The Panama International Piano Competition is held at the Teatro Nacional in Panama City every two years. It was established in 2004 by Jaime and Nelly Ingram. The 7th Competition is scheduled to take place in October 2016. Award winners receive cash prizes. Additional special prizes are available for the best performance of one of the first two Sonatas composed by Alberto Ginastera, best performance of a Brazilian composition, and best performance of a work composed by Joaquín Rodrigo.
Prize winners and jurors
Asterisk (*) denotes winner of Audience Choice Award
YearPrizeWinnerCountry Jurors 2004 1st Yung Wook Yoo Jaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury)Efraín PaeskyRoger WoodwardFrank FernándezFernando PucholSolomon MikowskySequeira CostaSergei Dorensky 2nd Tatjana Mitchko* 3rd Alexander Moutouzkine 4th Inesa Sinkevych 5th Eduardo Fernández 6th Amir Tebenikhin 2006 1st Mario Alonso Herrero Jaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury)Akiko EbiCarmen Graf-AdnetLeonid KuzminMiguel ProençaJoaquín SorianoBlanca UribeRalph Votapek 2nd Kookhee Hong* 3rd Jingjing Wang 4th Marcos Madrigal 5th Anna Khanina 2008 1st Jingjing Wang Jaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury)Andreas BachSequeira CostaAquiles Delle VigneNatalia MitchailidouRamzi YassaLeslie Wright 2nd Fernando Altamura 3rd Edward Neeman 4th Olga Kozlova 5th Carles Marín 6th Chun Chieh Yen 7th Oxana Shevchenko* 8th Jorge Jiménez 2010 1st Alexander Moutouzkine Jaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury)Solomon MikowskyAquiles Delle VigneElías López SobáThomas MastroianniVíctor RodríguezWarren ThomsonDan-Wen Wei 2nd Alexandra Beliakovich 3rd Takafumi Mori 4th Anna Kurasawa* 5th Robert Buxton 2012 1st not awardedJaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury)Ann ScheinCaio PaganoArtur PizarroFernando PucholLuis AscotOlivier GardonLuis Troetsch 2nd Marianna Prjevalskaya* 3rd Jina Seo 4th Fernando Cruz 5th Yuki Ishimaru 2014 1st Kho Woon KimJaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury)Mamiko SudaLuis AscotCaio PaganoClaudio VásquezHarold MartinaSolomon MikowskyFernando Puchol 2nd Marcos Madrigal* 3rd Maiko Ami 4th Willanny Darias 5th Marcel Tadokoro 2016 1st Jinhyung Park 2nd Yeon Min Park 3rd Nikolai Kuznetsov 4th Po Wei Ger 5th Armen Sarkisian
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