# III Sendai International Music Competition

The III Sendai International Music Competition took place in Sendai from May 18-June 24, 2007.

## Violin Competition
### Palmares

| | Winner |
| 1st Prize | Alena Baeva |
| 2nd Prize | Erin Keefe |
| 3rd Prize | A-Rah Shin |
| 4th Prize | Andrey Baranov |
| 5th Prize | Sayaka Chiba |
| 6th Prize | Haruka Nagao |
| Audience Prizes | Haruka Nagao |
| | Alena Baeva |
| | Erin Keefe |

### Jury

** Tomotada Soh (chairman)
** Kiyoshi Okayama (vice-chairman)
** Gérard Poulet (vice-chairman)
** Daniel Gaede
** Yuzuko Horigome
** Lewis Kaplan
** Nam-Yun Kim
** Konstanty Kulka
** Victor Pikayzen
** Arve Tellefsen
** Lina Yu

### Competition results
#### Elimination round

May 20–22.
** A-Rah Shin - 86.70
** Alena Baeva - 84.55
** Erin Keefe - 81.91
** Zhijiong Wang - 81.40
** Shanshan Yao - 80.82
** Haruka Nagao - 80.40
** Aya Kiyonaga - 79.70
** Andrey Baranov - 78.73
** Sayaka Chiba - 78.40
** Minjeong Suh - 78.40
** Aska Kawamata - 78.00
** Hannah Choi - 77.91
** Momoko Arai
** Lea Birringer
** Sakura Chiba
** Aleksandra Fedotova
** Yusuke Hayashi
** Samika Honda
** Tadasuke Ijima
** Hayato Ishibashi
** Jason Issokson
** Fuyu Iwaki
** Maxim Kosinov
** Yevgeniy Kostrytskyy
** Dmitry Lukin
** Maria Machowska
** Svetlana Makarova
** Sergey Malov
** Tomer Marcus
** Pedro Meireles
** Tsuyoshi Moriya
** Kinneret Sieradzki
** Vladimir Soluianov
** Eri Takamura
** Eugen Tichindeleanu
** Gerardo Ubaghs
** Xu Yang
** Asami Yamada
** Masanobu Yoda
** Kosuke Yoshikawa

#### Semifinals

May 26–28.
** Erin Keefe - 88.64
** Andrey Baranov - 87.91
** Alena Baeva - 83.09
** Shin A-Rah - 82.80
** Haruka Nagao - 78.90
** Sayaka Chiba - 78.90
** Shanshan Yao - 78.73
** Zhijiong Wang - 77.80
** Aya Kiyonaga - 73.90
** Hannah Choi - 73.55
** Aska Kawamata - 72.27
** Minjeong Suh - 70.00

#### Finals

June 1–2
** 1st Prize
** Alena Baeva - 6 votes
** Erin Keefe - 2 votes
** Sayaka Chiba - 1 vote
** 2nd Prize
** Erin Keefe - 5 votes
** Shin A-Rah - 2 votes
** Andrey Baranov - 1 vote
** Haruka Nagao - 1 vote
** 3rd Prize
** Shin A-Rah - 5 votes
** Andrey Baranov - 4 votes
** 4th Prize
** Andrey Baranov - 4 votes
** Sayaka Chiba - 3 votes
** Haruka Nagao - 3 votes
** 5th Prize
** Sayaka Chiba - 6 votes
** Haruka Nagao - 4 votes

## Piano Competition
### Palmares

| | Winner |
| 1st Prize | Yuya Tsuda |
| 2nd Prize | Yi-Chih Lu |
| 3rd Prize | Oxana Shevchenko |
| 4th Prize | Ilya Ovchinnikov |
| 5th Prize | Ka-Ling Colleen Lee |
| 6th Prize | Vyacheslav Gryaznov |
| Audience Prizes | Alexander Osminin |
| | Oxana Shevchenko |
| | Yuya Tsuda |

### Jury

* Minoru Nojima (chairman)
* Katsumi Ueda (vice-chairman)
* Peter Rösel (vice-chairman)
* Willem Brons
* Daejin Kim
* Michie Koyama
* Dominique Merlet
* Cécile Ousset
* Elisso Virsaladze
* Oxana Yablonskaya
* Guangren Zhou

### Competition results
#### Elimination round

June 10–12.
** Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 91.27
** Ilya Ovchinnikov - 87.82
** Yuya Tsuda - 87.64
** Yi-Chih Lu - 85.73
** Vyacheslav Gryaznov - 85.45
** Alexander Osminin - 85.20
** Brian Hsu - 85.09
** Yoshihiro Nagase - 81.64
** Shorena Tsintsavadze - 81.55
** Oxana Shevchenko - 81.18
** Esther Birringer - 81.00
** Megumi Shimanuki - 80.50
** Angelo Arciglione
** László Borbely
** Moye Chen
** Árpád Dányi
** Tanya Gabrielian
** Jing Gong
** Cyril Guillotin
** Christopher Guzmán
** Duanduan Hao
** Shinnosuke Inugai
** Kazuo Irie
** Chie Kamino
** Jun Kaneko
** Alexander Karpeyev
** Takuro Maeda
** Maiko Mine
** Olga Monakh
** Koki Murata
** Sandra Nam
** Takaya Sano
** Nina Sarapyan
** Anna Shakina
** Jia Shi
** Yuki Sunamura
** Hsiang Tu

#### Semifinals

June 16–18.
** Oxana Shevchenko - 88.73
** Ilya Ovchinnikov - 86.64
** Yuya Tsuda - 86.09
** Vyacheslav Gryaznov - 84.73
** Yi-Chih Lu - 84.55
** Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 83.82
** Megumi Shimanuki - 79.90
** Esther Birringer - 79.64
** Brian Hsu - 79.09
** Yoshihiro Nagase - 78.18
** Alexander Osminin - 73.30
** Shorena Tsintsavadze - 00.00 (disqualified)

#### Finals

June 22–23
** 1st Prize
** Yuya Tsuda - 8 votes
** Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 1 vote
** Ilya Ovchinnikov - 1 vote
** Oxana Shevchenko - 1 vote
** 2nd Prize
** Yi-Chih Lu - 6 votes
** Oxana Shevchenko - 5 votes
** 3rd Prize
** Oxana Shevchenko - 7 votes
** Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 2 votes
** Ilya Ovchinnikov - 2 votes
** 4th Prize
** Ilya Ovchinnikov - 6 votes
** Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 5 votes
** 5th Prize
** Ka-Ling Colleen Lee - 8 votes
** Vyacheslav Gryaznov - 3 votes