International Edvard Grieg Piano Competition

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The International Edvard Grieg Piano Competition is named after Edvard Grieg and is a piano competition for pianists aged 17 to 33 that is organized every two years by the Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen in Bergen ( Norway ). The competition has been a member of the World Association of International Music Competitions since 2017.

history

The music competition Convours Grieg was founded in 2000 by the Norwegian pianist Einar Steen-Nøkleberg in Oslo and took place at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo until 2011 . He has been a member of the Alink Argerich Foundation since then . Since 2012, competition in Troldhaugen will take place in Bergen and International Edvard Grieg Piano Competition (Engl. International Edvard Grieg Piano Competition ) renamed.

The Stiftelsen Foundation Kristian Gerhard Jebsen has been the main sponsor since 2014 . In 2020 the competition had to be postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Prices

The prizes are monetary amounts between € 1,000 (audience award) and € 30,000 (first prize). In addition to the second (€ 20,000) and third (€ 10,000) prize, the best performance of a work by Edvard Grieg and the best performance of a work by Ørjan Matre are awarded, as well as orchestral and semi-finalist awards.

Award winners

year Event date First price Second prize Third prize Audience award
2000 2. UzbekistanUzbekistan Eugene Mursky
2001 3. UkraineUkraine Nana Mamajeva
2002 4th RomaniaRomania Luiza Borac
2003 5. Korea SouthSouth Korea Jae-won Cheung
2004 6th GermanyGermany Hinrich Alpers , Tatiana Kolesova, Mayumi Sakamoto RussiaRussiaJapanJapan
2005 7th Korea SouthSouth Korea Mi-Jung Park
2006 8th. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Hong-Bo Qua
2007 9. NorwayNorway Kristian Lindberg
2008 10. RussiaRussia Georgy Gromov
2009 11. GermanyGermany Annika Treutler
2010 12. TaiwanRepublic of China (Taiwan) Ivan Lin
2012 13. September 1st to 8th UkraineUkraine Sasha Grynyuk RussiaRussia Anton Igubnov GeorgiaGeorgia Mamikon Nakhapetov RussiaRussia Anton Igubnov
2014 14th October 11th to 18th NorwayNorway Joachim Carr NorwayNorway Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev RussiaRussia Peter Friis Johansson DenmarkDenmark Joachim Carr
2016 15th September 2nd to 10th Korea SouthSouth Korea Ah Ruem Ahn China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhenni Li CanadaCanada Ben Cruchle Korea SouthSouth Korea Ah Ruem Ahn
2018 16. September 1st to 9th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Ryoma Takagi JapanJapan Matyáš Novák RussiaRussia Alexey Trushechkin Czech RepublicCzech Republic Ryoma Takagi

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ International Edvard Grieg Piano Competition. German Music Information Center, accessed June 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ History | GRIEG Competition. Retrieved May 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ PIANONews. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
  4. ↑ The 17th International Edvard Grieg Piano Competition is postponed to 2021. Archived from the original on May 8, 2020 ; accessed on May 27, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ Ruhr Piano Festival 2015 - Joachim Carr with Grieg, Medtner and Debussy. Retrieved on June 25, 2020 (German).