Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition

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The Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition is an international piano competition specializing in the music championed by Arthur Rubinstein. The competition has been held every three years in Tel Aviv, Israel since 1974.

History

The Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition came into being in 1973, at the initiative of Jan Jacob Bistritzky, a close friend of Arthur Rubinstein, who was honored to give his name to the Competition.

Conceived in the spirit of this legendary pianist, the Competition is committed to attaining standards of the highest order and is a valid international forum for presenting talented, aspiring young pianists and fostering their artistic careers.

The Competition first took place in 1974 and is held every three years.

Rubinstein himself attended the first two competitions, when the winners were Emanuel Ax and Gerhard Oppitz, renowned pianists today.

In 2003 pianist Idith Zvi succeeded Mr. Bistritzky as Artistic Director, a role she held until her retirement in 2020. Since July 2020, the Artistic Director of the Competition is pianist Ariel Cohen.

The past 40+ years of its history have continuously produced pianists who went on to international acclaim: Gerhard Oppitz, Angela Cheng, Alexander Korsantia, Kirill Gerstein, Alexander Gavrylyuk; Igor Levit, Khatia Buniatishvili, Boris Giltburg, David Fung, Daniil Trifonov, Alberto Ferro and others.

Winners

Year First prize Second prize Third prize
1974 United States Emanuel Ax United States Eugene Indjic Canada Janina Fialkowska
Austria Seta Tanyel
1977 West Germany Gerhard Oppitz Brazil Diana Kacso Japan Etsuko Terada
1980 United States Gregory Allen United Kingdom Ian Hobson Australia Geoffrey Tozer
1983 United States Jeffrey Kahane Taiwan Hung-Kuan Chen China Fei-Ping Hsu
1986 not awarded West Germany Thomas Duis Hong Kong Angela Cheng
1989 United Kingdom Ian Fountain
United Kingdom Benjamin Frith
not awarded Poland Krzysztof Jabłoński
1992 Italy Giorgia Tomassi Italy Simone Pedroni Russia Ilya Itin
1995 Georgia (country) Alexander Korsantia Russia Sergey Tarasov Israel Ohad Ben-Ari
1998 Ukraine Igor Tchetuev Ukraine Vitaly Samoshko South Korea Jong-Gyung Park
2001 Russia Kirill Gerstein Romania Ferenc Vizi Italy Massimiliano Ferrati
2005 UkraineAustralia Alexander Gavrylyuk Germany Igor Levit South Korea Yeol Eum Son
2008 not awarded Israel Roman Rabinovich
Taiwan Ching-Yun Hu
Georgia (country) Khatia Buniatishvili
2011 Russia Daniil Trifonov Israel Boris Giltburg Russia Ilya Rashkovsky
2014 Ukraine Antonii Baryshevskyi United States Steven Lin South Korea Seong-Jin Cho
2017 Poland Szymon Nehring Romania Daniel Ciobanu United States Sara Daneshpour
2021 Spain Juan Pérez Floristán Japan Shiori Kuwahara China Cunmo Yin
2023 Canada Kevin Chen Georgia (country) Giorgi Gigashvili Japan Yukine Kuroki

See also

Music of Israel



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