Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi XVI took take place in Valencia from September 15–27, 2008. It was won by Zhengyu Chen, who became the first Chinese pianist to attain the 1st prize.
Jury
Joaquín Soriano (president)
Antonio di Cristofano
Bella Davidovich
Petras Geniusas
Peter Lang- Stanislav Pochekin
- Fernando Puchol
- Jesús Ángel Rodríguez
- Maria Tipo
Fujiko Yamada
Prizes
| Winner | Prize | Sponsor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Grand Prize |  Zhengyu Chen |
18.000 € + CD + Concert tour | Diputación de Valencia |
| 2nd Prize |  Soyeon Kim |
12.000 € + Concerts in Valencia | Diputación de Valencia |
| 3rd Prize |  Marianna Prjevalskaya |
6.000 € + Concerts in Valencia | Diputación de Valencia |
| 4th Prize | Ángel Cabrera |
4.000 € | Bancaja |
| 5th Prize | Angelo Arciglione |
3.000 € | Ayuntamiento de Valencia |
| 6th Prize | Yu-Mi Lee |
1.900 € | Sociedad Filarmónica de Valencia |
| 7th Prize | void | 1.600 € | Bancaja |
| Best Chopin performance | void | 2.500 € | Mrs. Heide Wolf |
| Kawai Prize | Marianna Prjevalskaya |
1.900 € | Kawai-España |
| Yamaha Premium | Soyeon Kim |
1.900 € | Yamaha-Música Ibérica |
| Clemente Pianos Prize | Zhengyu Chen |
1.900 € | Clemente Pianos |
| Diputación Prize | Ángel Cabrera |
1.600 € | Diputación de Valencia |
- ^1 Awarded to the best qualified Valencian competitor.
- ^2 Awarded to the best qualified Spanish competitor.
- ^3 Awarded to the best Spanish contemporary music performer.
- ^4 Awarded to the best Concerto performer.
- ^5 Awarded to the best Spanish music performer.
Compositions commissioned for the competition
- Emilio Calandín - Tres naipes del I Ching
- Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher - Chronos / Kayros
- Enrique Sanz-Burguete - A Matilde
Competition Results (by rounds)
First round
September 16 and 17. Palau de la Música - Sala Rodrigo.
- Domenico Scarlatti / Antonio Soler Sonata + Two pieces among Frédéric Chopin's Nocturnes, Impromptus, Mazurkas and Waltzes + Gabriel Fauré / Claude Debussy / Maurice Ravel composition + Ad libitum.
Ron Abramski- Mario Alonso Herrero
- Angelo Arciglione
Honoré Béjin Garcia- Enrique Bernaldo de Quirós Martín
- Tatyana Bezmenova
Ingfrid Breie Nyhus- Northern Ireland Cathal Breslin
- Ángel Cabrera
Christian Chamorel- Zhengyu Chen
- Wu Chi
- Sebastian Di Bin
- Nazareno Ferrugio
Martina Filjak- Sofya Gulyak
- Shinnosuke Inugai
- Soyeon Kim
Karalina Kirylchyk
Yun Jung Koo
Martin Labazevitch- Daiva Lavrinavičiūtė
- Aleksey Lebedev
Li-Wei Lee- Yu Mi Lee
- José Menor Martín
Theodosia Ntokou- Vincenzo Oliva
- Fumie Onda
- Jin Woo Park
- Joo Hyeon Park
- Tristan Pfaff
- Marianna Prjevalskaya
Ivana Ristova- Daniil Sayamov
- Sergey Sobolev
- Masataka Takada
- Yoshida Tomoaki
- Maria Tretiyakova
- Andrey Yaroshinsky
Quarter-finals
September 18, 19 and 20. Palau de la Música - Sala Rodrigo.
- Joseph Haydn / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata or Variations + Frédéric Chopin Etude + Isaac Albéniz (Iberia) / Enrique Granados (Goyescas) / Manuel de Falla (Fantasía Bética, Cuatro piezas españolas) composition
- Ron Abramski
- Angelo Arciglione
- Tatyana Bezmenova
- Ángel Cabrera
- Christian Chamorel
- Zhengyu Chen
- Sebastian Di Bin
- Nazareno Ferrugio
- Shinnosuke Inugai
- Soyeon Kim
- Yun Jung Koo
- Martin Labazevitch
- Aleksey Lebedev
- Yu-Mi Lee
- Fumie Onda
- Tristan Pfaff
- Marianna Prjevalskaya
- Maria Tretiyakova
Semi-finals
September 21 and 22. Palau de la Música - Sala Rodrigo.
- Romantic composition/s + Mandatory contemporary composition.
- Ron Abramsky
- Angelo Arciglione
- Ángel Cabrera
- Christian Chamorel
- Zhengyu Chen
- Shinnosuke Inugai
- Soyeon Kim
- Yun Jung Koo
- Martin Labazevitch
- Yu-Mi Lee
- Tristan Pfaff (withdrawal)
- Marianna Prjevalskaya
Final
September 26 and 27. Palau de la Música - Sala Iturbi.
- Angelo Arciglione --- Frédéric Chopin: 2nd.
- Ángel Cabrera --- Frédéric Chopin: 2nd.
- Zhengyu Chen --- Ferenc Liszt: 1st.
- Soyeon Kim --- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1st.
- Yu-Mi Lee --- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1st.
- Marianna Prjevalskaya --- Frédéric Chopin: 1st.
Orquesta de Valencia. Max Bragado, conductor.