Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition

{{short description|Italian music competition}}

The Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition is a music competition for young pianists that takes place in Bolzano, Italy. It was founded in 1949 by Cesare Nordio in memory of the pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni.

History

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The first Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition was organized by Cesare Nordio in 1949 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the death of the pianist and composer. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was a supporter of the competition and was a member of the inaugural jury. Alfred Brendel won the 4th prize in this competition. For a few years a piano composition competition took place together with the piano competition.{{cite web |url=https://www.busoni-mahler.eu/competition/en/the-competition/ |title=The Competition – Concorso Pianistico Ferruccio Busoni |website=Fondazione Ferruccio Busoni - Gustav Mahler |access-date=April 13, 2025 |language=en}}

In 1956, the young Maurizio Pollini took part in the competition, performing the Fantasia Contrappuntistica by Kenneth Leighton, which won the prize for composition; in 1957 Martha Argerich won the first prize. Other prize winners include Bruno Canino, Agustin Anievas, Joaquín Achúcarro, Jerome Rose, Garrick Ohlsson, Alberto Nosè and Wu Muye.{{cite web|url=https://www.busoni-mahler.eu/competition/en/hall-of-fame-2/ |title=Hall of Fame – Concorso Pianistico Ferruccio Busoni |website=Fondazione Ferruccio Busoni - Gustav Mahler |access-date=April 13, 2025 |language=en}}

Members of the jury have included: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Nikita Magaloff, Igor Markevitch, Carlo Maria Giulini, Garrick Ohlsson, Bruno Canino, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Paul Badura-Skoda, Rafael Orozco, Joaquín Soriano, Gerhard Oppitz, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Michele Campanella, Leif Ove Andsnes, Adam Harasiewicz, Hiroko Nakamura, Martha Argerich, Andrzej Jasiński, Lilya Zilberstein, Tadeusz Żmudziński, Valery Afanassiev and Eliso Virsaladze.

Winners

Complete list of winners:

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|+{{sronly|Winners of the top prizes for each year}}

!Year!!First prize!!Second prize!!Third prize

1949{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|Italy}} {{ill|Lodovico Lessona|it}}{{flagicon|Italy}} Rossana Orlandini
4th prize: {{flagicon|Austria}} Alfred Brendel
1950{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|West Germany}} Karl-Heinz Schlüter{{flagicon|France}} Jacques Coulaud
1951{{gray|not awarded}}{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|Switzerland}} Karl Engel and {{flagicon|Austria}} Walter Klien
1952{{flagicon|Italy}} Sergio Perticaroli{{flagicon|Poland|1928}} Andrzej Wasowski{{flagicon|Italy}} Marisa Candeloro and {{flagicon|Italy}} Agostino Orizio
1953{{flagicon|USA|1912}} Ella Goldstein{{flagicon|USA|1912}} Monte Hill Davis{{flagicon|Spain|1945}} Esteban Sanchez Herrero
1954{{flagicon|Italy}} Aldo Mancinelli{{flagicon|France}} Gabriel Tacchino{{flagicon|West Germany}} Günter Ludwig
1955{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|France}} Germaine Devéze{{flagicon|West Germany}} Günter Ludwig
1956{{flagicon|Austria}} Jörg DemusIvan DavisJames Mathis.
4th prize: Bruno Canino and Michael Ponti
1957{{flagicon|Argentina}}{{flagicon|Switzerland}}Martha Argerich{{flagicon|USA|1912}} Ivan Davis and {{flagicon|USA|1912}} Jerome Lowenthal{{flagicon|USA|1912}} Jeaneane Dowis
1958{{flagicon|Mexico|1934}}José Kahan{{flagicon|Canada|1957}} Ronald Turini{{flagicon|Italy}} Fabio Peressoni and {{flagicon|USA|1912}} Michael Ponti
{{flagicon|Italy}} 4th prize: Bruno Canino
1959{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|France}} Cécile Ousset and {{flagicon|USA|1959}} John Perry{{flagicon|Hungary}} Imre Antal and {{flagicon|USA|1959}} Leonhard Hokanson
4th prize: {{flagicon|Spain|1945}} Joaquín Achúcarro
1960{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|USA}} Agustin Anievas and {{flagicon|USA}} James Mathis{{flagicon|Hungary}} Imre Antal
1961{{flagicon|USA}} Jerome Rose{{flagicon|UK}} Norma Fisher and {{flagicon|USA|1912}} Howard Aibel{{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak
1962{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|Canada|1957}} Brenton Dale Bartlett{{flagicon|Hungary}} Iván Erőd and {{flagicon|Philippines|1946}} Reynaldo Reyes
1963{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|West Germany}} Gernot Kahl{{flagicon|Philippines|1946}} José Maria Contreras
1964{{flagicon|USA}} Michael Ponti{{flagicon|France}} François-Joël Thiollier{{flagicon|Bulgaria|1946}} Ivan Drenikov
1965{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|Bulgaria|1946}} Bojidar Noev{{flagicon|USA}} James Dick
1966{{flagicon|USA}} Garrick Ohlsson{{flagicon|USA}} Richard Goode
1967{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} Ivan Klánský{{flagicon|Italy}} Pietro Maranca
1968{{flagicon|USSR}} Vladimir Selivochin{{flagicon|USSR}} Mark Zeltser{{flagicon|West Germany}} Benedikt Köhlen and {{flagicon|USA}} Craig Sheppard
1969{{flagicon|USA}} Ursula Oppens{{flagicon|Italy}} Annamaria Cigoli{{flagicon|Japan|1870}} Akiko Kitagawa
1970{{gray|not awarded}}colspan=2|Selection prize: {{flagicon|Philippines|1946}} Maria Luisa Lopez-Vito
1971{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|USA}} Nina Tichman{{flagicon|Israel}} Ilan Rogoff and {{flagicon|USA}} Marioara Trifan
1972{{flagicon|Brazil|1968}} Arnaldo Cohen{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|UK}} Peter Bithell and {{flagicon|British Hong Kong}} David Oei
1973{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|West Germany}} Roland Keller and {{flagicon|Poland|1928}} Andrzej Ratusiński{{flagicon|Poland|1928}} Elza Kolodin
1974{{flagicon|West Germany}} Robert Benz{{flagicon|USA}} Pascal Devoyon{{flagicon|USA}} Diane Walsh
1975{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|Sweden}} Staffan Scheja{{flagicon|Sweden}} Laszlo Simon and {{flagicon|UK}} Terence Judd
1976{{flagicon|Italy}} Roberto Cappello{{flagicon|Argentina}} Daniel Rivera{{flagicon|UK}} Susan Ann Howes and {{flagicon|Canada}} Adrienne Shannon
1977{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|Japan|1870}} Ayami Ikeba and {{flagicon|France}} Véronique Roux{{flagicon|Netherlands}} Joop Celis and {{flagicon|Japan|1870}} Kyoto Ito
1978{{flagicon|USA}} Boris Bloch{{flagicon|Malaysia}} Dennis Lee{{flagicon|West Germany}} Arnulf von Arnim
4th prize: {{flagicon|Spain|1977}} Josep Colom
1979{{flagicon|Canada}} Catherine Vickers{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|USA}} Alyce Le Blanc
1980{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|Japan|1870}} Ruriko Kikuchi, {{flagicon|West Germany}} Rolf Plagge and {{flagicon|South Korea|1949}} Hai-Kyung Suh
1981{{flagicon|West Germany}} Margarita Höhenrieder{{flagicon|USA}} Lev Natochenny{{flagicon|Bulgaria|1971}} Boyan Vodenitcharov
1982{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|Taiwan}} Hung-Kuan Chen{{flagicon|USA}} Daniel Blumenthal and {{flagicon|Japan|1870}} Yukino Fujiwara
1983{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|USA}} Robert McDonald{{flagicon|USA}} Frederick Blum and {{flagicon|USA}} Arthur Greene
1984{{flagicon|Canada}} Louis Lortie{{flagicon|Austria}} Matthias Fletzberger{{flagicon|West Germany}} Bernd Glemser
1985{{flagicon|Brazil|1968}} José Carlos Cocarelli{{flagicon|Israel}} Uriel Tsachor and {{flagicon|Japan|1870}} Akira Wakabayashi{{flagicon|USSR}} Natalia Vlassenko
1986{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|UK}} Benjamin Frith and {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} Pedrag Muzijevic{{flagicon|Switzerland}} R. Clipper Erickson and {{flagicon|West Germany}} Igor Kamenz
1987{{flagicon|USSR}} Lilya Zilberstein{{flagicon|USSR}} Valery Kuleshof{{flagicon|Australia}} Ian Munro and {{flagicon|Chile}} Alfredo Perl
1988{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|West Germany}} Igor Kamenz and {{flagicon|USA}} Benjamin Pasternack{{flagicon|Italy}} Fabio Bidini
1989{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} Aleksandar Madžar{{flagicon|Italy}} Francesco Cipolletta and {{flagicon|USSR}} Valery Grohovsky
1990{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|USSR}} Karina Yavlenskaya{{flagicon|Japan|1870}} Midori Nohara
1991{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|France}} Olivier Cazal and {{flagicon|Germany}} Igor Kamenz{{flagicon|USSR}} Stanislav Judenich
1992{{flagicon|Ukraine}} Anna Kravtchenko{{flagicon|Italy}} Fabio Bidini{{flagicon|USA}} Mark Anderson and {{flagicon|Armenia}} Sergei Babayan
1993{{flagicon|Italy}} Roberto Cominati{{flagicon|Ukraine}} Vitaly Samoschko{{flagicon|France}} Olivier Cazal
1994{{flagicon|Georgia|1990}} Mzia Simonishwili{{flagicon|Japan|1870}} Iwao Murakami{{flagicon|Italy}} Corrado Rollero
1995{{flagicon|Russia}} Alexander Shtarkman{{flagicon|Russia}} Sergei Tarasov
1996{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|Germany}} Jan Gottlieb Jiracek{{flagicon|Ukraine}} Michael Dantschenko
1997{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|South Korea|1984}} Yoon-Soo Lee{{flagicon|Russia}} Dimitri Vorobieff
1998{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|Italy}} Olaf John Laneri{{flagicon|Canada}} Catherine Chi
1999{{flagicon|Russia}} Alexander Kobrin{{flagicon|Italy}} Alberto Nosè{{flagicon|South Korea|1997}} Min-Soo Sohn
2000{{gray|not awarded}}{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|Japan}} Ayako Kimura and {{flagicon|Germany}} Carl Wolf
2001{{flagicon|Ukraine}} Alexander Romanovsky{{flagicon|South Korea|1997}} Hea-Jung Cho{{flagicon|South Korea|1997}} Dong-Min Lim
2003{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|Russia}} Maria Stembolskaia{{flagicon|Russia}} Lyubov Gegetchkori and {{flagicon|China}} Mu-Ye Wu
2004/2005{{flagicon|Italy|2003}} Giuseppe Andaloro{{flagicon|Italy|2003}} Mariangela Vacatello{{flagicon|South Korea}} Hye-Jin Kim
2006/2007{{flagicon|USA|1912}}Matthew Ward{{flagicon|Russia}} Sofya Gulyak and {{flagicon|Ukraine}} Dinara Nadzhafova{{flagicon|Russia}} Lilian Akopova
2008/2009{{flagicon|Germany}} Michail Lifits{{flagicon|Russia}} Alexey Lebedev{{flagicon|Italy}} Gesualdo Coggi
2010/2011{{gray|not awarded}}{{flagicon|Russia}} Anna Bulkina and {{flagicon|Ukraine}} Antonii Barishevskyi{{flagicon|Russia}} Tatiana Chernichka
2012/2013{{gray|not awarded}}''{{flagicon|Italy}} Rodolfo Leone{{flagicon|Japan}} Akihiro Sakiya and {{flagicon|Russia}} Dmitry Shishkin
2014/2015{{flagicon|South Korea}} Ji-Yeong Mun{{flagicon|Italy}} Alberto Ferro{{flagicon|Ukraine}} Roman Lopatynskyi
2016/2017{{flagicon|Croatia}} {{ill|Ivan Krpan|hr}}{{flagicon|South Korea}} Jae-Yeon Won{{flagicon|Russia}} Anna Geniushene
2018/2019{{flagicon|Bulgaria}} Emanuil Ivanov{{flagicon|Japan}} Shiori Kuwahara{{flagicon|Georgia}} Giorgi Gigashvili
2021

|{{flagicon|South Korea}} Jae Hong Park

|{{flagicon|South Korea}} Do-Hyun Kim

|{{flagicon|Austria}} Lukas Sternath

2023

|{{Flagicon|Russia}} Arsenii Mun

|{{Flagicon|United States of America}} Anthony Ratinov

|{{Flagicon|Japan}} Ryota Yamazaki

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