International Franz Liszt Piano Competition

The International Franz Liszt Piano Competition ("Liszt Competition") is an international piano competition. It is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.

The Competition is held in Utrecht in the Netherlands. It first took place in 1986, one hundred years after the death of Franz Liszt.

Each time the Liszt Competition has been held it has seen over two hundred selected participants. Since 2014, only 14 contestants are selected after the International Selection Rounds hosted in USA, Asia and Europe.

List of Prizewinners[]

Source Official webpage^[1]

Year	First prize	Second prize	Third prize
1986	,  The Netherlands	Gregorio Nardi,  Italy	Michael Lewin,  United States of America
1989	Enrico Pace,  Italy	,  Russia	Wibi Soerjadi,  The Netherlands
1992	,  Russia	Evelina Vorontsova,  Russia	,  Russia
1996	Igor Roma,  Italy	–	,  Japan and ,  China (tied)
1999	,  Japan	Mariangela Vacatello,  Italy	Yundi Li,  China
2002	Jean Dubé,  France	Ilona Timchenko,  Russia	,  France
2005	Yingdi Sun,  China	Anton Salnikov,  Russia	Christiaan Kuyvenhoven,  The Netherlands
2008	Vitaly Pisarenko,  Russia	Nino Gvetadze,  Georgia	,  Hungary/ Ukraine
2011	,  Japan	Olga Kozlova,  Russia	,  Ukraine
2014	Mariam Batsashvili,  Georgia	,  United States of America	,  The Netherlands
2017	,  United Kingdom	,  South Korea	,  Russia
2018	,  Russia	,  Italy	,  Greece

See also[]

• List of classical music competitions

References[]

• International Franz Liszt Piano Competition – official page
• World Federation of International Music Competitions
• Directory of International Piano Competitions
• Piano Competitions & Music Competitions at Bakitone International