Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition
9/19/2011
  • The Archived Videos of all solo performances of the e-Piano Junior Competition are posted on our Videos page.
  • We have started a Youtube Channel dedicated to highlights and selected performances from the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition and e-Piano Junior Competition. As the time goes by, we will be posting new performances from the most recent competition, as well as the competitions past. If you have any questions or requests, please contact the competition at piano@ecompetition.org.
7/8/2011
  • The winners of the e-Piano Junior Competition 2011 are:
  • ARISTO SHAM, 15, HONG KONG - FIRST PRIZE
  • TRISTAN TEO, 14, CANADA - SECOND PRIZE
  • SU YEON KIM, 17, SOUTH KOREA - THIRD PRIZE
  • ANNIE ZHOU, 13, CANADA and MISORA OZAKI, 15, JAPAN - FOURTH PRIZE
  • No fifth prize was awarded.
  • Aristo Sham was also a recepient of the two special prizes, for the performance of the obligatory Schubert piece in the Second Round and Variations in the Semi-Finals
  • Congratulations to all winners and ALL participants of the e-Competition!
7/6/2011
  • The five pianists who have advanced to the Finals of the e-Piano Junior Competition and will play with the Minnesota Orchestra on Friday, July 8th are
    Misora Ozaki, 15, Japan
    Annie Zhou, 13, Canada
    Aristo Sham, 15, Hong Kong
    Su Yeon Kim, 17, South Korea
    Tristan Teo, 14, Canada
  • The Finals will take place at the Orchestra Hall, downtown Minneapolis (1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403). This free concert will begin at 12:00PM
  • The order of the performers on Friday will be:
    Aristo Sham - Chopin Concerto No. 1
    Misora Ozaki - Saint-Saens Concerto No. 2
    Su Yeon Kim - Chopin Concerto No. 1
    Annie Zhou - Chopin Concerto No. 2
    Tristan Teo - Chopin Concerto No. 1
  • The winner and other prizes of the e-Piano Junior Competition 2011 will be announced at the Award Ceremony at the Orchestra Hall. The ceremony will begin at 6:00PM.
  • Gala concert featuring the winner of the Competition will begin at 8:00PM. Please visit Minnesota Orchestra website for ticket information.
  • For complete schedule of events on Friday, July 8, 2011 please visit our schedule page.
7/5/2011
7/3/2011
7/1/2011
6/20/2011
  • e-Competition is happy to announce two additional special prizes: $500 USD each, for the best performances of a required Schubert Impromptu or Moment Musical (Second Round), and for Variations Serieuses Op. 54 by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy or Thirty-Two Variations in C Minor, WoO 80 by Beethoven (Semi-Finals). The prizes will be awarded at the discretion of the International Jury. Please visit Prizes page for the complete list of cash prizes.
  • e-Piano Junior Festival Preliminary Performances took place at the 2011 MMTA State Convention. Sixteen young local pianists were selected to participate in the Master Classes given by the members of the International Jury: Sontraud Speidel, Arie Vardi, Akiko Ebi and Jerome Rose. Please visit e-Piano Junior Festival Schedule page for details of the Master Classes, and e-Piano Junior Festival Participants page for bios and information of the local young musicians who are participating in the e-Piano Junior Festival this year.
2/28/2011
  • The e-Piano Junior Festival that we started in the summer of 2008 has proven to be a great success, and this year we are continuing our four-year tradition with the e-Piano Junior Festival 2011 that will feature some of the world’s most famous pedagogues and our best local young pianists in a series of master classes and performances, open for all to enjoy and to learn from. Please visit the e-Piano Junior Festival 2011 page to read more about the event and to download the application form. Festival judges will be announced soon.
2/10/2011
  • We are very happy to announce the twenty-five contestants who have been invited to compete in the e-Piano Junior Competition in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. The e-Piano Junior Competition will take place July 1-8, 2011 in Sundin Music Hall, Hamline University in St. Paul and at the Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis. To see the names of the competition participants please visit our Competitors 2011 page.
2/9/2011
  • Virtual Auditions are now taking place in New York City.
    Yamaha Artist Services Inc.
    689 5th Avenue, 3rd Floor Salon
    New York City, NY 10022
    The playbacks begin at 10:00AM February 8-10, 2011. To see full schedule please click here.

11/29/2010

  • Disklavier/Video Recordings Locations and Sites are:
    -Wednesday, January 5, 2011
    Vancouver – Tom Lee Music, 979 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC
    -Friday, January 7, 2011
    Los Angeles – Yamaha Corporation of America, 6600 Orangethorpe Avenue, Buena Park, CA 90620
    -Tuesday, January 11, 2011
    Tokyo – Yamaha Ginza Shop, B1 Studio, 7-9-14 Ginza Chuoku, Tokyo 104-0061
    -Tuesday, January 18, 2011
    Toronto – Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON, Room TBA
    -Friday, January 21, 2011
    New York City – Yamaha Artist Services, 689 5th Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10022
    -Tuesday, January 25, 2011
    Paris – Yamaha Artist Services Europe, 5 rue Scribe, Paris, 75009
    -Friday, January 28, 2011
    Moscow –Exact Location TBA

11/29/2010

  • Sixty-one participants of the Disklavier/Video Recordings for the e-Piano Junior Competition 2011 have been announced. Please visit our Contestants 2011 page to see their names.

9/10/2010

  • Please note our important Repertoire clarification:
    The Disklavier/Video Recording Repertoire includes:
    1. First Movement of a Classical Sonata (Beethoven, Clementi, Haydn or Mozart) Sonata from the Application CD can be used.
    2. One Virtuoso Etude by one of the following composers: Bartok, Chopin, Kapustin, Ligeti, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Moszkowski, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin or Stravinsky. Etude from the Application CD can be used.
    3. Selection(s) from the Second Round of the repertoire.
    The total of the Disklavier/Video Recording Repertoire must not excede 20 minutes (new).
    You may perform more than one piece from the Second Round, as long as the entirety of the Disklavier:/Video Recording does not excede 20 minutes.
  • The application deadline for the e-Piano Junior Competition 2011 is OCTOBER 15, 2010. You can now make an application fee payment online using Paypal. To do that please go to our Application page.
8/31/2010
  • The tentative dates for the Disklavier/Video Recordings are:
    January 5, 2011 - Vancouver, Canada
    January 7, 2011 - Los Angeles, CA
    January 11, 2011 - Tokyo, Japan
    January 18, 2011 - Toronto, Canada
    January 21, 2011 - New York City, NY
    January 25, 2011 - Paris, France
    January 28, 2011 - Moscow, Russia
    Find out more about the Disklavier/Video Recordings. See other Important Dates.
  • The application deadline for the e-Piano Junior Competition 2011 is OCTOBER 15, 2010. You can now make an application fee payment online using Paypal. To do that please go to our Application page.
7/20/2010
  • Due to the scheduling conflict Ms. Dubravka Tomsic will not be able to serve on the International Jury of the e-Piano Junior Competition. The competition is happy to announce that Ms. Blanca Uribe will be joining the International Jury in July of 2011. For more information about all International Jury members click here.
  • Competition's mailing address and phone number have changed. Our new mailing address is:
    Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition
    Hamline University MS-B1801
    1536 Hewitt Avenue
    St. Paul, MN 55104
    USA
    Our new phone number is (612) 460-5640. The email address has remained unchanged: piano@ecompetition.org. Please feel free to contact us at any time.
4/2//2010
  • The Competition is happy to announce the esteemed members of the International Jury for the e-Piano Junior Competition 2011 have been announced:
    Alexander Braginsky (Nonvoting Chair) / USA
    Akiko Ebi / Japan
    Stanislav Pochekin / Russia
    Jerome Rose / USA
    Sontraud Speidel / Germany
    Dubravka Tomsic / Slovenia
    Arie Vardi / Israel
    Oxana Yablonskaya / USA
    For more information about the jury members click here.
  • For the prospective applicants: No contestant may have any member of the jury or the Artistic Director as a principal teacher during the five year period preceding the e-Piano Junior (July 1, 2006 through July 8, 2011). No relative of any juror or the Artistic Director may participate in the e-Piano Junior. Once the sixty participants are announced in December 2010, the competitors are not allowed to take part in masterclasses or private lessons with the jury members or Artistic Director. Click here for complete rules of the e-Piano Junior Competition 2011.
3/2/2010
2/19/2010
  • The dates for the next e-Piano Junior Competition have been set. The competition will take place July 1-8, 2011. Once again, solo performances will be heard at the Sundin Music Hall, Hamline University, and the competition will conclude with the concerto Finals at the Orchestra Hall, where five finalists will perform with the Minnesota Orchestra. Downloadable applications will be available early March 2010. For rules, requirements and application process please click here.
  • For the e-Piano Junior Competition we are expanding the number of Disklavier/Video Recordings locations to seven. The Disklavier/Video Recordings for the e-Piano Junior Competition 2011 will be taking place in January 2010 in Tokyo, Japan; Paris, France; Moscow, Russia; Toronto and Vancouver, Canada; New York City and Los Angeles, United States. The exact dates for the Disklavier/Video Recordings will be announced on the website in early March.
9/10/2009
  • MIDI files from all stages of the competition are now available on our MIDI 2009 page.
  • The winner of the Minnesota International Piano-e-Comeptition 2009 Alessandro Taverna is one of the 6 finalists in Leeds International Pianoforte Competition 2009. We wish him luck!
7/15/2009
  • All peformances of the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition (with the exception of the Concerto Finals) are now availabe on our videos 2009 page.
7/10/2009
  • The winners of the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition have been announced:
    First Prize - Alessandro Taverna, Italy
    Second Prize - Pavel Yeletskiy, Belarus
    Third Prize - Helene Tysman, France
    Fourth Prize - Eric Zuber, USA
    Fifth Prize - Howard Na, USA
    Sixth Prize - Grace Eun Hae Kim
  • The Schubert Prize, awarded to one contestant for the best performance of a Schubert Sonata was awarded to Pavel Yeletskiy. Mr. Yeletskiy performed Schubert Sonata in G Major, D894.
  • The archived video performances of all rounds of the competition will be posted on our website in the near future.
7/5/2009
  • The Finalists of the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition have been announced, and they are:
    Eric Zuber
    Grace Kim
    Helene Tysman
    Alessandro Taverna
    Howard Na
    Pavel Yeletsky
  • All performances of the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition will be streamed live on the internet.The performances and videostreaming will resume on Tuesday, July 7 at 12:00PM CDT. Please see our schedule for the times of the Quintet and Concerto performances. Please visit our videostreaming page to see the live performances.
7/3/2009
6/29/2009
  • The order of the twenty-one young pianists has been determined in the afternoon of June 29th, 2009.  Due to three last minute cancellations the schedule of the Recital Round has been changed.  There will be no performances on Saturday, July 4th.  The performances on Thursday, July 2nd will go until 9:30PM.  Recital Round result announcement will be at the end of the performances on Friday, July 3rd.  If you live in the Twin Cities, you may come and listen to the performances in person.  All performances of the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition are free and open to the public. For updated schedule please click here.
  • All performances of the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition will be streamed live on the internet. Please visit our videostreaming page to see the live performances.
6/25/2009
  • Russian pianist Anastasya Terenkova withdrew from participating in the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition.
6/28/2009
  • Canadian pianist Alex Seredenko withdrew from participating in the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition.
6/23/2009
  • Russian contestant Eduard Kunz withdrew from participating in the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition.
6/16/2009
  • The performances of the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition are quickly coming! Our competition flyer that was mailed out earlier this week has a mistake. Please note that the
    Quintet Finals with the Rosalyra Quartet will be on
    TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2009 at Sundin Music Hall    .
    For the rest of the schedule please check our schedule! We apologize for all the inconvenience and confusion this has caused you.
2/15/2009
  • Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition has announced the twenty-four young pianists invited to compete in Minnesota in the summer of 2009. Click here to see the list of the competitiors. The competition will take place June 29-July 30, 2009, with all solo and chamber performances taking place at Sundin Music Hall, Hamline University, and concerto finals with the Minnesota Orchestra at the Orchestra Hall. All events of the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition will be free and open to the public. All competition performances will be streamed live on the internet. MIDI files of all performances from the Virtual Auditions will be available on the Competition's website in the near future.
2/3/2009
  • Virtual Auditions will take place on February 12-15, 2009 at the Salon at Yamaha Artist Services, 689 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10022. All participants of the Disklavier/Video Recordings can be heard in this open to the public and free event. Click here for the schedule.
1/5/2009
  • Disklavier/Video Recordings for the 2009 Minnesota International Competition are taking place in New York, Los Angeles, Beijing, Paris and Moscow starting this week. Click here to see dates, locations and names of the pianists. All Recordings with the exception of the Los Angeles location are free and open to the public.
12/1/2008
  • The competition has received an unprecedented number of applications. Seventy-one young pianists representing twenty-five countries have been invited to participate in the Disklavier/Video Recordings. Click here to see their names.
  • Competition names the members of the Screening Jury. The Screening Jury will adjudicate the Virtual Auditions in February 2009 and select twenty-four contestants who will be invited to compete in Minnesota in the summer of 2009. Click here to see their names and bios.
  • Disklavier/Video Recordings in Beijing have been scheduled for January 14, 2009.
10/28/2008
  • The International Jury for the 2009 Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition has been announced:
    Alexander Braginsky (non-voting Chair)
    David Dubal
    Akiko Ebi
    Gabriel Kwok
    Nikolai Petrov
    Jerome Rose
    Jeremy Siepmann
    Arie Vardi
    Please visit the International Jury web page to read their bios.
  • Times and locations for the Disklavier/Video Recordings have been determined. Please click here to see the details.
9/2/2008
  • The Competition is greatly saddened by the news that Alexei Skavronsky, a member of the 2006 International Jury has passed away on August 11, 2008. For more than 50 years Mr. Skavronsky led an active concert life, performing in most important venues of Russia, as well as abroad. Mr. Skavronsky has made an invaluable contribution as an educator and pedagogue - he was one of the first artists to present "keyboard conversations" - very popular lecture-recitals. Music of Chopin occupied a special place in Mr. Skavronsky's reperoire. He presented many Chopin recitals, and recently made a recording as well as prepared a special edition of all Chopin Etudes. He will be greatly missed by all of us at the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition.
8/15/2008
  • The MIDI files from the 2008 competition is currently available on the website. Click here to access them.
7/15/2008
  • The videos of all solo performances from the e-Piano Junior Competition that took place July 5-11, 2008 are now available on our website. Click here to access them.

WINNERS OF THE E-PIANO JUNIOR ANNOUNCED!

After performances with the Minnesota Orchestra the winner of the e-Piano Junior Competition is...

VIDEOS OF ALL SOLO ROUND PERFORMANCES ARE NOW AVAILABLE

In the future weeks we will be posting highlights on our brand new Youtube channel
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