# IX Sydney International Piano Competition

The IX Sydney International Piano Competition took place at the Seymour Centre in Sydney from 16 July to 2 August 2008.
It was won by Konstantin Shamray.

## Jury

* Warren Thomson (chairman)
* Michael Brimer
* Manana Doidjashvili
* Aquiles Delle Vigne
* Norma Fisher
* Choong-Mo Kang
* Ian Munro
* Arie Vardi
* Zhou Guangren

## Prizes

| | Winner |
| 1st Grand Prize | Konstantin Shamray |
| 2nd Prize | Tatyana Kolesova |
| 3rd Prize | Ran Dank |
| 4th Prize | Takashi Sato |
| 5th Prize | Tomoki Kitamura |
| 6th Prize | Eric Zuber |
| Australian SQ engagement | Konstantin Shamray |
| People's Choice Prize | Konstantin Shamray |
| Best Female competitor | Tatyana Kolesova |
| Best Australian competitor | Hoang Pham |
| Best Australian Music performance | Tomoki Kitamura |
| Best Mozart Concerto performance | Konstantin Shamray |
| Best overall Concerto performance | Ran Dank |
| Best 19th/20th century Concerto performance | Konstantin Shamray |
| Best Beethoven performance | Konstantin Shamray |
| Best Chopin performance | Takashi Sato |
| Best Liszt performance | Eric Zuber |
| Best Liszt Study performance | Charlie Albright |
| Best Rachmaninoff performance | Ran Dank |
| Best Chamber Music performance | Tatyana Kolesova |
| Best Mozart performance | Konstantin Shamray |
| Best Schubert performance | Tomoki Kitamura |
| Best Debussy Prélude performance | Ran Dank |
| Best Russian Music performance | Tatyana Kolesova |
| Best Romantic Music overall performance | Yoonsoo Rhee |
| Best Haydn Sonata performance | Yoonsoo Rhee |
| Lev Vlassenko Memorial Prize | Daniil Tsvetkov |
| I Round Encouragement Award | Feng Zhang |
| Quarter-Finals Encouragement Award | Alexei Yemtsov |
| Semi-finals Encouragement Award | Shizuka Susanna Salvemini |
| Youngest finalist | Tomoki Kitamura |
| Youngest Australian competitor | Hoang Pham |

## Works commissioned for the competition

* Andrew Ford - Thin air
* Roger Smalley - Morceau de Concours

## Competition results (by rounds)
### First round

16–17 July 2008
* Charlie Albright
* Fernando Altamura
* Manuel Araujo
* Marco Ciampi
* Sean Chen
* Ran Dank
* Christopher Devine
* John Fisher
* Balázs Fülei
* David Fung
* Adam Herd
* Elizaveta Ivanova
* Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
* Miya Kazauka
* Tomoki Kitamura
* Tatyana Kolesova
* Eduard Kunz
* Ka-Ling Colleen Lee
* Miyeon Lee
* Ryan McEvoy McCullough
* José Menor Martín
* Hoang Pham
* Yoonsoo Rhee
* Sergey Saratovsky
* Takashi Sato
* Konstantin Shamray
* Yekwon Sunwoo
* Daniil Tsvetkov
* Mariangela Vacatello
* Xun Wang
* Wojciech Wisniewski
* Alexei Yemtsov
* Chun-Chieh Yen
* Feng Zhang
* Xi-Xi Zhou
* Hao Zhu
* Eric Zuber

### Quarterfinals

21–22 July 2008
* Charlie Albright
* Fernando Altamura
* Sean Chen
* Ran Dank
* Christopher Devine
* David Fung
* Tomoki Kitamura
* Tatyana Kolesova
* Miyeon Lee
* José Menor Martín
* Hoang Pham
* Yoonsoo Rhee
* Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
* Sergey Saratovsky
* Takashi Sato
* Konstantin Shamray
* Daniil Tsvetkov
* Mariangela Vacatello
* Alexei Yemtsov
* Hao Zhu
* Eric Zuber

### Semifinals

23–25 July 2008
* Charlie Albright
* Ran Dank
* Tomoki Kitamura
* Tatyana Kolesova
* Miyeon Lee
* Hoang Pham
* Shizuka Susanna Salvemini
* Takashi Sato
* Konstantin Shamray
* Daniil Tsvetkov
* Mariangela Vacatello
* Eric Zuber

### Final

29 July – 2 August 2008
* Concertos
** Ran Dank — Mozart: 20th, Prokofiev: 3rd
** Tomoki Kitamura — Mozart: 17th, Beethoven: 4th
** Tatyana Kolesova — Mozart: 20th, Saint-Saëns: 2nd
** Takashi Sato — Mozart: 27th, Beethoven: 5th
** Konstantin Shamray — Mozart: 27th; Prokofiev: 2nd
** Eric Zuber — Mozart: 20th, Tchaikovsky: 1st