Andrey Ponochevny

Andrey Ponochevny (Belarusian: Андрэй Паначэўны; born 31 December 1976) is a Belarusian-American pianist.

Biography[edit]

Ponochevny graduated from Belarusian Academy of Music where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees. He also holds his Artist Diploma from TCU, Fort Worth and SMU, Dallas, where he studied with Tamas Ungar and Joaquin Achucarro.^{[citation needed]}

He was awarded the Bronze Medal at the XIII Tchaikovsky competition. Ponochevny has won First Prize at the "Tomassoni International Piano Competition in Cologne", Germany (1996) and the First Prize at the "William Kapell International Piano Competition in Maryland", USA (1998). His other competition accolades include top prizes in Prague, Warsaw (Chopin), Dublin (AXA), Moscow, Hong Kong, Riga (Latvia), Alexandria and New Orleans (Louisiana). He received an honorable mention at the XIII International Chopin Piano Competition.^{[citation needed]}

Among his numerous awards, he was twice named "Outstanding Artist in China" (2009 and 2011). In his hometown of Minsk (Belarus), he was awarded the title "Minskovite of the year" in 2002.^{[citation needed]}

In addition to his concert schedule, Mr.Ponochevny also teaches piano at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas, and at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. ^{[citation needed]}

Ponochevny is a Yamaha Artist.^{[citation needed]}

**Record of piano prizes**^{[citation needed]}
Year	Competition	Prize	1st prize winner
1987	Riga International Music Competition	1st prize
1991	Concertino Prague, Radio Competition for Young Musicians	2nd prize	Anna Kravtchenko.
1996	Tomassoni International Piano Competition, Köln	1st prize
1998	William Kapell International Piano Competition, Maryland	1st prize
2002	Tchaikovsky International Competition, Moscow	3rd prize	Ayako Uehara.
2005	AXA International Piano Competition, Dublin	5th prize	Antti Siirala.
2005	Hong Kong International Piano Competition	4th prize	Ilya Rashkovsky.
2007	Louisiana International Piano Competition	2nd prize	Dizhou Zhao
2010	New Orleans International Piano Competition	2nd prize	Eduard Kunz