III Sendai International Music Competition

The III Sendai International Music Competition took place in Sendai from May 18-June 24, 2007.

Jury

 * 🇯🇵 Tomotada Soh (chairman)
 * 🇯🇵 Kiyoshi Okayama (vice-chairman)
 * 🇫🇷 Gérard Poulet (vice-chairman)
 * 🇩🇪 Daniel Gaede
 * 🇯🇵 Yuzuko Horigome
 * 🇺🇸 Lewis Kaplan
 * 🇰🇷 Nam-Yun Kim
 * 🇵🇱 Konstanty Kulka
 * 🇷🇺 Victor Pikayzen
 * 🇳🇴 Arve Tellefsen
 * 🇨🇳 Lina Yu

Elimination round
May 20–22.
 * 🇰🇷 A-Rah Shin - 86.70
 * 🇷🇺 Alena Baeva - 84.55
 * 🇺🇸 Erin Keefe - 81.91
 * 🇨🇳 Zhijiong Wang - 81.40
 * 🇨🇳 Shanshan Yao - 80.82
 * 🇯🇵 Haruka Nagao - 80.40
 * 🇯🇵 Aya Kiyonaga - 79.70
 * 🇷🇺 Andrey Baranov - 78.73
 * 🇯🇵 Sayaka Chiba - 78.40
 * 🇰🇷 Minjeong Suh - 78.40
 * 🇯🇵 Aska Kawamata - 78.00
 * 🇺🇸 Hannah Choi - 77.91
 * 🇯🇵 Momoko Arai
 * 🇩🇪 Lea Birringer
 * 🇯🇵 Sakura Chiba
 * 🇷🇺 Aleksandra Fedotova
 * 🇯🇵 Yusuke Hayashi
 * 🇯🇵 Samika Honda
 * 🇯🇵 Tadasuke Ijima
 * 🇫🇷 Hayato Ishibashi
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Issokson
 * 🇯🇵 Fuyu Iwaki
 * 🇷🇺 Maxim Kosinov
 * 🇺🇦 Yevgeniy Kostrytskyy
 * 🇷🇺 Dmitry Lukin
 * 🇵🇱 Maria Machowska
 * 🇷🇺 Svetlana Makarova
 * 🇷🇺 Sergey Malov
 * 🇮🇱 Tomer Marcus
 * 🇵🇹 Pedro Meireles
 * 🇯🇵 Tsuyoshi Moriya
 * 🇮🇱 Kinneret Sieradzki
 * 🇷🇺 Vladimir Soluianov
 * 🇯🇵 Eri Takamura
 * 🇷🇴 Eugen Tichindeleanu
 * 🇪🇸 Gerardo Ubaghs
 * 🇨🇳 Xu Yang
 * 🇯🇵 Asami Yamada
 * 🇯🇵 Masanobu Yoda
 * 🇯🇵 Kosuke Yoshikawa

Semifinals
May 26–28.
 * 🇺🇸 Erin Keefe - 88.64
 * 🇷🇺 Andrey Baranov - 87.91
 * 🇷🇺 Alena Baeva - 83.09
 * 🇰🇷 Shin A-Rah - 82.80
 * 🇯🇵 Haruka Nagao - 78.90
 * 🇯🇵 Sayaka Chiba - 78.90
 * 🇨🇳 Shanshan Yao - 78.73
 * 🇨🇳 Zhijiong Wang - 77.80
 * 🇯🇵 Aya Kiyonaga - 73.90
 * 🇺🇸 Hannah Choi - 73.55
 * 🇯🇵 Aska Kawamata - 72.27
 * 🇰🇷 Minjeong Suh - 70.00

Finals
June 1–2
 * 1st Prize
 * 🇷🇺 Alena Baeva - 6 votes
 * 🇺🇸 Erin Keefe - 2 votes
 * 🇯🇵 Sayaka Chiba - 1 vote
 * 2nd Prize
 * 🇺🇸 Erin Keefe - 5 votes
 * 🇰🇷 Shin A-Rah - 2 votes
 * 🇷🇺 Andrey Baranov - 1 vote
 * 🇯🇵 Haruka Nagao - 1 vote
 * 3rd Prize
 * 🇰🇷 Shin A-Rah - 5 votes
 * 🇷🇺 Andrey Baranov - 4 votes
 * 4th Prize
 * 🇷🇺 Andrey Baranov - 4 votes
 * 🇯🇵 Sayaka Chiba - 3 votes
 * 🇯🇵 Haruka Nagao - 3 votes
 * 5th Prize
 * 🇯🇵 Sayaka Chiba - 6 votes
 * 🇯🇵 Haruka Nagao - 4 votes

Jury

 * 🇯🇵 Minoru Nojima (chairman)
 * 🇯🇵 Katsumi Ueda (vice-chairman)
 * 🇩🇪 Peter Rösel (vice-chairman)
 * 🇳🇱 Willem Brons
 * 🇰🇷 Daejin Kim
 * 🇯🇵 Michie Koyama
 * 🇫🇷 Dominique Merlet
 * 🇫🇷 Cécile Ousset
 * 🇷🇺 Elisso Virsaladze
 * 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Oxana Yablonskaya
 * 🇨🇳 Guangren Zhou

Elimination round
June 10–12.
 * 🇭🇰 Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 91.27
 * 🇷🇺 Ilya Ovchinnikov - 87.82
 * 🇯🇵 Yuya Tsuda - 87.64
 * 🇹🇼 Yi-Chih Lu - 85.73
 * 🇷🇺 Vyacheslav Gryaznov - 85.45
 * 🇷🇺 Alexander Osminin - 85.20
 * 🇹🇼 Brian Hsu - 85.09
 * 🇯🇵 Yoshihiro Nagase - 81.64
 * 🇷🇺 Shorena Tsintsavadze - 81.55
 * 🇷🇺 Oxana Shevchenko - 81.18
 * 🇩🇪 Esther Birringer - 81.00
 * 🇺🇸 Megumi Shimanuki - 80.50
 * 🇮🇹 Angelo Arciglione
 * 🇭🇺 László Borbely
 * 🇨🇳 Moye Chen
 * 🇭🇺 Árpád Dányi
 * 🇺🇸 Tanya Gabrielian
 * 🇨🇳 Jing Gong
 * 🇫🇷 Cyril Guillotin
 * 🇺🇸 Christopher Guzmán
 * 🇨🇳 Duanduan Hao
 * 🇯🇵 Shinnosuke Inugai
 * 🇯🇵 Kazuo Irie
 * 🇯🇵 Chie Kamino
 * 🇯🇵 Jun Kaneko
 * 🇷🇺 Alexander Karpeyev
 * 🇯🇵 Takuro Maeda
 * 🇯🇵 Maiko Mine
 * 🇺🇦 Olga Monakh
 * 🇯🇵 Koki Murata
 * 🇺🇸 Sandra Nam
 * 🇯🇵 Takaya Sano
 * 🇦🇲 🇺🇸 Nina Sarapyan
 * 🇺🇸 Anna Shakina
 * 🇨🇳 Jia Shi
 * 🇯🇵 Yuki Sunamura
 * 🇺🇸 Hsiang Tu

Semifinals
June 16–18.
 * 🇷🇺 Oxana Shevchenko - 88.73
 * 🇷🇺 Ilya Ovchinnikov - 86.64
 * 🇯🇵 Yuya Tsuda - 86.09
 * 🇷🇺 Vyacheslav Gryaznov - 84.73
 * 🇹🇼 Yi-Chih Lu - 84.55
 * 🇭🇰 Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 83.82
 * 🇯🇵 Megumi Shimanuki - 79.90
 * 🇩🇪 Esther Birringer - 79.64
 * 🇹🇼 Brian Hsu - 79.09
 * 🇯🇵 Yoshihiro Nagase - 78.18
 * 🇷🇺 Alexander Osminin - 73.30
 * 🇷🇺 Shorena Tsintsavadze - 00.00 (disqualified)

Finals
June 22–23
 * 1st Prize
 * 🇯🇵 Yuya Tsuda - 8 votes
 * 🇭🇰 Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 1 vote
 * 🇷🇺 Ilya Ovchinnikov - 1 vote
 * 🇷🇺 Oxana Shevchenko - 1 vote
 * 2nd Prize
 * 🇹🇼 Yi-Chih Lu - 6 votes
 * 🇷🇺 Oxana Shevchenko - 5 votes
 * 3rd Prize
 * 🇷🇺 Oxana Shevchenko - 7 votes
 * 🇭🇰 Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 2 votes
 * 🇷🇺 Ilya Ovchinnikov - 2 votes
 * 4th Prize
 * 🇷🇺 Ilya Ovchinnikov - 6 votes
 * 🇭🇰 Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 5 votes
 * 5th Prize
 * 🇭🇰 Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 8 votes
 * 🇷🇺 Vyacheslav Gryaznov - 3 votes