The XVI International Chopin Piano Competition () was held in Warsaw, Poland from 3 to 20 October 2010, for the first time organized by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. Prize winners' concerts were held October 21–23. The first prize was awarded to Yulianna Avdeeva.
Winners
The competition consisted of three stages and a final.
The following prizes were awarded: PrizeWinner€30,000Yulianna Avdeeva€25,000Lukas Geniušas€25,000Ingolf Wunder€20,000Daniil Trifonov4th€15,000Evgeni Bozhanov5th€10,000François Dumont6thnot awarded€4,000Nikolay Khozyainov€4,000Miroslav Kultyshev€4,000Pawel Wakarecy€4,000Hélène Tysman
In addition, five special prizes were awarded independently: Special prizeWinnerBest Performance of a ConcertoIngolf WunderBest Performance of MazurkasDaniil TrifonovBest Performance of a PolonaiseLukas GeniušasBest Performance of a SonataYulianna AvdeevaBest Performance of the Polonaise-FantaisieIngolf Wunder
Jurors The jury panel for the competition included: Martha Argerich ( VII) Bella Davidovich ( IV) Jan Ekier (honorary chairman) Philippe Entremont Nelson Freire Adam Harasiewicz ( V) Andrzej Jasiński (chairman) Kevin Kenner ( XII)
Piotr Paleczny (vice-chairman) Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń Đặng Thái Sơn ( X) Fou Ts'ong ( V)
Participants
Results Contestant Soo Jung Ann Leonora Armellini Yulianna Avdeeva Fares Marek Basmadji Evgeni Bozhanov 4th Marek Bracha Rachel Wai-Ching Cheung Fei-Fei Dong François Dumont 5th Denis Evstukhin Anna Fedorova Madoka Fukami Lukas Geniušas Leonard Gilbert Jayson Gilham Eri Goto Giuseppe Greco Antoine de Grolée Peng Cheng He Bo Hu Ching-Yun Hu Shih-Wei Huang Claire Huangci Junna Iwasaki Julian Zhi Chao Jia Kaoru Jitsukawa Aljoša Jurinić Airi Katada Lusine Khachatryan Nikolay Khozyainov Da-Sol Kim Sung-Jae Kim Marie Kiyone Yaron Kohlberg Jacek Kortus Marcin Koziak Sheng-Yuan Kwang Rachel Naomi Kudo Miroslav Kultyshev Hanchien Lee Eri Mantani Guillaume Masson Vladimir Matusevich Maiko Mine Shota Miyazaki Kotaro Nagano Mamikon Nakhapetov Mariko Nogami Kana Okada Yuma Osaki Ainobu Ota Anke Pan Esther Park Nimrod David Pfeffer Marianna Prjevalskaya Ilya Rashkovsky Joanna Różewska Takaya Sano Louis Schwizgebel-Wang Yury Shadrin 1 Ishay Shaer Meng-Sheng Shen Natalia Sokolovskaya Rina Sudo Hyung-Ming Suh Hannah Sun Hiayi Sun Mei-Ting Sun Gracjan Szymczak Xin Tong Daniil Trifonov Hélène Tysman Andrew Tyson Irene Veneziano Paweł Wakarecy Yuri Watanabe Ingolf Wunder Denis Zhdanov Eric Zuber 1 Withdrawal
References
Further reading
External links The International Chopin Piano Competition