# Cleveland International Piano Competition

The Cleveland International Piano Competition is an American piano competition that takes place biennially in Cleveland, Ohio. The initial Competition in 1975 and the nine others that followed were sponsored jointly by the Robert Casadesus Society and the Cleveland Institute of Music to honor the memory of French pianist Robert Casadesus. As a result, the Competition was then called the Casadesus International Piano Competition. In 1994, a new organization was formed: the Piano International Association of Northern Ohio (PIANO). Prize winners of the Cleveland International Piano Competition have included renowned artists like Nicholas Angelich, Sergei Babayan, Angela Hewitt, Daejin Kim, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Kotaro Fukuma and among others.
The first Competition with the new name of "Cleveland" took place in August 1995. The 2001 Competition finals were held at Severance Hall with the Cleveland Competition Orchestra conducted by Jahja Ling. The success of this venture led to negotiations in 2003 with the Musical Arts Association resulting in the engagement of the Cleveland Orchestra to play for the four finalists at Severance Hall.
The Cleveland International Piano Competition is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.

## Past prize winners

| Year | First | Second | Third | Fourth |
| 2024 | Zijian Wei | Evren Ozel | Maxim Lando | Giuseppe Guarrera |
| 2021 | Martín García García | Lovre Marušić | Byeol Kim | Yedam Kim |
| 2016 | Nikita Mndoyants | Leonardo Colafelice | Dinara Klinton | Georgiy Tchaidze |
| 2013 | Stanislav Khristenko | Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev | François Dumont | Jiayan Sun |
| 2011 | Alexander Schimpf | Alexei Chernov | Eric Zuber | Kyu Yeon Kim |
| 2009 | Martina Filjak | Dmitri Levkovich | William Youn | Evgeny Brakhman |
| 2007 | Alexander Ghindin | Yaron Kohlberg | Alexandre Moutouzkine | Ran Dank |
| 2005 | Chu-Fang Huang | Sergey Kuznetsov | Stanislav Khristenko | Spencer Myer |
| 2003 | Kotaro Fukuma | Soyeon Lee | Konstantin Soukhovetski | Andrius Zlabys |
| 2001 | Roberto Plano | Minsoo Sohn | Özgür Aydin | Gilles Vonsattel |
| 1999 | Antonio Pompa-Baldi | Vassily Primakov | Shoko Inoue | Sean Botkin |
| 1997 | Per Tengstrand | Gulnora Alimova | Ning An | Dror Biran |
| 1995 | Margarita Shevchenko | / Marina Lomazov | Dmitri Teterin | Giampaolo Stuani |
| 1993 | Amir Katz | Not awarded | Seizo Azuma Yuko Nakamichi | Katsunori Ishii |
| Year | First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth |
| 1991 | Ilya Itin | Anders Martinson | Markus Pawlik | Jean-François Bouvery | Timothy Bozarth | Hsin-Bei Lee |
| 1989 | Sergei Babayan | Nicholas Angelich | Megumi Kaneko | Pascal Godart | François Chaplin | Eglé Januleviciuté |
| 1987 | Thierry Huillet | Asaf Zohar | Jonathan Bass | Beatrice Hsin-Chen Long | Takayuki Ito | Hiroko Atsumi |
| 1985 | Daejin Kim | Benedetto Lupo | Hélène Jeanney | Neil Rutman | Yves Henry | Dan-Wen Wei |
| 1983 | Youngshin An | Mayumi Kameda | Stéphane Lemelin | Roy Kogan | Dimitry Cogan | Silke-Thora Matthies |
| 1981 | Philippe Bianconi | Dan Riddle | Rémy Loumbrozo | Roy Kogan | Timothy Smith | Michael Boriskin |
| 1979 | Edward Newman | Jean-Yves Thibaudet | Angela Hewitt | Frederick Blum | Peter Vinograde | Douglas Weeks |
| 1977 | Nathalie Béra-Tagrine | Barry Salwen | Douglas Montgomery | Laura Silverman | Géry Moutier | Sandra Shuler |
| 1975 | John Owings | Julian Martin | John-Patrick Millow | Roe Van Boskirk | Katsurako Mikami | Paweł Chęciński |