PRIZES & AWARDS
Our Students
“Students” is not quite the meaning of those young artists admitted to the Academy.
“Pensionnaire” would be closer to reality. Many of the pianists on this list often come back to the academy after their official stay.
They come for lessons, advice and oftentimes comfort.
TEACHERS
Thomas and Evon Cooper
Steve Karbank
Chris Axworthy
Andrea Scandurra
Monique Lawton
Angelo Fabbrini
Regine De Clercq
Luca Gaffuri
Orpheus Foundation
Alexis Gregory
Michael Johnson
Vendome Press
Giovanni Muolo, Mayor of Dongo
Mauro Robba, President of the Comunità Montana Valli del Lario e del Ceresio
Proloco of Dongo
Pietro Ortelli, Mayor of Griante
Proloco Griante
Concetta Ferraro
Luigi Vanini
Grand Hotel Cadenabbia
Gianluca Soldarini
Silvano Canazza, piano tuner
Stefano Colangelo, piano tuner
Emilio Domenico e Luca Luigi Viganò – piano transporters and movers
Angelita Mannoni, Studio Grafico 22014 – Dongo
Yulianna Avdeeva
Maria Anikina
Sergey Belyavskiy
Ivo Boytchev
Michelangelo Carbonara
Sonia Chan
Nahuel Clerici
Alessandro Deljavan
François Dumont
Shani Diluka
Severin von Eckardstein
Gabor Farkas
Davide Franceschetti
Martina Filjak
Kotaro Fukuma
Vittorio Forte
Kirill Gerstein
Jonathan Gilad
Michèle Gurdal
Stephen Ham
Chi Ho Han
Martin Helmchen
Emil Gryesten Jensen
Ran Jia
David Kadouch
Kyu Yeon Kim
Benjamin Kim
Dinara Klinton
Anna Geniushene
Victoria Kogan
Denis Kozhukhin
Tuomas Kyyhkynen
Ingmar Lazar
Yuntian Liu
Claire-Marie Le Guay
Marcos Madrigal
Danilo Mascetti
Dmitry Masleev
Andrea Molteni
Sergio Monteiro
Raffaele Moretti
Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev
Cédric Pescia
Roberto Plano
Enrico Pompili
Leonardo Pierdomenico
Sergei Redkin
Tomoki Sakata
Eugeny Sudbin
Mei-Ting Sun
Alessandro Taverna
Margherita Torretta
Alexei Volodin
Ya-Ou Xie
Daniel Wnukowski
William Hong Chun Youn
Shiran Wang
Jie Yuan
Andrey Gugnin
Shunta Morimoto
Georgijs Osokins
Tomoki Park
Victoria Vassilenko
Anastasia Vorotnaya
(Russia)
(Russia)
(Russia)
(Bulgaria)
(Italy)
(Canada)
(Argentina)
(Italy)
(France)
(Monte Carlo – Monaco)
(Germany)
(Hungary)
(Italy)
(Croatia)
(Japan)
(Italy/France)
(Russia)
(France)
(Belgium)
(Canada)
(South Korea)
(Germany)
(Denmark)
(China)
(France)
(South Korea)
(USA)
(Ukraine)
(Russia)
(Russia)
(Russia)
(Finland)
(France)
(China)
(France)
(Cuba)
(Italy)
(Russia)
(Italy)
(Brazil)
(Italy)
(Russia)
(Switzerland)
(Italy)
(Italy)
(Italy)
(Russia)
(Japan)
(Russia)
(China/USA)
(Italy)
(Italy)
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(China)
(Canada/Poland)
(South Korea)
(China)
(China)
(Russia)
(Japan/Italy)
(Latvia)
(Korea/Japan)
(Bulgaria)
(Russia)
STUDENTS
What we have won
In recent years students of the International Piano Academy Lake Como have garnered an impressive number of international awards. One must not forget that our academy has only seven students yearly!
TEACHERS
2009
2009
| MONTH | NAME | PRIZE | NATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| October | Alessandro Deljavan (Italy) | has been awarded “Jeudis du Piano 2008/2009” (Prix du Jury – Prix Jean Clostre). | Geneva, Switzerland |
| July | Denis Kozhukhin (Russia) | won the prestigious VENDOME Prize in Portugal. | Lisbon, Portugal |
| August | William Hong-Chun Youn (South Korea) | won the 3rd Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition, USA. | Cleveland, USA |
| September | François Dumont (France) | was one of the three finalists at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition, Vevey, Switzerland. | Vevey, Switzerland |
| June | Roberto Plano (Italy) | was awarded the Special Prize of the Géza Anda Foundation at the Géza Anda Piano Competition in Zuerich, Switzerland. | Zuerich, Switzerland |
| November | François Dumont (France) | won the 4th Prize at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Japan. | Hamamatsu, Japan |
| June | Alessandro Deljavan (Italy) | won the John Giordano Jury Chairman Discretionary Award at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth, Texas. | Forth Worth, USA |
2010
| MONTH | NAME | PRIZE | NATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| November | Alessandro Deljavan (Italy) | has won the 2nd Prize at the Isangyun International Piano Competition 2010, South Korea. | South Korea |
| May | Denis Kozhukhin (Russia) | won the 1st Prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition, Brussels, Belgium. | Brussels, Belgium |
| January | Kirill Gerstein (Russia) | won the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award. | Kalamazoo, USA |
| October | Yulianna Avdeeva (Russia) | has won the 1st Prize at the Chopin International Piano Competition Warsaw, Poland. | Warsaw, Poland |
| October | François Dumont (France) | has won the 5th Prize at the Chopin International Piano Competition, Warsaw, Poland. | Warsaw, Poland |
2011
| MONTH | NAME | PRIZE | NATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| October | Ingmar Lazar (France) | has won the 2nd Prize as well as two special Prizes for the best Liszt and Szymanowski performances at the 3rd European Piano Competition, Caen, France. | Caen, France |
2012
| MONTH | NAME | PRIZE | NATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| March | Alessandro Taverna (Italy) | received from the President of Italy, Georgio Napolitano“The Giuseppe Sinopoli Award 2011” nominated by the Accademia Santa Cecilia, Rome, Italy. | Rome, Italy |
| June | François Dumont (France) | has won the 2° Prize at the Monte Carlo Piano Masters in Monte Carlo (Monaco). | Monte Carlo, Monaco. |
| September | Sergey Redkin (Russia) | has won the 1st Prize at the Maj Lind International Piano Competition, Helsinki, Finland. | Helsinki, Finland |
2013
| MONTH | NAME | PRIZE | NATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| April | Marcos Madrigal (Cuba) | has won the top prize in the International PianoCompetition “Jaen” in Spain. | Jaen, Spain |
| June | Alessandro Deljavan (Italy) | received the”Raymond E. Buck Award” in the van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. | Forth Worth, USA |
| May | Tomoki Sakata (Japan) | received “The Jeudis du Piano Award” as well as the “Public Prize” in Geneva, Switzerland. | Geneva, Switzerland |
| August | François Dumont (France) | has won 3rd Prize at The 2013 Cleveland International Piano Competition, Cleveland, USA. | Cleveland, USA |
| August | Ingmar Lazar (France) | received “The Tabor Foundation Piano Award” at the Verbier Festival & Academy, Verbier, Switzerland. | Verbier, Switzerland |
| November | Sergei Redkin (Russia) | has won the 1st Prize at the VI Prokofiev International Piano Competition, St. Petersburg, Russia. | St.Petersburg, Russia |
| June | François Dumont (France) | has won 2nd Prize in the Top of the World International Piano Competition, Tromsoe, Norway. | Tromsoe, Norway |
2014
| MONTH | NAME | PRIZE | NATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| March | François Dumont (France) | has won 1st Prize at the Morocco Philharmonic Orchestra International Piano Competition, Morocco. | Morocco |
| September | Chi Ho Han (Korea) | has won 2nd Prize (no 1st prize awarded) and the Audience Prize at the ARD International Music Competition, Munich Germany. | Munich, Germany |
| October | Marcos Madrigal (Cuba) | has won 2nd Prize, the Audience Prize, plus the Ginastera Prize given by the daughter of the composer, Georgina Ginastera at the International Piano Competition of Panama “Jaime and Nelly Ingram”. | Panama |
2015
| MONTH | NAME | PRIZE | NATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| March | Gábor Farkas | won the competition of the New York Concert Association, which will be followed by an opportunity to play a debut recital in the Carnegie Hall and make a solo Cd with the Steinway & Sons recording label. | New York, USA |
| June | Dmitry Masleev (Russia) | has won 1st Prize and the Gold Medal at the XV Tchaikowsky International Piano Competition. | Moscow, Russia |
| June | Sergey Redkin (Russia) | has won the 3rd Prize at the XV Tschaikovsky International Piano Competition. | Moscow, Russia |
| September | Marcos Madrigal (Cuba) | has won the Choc Classica for his Leucona’s CD (Cuba Piano Works). | France |
| September | Marcos Madrigal (Cuba) | has won the Melonano de Oro for his Leucona’s CD (Cuba Piano Works). | Spain |
2016
| MONTH | NAME | PRIZE | NATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| September | Tomoki Sakata (Japan) | has won 1st Prize at the Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest, Hungary. | Budapest, Hungary |
| July | Andrey Gugnin (Russia) | has won 1st Prize plus all the other major awards in the Sydney International Piano Competition, Australia. | Sydney, Australia |
| May | Chi Ho Han (Korea) | has won 4th Prize in the Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition in Brussels, Belgium. | Brussels, Belgium |
2018
| MONTH | NAME | PRIZE | NATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| November | Anastasia Vorotnaya | has won the “Les Jeudis du Piano, Genève” | Geneve, Switzerland |
| October | Severin Von Eckardstein | has won the Diapason d’or for his CD about Debussy and Dupont music. | France |
2021
| MONTH | NAME | PRIZE | NATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| October | Bruce Liu (Canada, Como Oberlin Program) | has won 1st Prize in the Chopin International Piano Competition Warsaw, Poland. | Warsaw, Poland |
| May | Sergei Redkin (Russia) | has won 2nd Prize in the Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition in Brussels, Belgium. | Brussels, Belgium |
| May | Tomoki Sakata (Japan) | has won 4th Prize in the Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition in Brussels, Belgium. | Brussels, Belgium |
2022
| MONTH | NAME | PRIZE | NATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| November | Sergey Belyavsky (Russia) | has won 2nd Prize in the Concours de Genève International Music Competition, Genève, Switzerland. | Genève, Switzerland |
| June | Anna Geniushene (Russia) | has won 2nd Prize in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition,Fort Worth, Texas. | Forth Worth, USA |
| April | Ci Ho Han (South Korea) | has won 3d Prize in the Concours International De Piano d'Orleans, France. | Orleans, France |
| February | Shunta Morimoto (Japan) | has won 1st Prize in the Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition, UK. | Hastings, UK |
STUDENTS
Our Students
“Students” is not quite the meaning of those young artists admitted to the Academy.
“Pensionnaire” would be closer to reality. Many of the pianists on this list often come back to the academy after their official stay.
They come for lessons, advice and oftentimes comfort.
Thomas and Evon Cooper
Steve Karbank
Chris Axworthy
Andrea Scandurra
Monique Lawton
Angelo Fabbrini
Regine De Clercq
Luca Gaffuri
Orpheus Foundation
Alexis Gregory
Michael Johnson
Vendome Press
Giovanni Muolo, Mayor of Dongo
Mauro Robba, President of the Comunità Montana Valli del Lario e del Ceresio
Proloco of Dongo
Pietro Ortelli, Mayor of Griante
Proloco Griante
Concetta Ferraro
Luigi Vanini
Grand Hotel Cadenabbia
Gianluca Soldarini
Silvano Canazza, piano tuner
Stefano Colangelo, piano tuner
Emilio Domenico e Luca Luigi Viganò – piano transporters and movers
Angelita Mannoni, Studio Grafico 22014 – Dongo
Yulianna Avdeeva
Maria Anikina
Sergey Belyavskiy
Ivo Boytchev
Michelangelo Carbonara
Sonia Chan
Nahuel Clerici
Alessandro Deljavan
François Dumont
Shani Diluka
Severin von Eckardstein
Gabor Farkas
Davide Franceschetti
Martina Filjak
Kotaro Fukuma
Vittorio Forte
Kirill Gerstein
Jonathan Gilad
Michèle Gurdal
Stephen Ham
Chi Ho Han
Martin Helmchen
Emil Gryesten Jensen
Ran Jia
David Kadouch
Kyu Yeon Kim
Benjamin Kim
Dinara Klinton
Anna Geniushene
Victoria Kogan
Denis Kozhukhin
Tuomas Kyyhkynen
Ingmar Lazar
Yuntian Liu
Claire-Marie Le Guay
Marcos Madrigal
Danilo Mascetti
Dmitry Masleev
Andrea Molteni
Sergio Monteiro
Raffaele Moretti
Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev
Cédric Pescia
Roberto Plano
Enrico Pompili
Leonardo Pierdomenico
Sergei Redkin
Tomoki Sakata
Eugeny Sudbin
Mei-Ting Sun
Alessandro Taverna
Margherita Torretta
Alexei Volodin
Ya-Ou Xie
Daniel Wnukowski
William Hong Chun Youn
Shiran Wang
Jie Yuan
Andrey Gugnin
Shunta Morimoto
Georgijs Osokins
Tomoki Park
Victoria Vassilenko
Anastasia Vorotnaya
(Russia)
(Russia)
(Russia)
(Bulgaria)
(Italy)
(Canada)
(Argentina)
(Italy)
(France)
(Monte Carlo – Monaco)
(Germany)
(Hungary)
(Italy)
(Croatia)
(Japan)
(Italy/France)
(Russia)
(France)
(Belgium)
(Canada)
(South Korea)
(Germany)
(Denmark)
(China)
(France)
(South Korea)
(USA)
(Ukraine)
(Russia)
(Russia)
(Russia)
(Finland)
(France)
(China)
(France)
(Cuba)
(Italy)
(Russia)
(Italy)
(Brazil)
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(Russia)
(Switzerland)
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(Italy)
(Italy)
(Russia)
(Japan)
(Russia)
(China/USA)
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(Italy)
(Russia)
(China)
(Canada/Poland)
(South Korea)
(China)
(China)
(Russia)
(Japan/Italy)
(Latvia)
(Korea/Japan)
(Bulgaria)
(Russia)
Thomas and Evon Cooper
Steve Karbank
Chris Axworthy
Andrea Scandurra
Monique Lawton
Angelo Fabbrini
Regine De Clercq
Luca Gaffuri
Orpheus Foundation
Alexis Gregory
Michael Johnson
Vendome Press
Giovanni Muolo, Mayor of Dongo
Mauro Robba, President of the Comunità Montana Valli del Lario e del Ceresio
Proloco of Dongo
Pietro Ortelli, Mayor of Griante
Proloco Griante
Concetta Ferraro
Luigi Vanini
Grand Hotel Cadenabbia
Gianluca Soldarini
Silvano Canazza, piano tuner
Stefano Colangelo, piano tuner
Emilio Domenico e Luca Luigi Viganò – piano transporters and movers
Angelita Mannoni, Studio Grafico 22014 – Dongo
Yulianna Avdeeva (Russia)
Maria Anikina (Russia)
Sergey Belyavskiy (Russia)
Ivo Boytchev (Bulgaria)
Michelangelo Carbonara (Italy)
Sonia Chan (Canada)
Nahuel Clerici (Argentina)
Alessandro Deljavan (Italy)
François Dumont (France)
Shani Diluka (Monte Carlo – Monaco)
Severin von Eckardstein (Germany)
Gabor Farkas (Hungary)
Davide Franceschetti (Italy)
Martina Filjak (Croatia)
Kotaro Fukuma (Japan)
Vittorio Forte (Italy/France)
Kirill Gerstein (Russia)
Jonathan Gilad (France)
Michèle Gurdal (Belgium)
Stephen Ham (Canada)
Chi Ho Han (South Korea)
Martin Helmchen (Germany)
Emil Gryesten Jensen (Denmark)
Ran Jia (China)
David Kadouch (France)
Kyu Yeon Kim (South Korea)
Benjamin Kim (USA)
Dinara Klinton (Ukraine)
Anna Geniushene (Russia)
Victoria Kogan (Russia)
Denis Kozhukhin (Russia)
Tuomas Kyyhkynen (Finland)
Ingmar Lazar (France)
Yuntian Liu (China)
Claire-Marie Le Guay (France)
Marcos Madrigal (Cuba)
Danilo Mascetti (Italy)
Dmitry Masleev (Russia)
Andrea Molteni (Italy)
Sergio Monteiro (Brazil)
Raffaele Moretti (Italy)
Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev (Russia)
Cédric Pescia (Switzerland)
Roberto Plano (Italy)
Enrico Pompili (Italy)
Leonardo Pierdomenico (Italy)
Sergei Redkin (Russia)
Tomoki Sakata (Japan)
Eugeny Sudbin (Russia)
Mei-Ting Sun (China/USA)
Alessandro Taverna (Italy)
Margherita Torretta (Italy)
Alexei Volodin (Russia)
Ya-Ou Xie (China)
Daniel Wnukowski (Canada/Poland)
William Hong Chun Youn (South Korea)
Shiran Wang (China)
Jie Yuan (China)
Andrey Gugnin (Russia)
Shunta Morimoto (Japan/Italy)
Georgijs Osokins (Latvia)
Tomoki Park (Korea/Japan)
Victoria Vassilenko (Bulgaria)
Anastasia Vorotnaya (Russia)
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