Fliter
• Marylin Frascone
• Eliska Gazdova
• Philippe Giusiano
• Nelson Goerner
• Grzegorz Gorczyca
• Ambre Lyn Hammond
• Ayako Higuchi
• Ilya Itin
• Megumi Ito
• Maria Ivanova
• Karina Jermaka
• Adam Jezierzanski
• Petr Jirikovski
• Yoshizaku Jumei
• Mario Karacic
• Masahi Katayama
• Yuko Kawai
• Igal Kesselman
• Won Kim
• Piotr Klajn
• Tomasz Kolodziejek
• Maria Kopylova
• Pawel Kubica
• Olaf John Laneri
• Javier Lanis
• Katherine Lee
• Ying-Chien Lin
• Magdalena Lisak
• Chih-Han Liu
• Anne-Louise Turgeon
• Joanna Laweynowicz
• Rafal Luszczewski
• Marlena Maciejkowicz
• Aleksandar Madžar
• Maki Maeda
• Ratimir Martinovic
• Janne Mertanen
• Zrinka Mikelic
• Oleksandr Mikhailyuk
• Misa Miyamoto
• Peter Miyamoto
• Rika Miyatani
• Daria Monastyrski
• Gabriela Montero
• Manuel Montero Contreras
• Luca Monti
• Chie Mori
• Hideki Nagano
• Hisako Nagayoshi
• Jon Nakamatsu
• Nguen Bich Tra
• Michio Nishihara Toro
• Koji Oikawa
• Masaru Okada
• Nicholas Ong
• Anthony Padilla
• Jong-Gyung Park
• Oksana Petrechenko
• Peter Petrov
• Daria Petrova
• Andrey Ponochevny
• Olga Pushetchnikova
• Zbigniew Raubo
• Eliane Reyes
• Marcela Rodríguez Hidalgo
• Michele Rovetta
• Katarzyna Rzeszutek
• Kei Saotome
• Georg Schneider
• Graham Scott
• Timur Sergeyenya
• Yuan Sheng
• Fumiko Shiraga
• Katia Skanavi
• Alex Slobodyanik
• Piotr Slopecki
• Anna Stempin
• Renata Stocko
• Constantinos Stylianou
• Shigetoshi Suematsu
• Alexei Sultanov
• Ivana Švarc
• Michal Szczepanski
• Maciej Szyrner
• Yuki Takao
• Johko Takemura
• Zhihua Tang
• Tomaz Tobing
• Igor Tsittser
• Marie Tsunoda
• Krystina Tucka
• Rem Urasin
• Junko Urayama
• Mark Vainer
• Frédéric Vaysse-Knitter
• Natasa Veljkovic
• Katarzyna Vernet
• Sana Villerusha
• Jin-Ho Weng
• Filip Wojciechowski
• Elina Yanchenko
• Libby Yu
• Lu-Hui Yu
• Elena Zaitseva
• Anna Zasimova
• Pawel Zawadzki
• Connie Ying Zhang
• Ludmila Zhilenkova

Second round

October 10–13

• Mika Akiyama
• Susumu Aoyagi
• Andrew Armstrong
• Maurizio Baglini
• Tomasz Bartoszek
• Beata Bilinska
• Gergely Boganyi
• Jan Krzysztof Broja
• Luigi Cartia
• Roberto Cominati
• Nami Ejiri
• Michal Ferber
• Massimiliano Ferrati
• Ingrid Fliter
• Marylin Frascone
• Eliska Gazdova
• Philippe Giusiano
• Nelson Goerner
• Ilya Itin
• Piotr Klajn
• Magdalena Lisak
• Chih-Han Liu
• Rika Miyatani
• Gabriela Montero
• Chie Mori
• Koji Oikawa
• Andrey Ponochevny
• Olga Pushetchnikova
• Zbigniew Raubo
• Timur Sergeyenya
• Yuan Sheng
• Katia Skanavi
• Alexei Sultanov
• Ivana Švarc
• Johko Takemura
• Rem Urasin
• Sana Villerusha
• Filip Wojciechowski
• Libby Yu
• Lu-Hui Yu
• Pawel Zawadzki

Semi-finals

October 15 and 16

• Andrew Armstrong
• Maurizio Baglini
• Luigi Cartia
• Roberto Cominati
• Nami Ejiri
• Philippe Giusiano
• Nelson Goerner
• Magdalena Lisak
• Rika Miyatani
• Gabriela Montero
• Andrey Ponochevny
• Katia Skanavi
• Alexei Sultanov
• Rem Urasin
• Libby Yu

Final

October 18 and 19

• Philippe Giusiano
• Magdalena Lisak
• Rika Miyatani
• Gabriela Montero
• Alexei Sultanov
• Rem Urasin
• No overall winner.

References

• International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition Frédéric Chopin Society 1995 FCIC webpage.

Further reading

• Ekiert, Janusz (2010). The Endless Search for Chopin: The History of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (1st ed.). Warsaw: Muza. ISBN 978-83-7495-812-7. OCLC 670048637.
• Arendt, Ada; Bogucki, Marcin; Majewski, Paweł; Sobczak, Kornelia (2020). Chopinowskie igrzysko. Historia Międzynarodowego Konkursu Pianistycznego im. Fryderyka Chopina 1927–2015 [The Chopin Games. The History of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition 1927–2015] (in Polish) (1st ed.). Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. ISBN 978-83-235-4127-1. OCLC 1153285192.
• Ossowski, Jerzy; Brodska, Halina (2010). The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in photographs. Warsaw: Fryderyk Chopin Institute. ISBN 978-83-61142-36-2. OCLC 802743657.

External links

• Chopin Institute's channel on YouTube