The Top of the World IPC was a biennial international piano competition in Tromsø, Norway from 2009–2019. Its first edition took place from June 14–19, 2009 and was won by Mariangela Vacatello.
1st edition - 2009
Jury Volker Banfield David Dubal Roland Keller Anne Øland Liisa Pohjola Alberto Portugheis Einar Steen-Nøkleberg Tamás Vásáry
Palmares Winner 1st Grand Prize Mariangela Vacatello 2nd Prize Mayumi Sakamoto 3rd Prize Serhiy Salov
Competition results, by rounds Pianists in bold advanced to the next round. 1st Round, June 14–15. University of Tromsø's Conservatory
Charlie Albright Julie Coucheron Boris Feiner ** Jun Ishimura Yaron Kohlberg Dimitris Kostopoulos Kristian Lindberg Piotr Machnik Maria Masycheva Mikhail Mordvinov Roberto Plano Vassily Primakov Evelina Puzaitė Mayumi Sakamoto Serhiy Salov Rikke Sandberg Nikolai Saratovsky Song Yang Vladimir Sverdlov Mariangela Vacatello Ilya Yakushev
2nd Round, June 16–17.
Charlie Albright Julie Coucheron Boris Feiner ** Yaron Kohlberg Kristian Lindberg Maria Masycheva Evelina Puzaitė Mayumi Sakamoto Serhiy Salov Mariangela Vacatello Ilya Yakushev
Final, June 19. Mayumi Sakamoto Serhiy Salov Mariangela Vacatello
References
Alink-Argerich Foundation - Competition Results