X Sydney International Piano Competition

The 10th Sydney International Piano Competition took place at Sydney's Seymour Centre and Opera House from 4 to 21 July 2012 and it was contested by 36 pianists from 14 countries. Avan Yu won the competition, while Nikolay Khozyainov and Dmitry Onishchenko were awarded the 2nd and 3rd prizes.

Jury

• Warren Thomson (chairman)
• Michael Brimer
• Manana Doidjashvili
• Aquiles Delle Vigne
• Norma Fisher
• Choong-Mo Kang
• Heinz Medjimorec
• Ian Munro
• Phillip Shovk
• Arie Vardi

Prizes

	Winner
1st Grand Prize	Avan Yu
2nd Prize	Nikolay Khozyainov
3rd Prize	Dmitry Onishchenko
4th Prize	Mikhail Berestnev
5th Prize	Hao Zhu
6th Prize	Tanya Gabrielian
Australian SQ engagement	Dmitry Onishchenko
Best Liszt performance	Nikolay Khozyainov
Best Australian competitor	James Guan
Best performance of an Australian work	Dmitry Onishchenko
Best Mozart Concerto performance	Avan Yu
People's Choice Prize	Nikolay Khozyainov
Best 19th/20th century Concerto performance	Avan Yu
Best Beethoven performance	Avan Yu
Best Chopin performance	Hao Zhu
Best performance of a Liszt Study	Nikolay Khozyainov
Best overall Concerto performance	Nikolay Khozyainov
Best Ravel performance	Avan Yu
Best Rachmaninoff performance	Tanya Gabrielian
Best Chamber Music performance	Avan Yu
Best Mozart performance	Tomoaki Yoshida
Best Schubert performance	Nikolay Khozyainov
Best performance of a Russian work	Mikhail Berestnev
Best performance of a Romantic work	Avan Yu
People's Choice Encouragement Prize	Avan Yu
Quarter-Finals Encouragement Award	Maya Irgalina
Best Performance of a Haydn Sonata	Avan Yu
Best Performance of a Debussy Prélude	Dmitry Onishchenko
Best Performance of a Clementi Sonata	not awarded
Stage I-II Encouragement Award	Feng Bian
Lev Vlassenko Memorial Prize	Nikolay Khozyainov
Semi-Finals Encouragement Award	not awarded
Youngest finalist	Nikolay Khozyainov
Youngest Australian competitor	Alex Raineri
Best Female competitor	Tanya Gabrielian

Works commissioned for the competition

• Anne Boyd - Kabarli Meditation (Dawn)
• Carl Vine - Toccatissimo

Competition results (by rounds)

First and Second Round

5–8 July 2012

• Arta Arnicāne
• Mikhail Berestnev
• Feng Bian
• Giulio Biddau
• Stefan Cassomenos
• Wei Cao
• Angelika Fuchs
• Tanya Gabrielian
• James Guan
• Stefano Guarascio
• Atsushi Imada
• Maya Irgalina
• Elizaveta Ivanova
• Wenbin Jin
• Joanne Kang
• Nikolay Khozyainov
• Jin-Hong Li
• Brian Yuebing Lin
• Ke Lin
• Aaron Liu
• Ilaria Locatelli
• Konrad Olszewski
• Dmitry Onishchenko
• Olga Paliy
• Marios Panteliadis
• Poom Prommachart
• Alex Raineri
• Lu Shen
• Yifan Sun
• Benoît Tourette
• Sean Yeh
• Jung-Yeon Yim
• Qian Yong
• Tomoaki Yoshida
• Avan Yu
• Hao Zhu

Quarterfinals

9-10 July 2012

• Arta Arnicāne
• Mikhail Berestnev
• Giulio Biddau
• Wei Cao
• Tanya Gabrielian
• James Guan
• Stefano Guarascio
• Atsushi Imada
• Maya Irgalina
• Elizaveta Ivanova
• Nikolay Khozyainov
• Jin-Hong Li
• Dmitry Onishchenko
• Olga Paliy
• Lu Shen
• Sean Yeh
• Qian Yong
• Tomoaki Yoshida
• Avan Yu
• Hao Zhu

Semifinals

11-13 July 2012

• Arta Arnicāne
• Mikhail Berestnev
• Giulio Biddau
• Tanya Gabrielian
• Stefano Guarascio
• Nikolay Khozyainov
• Jin-Hong Li
• Dmitry Onishchenko
• Lu Shen
• Tomoaki Yoshida
• Avan Yu
• Hao Zhu

Final

17-21 July 2012

• Concerti
  • Mikhail Berestnev — Mozart: 21st, Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
  • Tanya Gabrielian — Mozart: 21st, Tchaikovsky: 1st
  • Nikolay Khozyainov — Mozart: 21st, Rachmaninoff: 3rd
  • Dmitry Onishchenko — Mozart: 17th, Rachmaninoff: 3rd
  • Avan Yu — Mozart: 17th, Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
  • Hao Zhu — Mozart: 24th, Rachmaninoff: 2nd