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Awards Overview

Diplomas

This year the diplomas are awarded as per following criteria:

1st, 2nd, 3rd Prize are ranked based on balanced evaluation of technical skills and music interpretation. The winners of 1st, 2nd, 3rd place have performed their pieces with good technique appropriate and expected in their age category. The awards were presented by judges based on their individual scoring concluded with further discussions.

The Best Performance of a Chopin Work Award is issued by the F. Chopin Society in Warsaw, Poland. It is important to note, this award is decided by Assembly of Judges of the competition not by the F. Chopin Society. It is presented to participants who balanced their technical skills and musical interpretation of the Chopin piece they played. Participants may have not played on as high technical level as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Prize winners in their age category but stand out in their Chopin combined technique and musicality while performing the Chopin’s piece.

Chopin Avenue Awards for the Chopin Pieces – are presented to participants who balanced their technical skills and musical interpretation of the Chopin piece including Polonaize, Mazurka, Waltz, Nocturne, Ballad they played. Participants may have not played on as high technical level as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Prize winners in their age category but stand out in their Chopin combined technique and musicality while performing the Chopin’s piece.

Consul General of Poland Award is presented to participants in recognition of their skills and competitive spirit who have tremendous potential attaining 1st, 2nd or 3rd Prize or other outstanding results in the future.

Certificate of Honor Award is presented to participants who are at the early stage of their musical journey but deserve recognition and encouragement for their skills and persistence to excel in the future.

All awards are presented based on a summary of individual appraisals concluded with collective discussions. None of the awards is based on a single opinion of a particular Judge. All opinions are shared, discussed, concluded and finally approved in the presence of Head of Jury and the Director of the Competition. This includes the Chopin Awards that were issued by Fryderyk Chopin Society in Poland.

The Best Performance of a Chopin Work Award 

Piano Solo Group I: Uri Takagi- Japan

Piano Solo Group J: Maoko Nishimura – Japan

Piano Solo Group L: Léo Benson – France

Chopin Nocturne Award

Piano Solo Group A: Nathaniel Wang- Australia

Piano Solo Group B: Jayden Liu – New Zealand

Piano Solo Group M: Masanori Nukui – Japan

Chopin Waltz Award

Piano Solo Group B: Crystal Jiao – USA

Piano Solo Group C: Cameron Wu – Australia

Piano Solo Group D: Ethan Xu – USA

Chopin Polonaise Award

Piano Solo Group D: Ru-Shan An – USA

Chopin Ballade Award

Piano Solo Group E: Jancis Xu – USA

Chopin Sonata Award

Piano Solo Group L: Jeong Yun Yang – South Korea

1st, 2nd, 3rd Prize

Piano Solo Group A

1 Prize: Joseph Yourong Cai – Hong Kong/ China

2 Prize: Nathaniel Wang – Australia

3 Prize: Seng Hei Ma – Macau/China

Piano Solo Group B

1 Prize: Johannes Zhou–USA

2 Prize: Faith Ahn – South Korea

Crystal Jiao- USA

3 Prize: Jeongwoo Son- South Korea

Piano Solo Group C

1 Prize: Cameron Wu– Australia

2 Prize: Chloe Wang– USA

Liam Sun- USA

3 Prize: Maddox Marsollek- Germany

Piano Solo Group D

1 Prize: Lennis Hoi Shing Cheng– Hong Kong/China

2 Prize: Ga Yul Jeon– South Korea

3 Prize: Ru-Shan An- USA

Piano Solo Group E

1 Prize: Jancis Xu– USA

2 Prize: Ailis Nguyen– USA

Yu En Liang- Taiwan/ China

3 Prize: Sydney Cui- USA

Piano Solo Group F

1 Prize: Rihito Yamada– Japan

2 Prize: Daeun Ahn– South Korea

Toko Ota- Japan

3 Prize: Callista Kertalesmana- Indonesia

Emily Liu – USA

Piano Concerto Group C

2 Prize: Yun Seo Song– South Korea

Piano Duo Group D

3 Prize: SI NGA Wong , SI KIO WONG, WONG– Macau/China

Piano Solo Group G

1 Prize: Andrew Lee– USA

2 Prize: Dayeon Yeom– South Korea

3 Prize: Albert Yu- Australian

Yu-Tung Liang– Taiwan/China

Piano Solo Group H-1

3 Prize: Piotr Szarski- Poland

Piano Solo Group H-2

3 Prize: Yuyang Ding- New Zealand

Piano Solo Group I

1 Prize: Uri Takagi– Japan

3 Prize: Elisa Kim-Hiranuma– Japan/South Korea/USA

Piano Solo Group J

1 Prize: Maoko Nishimura– Japan

2 Prize: Grace Cheung– Hong Kong/ China

3 Prize: Nicholas Raditya Irianto- Indonesia

Piano Solo Group K

2 Prize: Nene Yamagishi– Japan

Piano Concerto Group G

2 Prize: Kelvin Jou– USA

Piano Solo Group M

1 Prize: Masanori Nukui– Japan

2 Prize: MICHELE PEREGO– Italy

3 Prize: Bella Kong- Hong Kong/China

GIANFRANCO BLANCO – Italy

Piano Concerto Group I

3 Prize: Minji Kim- South Korea

Piano Solo Group L

1 Prize: Léo Benson– France

2 Prize: Jeong Yun Yang– South Korea

3 Prize: Arisa Fujisawa – Japan

Channing Chu– New Zealand

Teachers Award

Dr. Hanna Cyba/ USA
Dr. Adam Aleksander/ USA
Joyce Ng/ USA
Richard Liu/ Australia
NaHee Seo/ Korea
Qiaowen Liu/ China, Taiwan
Haewon Ji/Korea
Jelia Megawati Heru/ Indonesia
Juhye Moon/ Korea
日比谷友妃子/ Japan
出口 比呂子/ Japan
Cédric Pescia / France