2008 Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi

Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi XVI took take place in Valencia from September 15–27, 2008. It was won by Zhengyu Chen, who became the first Chinese pianist to attain the 1st prize.

Jury

 * 🇪🇸 Joaquín Soriano (president)
 * 🇮🇹 Antonio di Cristofano
 * 🇦🇿 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Bella Davidovich
 * 🇱🇹 Petras Geniusas
 * 🇦🇹 Peter Lang
 * 🇷🇺 🇪🇸 Stanislav Pochekin
 * 🇪🇸 Fernando Puchol
 * 🇪🇸 Jesús Ángel Rodríguez
 * 🇮🇹 Maria Tipo
 * 🇯🇵 Fujiko Yamada

Prizes

 * Awarded to the best qualified Valencian competitor.
 * Awarded to the best qualified Spanish competitor.
 * Awarded to the best Spanish contemporary music performer.
 * Awarded to the best Concerto performer.
 * Awarded to the best Spanish music performer.

Compositions commissioned for the competition

 * Emilio Calandín - Tres naipes del I Ching
 * Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher - Chronos / Kayros
 * Enrique Sanz-Burguete - A Matilde

First round
September 16 and 17. Palau de la Música - Sala Rodrigo.
 * Domenico Scarlatti / Antonio Soler Sonata + Two pieces among Frédéric Chopin's Nocturnes, Impromptus, Mazurkas and Waltzes + Gabriel Fauré / Claude Debussy / Maurice Ravel composition + Ad libitum.
 * 🇩🇪 Ron Abramski
 * 🇪🇸 Mario Alonso Herrero
 * 🇮🇹 Angelo Arciglione
 * 🇫🇷 Honoré Béjin Garcia
 * 🇪🇸 Enrique Bernaldo de Quirós Martín
 * 🇷🇺 Tatyana Bezmenova
 * 🇳🇴 Ingfrid Breie Nyhus
 * Northern Ireland Cathal Breslin
 * 🇪🇸 Ángel Cabrera
 * 🇨🇭 Christian Chamorel
 * 🇨🇳 Zhengyu Chen
 * 🇨🇳 Wu Chi
 * 🇮🇹 Sebastian Di Bin
 * 🇮🇹 Nazareno Ferrugio
 * 🇭🇷 Martina Filjak
 * 🇷🇺 Sofya Gulyak
 * 🇯🇵 Shinnosuke Inugai
 * 🇰🇷 Soyeon Kim
 * 🇧🇾 Karalina Kirylchyk
 * 🇰🇵 Yun Jung Koo
 * 🇵🇱 🇺🇸 Martin Labazevitch
 * 🇱🇹 Daiva Lavrinavičiūtė
 * 🇷🇺 Aleksey Lebedev
 * 🇹🇼 Li-Wei Lee
 * 🇰🇷 Yu Mi Lee
 * 🇪🇸 José Menor Martín
 * 🇬🇷 Theodosia Ntokou
 * 🇮🇹 Vincenzo Oliva
 * 🇯🇵 Fumie Onda
 * 🇰🇷 Jin Woo Park
 * 🇰🇷 Joo Hyeon Park
 * 🇫🇷 Tristan Pfaff
 * 🇲🇩 🇷🇺 🇪🇸 Marianna Prjevalskaya
 * 🇲🇰 Ivana Ristova
 * 🇷🇺 Daniil Sayamov
 * 🇷🇺 Sergey Sobolev
 * 🇯🇵 Masataka Takada
 * 🇯🇵 Yoshida Tomoaki
 * 🇷🇺 Maria Tretiyakova
 * 🇷🇺 Andrey Yaroshinsky

Quarter-finals
September 18, 19 and 20. Palau de la Música - Sala Rodrigo.
 * Joseph Haydn / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata or Variations + Frédéric Chopin Etude + Isaac Albéniz (Iberia) / Enrique Granados (Goyescas) / Manuel de Falla (Fantasía Bética, Cuatro piezas españolas) composition
 * 🇩🇪 Ron Abramski
 * 🇮🇹 Angelo Arciglione
 * 🇷🇺 Tatyana Bezmenova
 * 🇪🇸 Ángel Cabrera
 * 🇨🇭 Christian Chamorel
 * 🇨🇳 Zhengyu Chen
 * 🇮🇹 Sebastian Di Bin
 * 🇮🇹 Nazareno Ferrugio
 * 🇯🇵 Shinnosuke Inugai
 * 🇰🇷 Soyeon Kim
 * 🇰🇵 Yun Jung Koo
 * 🇵🇱 🇺🇸 Martin Labazevitch
 * 🇷🇺 Aleksey Lebedev
 * 🇰🇷 Yu-Mi Lee
 * 🇯🇵 Fumie Onda
 * 🇫🇷 Tristan Pfaff
 * 🇲🇩 🇷🇺 🇪🇸 Marianna Prjevalskaya
 * 🇷🇺 Maria Tretiyakova

Semi-finals
September 21 and 22. Palau de la Música - Sala Rodrigo.
 * Romantic composition/s + Mandatory contemporary composition.
 * 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 Ron Abramsky
 * 🇮🇹 Angelo Arciglione
 * 🇪🇸 Ángel Cabrera
 * 🇨🇭 Christian Chamorel
 * 🇨🇳 Zhengyu Chen
 * 🇯🇵 Shinnosuke Inugai
 * 🇰🇷 Soyeon Kim
 * 🇰🇵 Yun Jung Koo
 * 🇵🇱 🇺🇸 Martin Labazevitch
 * 🇰🇷 Yu-Mi Lee
 * 🇫🇷 Tristan Pfaff (withdrawal)
 * 🇲🇩 🇷🇺 🇪🇸 Marianna Prjevalskaya

Final
September 26 and 27. Palau de la Música - Sala Iturbi. Orquesta de Valencia. Max Bragado, conductor.
 * 🇮🇹 Angelo Arciglione --- Frédéric Chopin: 2nd.
 * 🇪🇸 Ángel Cabrera --- Frédéric Chopin: 2nd.
 * 🇨🇳 Zhengyu Chen --- Ferenc Liszt: 1st.
 * 🇰🇷 Soyeon Kim --- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1st.
 * 🇰🇷 Yu-Mi Lee --- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1st.
 * 🇲🇩 🇷🇺 🇪🇸 Marianna Prjevalskaya --- Frédéric Chopin: 1st.