XVII International Chopin Piano Competition

The XVII International Chopin Piano Competition () was held in Warsaw on April 13–24, 2015 (preliminary round) and October 1–23, 2015 (main competition and concerts). Prize winners' concerts were on October 21–23, 2015.

Seong-Jin Cho of South Korea won the competition.

Awards

Seong-Jin Cho won the competition, playing the Piano Concerto in E minor, Opus 11 in the final. The prize money was €30,000. In addition, he also won the €3,000 prize for best polonaise, playing the Polonaise in A flat major, Opus 53 in the second stage.

Charles Richard-Hamelin of Canada came second, Kate Liu of the United States came third, Eric Lu of the United States came fourth, Tony Yike Yang of Canada came fifth, and Dmitry Shishkin of Russia was placed sixth. The following prizes were awarded:

PrizeWinner€30,000Seong-Jin Cho€25,000Charles Richard-Hamelin€20,000Kate Liu4th€15,000Eric Lu5th€10,000Tony Yike Yang6th€7,000Dmitry Shishkin€4,000Aljoša Jurinić€4,000Aimi Kobayashi€4,000Szymon Nehring€4,000Georgijs Osokins

In addition, four special prizes were awarded independently: Special prizeWinnerBest Performance of a Concertonot awardedBest Performance of MazurkasKate LiuBest Performance of a PolonaiseSeong-Jin ChoBest Performance of a SonataCharles Richard-Hamelin

Jury The juries consisted of:The 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition – Jurors

Preliminary round jury

Akiko Ebi (5th X) Adam Harasiewicz ( V) Yves Henry Andrzej Jasiński Ivan Klánský Anna Malikova Alberto Nosè Piotr Paleczny (3rd VIII) (5th X) Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń (chairwoman); (HM IX) Marta Sosińska-Janczewska

Dina Joffe ( IX)

Competition jury Dmitri Alexeev Martha Argerich ( VII) Akiko Ebi (5th X) Đặng Thái Sơn ( X) Philippe Entremont Nelson Goerner Adam Harasiewicz ( V) Andrzej Jasiński Li Yundi ( XIV) Garrick Ohlsson ( VIII) Janusz Olejniczak (6th VIII) Piotr Paleczny (3rd VIII) (5th X) Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń (chairwoman); (HM IX)

Dina Joffe ( IX)

Philippe Entremont caused controversy when he gave Seong-Jin Cho, the winner of the competition, a score of just 1 in the final, the lowest possible score. This was a substantial deviation from the other jurors; 14 of the 17 jurors gave Cho 9 or more points, leading to speculation that Entremont had trouble with Cho's teacher Michel Béroff. A popular conjecture that Entremont may have been racially motivated could not be proven by statistical analysis.

Competitor results Yes: percentage of jurors who voted to pass the participant to the next round (excluding recusals)

Pts: average number of points (excluding recusals) Competitor Prelim.Stage IStage IIStage IIIFinal Mihyun Ahn Jong Do An Yu An Soo Jung Ann 78.6%19.00 33.3%17.76 Miyako Arishima 69.2%18.47 7.1%15.75 Bat-Erdene Batbileg Otis William Beasley Tymoteusz Bies 53.3%17.76 Rafał Błaszczyk 14.3%16.38 Łukasz Piotr Byrdy 73.3%18.53 35.7%17.50 Michelle Candotti 80.0%19.41 7.1%16.75 Luigi Carroccia 93.3%20.24 78.6%20.06 13.3%18.18 Hsin-Jo Chan Haoguo Chen Xuehong Chen Galina Chistiakova 86.7%19.35 78.6%20.69 40.0%19.00 Irina Chistiakova 26.7%17.00 Seong-Jin Cho 100%23.24 92.9%22.50 93.3%23.29 8.41 Shaun Yung Sheng Choo Valentin Cotton Aleksandra Hortensja Dąbek Chisaki Doi Fei-Fei Dong Michał Dziewior Thibaud Epp Martina Frezzotti Ashley Fripp 33.3%16.71 Madoka Fukami Yasuko Furumi 13.3%16.71 Anton Gerzenberg Saskia Giorgini 0.0%15.35 Katarzyna Gołofit colspan="3" Eriko Gomita Adam Mikołaj Goździewski 53.3%17.65 Ivett Gyöngyösi 80.0%19.65 28.6%17.38 Anna Han Chi Ho Han 86.7%20.71 57.1%19.31 26.7%19.29 Olof Hansen 73.3%19.00 21.4%16.88 Minsoo Hong Ruoyu Huang Zhi Chao Julian Jia 93.3%21.12 21.4%17.13 Wenbin Jin Aljoša Jurinić 80.0%20.24 50.0%18.81 50.0%20.31 2.94 Joo Yeon Ka 0.0%15.47 Takuya Kambara Airi Katada Ruslan Kazakov Daye Kim Honggi Kim 33.3%17.00 Su Yeon Kim 66.7%18.35 50.0%19.31 7.1%17.44 Sung-Jae Kim Sunhwa Kim Yedam Kim 53.3%17.71 Yoon-Jee Kim Yoonji Kim Yurika Kimura 33.3%17.53 Dinara Klinton Admitted as winner of the 2nd prize at 2013 International Paderewski Piano Competition 100%22.00 57.1%19.44 42.9%19.81 Carmen Knoll Aimi Kobayashi 93.3%21.29 85.7%19.75 50.0%19.13 4.35 Kaito Kobayashi Julia Kociuban Aika Kondo Qi Kong 66.7%19.18 28.6%17.94 Marek Kozák 80.0%18.94 64.3%19.25 0.0%18.41 Mischa Kozłowski Łukasz Krupiński Admitted as ex-aequo winner of the 2nd Prize on the 2015 Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw 60.0%17.82 57.1%19.13 0.0%17.94 Krzysztof Książek Admitted as ex-aequo winner of the 2nd Prize on the 2015 Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw 80.0%18.82 64.3%18.69 46.7%20.12 Rachel Naomi Kudo Admitted as 2nd Prize winner of the 2015 USA National Chopin Piano Competition in Miami 64.3%18.75 35.7%17.81 Chulmin Lee EunAe Lee Jae Yoon Lee Yurim Lee George Li colspan="3" Ning Yuen Li colspan="3" Yihao Li Kate Liu 71.4%18.88 92.9%21.31 100%23.44 7.50 Eric Lu Admitted as winner of the 2015 USA National Chopin Piano Competition in Miami 100%21.81 85.7%21.13 92.9%22.13 6.44 4th Tian Lu 26.7%16.82 Xin Luo 50.0%17.63 Weiwen Ma Aleksandr Maltsev Roman Martynov 20.0%16.18 Nagino Maruyama 53.3%18.18 Guillaume Masson Viktor Yuandong Mattsson Vladimir Matusevich colspan="3" Alessandro Mazzamuto Nao Mieno 20.0%16.88 Łukasz Mikołajczyk 86.7%19.35 20.0%17.65 Nathalia Milstein Paweł Motyczyński 40.0%17.24 Alexia Mouza 86.7%20.76 40.0%16.35 Jiyeong Mun colspan="3" Karolina Nadolska Kotaro Nagano Mayaka Nakagawa 93.3%20.65 13.3%17.06 Nozomi Nakagiri Admitted as winner of the 2nd Prize at the 2012 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition 57.1%17.69 Fuyuko Nakamura Yui Nakamura Szymon Nehring 86.7%20.59 73.3%19.53 53.3%19.47 3.41 Anastasiia Nesterova 26.7%16.88 Grzegorz Niemczuk Ronald Noerjadi 46.7%18.25 Mariko Nogami 46.7%17.56 Piotr Nowak 85.7%20.19 50.0%18.25 Arisa Onoda 53.3%18.76 6.7%16.24 Georgijs Osokins 93.3%21.35 93.3%21.53 80.0%20.88 3.59 Misora Ozaki Linzi Pan Jinhyung Park 64.3%18.81 33.3%17.94 Piotr Ryszard Pawlak 64.3%18.00 Zuzanna Pietrzak 21.4%16.13 Adam Piórkowski François-Xavier Poizat Tiffany Poon 28.6%17.25 Markiyan Popil Kausikan Rajeshkumar 14.3%15.25 Kiana Reid Charles Richard-Hamelin 100%22.38 100%22.65 100%23.53 8.12 Joanna Różewska-Kulasińska Arisa Sakai Tamila Salimdjanova 30.8%17.00 Cristian Ioan Sandrin 7.1%15.63 Motohiro Sato Natalie Schwamová 35.7%18.06 Aristo Sham colspan="3" Boyang Shi 0.0%16.00 HyoJin Shin Dmitry Shishkin 64.3%18.94 93.3%20.76 60.0%20.24 4.41 6th Alexandra Sikorskaya Jeung Beum Sohn Szuyu Su Rina Sudo 71.4%18.44 20.0%17.41 Yekwon Sunwoo Michał Szymanowski 100%20.54 46.2%18.43 Julia Maria Śliwa Rikono Takeda 23.1%17.07 Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev 92.9%20.13 20.0%16.24 Alexei Tartakovsky 71.4%18.56 66.7%20.06 40.0%19.65 Hin-Yat Tsang 46.2%18.27 Kanade Tsurusawa Anna Ulaieva Alexander Ullman 69.2%18.67 42.9%17.63 Chao Wang 71.4%19.25 46.7%18.35 Chelsea Wang Zhu Wang 38.5%18.20 Marcin Wieczorek Andrzej Wierciński Admitted as winner of the 2015 Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw 92.3%19.93 42.9%18.50 Evan Wong Victoria Wong Joshua Wright Yuchong Wu 21.4%17.38 Qi Xu Zi Xu 84.6%20.13 57.1%18.63 21.4%18.56 Tony Yike Yang 100%21.40 85.7%21.19 100%21.88 4.56 5th Yuliya Yermalayeva 28.6%17.56 Tianpeng Yu Olga Zado (Zadorozhniuk) Cheng Zhang 85.7%21.44 40.0%17.59 Chuhan Zhang 42.9%18.06 Annie Zhou 100%20.67 21.4%17.19 Ning Zhou Anastasia Zorina

References

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