International Piano Competition of Orléans

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La Salle d'Institut, the hall of Conservatoire of Orléans where the competition takes place.

The International Piano Competition of Orléans (French: Concours International de Piano d'Orléans) is an international piano competition dedicated exclusively to music of the XXth-XXIst centuries that is held biannually in Orléans, France. The only of its kind as of 2022.,[1] the competition has been founded in 1994 by French pianist and pedagogue Françoise Thinat, is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions[2] and a partner of Busoni Competition.[3]

For every edition, a piece is commissioned from one of internationally established composers as an obligatory piece for the competitors. Those who have written for the competition up till 2022 are Eric Tanguy, Patrick Burgan, Thierry Escaich, Pierre Jodlowski, Edith Canat de Chizy, Philippe Hurel, Jacques Lenot, Jérôme Combier, Philippe Hersant, Hèctor Parra, Pascal Dusapin and Philippe Manoury.[4] The jury has included, over the years, such names as Idil Biret, Claude Helffer, François-Frédéric Guy and Unsuk Chin.[5]

History[edit]

In 1989 Francoise Thinat has founded an association which was supposed to promote piano music of the XXth century, and the first edition of the competition took place in 1994. She imagined

«an ideal competition, with a unique programme, an open repertoire, a collegial jury ... an age limit which would encourage «a second breath», without discouraging very young talents...».[6][7]

Starting 1998, every participant should include a work by a young composer of choice, and a composition prize is awarded to the composer of the piece deemed best by the jury. Six years after, in 2004, the first edition for children «Brin d'herbe» took place[8]

Laureates[edit]

Year 1st Prize 2nd Prize 3rd Prize Composition Award

André Chevillion – Yvonne Bonnaud

1994 Shinji Urakabe  Japan Hideki Nagano  Japan Ananda Sukarlan  Indonesia
1996 Fabio Grasso  Italy

Thomas Hell  Germany

Rita Kinka  Hungary
1998 Toros Can  Turkey

Ami Fujiwara  Japan

Ami Fujiwara  Japan Maria Stembolskaya  Russia Unsuk Chin  South Korea

Franck Krawczyk  France

2000 Saori Mizumura  Japan Andrea Corazziari  Italy Alexandre Pirojenko  Russia Muhiddin Dûrrûoglu-Demiriz  Belgium
2002 Winston Choi  Canada Nino Jvania  Georgia Makoto Ueno  Japan Vykintas Baltakas  Lithuania
2004 Francesco Schlime  Luxembourg Reto Reichenbach   Switzerland Ya-Ou Xie  China Kenneth Hesketh  UK
2006 Wilhem Latchoumia  France Prodromos Symeonidis  Greece Ermis Theodorakis  Greece David Rakowski  USA[9]
2008 Florence Cioccolani  France Antal Sporck  Netherlands Adam Marks  USA Mayoko Fukami  Japan

Vera Ivanova  Russia USA

Thierry Huillet  France[10]

2010 Christopher Falzone  USA Yejin Gil  South Korea Anaël Bonnet  France Adam Roberts  USA[11]
2012 Christopher Guzman  USA Andrew Zhou  USA Christopher Stark  USA[12]
2014 Imri Talgam  Israel Aline Piboule  France Kathrin Isabelle Klein  Germany Didier Rotella  France

Nicolas Mondon  France[13]

2016 Takuya Otaki  Japan Marianna Abrahamyan  Armenia Philippe Hattat  France Philippe Hattat  France

Matthias Krüger  Belgium[14]

2018 Maroussia Gentet  France Hyeonjun Jo  South Korea Miharu Ogura  Japan Miharu Ogura  Japan[15]

Hyeonjun Jo  South Korea

2020 Mikhaïl Bouzine  Russia  Germany Dmitry Batalov  Russia Chae-Um Kim  South Korea Tetsuya Yamamoto  Japan
2022 Lorenzo Soulès  France Chisato Taniguchi  Japan Chi Ho Han  South Korea Matthieu Acar  France

Miharu Ogura  Japan

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ International Piano Competition of Orléans 2022 | GFPA
  2. ^ "Member Competitions". World Federation of International Music Competitions. 20 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Il Busoni fa esordire la "Junior Jury"" (in Italian).
  4. ^ Commissioned pieces – Orléans Concours International
  5. ^ Adult competition – Orléans Concours International
  6. ^ "La lettre du Musicien" (in French).
  7. ^ Attitude. "Concours d'Orléans : Françoise Thinat tourne la page". www.lalettredumusicien.fr (in French). Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Concours junior – Orléans Concours International" (in French). Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  9. ^ "Concours international de piano d'Orléans 2006 – Orléans Concours International" (in French).
  10. ^ "Florence Cioccolani, lauréate du Concours international de piano d'Orléans". Qobuz (in French) (published 1 October 2022). 5 March 2008.
  11. ^ admin (2 March 2010). "Le parcours sans faute de Christopher Falzone – Concours international de piano d'Orléans". Concertclassic (in French). Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  12. ^ "Christopher Guzman lauréat 2012 du Concours d'Orléans". Qobuz (in French). 5 March 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  13. ^ "Imri Talgam remporte le 11e concours international de piano d'Orléans". France Musique (in French). 17 March 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  14. ^ Tosi, Michèle. "Finale du 12e Concours international de piano d'Orléans « Concours « La Scène « ResMusica" (in French). Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  15. ^ Anastasio, Sofia (20 March 2018). "Palmarès du Concours international de piano d'Orléans 2018". France Musique (in French). Retrieved 1 October 2022.

External links[edit]

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