2008 Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi

Jury

• * Joaquín Soriano
• * Antonio di Cristofano
• * Bella Davidovich
• * Petras Geniusas
• * Peter Lang
• * Stanislav Pochekin
• * Fernando Puchol
• * Jesús Ángel Rodríguez
• * Maria Tipo
• * Fujiko Yamada

  Prizes

• Awarded to the best qualified Valencian competitor.
• Awarded to the best qualified Spanish competitor.
• Awarded to the best Spanish contemporary music performer.
• Awarded to the best Concerto performer.
• Awarded to the best Spanish music performer.

  Compositions commissioned for the competition

• * Emilio Calandín - Tres naipes del I Ching
• * Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher - Chronos / Kayros
• * Enrique Sanz-Burguete - A Matilde

  Competition Results (by rounds)

First Round

• Domenico Scarlatti / Antonio Soler Sonata + Two pieces among Frédéric Chopin's Nocturnes, Impromptus, Mazurkas and Waltzes + Gabriel Fauré / Claude Debussy / Maurice Ravel composition + Ad libitum.
• * Ron Abramski
• * Mario Alonso Herrero
• * Angelo Arciglione
• * Honoré Béjin Garcia
• * Enrique Bernaldo de Quirós Martín
• * Tatyana Bezmenova
• * Ingfrid Breie Nyhus
• * Northern Ireland Cathal Breslin
• * Ángel Cabrera
• * Christian Chamorel
• * Zhengyu Chen
• * Wu Chi
• * Sebastian Di Bin
• * Nazareno Ferrugio
• * Martina Filjak
• * Sofya Gulyak
• * Shinnosuke Inugai
• * Soyeon Kim
• * Karalina Kirylchyk
• * Yun Jung Koo
• * Martin Labazevitch
• * Daiva Lavrinavičiūtė
• * Aleksey Lebedev
• * Li-Wei Lee
• * Yu Mi Lee
• * José Menor Martín
• * Theodosia Ntokou
• * Vincenzo Oliva
• * Fumie Onda
• * Jin Woo Park
• * Joo Hyeon Park
• * Tristan Pfaff
• * Marianna Prjevalskaya
• * Ivana Ristova
• * Daniil Sayamov
• * Sergey Sobolev
• * Masataka Takada
• * Yoshida Tomoaki
• * Maria Tretiyakova
• * Andrey Yaroshinsky

  Quarter-finals

• Joseph Haydn / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata or Variations + Frédéric Chopin Etude + Isaac Albéniz / Enrique Granados / Manuel de Falla composition
• * Ron Abramski
• * Angelo Arciglione
• * Tatyana Bezmenova
• * Ángel Cabrera
• * Christian Chamorel
• * Zhengyu Chen
• * Sebastian Di Bin
• * Nazareno Ferrugio
• * Shinnosuke Inugai
• * Soyeon Kim
• * Yun Jung Koo
• * Martin Labazevitch
• * Aleksey Lebedev
• * Yu-Mi Lee
• * Fumie Onda
• * Tristan Pfaff
• * Marianna Prjevalskaya
• * Maria Tretiyakova

  Semi-finals

• Romantic composition/s + Mandatory contemporary composition.
• * Ron Abramsky
• * Angelo Arciglione
• * Ángel Cabrera
• * Christian Chamorel
• * Zhengyu Chen
• * Shinnosuke Inugai
• * Soyeon Kim
• * Yun Jung Koo
• * Martin Labazevitch
• * Yu-Mi Lee
• * Tristan Pfaff '
• * Marianna Prjevalskaya'''

  Final

• * Angelo Arciglione --- Frédéric Chopin: 2nd.
• * Ángel Cabrera --- Frédéric Chopin: 2nd.
• * Zhengyu Chen --- Ferenc Liszt: 1st.
• * Soyeon Kim --- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1st.
• * Yu-Mi Lee --- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1st.
• * Marianna Prjevalskaya --- Frédéric Chopin: 1st.