2006 Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi

Piano competition XV Jose Iturbi International Piano Competition took place in Valencia, from September 14 to the 30th, 2006. The competition is held every two years and is a member of the Geneva World Federation of International Music Competitions. Pianist Josu De Solaun Soto was given the First Grand Prize, becoming the first Spanish pianist to be awarded such distinction in the 25 years of the competition's existence. The prize included over $25,000, recital and orchestral engagements and a recording contract. Jury 20px|Spain Joaquín Soriano (president) 20px|Lithuania Sulamita Aronovsky 20px|Russia Sergei Dorensky 20px|Spain Miguel Ángel Herranz 20px|Panama Jaime Ingram 20px|South Korea Mi Kyung Kim 20px|Greece Natalie Michailidou 20px|Spain Fernando Puchol 20px|Ecuador Leslie Wright (substituting 20px|France Jean-Bernard Pommier) 20px|Russia Oxana Yablonskaya Prizes First Grand Prize ESP Josu de Solaun Second Prize RUS Valentina Igoshina Third Prize RUS Andrei Yaroshinsky Fourth Prize FRA Patrick Hemmerle ARM Sofya Melikyan Fifth Prize RUS Natalya Kuchaeva Sixth Prize Void Best Valencian pianist ESP Josu de Solaun Best Spanish pianist ESP Josu de Solaun Best interpreter of Spanish music FRA Patrick Hemmerle ARM Sofya Melikyan Best interpreter of Spanish contemporary music ESP Miguel Ángel Castro RUS Philipp Kopachevsky Best interpreter of a Beethoven concerto FRA Patrick Hemmerle Best interpreter of a Chopin piece FRA Patrick Hemmerle Compositions commissioned for the competition Joan Cerveró - Verdi Carlos Fontcuberta - Après tout [ Performance by Miguel Á. Castro ] Voro García Fernández - Etoiles filantes Competition Results (by Rounds) First round JPN Yukiko Akagi USA Orlando Alonso GBR Cathal Breslin ROU Catalina Butcaru ESP Claudio Carbó ESP Miguel Ángel Castro ESP Josu de Solaun BUL Dora Deliyska FRA Geraldine Dutroncy UKR Anna Fedorova FIN Sonja Fräki RUS Nikolai Gangnus BUL Irina Georgieva FRA Patrick Hemmerle BEL Dagmar Hofman KOR Hong Kook-hee KOR Hyung Sue-woon RUS Valentina Igoshina JPN Kyoko Kashii GRE Marianna Katerelou KOR Kim Ji-youn RUS Philipp Kopachevsky RUS Natalya Kuchaeva JPN Fuyuka Kusa KOR Lee Yoo-soon CHN Lin Weichi IRL Maria McGarry ARM Sofya Melikyan ESP Katia Michel ITA Salvatore Monzo JPN Yukako Morikawa RUS Eleonora Morozova ESP Inocencio Negrín GRE Theodosia Ntokou ITA Vincenzo Oliva ESP Antonio Ortiz RUS Natalya Osenchakova ITA Stefania Passamonte BLR Ekaterina Popova AUS Cameron Roberts RUS Pavel Shatskiy RUS Anna Solivieva-Drubich ISR Inesa Sinkevych JPN Shun Tominaga CHN Wu Xiaofeng RUS Andrei Yaroshinsky KOR Yoon Eun-kyung SRB Bojana Zdravković UKR Denis Zhdanov Second round JPN Yukiko Akagi GBR Cathal Breslin ESP Claudio Carbó ESP Miguel Ángel Castro ESP Josu de Solaun UKR Anna Fedorova RUS Nikolai Gangnus FRA Patrick Hemmerle RUS Valentina Igoshina RUS Philipp Kopachevsky RUS Natalya Kuchaeva JPN Fuyuka Kusa CHN Lin Weichi ARM Sofya Melikyan JPN Yukako Morikawa ESP Inocencio Negrín ITA Vincenzo Oliva ESP Antonio Ortiz AUS Cameron Roberts RUS Pavel Shatskiy CHN Wu Xiaofeng RUS Andrei Yaroshinsky SRB Bojana Zdravković UKR Denis Zhdanov Third round JPN Yukiko Akagi ESP Claudio Carbó ESP Miguel Ángel Castro ESP Josu de Solaun FRA Patrick Hemmerle RUS Valentina Igoshina RUS Philipp Kopachevsky RUS Natalia Kuchaeva ARM Sofya Melikyan JPN Yukiko Morikawa ESP Antonio Ortiz RUS Andrei Yaroshinsky Semifinals ESP Josu de Solaun (Beethoven's 3rd) FRA Patrick Hemmerle (Beethoven's 1st) RUS Valentina Igoshina (Beethoven's 4th) RUS Natalya Kuchaeva (Beethoven's 5th) ARM Sofya Melikyan (Beethoven's 3rd) RUS Andrei Yaroshinsky (Beethoven's 3rd)Accompaniment: Valencia Orchestra. Yaron Traub, conductor. Final ESP Josu de Solaun (Rachmaninov's 2nd) RUS Valentina Igoshina (Tchaikovsky's 1st) RUS Andrey Yaroshinsky (Rachmaninov's Rhapsody)Accompaniment: Valencia Orchestra. Yaron Traub, conductor. External links History of the Competition, since 1981; PREVIOUS WINNERS Interview with Josu De Solaun Soto Directory of International Piano Competitions Category:José Iturbi International Piano Competition Category:September 2006 in Spain Category:2006 in Spanish music Category:2006 in Valencia