# XVI International Chopin Piano Competition

The XVI International Chopin Piano Competition (Polish: XVI Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina) was held in Warsaw, Poland from 3 to 20 October 2010, for the first time organized by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. Prize winners' concerts were held October 21–23. The first prize was awarded to Yulianna Avdeeva.

## Winners

The competition consisted of three stages and a final.
The following prizes were awarded:
| Prize | Prize | Winner | Winner |
| | €30,000 | Yulianna Avdeeva | Russia |
| | €25,000 | Lukas Geniušas | Russia Lithuania |
| | €25,000 | Ingolf Wunder | Austria |
| | €20,000 | Daniil Trifonov | Russia |
| 4th | €15,000 | Evgeni Bozhanov | Bulgaria |
| 5th | €10,000 | François Dumont | France |
| 6th | not awarded | not awarded | not awarded |
| F | €4,000 | Nikolay Khozyainov | Russia |
| F | €4,000 | Miroslav Kultyshev | Russia |
| F | €4,000 | Pawel Wakarecy | Poland |
| F | €4,000 | Hélène Tysman | France |
In addition, five special prizes were awarded independently:
| Special prize | Winner | Winner |
| Best Performance of a Concerto | Ingolf Wunder | Austria |
| Best Performance of Mazurkas | Daniil Trifonov | Russia |
| Best Performance of a Polonaise | Lukas Geniušas | Russia Lithuania |
| Best Performance of a Sonata | Yulianna Avdeeva | Russia |
| Best Performance of the Polonaise-Fantaisie | Ingolf Wunder | Austria |

## Jurors

The jury panel for the competition included:
* Martha Argerich ( VII)
* Bella Davidovich ( IV)
* Jan Ekier (honorary chairman)
* Philippe Entremont
* Nelson Freire
* Adam Harasiewicz ( V)
* Andrzej Jasiński (chairman)
* Kevin Kenner ( XII)
* Michie Koyama [jp]
* Piotr Paleczny (vice-chairman)
* Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń
* Đặng Thái Sơn ( X)
* Fou Ts'ong ( V)

## Participants
### Results

| Contestant | F |
| Soo Jung Ann |
| Leonora Armellini |
| Yulianna Avdeeva | 1 |
| Fares Marek Basmadji |
| Evgeni Bozhanov | 4th |
| Marek Bracha |
| Rachel Wai-Ching Cheung |
| Fei-Fei Dong |
| François Dumont | 5th |
| Denis Evstukhin |
| Anna Fedorova |
| Madoka Fukami |
| Lukas Geniušas | 2 |
| Leonard Gilbert |
| Jayson Gilham |
| Eri Goto |
| Giuseppe Greco |
| Antoine de Grolée |
| Peng Cheng He |
| Bo Hu |
| Ching-Yun Hu |
| Shih-Wei Huang |
| Claire Huangci |
| Junna Iwasaki |
| Julian Zhi Chao Jia |
| Kaoru Jitsukawa |
| Aljoša Jurinić |
| Airi Katada |
| Lusine Khachatryan |
| Nikolay Khozyainov | |
| Da-Sol Kim |
| Sung-Jae Kim |
| Marie Kiyone |
| Yaron Kohlberg |
| Jacek Kortus |
| Marcin Koziak |
| Sheng-Yuan Kwang |
| Rachel Naomi Kudo |
| Miroslav Kultyshev | |
| Hanchien Lee |
| Eri Mantani |
| Guillaume Masson |
| Vladimir Matusevich |
| Maiko Mine |
| Shota Miyazaki |
| Kotaro Nagano |
| Mamikon Nakhapetov |
| Mariko Nogami |
| Kana Okada |
| Yuma Osaki |
| Ainobu Ota |
| Anke Pan |
| Esther Park |
| Nimrod David Pfeffer |
| Marianna Prjevalskaya |
| Ilya Rashkovsky |
| Joanna Różewska |
| Takaya Sano |
| Louis Schwizgebel-Wang |
| Yury Shadrin $^1$ |
| Ishay Shaer |
| Meng-Sheng Shen |
| Natalia Sokolovskaya |
| Rina Sudo |
| Hyung-Ming Suh |
| Hannah Sun |
| Hiayi Sun |
| Mei-Ting Sun |
| Gracjan Szymczak |
| Xin Tong |
| Daniil Trifonov | 3 |
| Hélène Tysman | |
| Andrew Tyson |
| Irene Veneziano |
| Paweł Wakarecy | |
| Yuri Watanabe |
| Ingolf Wunder | 2 |
| Denis Zhdanov |
| Eric Zuber |
$^1$ Withdrawal