Laureates of the 9th Sydney Piano Competition
2008
KrystynaNiemotko
 The
9th International Piano Competition in Sydney was brought to
the
end
on 2 August 2008. There were thirty six young participants.
All
contenders were well prepared, especially in technical terms.
Therefore, the jury was faced with a difficult task. There
were
five
stages. Nominations in the first and second stages were done
jointly.
Twenty pianists were admitted to the third stage, twelve to the fourth
and only six to the fifth one.
The
top winner was Konstantin
Shamray from Novosybirsk in Russia who was
bestowed with
the 1st Prize of $25,000 donated by the Council of City of Sydney. Also
from Russia came Tatiana
Kolesowa, the winner of the 2nd Prize
of $ 12,000
donated by Yamaha Music
Australia
Pty Limited. Ran
Dang
from Israel was the winner of 3rd Prize of $ 6,000
donated
by Theme and Variations.
Takashi
Sato from Japan
won the 4th Prize of $4,000 donated by Phillip Rove.
Tomoki
Kitamura from
Japan won the 5th Prize of $ 2,500 donated by Hunt and Hunt. Eric Zuber from USA
won the 6th
Prize of $ 2,500 donated by Neville
Grace. Twenty seven other prizes were also
awarded. Hoang
Pfam of Vietnamese extraction,
received the Prize as the Best Australian Pianist that was donated by
the Friends of the
Sydney
International Piano Competition. Prize for the best
performance
of Chopin’s music went again to Takashi Sato from
Japan. The Music
Teachers’ Association of
NSW donated a prize to a young female pianist from Italy, Mariangelo Vacatello.
The
laureates now have good prospects to perform all over the world.
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