by Jarrett Hoffman
Contestants have been announced for the 2020 Cleveland International Piano Competition, which takes place at the Cleveland Museum of Art and Severance Hall from July 26 to August 9.
Here are the numbers: Piano Cleveland, the presenting organization of the Competition, received 242 applicants from 28 nations. And the 29 chosen contestants, ages 20-32, represent 12 countries: Brazil, China, Croatia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and the United States.
At stake is the Mixon First Prize of $75,000, which also comes with a Carnegie Hall debut, three years of management services, and a recording on the Steinway & Sons label.
The contestants were chosen by a five-member jury that included Dror Biran (associate professor of piano at the College-Conservatory of Music University of Cincinnati), Kathryn Brown (head of the piano department and keyboard division at Cleveland Institute of Music), Yaron Kohlberg (president of Piano Cleveland and 2007 CIPC medalist), Caroline Oltmanns (professor of piano at Youngstown State University), and Paul Schenly (artistic director of the Cleveland International Piano Competition).
The 2020 CIPC contestants are as follows, with their ages at the time of the Competition:
Stefano Andreatta, 29, Italy
Svetlana Andreeva, 31, Russia
Jiarui Cheng, 21, China
Martin Garcia Garcia, 23, Spain
Youlan Ji, 21, China
Zhi Chao Juli Jia, 28, China
Do-Hyun Kim, 25, South Korea
Honggi Kim, 29, South Korea
Yedam Kim, 32, South Korea
Peter Klimo, 29, United States
Aika Kondo, 22, Japan
Bowen Li, 24, China
Ying Li, 22, China
Ziyu Liu, 22, China
Roman Lopatynskyi, 27, Ukraine
Philipp Lynov, 21, Russia
Anastasiya Magamedova, 22, United States
Lovre Marusic, 27, Croatia
Arsenii Mun, 21, Russia
Daria Parkhomenko, 29, Russia
Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, 23, United States
Rafael Skorka, 31, Israel
Vitaly Starikov, 25, Russia
Clayton Stephenson, 21, United States
Lucas Thomazinho, 25, Brazil
Takashi Yasunami, 28, Japan
Lin Ye, 28, China
Suah Ye, 20, South Korea
Cunmo Yin, 26, China
Tickets for the Cleveland International Piano Competition will be available to the public on June 1.
Published on ClevelandClassical.com March 17, 2020.
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