Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition

The Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition (in Spanish: Concurso Internacional de Piano de Santander "Paloma O'Shea") is a piano competition taking place in Santander, Spain.^[1] Founded in 1972 by Paloma O'Shea as a national prize, it turned into an international competition in its 2nd edition, and was professionalized in the mid-1970s, being accepted into the World Federation of International Music Competitions in 1976.^[2]

Organized by the Albéniz Foundation and chaired by the Infanta Margarita and sponsored by a network of civil service and private companies,^[3] it arranges an extensive world tour for the winners,^[4] including debuts in auditoriums such as the National Auditorium of Music and the Wigmore Hall^{[citation needed]} and cash prizes.^[5] The competition takes place in the Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria.^[6]

The competition

Currently, 20 pianists are accepted into the competition through a demanding shortlist of candidates. The competition consists of a preliminary round after a video-based admission round (pre-auditions in Spain, Paris, New York and Moscow), a recital round, a chamber music round, and final concerto round with a symphony orchestra.

Guest artists

During the last stages of the competition, the participants perform with guest artists and ensembles. Past ensembles include the London Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, Spanish National Orchestra, Madrid Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, RTVE Symphony Orchestra, Takács Quartet, Ysaÿe Quartet, Quiroga Quartet and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and conductors Philippe Entremont, Sergiu Comissiona, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, and Jesús López Cobos.^[7]

Juries

Members of the jury have included Josep Colom, Gary Graffman, Federico Mompou, Vlado Perlemuter, Joaquín Achúcarro, Aldo Ciccolini, Nikita Magaloff, Paul Badura-Skoda, Hiroko Nakamura, Fou Ts'ong, Eliso Virsaladze, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Rafael Orozco, Philippe Entremont, Alicia de Larrocha, Dmitri Bashkirov, Dmitri Alexeev, Akiko Ebi, Márta Gulyás and Arie Vardi.^[7]

Prize winners

This is a partial listing of prize-winners of the Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition.

Year	Grand Prize	2nd prize	3rd prize	Other
1972	Josep Colom	Jesús González Alonso	—	Honour Certificates Martín Millán Agustín Vergara
1974	Ruriko Kikuchi	Jesús González Alonso José M. Martínez Pínzolas	María T. Berrueta de Rubio	Honour Certificates Susan A. Howes Manuel Quesada María H. Revilla
1975	Marioara Trifan	Peter Bithell	Rebecca A. Penneys	4th: Silvie Carbonel 5th: Margarita Höhenrieder
1976	Hüseyin Sermet	Ivan Klánský	Not awarded	4th: Janina Drath Paulo E. Gori 5th: Nina Hamaguchi 6th: Marie Sprimont 7th: Milan Langer
1977	Ramzi Yassa	Jeremy Atkins David Allen Wehr	Not awarded	Special Prizes Jean G. Ferlan Kazuko Hayami Marc Ponthus
1978	Josep Colom	Frédéric Aguessy	Anna Manasarova	4th prize Andrey Diyev Other prizes Anna Jastrzebska-Quinn Kim Myung Chung Krassimir Taskov
1980	Not awarded	Barry Douglas	Dan Atanasiu Francesco Nicolosi	Antonio Lavín prize Yumiko Maruyama Ana de los Ríos prize Megumi Umene Conservatory prize Gaswan K. Zerikly
1982	Marc Raubenheimer	Oleg Volkov	Yves Rault	4th: Alec Chien 5th: Eric N'Kaoua 6th: Kazuoki Fujii
1984	Hugh Tinney	José Carlos Cocarelli	Rauf Kasimov	4th: Fei-Ping Hsu 5th: Daniel Rivera 6th: William Koehler 7th: Nigora Akhmedova 8th: Edward Zilberkant Special prize: Viktor Chernelievsky
1987	David Allen Wehr	Sergey Yerokhin	Bernd Glemser	4th: Pavel Nersessian Xiang-Dong Kong 5th: Matthias Fletzberger
	Grand Prize	Honour Prize	Honour mentions	Finalist prizes
1990	Not awarded	Sergey Yerokhin	David Kuijken	Brenno Ambrosini Viktor Lyadov Jean-François Dichamp Claudio Martínez Mehner Semifinalists diploma Isabel Dubuis Mariana Gurkova Oxana Rapita Alexander Sandler Emily White Marta Zabaleta
1992	Eldar Nebolsin	Xu Zhong	—	Markus Groh Mariana Gurkova Eduardo Monteiro Vadim Rudenko
1995	Not awarded	Enrico Pompili	—	Armands Ābols Carl Cranmer Miguel Ituarte Polina Leschenko David M. Louie
1998	Yung Wook Yoo	Jong Hwa Park	Plamena Mangova	Laureate prizes Gustavo Díaz-Jerez Albert Tiu Alexei Volodin
2002	Not awarded	Boris Giltburg	Ning An Soyeon Lee	Laureate prizes Yunjie Chen Chih-Han Liu Alexander Romanovsky Minsoo Sohn
	Grand Prize	2nd prize	3rd prize	Audience Prize
2005	Alberto Nosè	Herbert Schuch	Jie Chen	Alberto Nosè
2008	Jue Wang	Avan Yu	Shizuka Susanna Salvemini	Avan Yu
2012 0	Not awarded 0	Ahn Ah-ruem 0	Tamar Beraia János Palojtay	Tamar Beraia 0
2015	Juan Pérez Floristán	David Jae-Weon Huh	Jianing Kong	Juan Pérez Floristán
2018	Dmytro Choni	Yutong Sun	Aleksandr Kliushko	Juan Carlos Fernández-Nieto
2022	Jaeden Izik-Dzurko	Xiaolu Zang	Marcel Tadokoro	Jaeden Izik-Dzurko

Special prizes

Year	Best Spanish contestant	Contemporary music	Chamber music	Spanish music
1978				María Teresa Berrueta de Rubio
1980		Martin Doerrie		Michiko Tsuda
1982		Yves Rault		Eric N'Kaoua
1984	Luis Á. Sarobe	William Koehler	William Koehler	Zuzana Paulechová
1987	Jorge L. Otero	Claire Desert	Claire Desert	Clélia Iruzun
1990	Claudio Martínez Mehner	David Kuijken	Viktor Lyadov	Mariana Gurkova
1992	Marta Zabaleta	Laura Mikkola	Tatiana Pavlova	Wi Yu
1995		Enrico Pompili	Armen Babakhanian	Carl Cranmer

Grant-prizes

Year
1987	Xiang-Dong Kong
1990	Jean-François Dichamp	Claudio Martínez Mehner	Giorgia Tomassi
1992	Carlos Apellániz	Laura Mikkola	Andrei Zheltonog
1995	Freddy Kempf	Polina Leschenko

See also

• Albéniz Foundation
• Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
• List of classical music competitions
• Paloma O'Shea (founder of the competition)*

References

1. Fundación Sinfonía. "Santander Piano Competition Paloma O'Shea Piano Competition".
2. "Korea Shines in International Competition". Retrieved 24 November 2015.
3. "Who are we". Santander Piano Competition. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
4. "Prizes". Paloma O'Shea Piano Competition. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
5. World Federation of International Music Competitions. "XVIth "Paloma O'Shea" Santander International Piano Competition". Retrieved 24 November 2015.
6. Diseño, ITM Edición y. "25 julio al 5 agosto - XIX Concurso Internacional de Piano - Paloma O'Shea - Santander | Palacio de Festivales" (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 June 2018.
7. "Winners, Juries, Orchestras and Guests Artists". Concurso Internacional de Piano de Santander. Retrieved 24 November 2015.

External links

• Albeniz Foundation
• Paloma O'Shea Santander Piano Competition