IX Sydney International Piano Competition

The IX Sydney International Piano Competition took place at the Seymour Centre in Sydney from 16 July to 2 August 2008.

It was won by Konstantin Shamray.

Jury

 * 🇦🇺 Warren Thomson (chairman)
 * 🇦🇺 Michael Brimer
 * Manana Doidjashvili
 * 🇦🇷 Aquiles Delle Vigne
 * Norma Fisher
 * 🇰🇷 Choong-Mo Kang
 * 🇦🇺 Ian Munro
 * 🇮🇱 Arie Vardi
 * 🇨🇳 Zhou Guangren

Works commissioned for the competition

 * Andrew Ford - Thin air
 * Roger Smalley - Morceau de Concours

First round
16–17 July 2008


 * 🇺🇸 Charlie Albright
 * 🇮🇹 Fernando Altamura
 * 🇵🇹 Manuel Araujo
 * 🇮🇹 Marco Ciampi
 * 🇺🇸 Sean Chen
 * 🇮🇱 Ran Dank
 * 🇬🇧 Christopher Devine
 * 🇦🇺 John Fisher
 * 🇭🇺 Balázs Fülei
 * 🇦🇺 David Fung
 * 🇦🇺 Adam Herd
 * 🇷🇺 Elizaveta Ivanova
 * 🇮🇹 Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
 * 🇯🇵 Miya Kazauka
 * 🇯🇵 Tomoki Kitamura
 * 🇷🇺 Tatyana Kolesova
 * 🇷🇺 Eduard Kunz
 * 🇭🇰 Ka-Ling Colleen Lee
 * 🇰🇷 Miyeon Lee
 * 🇺🇸 Ryan McEvoy McCullough
 * 🇪🇸 José Menor Martín
 * 🇦🇺 Hoang Pham
 * 🇰🇷 Yoonsoo Rhee
 * 🇷🇺 Sergey Saratovsky
 * 🇯🇵 Takashi Sato
 * 🇷🇺 Konstantin Shamray
 * 🇰🇷 Yekwon Sunwoo
 * 🇰🇿 Daniil Tsvetkov
 * 🇮🇹 Mariangela Vacatello
 * 🇨🇳 Xun Wang
 * 🇵🇱 Wojciech Wisniewski
 * 🇦🇺 Alexei Yemtsov
 * 🇹🇼 Chun-Chieh Yen
 * 🇨🇳 Feng Zhang
 * 🇨🇳 Xi-Xi Zhou
 * 🇨🇳 Hao Zhu
 * 🇺🇸 Eric Zuber

Quarterfinals
21–22 July 2008


 * 🇺🇸 Charlie Albright
 * 🇮🇹 Fernando Altamura
 * 🇺🇸 Sean Chen
 * 🇮🇱 Ran Dank
 * 🇬🇧 Christopher Devine
 * 🇦🇺 David Fung
 * 🇯🇵 Tomoki Kitamura
 * 🇷🇺 Tatyana Kolesova
 * 🇰🇷 Miyeon Lee
 * 🇪🇸 José Menor Martín
 * 🇦🇺 Hoang Pham
 * 🇰🇷 Yoonsoo Rhee
 * 🇮🇹 Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
 * 🇷🇺 Sergey Saratovsky
 * 🇯🇵 Takashi Sato
 * 🇷🇺 Konstantin Shamray
 * 🇰🇿 Daniil Tsvetkov
 * 🇮🇹 Mariangela Vacatello
 * 🇦🇺 Alexei Yemtsov
 * 🇨🇳 Hao Zhu
 * 🇺🇸 Eric Zuber

Semifinals
23–25 July 2008


 * 🇺🇸 Charlie Albright
 * 🇮🇱 Ran Dank
 * 🇯🇵 Tomoki Kitamura
 * 🇷🇺 Tatyana Kolesova
 * 🇰🇷 Miyeon Lee
 * 🇦🇺 Hoang Pham
 * 🇮🇹 Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
 * 🇯🇵 Takashi Sato
 * 🇷🇺 Konstantin Shamray
 * 🇰🇿 Daniil Tsvetkov
 * 🇮🇹 Mariangela Vacatello
 * 🇺🇸 Eric Zuber

Final
29 July – 2 August 2008


 * Concertos
 * 🇮🇱 Ran Dank — Mozart: 20th, Prokofiev: 3rd
 * 🇯🇵 Tomoki Kitamura — Mozart: 17th, Beethoven: 4th
 * 🇷🇺 Tatyana Kolesova — Mozart: 20th, Saint-Saëns: 2nd
 * 🇯🇵 Takashi Sato — Mozart: 27th, Beethoven: 5th
 * 🇷🇺 Konstantin Shamray — Mozart: 27th; Prokofiev: 2nd
 * 🇺🇸 Eric Zuber — Mozart: 20th, Tchaikovsky: 1st