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The Thirteenth International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition

Official poster

Date

October 1–22, 1995

Venue

National Philharmonic, Warsaw

Winner

not awarded

← 12th ·

Chopin Competition

· 14th →

The XIII International Chopin Piano Competition (Polish: XIII Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina) took place in Warsaw from October 1–22, 1995. As in the previous competition five years earlier, the first prize was not awarded.^[1]

Awards[edit]

The competition consisted of three stages and a final. The first prize was not awarded. Instead, Philippe Giusiano and Alexei Sultanov shared second prize. Sultanov, considered the favourite by the public, refused his award by boycotting the prize-winners' concert.^[1]

The following prizes were awarded:

Prize		Winner
	not awarded
	US$20,000	Philippe Giusiano	France
	US$20,000	Alexei Sultanov (refusal)	Uzbekistan
	US$15,000	Gabriela Montero	Venezuela United States
4th	US$10,000	Rem Urasin	Russia
5th	US$6,000	Rika Miyatani	Japan
6th	US$4,000	Magdalena Lisak	Poland
HM	US$3,500	Nami Ejiri	Poland
	US$3,500	Nelson Goerner	Argentina
	US$3,500	Andrey Ponochevny	Belarus
	US$3,500	Katia Skanavi	Russia

For the first and only time in the history of the competition, none of the special prizes were awarded:

Special prize	Winner
Best Performance of a Concerto	not awarded
Best Performance of Mazurkas	not awarded
Best Performance of a Polonaise	not awarded

Jury[edit]

Competition Results (by rounds)[edit]

First round[edit]

October 2–8.

Second round[edit]

October 10–13

Semi-finals[edit]

October 15 and 16

Andrew Armstrong
Maurizio Baglini
Luigi Cartia
Roberto Cominati
Nami Ejiri
Philippe Giusiano
Nelson Goerner
Magdalena Lisak
Rika Miyatani
Gabriela Montero
Andrey Ponochevny
Katia Skanavi
Alexei Sultanov
Rem Urasin
Libby Yu

Final[edit]

October 18 and 19

Philippe Giusiano
Magdalena Lisak
Rika Miyatani
Gabriela Montero
Alexei Sultanov
Rem Urasin
No overall winner.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "The 13th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition". Fryderyk Chopin Institute. Retrieved 2021-07-29.

International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition Frédéric Chopin Society 1995 FCIC webpage.

Further reading[edit]

Ekiert, Janusz (2010). The Endless Search for Chopin: The History of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (1st ed.). Warsaw: Muza. ISBN 978-83-7495-812-7.
Arendt, Ada; Bogucki, Marcin; Majewski, Paweł; Sobczak, Kornelia (2020). Chopinowskie igrzysko. Historia Międzynarodowego Konkursu Pianistycznego im. Fryderyka Chopina 1927–2015 [The Chopin Games. The History of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition 1927–2015] (in Polish) (1st ed.). Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. ISBN 978-83-235-4127-1.
Ossowski, Jerzy; Brodska, Halina (2010). The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in photographs. Warsaw: Fryderyk Chopin Institute. ISBN 978-83-61142-36-2.

External links[edit]

Chopin Institute's channel on YouTube

International Chopin Piano Competition

Editions

Winners

Lev Oborin (1927)
Alexander Uninsky (1932)
Yakov Zak (1937)
Bella Davidovich / Halina Czerny-Stefańska (1949)
Adam Harasiewicz (1955)
Maurizio Pollini (1960)
Martha Argerich (1965)
Garrick Ohlsson (1970)
Krystian Zimerman (1975)
Dang Thai Son (1980)
Stanislav Bunin (1985)
not awarded (1990)
not awarded (1995)
Li Yundi (2000)
Rafał Blechacz (2005)
Yulianna Avdeeva (2010)
Seong-Jin Cho (2015)
Bruce Liu (2021)

Fryderyk Chopin Institute

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