IV Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition
# IV Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition

The Fourth Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition took place in Minneapolis–Saint Paul from June 29 to July 10, 2009.

## Jury

* Alexander Braginsky (nonvoting chairman)
* David Dubal
* Akiko Ebi
* Gabriel Kwok
* Nikolai Petrov
* Jerome Rose
* Jeremy Siepmann
* Arie Vardi

## Awards

| Award | Winner | Notes |
| - | - | - |
| 1st prize | Italy Alessandro Taverna | Cash award of US $25,000 |
| 2nd prize | Belarus Pavel Yeletskiy | Cash award of $15,000 |
| 3rd prize | France Hélène Tysman | Cash award of $10,000 |
| 4th prize | USA Eric Zuber | Cash award of $6,000 |
| 5th prize | USA Howard Na | Cash award of $5,000 |
| 6th prize | South Korea Grace Eun Hae Kim | Cash award of $4,000 |
| Schubert prize | Belarus Pavel Yeletskiy | Cash award of $3,000 by The Schubert Club. Awarded to one contestant for the best performance of a Schubert Sonata. Yeletskiy performed the Schubert Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, D. 894 (Op. 78). |

## Competition results, by rounds

### Preliminary round

February 12–15, Yamaha Artist Services Inc. (Piano Salon), New York City.

| South Korea Dae Hyung Ahn USA Charlie Albright USA Christopher Atzinger China Chao-yin Cai China Ying Cai China Lie Chen China Yunjie Chen New Zealand Henry Wong Doe Spain Leopoldo Erice Ukraine USA Inna Faliks Ecuador Spain Jonathan Floril Russia Elmar Gasanov Bulgaria Irina Georgieva Ukraine Pavel Gintov Indonesia Sutini Goh Turkey Ayşedeniz Gökçin Russia Anna Golubeva Russia Vyacheslav Gryaznov China Miao Hou | Taiwan Shih-Wei Huang China Ran Jia Ukraine Germany Andrej Jussow Russia Alexander Karpeyev South Korea Grace Eunhae Kim Russia Eduard Kunz Hungary István Lajkó Canada Simon Larivière Taiwan Hanchien Lee China Shen Lu Russia Maria Masycheva Canada Scott Meek USA Howard Na South Korea Jonghwa Park South Korea Hye-Yeon Park Poland Piotr Rozanski Japan Yukiko Sekino Canada Alexander Seredenko USA Anna Shelest China Rui Shi | Russia Mikhail Shilyaev USA Andrew Staupe Russia Konstantin Soukhovetski Russia Alexei Sychev South Korea Young-Ah Tak China Di-Yi Tang Italy Alessandro Taverna Russia Anastasya Terenkova Taiwan USA Amy Toscano Ukraine Konstantin Travinskyy France Hélène Tysman Belarus Dmitri Ulasiuk UK James Wilshire China Chi Xu China Clara Hui Yang Belarus Pavel Yeletskiy Ukraine Denis Zhdanov China Hao Zhu USA Eric Zuber Poland Adam Zukiewicz |
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### 1st round

June 30-July 4, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis.

* China Chao-yin Cai
* Russia Elmar Gasanov
* Russia Vyacheslav Gryaznov
* China Ran Jia
* Ukraine Germany Andrej Jussow
* South Korea Grace Eunhae Kim
* Russia Eduard Kunz
* Taiwan Hanchien Lee
* USA Howard Na
* Poland Piotr Rozanski
* Japan Yukiko Sekino
* Canada Alexander Seredenko
* China Rui Shi
* USA Andrew Staupe
* Russia Konstantin Soukhovetski
* South Korea Young-Ah Tak
* Italy Alessandro Taverna
* Russia Anastasya Terenkova
* France Hélène Tysman
* China Clara Hui Yang
* Belarus Pavel Yeletskiy
* China Dizhou Zhao
* Ukraine Denis Zhdanov
* USA Eric Zuber
