XIII George Enescu International Piano Competition took place in Bucharest, Romania, from September 15 to 27, 2014. The competition is held every two years and is a member of the Geneva World Federation of International Music Competitions. There have been 13 editions since the founding of the competition in 1958, and previous winners include Radu Lupu, Elisabeth Leonskaja, and Dmitri Alexeev. Spanish pianist Josu De Solaun Soto was given the First Prize, becoming the first Spanish pianist to be awarded such distinction in the 56 years of the competition's existence. The prize included $20,000, and recital and orchestral engagements.
Jury
Jean-Claude Pennetier (president)
Rolf-Dieter Arens
Dana Borsan
Philippe Dinkel- Wolfgang Manz
Andrey Pisarev
Alan Weiss
Prizes
- First Prize:
Josu de Solaun. - Second Prize: Ilya Rashkovsky.
- Third Prize:
Vassilis Varvaresos.
Competition Results (by Rounds)
First round
- Dmitry Ablogin
Lilit Artemyan
Lia Bibileishvili- Evgeny Brakhman
- Sofya Bugayan
- Paul Coriolan Cartianu
- Vladislav Chepinoga
- Tatiana Chernichka
Regina Chernychko
Emily Chiang- Daniel Dascalu
- Madalina-Claudia Danila
- Balázs Demény
- Cristian-Mihai Dirnea
- Timofey Dolya
- Sebastian Ene
- Cédric Gremaud
Simeon Goshev
Sang-Il Han
Santa Ignace- Sang-Wook Jung
- Tatiana Kachko
- Yoon-Jee Kim
- Peter Klimo
Soshi Koyama- Yu Mi Lee
- Adela Liculescu
- Dinu Alexandru Mihailescu
- Mamikon Nakhapetov
- Bogdan Marian Nicola
- Woogil Park
- Dmytro Pivnenko
Mihkel Poll- Ilya Rashkovskiy
Shizuka Susanna Salvemini- Aleksandr Shaikin
Shizhe Shen- Denys Shramko
- Coral Solomon
- Josu De Solaun Soto
- Nozomu Sugawara
- Jenna Sung
- Ryutaro Suzuki
- Paris Tsenikoglou
- Tomoya Umeda
- Aurelia Visovan
- Asuna Yamanaka
- Yui Yoshioka
- Yelena Zorina
- Kirill Zvegintsov
Second round
- Evgeny Brakhman
- Tatiana Chernichka
- Daniel Dascalu
- Sang-Il Han
- Peter Klimo
- Adela Liculescu
- Woogil Park
- Dmytro Pivnenko
- Ilya Rashkovskiy
- Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
- Josu De Solaun Soto
- Vassilis Varvaresos
- Aurelia Visovan
Third round
(At the Romanian Athenaeum)
- Evgeny Brakhman
- Adela Liculescu
- Woogil Park
- Ilya Rashkovskiy
- Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
- Josu De Solaun Soto
- Vassilis Varvaresos
Fourth round
(At the Romanian Athenaeum, with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra and Justus Frantz, conductor)
- Ilya Rashkovsky - Sergei Rachmaninov: Concerto for piano and orchestra nº3.
- Josu De Solaun Soto - Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for piano and orchestra nº1
- Vassilis Varvaresos - Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for piano and orchestra nº1