The IX Sydney International Piano Competition took place at the Seymour Centre in Sydney from 16 July to 2 August 2008.
It was won by Konstantin Shamray.
Jury
Warren Thomson (chairman)- Michael Brimer
Manana Doidjashvili
Aquiles Delle Vigne
Norma Fisher
Choong-Mo Kang- Ian Munro
Arie Vardi
Zhou Guangren
Prizes
| Winner | |
|---|---|
| 1st Grand Prize |  Konstantin Shamray
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| 2nd Prize | Tatyana Kolesova
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| 3rd Prize | Ran Dank
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| 4th Prize |  Takashi Sato
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| 5th Prize | Tomoki Kitamura
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| 6th Prize |  Eric Zuber
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| Australian SQ engagement | Konstantin Shamray
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| People's Choice Prize | Konstantin Shamray
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| Best Female competitor | Tatyana Kolesova
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| Best Australian competitor | Hoang Pham
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| Best Australian Music performance | Tomoki Kitamura
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| Best Mozart Concerto performance | Konstantin Shamray
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| Best overall Concerto performance | Ran Dank
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| Best 19th/20th century Concerto performance | Konstantin Shamray
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| Best Beethoven performance | Konstantin Shamray
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| Best Chopin performance | Takashi Sato
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| Best Liszt performance | Eric Zuber
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| Best Liszt Study performance | Charlie Albright
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| Best Rachmaninoff performance | Ran Dank
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| Best Chamber Music performance | Tatyana Kolesova
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| Best Mozart performance | Konstantin Shamray
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| Best Schubert performance | Tomoki Kitamura
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| Best Debussy Prélude performance | Ran Dank
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| Best Russian Music performance | Tatyana Kolesova
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| Best Romantic Music overall performance | Yoonsoo Rhee
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| Best Haydn Sonata performance | Yoonsoo Rhee
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| Lev Vlassenko Memorial Prize |  Daniil Tsvetkov
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| I Round Encouragement Award | Feng Zhang
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| Quarter-Finals Encouragement Award | Alexei Yemtsov
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| Semi-finals Encouragement Award |  Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
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| Youngest finalist | Tomoki Kitamura
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| Youngest Australian competitor | Hoang Pham
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Works commissioned for the competition
- Andrew Ford - Thin air
- Roger Smalley - Morceau de Concours
Competition results (by rounds)
First round
16–17 July 2008
- Charlie Albright
- Fernando Altamura
Manuel Araujo- Marco Ciampi
- Sean Chen
- Ran Dank
- Christopher Devine
- John Fisher
Balázs Fülei- David Fung
- Adam Herd
- Elizaveta Ivanova
- Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
- Miya Kazauka
- Tomoki Kitamura
- Tatyana Kolesova
- Eduard Kunz
Ka-Ling Colleen Lee- Miyeon Lee
- Ryan McEvoy McCullough
José Menor Martín- Hoang Pham
- Yoonsoo Rhee
- Sergey Saratovsky
- Takashi Sato
- Konstantin Shamray
- Yekwon Sunwoo
- Daniil Tsvetkov
- Mariangela Vacatello
- Xun Wang
Wojciech Wisniewski- Alexei Yemtsov
Chun-Chieh Yen- Feng Zhang
- Xi-Xi Zhou
- Hao Zhu
- Eric Zuber
Quarterfinals
21–22 July 2008
- Charlie Albright
- Fernando Altamura
- Sean Chen
- Ran Dank
- Christopher Devine
- David Fung
- Tomoki Kitamura
- Tatyana Kolesova
- Miyeon Lee
- José Menor Martín
- Hoang Pham
- Yoonsoo Rhee
- Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
- Sergey Saratovsky
- Takashi Sato
- Konstantin Shamray
- Daniil Tsvetkov
- Mariangela Vacatello
- Alexei Yemtsov
- Hao Zhu
- Eric Zuber
Semifinals
23–25 July 2008
- Charlie Albright
- Ran Dank
- Tomoki Kitamura
- Tatyana Kolesova
- Miyeon Lee
- Hoang Pham
- Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
- Takashi Sato
- Konstantin Shamray
- Daniil Tsvetkov
- Mariangela Vacatello
- Eric Zuber
Final
29 July – 2 August 2008
- Concertos