XVII International Chopin Piano Competition

The Seventeenth International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition
Official poster
DateApril 13–24, 2015 (2015-04-13 – 2015-04-24) (preliminary round)
October 1–23, 2015 (2015-10-01 – 2015-10-23) (main stage)
VenueNational Philharmonic, Warsaw
Hosted byFryderyk Chopin Institute
WinnerSouth Korea Seong-Jin Cho
Websitewww.chopincompetition2015.com
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The XVII International Chopin Piano Competition (Polish: XVII Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina) was held in Warsaw on April 13–24, 2015 (preliminary round) and October 1–23, 2015 (main competition and concerts).[1] Prize winners' concerts were on October 21–23, 2015.

Seong-Jin Cho of South Korea won the competition.[2]

Awards

The finals

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.[3]

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.[4] The following prizes were awarded:

Prize Winner
1st place, gold medalist(s) €30,000 Seong-Jin Cho  South Korea
2nd place, silver medalist(s) €25,000 Charles Richard-Hamelin  Canada
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) €20,000 Kate Liu  United States
4th €15,000 Eric Lu  United States
5th €10,000 Tony Yike Yang  Canada
6th €7,000 Dmitry Shishkin  Russia
F €4,000 Aljoša Jurinić  Croatia
€4,000 Aimi Kobayashi  Japan
€4,000 Szymon Nehring  Poland
€4,000 Georgijs Osokins  Latvia

In addition, four special prizes were awarded independently:

Special prize Winner
Best Performance of a Concerto not awarded
Best Performance of Mazurkas Kate Liu  United States
Best Performance of a Polonaise Seong-Jin Cho  South Korea
Best Performance of a Sonata Charles Richard-Hamelin  Canada

Jury

The juries consisted of:[5]

Preliminary round jury

Competition jury

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.[6] A popular conjecture that Entremont may have been racially motivated could not be proven by statistical analysis.[7]

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 I Stage II Stage III Final
R Yes Pts R Yes Pts R Yes Pts R Pts R
South Korea Mihyun Ahn No
South Korea Jong Do An No
China Yu An No
South Korea Soo Jung Ann Yes 78.6% 19.00 Yes 33.3% 17.76 No
Japan Miyako Arishima Yes 69.2% 18.47 Yes 7.1% 15.75 No
Mongolia Bat-Erdene Batbileg No
United Kingdom Otis William Beasley No
Poland Tymoteusz Bies Yes 53.3% 17.76 No
Poland Rafał Błaszczyk Yes 14.3% 16.38 No
Poland Łukasz Piotr Byrdy Yes 73.3% 18.53 Yes 35.7% 17.50 No
Italy Michelle Candotti Yes 80.0% 19.41 Yes 7.1% 16.75 No
Italy Luigi Carroccia Yes 93.3% 20.24 Yes 78.6% 20.06 Yes 13.3% 18.18 No
Taiwan Hsin-Jo Chan No
China Haoguo Chen No
China Xuehong Chen No
Russia Galina Chistiakova Yes 86.7% 19.35 Yes 78.6% 20.69 Yes 40.0% 19.00 No
Russia Irina Chistiakova Yes 26.7% 17.00 No
South Korea Seong-Jin Cho Yes 100% 23.24 Yes 92.9% 22.50 Yes 93.3% 23.29 Yes 8.41 1
Singapore Shaun Yung Sheng Choo No
France Valentin Cotton No
Poland Aleksandra Hortensja Dąbek No
Japan Chisaki Doi No
China Fei-Fei Dong No
Poland Michał Dziewior No
France Thibaud Epp No
Italy Martina Frezzotti No
United Kingdom Ashley Fripp Yes 33.3% 16.71 No
Japan Madoka Fukami No
Japan Yasuko Furumi Yes 13.3% 16.71 No
Germany Anton Gerzenberg No
NetherlandsItaly Saskia Giorgini Yes 0.0% 15.35 No
Poland Katarzyna Gołofit Yes Withdrew
Japan Eriko Gomita No
Poland Adam Mikołaj Goździewski Yes 53.3% 17.65 No
Hungary Ivett Gyöngyösi Yes 80.0% 19.65 Yes 28.6% 17.38 No
United States Anna Han No
South Korea Chi Ho Han Yes 86.7% 20.71 Yes 57.1% 19.31 Yes 26.7% 19.29 No
France Olof Hansen Yes 73.3% 19.00 Yes 21.4% 16.88 No
South Korea Minsoo Hong No
China Ruoyu Huang No
China Zhi Chao Julian Jia Yes 93.3% 21.12 Yes 21.4% 17.13 No
China Wenbin Jin No
Croatia Aljoša Jurinić Yes 80.0% 20.24 Yes 50.0% 18.81 Yes 50.0% 20.31 Yes 2.94 No
South Korea Joo Yeon Ka Yes 0.0% 15.47 No
Japan Takuya Kambara No
Japan Airi Katada No
Russia Ruslan Kazakov No
South Korea Daye Kim No
South Korea Honggi Kim Yes 33.3% 17.00 No
South Korea Su Yeon Kim Yes 66.7% 18.35 Yes 50.0% 19.31 Yes 7.1% 17.44 No
South Korea Sung-Jae Kim No
South Korea Sunhwa Kim No
South Korea Yedam Kim Yes 53.3% 17.71 No
South Korea Yoon-Jee Kim No
South Korea Yoonji Kim No
Japan Yurika Kimura Yes 33.3% 17.53 No
Ukraine Dinara Klinton —[8] 100% 22.00 Yes 57.1% 19.44 Yes 42.9% 19.81 No
United States Carmen Knoll No
Japan Aimi Kobayashi Yes 93.3% 21.29 Yes 85.7% 19.75 Yes 50.0% 19.13 Yes 4.35 No
Japan Kaito Kobayashi No
Poland Julia Kociuban No
Japan Aika Kondo No
China Qi Kong Yes 66.7% 19.18 Yes 28.6% 17.94 No
Czech Republic Marek Kozák Yes 80.0% 18.94 Yes 64.3% 19.25 Yes 0.0% 18.41 No
Poland Mischa Kozłowski No
Poland Łukasz Krupiński —[9] 60.0% 17.82 Yes 57.1% 19.13 Yes 0.0% 17.94 No
Poland Krzysztof Książek —[10] 80.0% 18.82 Yes 64.3% 18.69 Yes 46.7% 20.12 No
United States Rachel Naomi Kudo —[11] 64.3% 18.75 Yes 35.7% 17.81 No
South Korea Chulmin Lee No
South Korea EunAe Lee No
South Korea Jae Yoon Lee No
South Korea Yurim Lee No
United States George Li Yes Withdrew
China Ning Yuen Li Yes Withdrew
China Yihao Li No
United States Kate Liu Yes 71.4% 18.88 Yes 92.9% 21.31 Yes 100% 23.44 Yes 7.50 3
United States Eric Lu —[12] 100% 21.81 Yes 85.7% 21.13 Yes 92.9% 22.13 Yes 6.44 4th
China Tian Lu Yes 26.7% 16.82 No
China Xin Luo Yes 50.0% 17.63 No
China Weiwen Ma No
Russia Aleksandr Maltsev No
Russia Roman Martynov Yes 20.0% 16.18 No
Japan Nagino Maruyama Yes 53.3% 18.18 No
France Guillaume Masson No
Sweden Viktor Yuandong Mattsson No
Russia Vladimir Matusevich Yes Withdrew
Italy Alessandro Mazzamuto No
Japan Nao Mieno Yes 20.0% 16.88 No
Poland Łukasz Mikołajczyk Yes 86.7% 19.35 Yes 20.0% 17.65 No
France Nathalia Milstein No
Poland Paweł Motyczyński Yes 40.0% 17.24 No
GreeceVenezuela Alexia Mouza Yes 86.7% 20.76 Yes 40.0% 16.35 No
South Korea Jiyeong Mun Yes Withdrew
Poland Karolina Nadolska No
Japan Kotaro Nagano No
Japan Mayaka Nakagawa Yes 93.3% 20.65 Yes 13.3% 17.06 No
Japan Nozomi Nakagiri —[13] 57.1% 17.69 No
Japan Fuyuko Nakamura No
Japan Yui Nakamura No
Poland Szymon Nehring Yes 86.7% 20.59 Yes 73.3% 19.53 Yes 53.3% 19.47 Yes 3.41 No
Russia Anastasiia Nesterova Yes 26.7% 16.88 No
Poland Grzegorz Niemczuk No
Indonesia Ronald Noerjadi Yes 46.7% 18.25 No
Japan Mariko Nogami Yes 46.7% 17.56 No
Poland Piotr Nowak Yes 85.7% 20.19 Yes 50.0% 18.25 No
Japan Arisa Onoda Yes 53.3% 18.76 Yes 6.7% 16.24 No
Latvia Georgijs Osokins Yes 93.3% 21.35 Yes 93.3% 21.53 Yes 80.0% 20.88 Yes 3.59 No
Japan Misora Ozaki No
China Linzi Pan No
South Korea Jinhyung Park Yes 64.3% 18.81 Yes 33.3% 17.94 No
Poland Piotr Ryszard Pawlak Yes 64.3% 18.00 No
Poland Zuzanna Pietrzak Yes 21.4% 16.13 No
Poland Adam Piórkowski No
Switzerland François-Xavier Poizat No
Hong Kong Tiffany Poon Yes 28.6% 17.25 No
Ukraine Markiyan Popil No
United Kingdom Kausikan Rajeshkumar Yes 14.3% 15.25 No
Japan Kiana Reid No
Canada Charles Richard-Hamelin Yes 100% 22.38 Yes 100% 22.65 Yes 100% 23.53 Yes 8.12 2
Poland Joanna Różewska-Kulasińska No
Japan Arisa Sakai No
Uzbekistan Tamila Salimdjanova Yes 30.8% 17.00 No
Romania Cristian Ioan Sandrin Yes 7.1% 15.63 No
Japan Motohiro Sato No
Czech Republic Natalie Schwamová Yes 35.7% 18.06 No
Hong Kong Aristo Sham Yes Withdrew
China Boyang Shi Yes 0.0% 16.00 No
South Korea HyoJin Shin No
Russia Dmitry Shishkin Yes 64.3% 18.94 Yes 93.3% 20.76 Yes 60.0% 20.24 Yes 4.41 6th
Russia Alexandra Sikorskaya No
South Korea Jeung Beum Sohn No
Taiwan Szuyu Su No
Japan Rina Sudo Yes 71.4% 18.44 Yes 20.0% 17.41 No
South Korea Yekwon Sunwoo No
Poland Michał Szymanowski Yes 100% 20.54 Yes 46.2% 18.43 No
Poland Julia Maria Śliwa No
Japan Rikono Takeda Yes 23.1% 17.07 No
Russia Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev Yes 92.9% 20.13 Yes 20.0% 16.24 No
United States Alexei Tartakovsky Yes 71.4% 18.56 Yes 66.7% 20.06 Yes 40.0% 19.65 No
China Hin-Yat Tsang Yes 46.2% 18.27 No
Japan Kanade Tsurusawa No
Ukraine Anna Ulaieva No
United Kingdom Alexander Ullman Yes 69.2% 18.67 Yes 42.9% 17.63 No
China Chao Wang Yes 71.4% 19.25 Yes 46.7% 18.35 No
United States Chelsea Wang No
China Zhu Wang Yes 38.5% 18.20 No
Poland Marcin Wieczorek No
Poland Andrzej Wierciński —[14] 92.3% 19.93 Yes 42.9% 18.50 No
United States Evan Wong No
Canada Victoria Wong No
United States Joshua Wright No
China Yuchong Wu Yes 21.4% 17.38 No
China Qi Xu No
China Zi Xu Yes 84.6% 20.13 Yes 57.1% 18.63 Yes 21.4% 18.56 No
Canada Tony Yike Yang Yes 100% 21.40 Yes 85.7% 21.19 Yes 100% 21.88 Yes 4.56 5th
Belarus Yuliya Yermalayeva Yes 28.6% 17.56 No
United States Tianpeng Yu No
Ukraine Olga Zado (Zadorozhniuk) No
China Cheng Zhang Yes 85.7% 21.44 Yes 40.0% 17.59 No
China Chuhan Zhang Yes 42.9% 18.06 No
Canada Annie Zhou Yes 100% 20.67 Yes 21.4% 17.19 No
China Ning Zhou No
Russia Anastasia Zorina No

References

  1. ^ Calendar for The International Chopin Piano Competition 2015
  2. ^ "SEONG-JIN CHO WON THE 17TH CHOPIN COMPETITION". Archived from the original on 2015-12-19. Retrieved 2015-10-21.
  3. ^ "South Korean Seong-Jin Cho wins Chopin piano competition". BBC. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  4. ^ "South Korean Seong-Jin Cho Wins Chopin Piano Competition". ABC. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  5. ^ The 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition – Jurors
  6. ^ "1 juror gives 1/10 to the winner of the Chopin piano competition". The Dong-a Ilbo. 2015-10-26. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  7. ^ Jeon, Gyuhyeon; Park, Juyong (2016-08-08). "Jury-Contestant Bipartite Competition Network: Identifying Biased Scores and Their Impact on Network Structure Inference". arXiv:1608.02326 [physics.soc-ph].
  8. ^ Admitted as winner of the 2nd prize at 2013 International Paderewski Piano Competition
  9. ^ Admitted as ex-aequo winner of the 2nd Prize on the 2015 Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw
  10. ^ Admitted as ex-aequo winner of the 2nd Prize on the 2015 Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw
  11. ^ Admitted as 2nd Prize winner of the 2015 USA National Chopin Piano Competition in Miami
  12. ^ Admitted as winner of the 2015 USA National Chopin Piano Competition in Miami
  13. ^ Admitted as winner of the 2nd Prize at the 2012 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition
  14. ^ Admitted as winner of the 2015 Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw

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