International Franz Liszt Piano Competition

This article is about the competition held in the Netherlands. For the former competition held in Budapest, see Franz Liszt International Piano Competition (Budapest).

The International Franz Liszt Piano Competition ("Liszt Competition") is an international piano competition. It is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.

The Competition is held in Utrecht in the Netherlands. It first took place in 1986, one hundred years after the death of Franz Liszt.

Each time the Liszt Competition has been held it has seen over two hundred selected participants.

List of Prizewinners

Year	First prize	Second prize	Third prize
1986	Martyn van den Hoek, The Netherlands	Gregorio Nardi, Italy	Michael Lewin, USA
1989	Enrico Pace, Italy	Alexei Orlovetski, Russia	Wibi Soerjadi, The Netherlands
1992	Sergey Pashkevich, Russia	Evelina Vorontsova, Russia	Evelina Borbély, Russia
1996	Igor Roma, Italy	-	Tomoko Narata, Japan and Chi Wu, China (ex aequo)
1999	Masaru Okada, Japan	Mariangela Vacatello, Italy	Yundi Li, China
2002	Jean Dubé, France	Ilona Timchenko, Russia	Giancarlo Crespeau, France
2005	Yingdi Sun, China	Anton Salnikov, Russia	Christiaan Kuyvenhoven, The Netherlands
2008	Vitaly Pisarenko, Russia	Nino Gvetadze, Georgia	Anzhelika Fuks, Hungary/Ukraine
2011	Masataka Goto, Japan	Olga Kozlova, Russia	Oleksandr Poliykov, Ukraine
2014	Mariam Batsashvili, Georgia	Peter Klimo, USA	Mengjie Han, The Netherlands

See also

• List of classical music competitions

References

• International Franz Liszt Piano Competition - official page
• World Federation of International Music Competitions
• Directory of International Piano Competitions
• Piano Competitions & Music Competitions at Bakitone International