The Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition is an international piano competition specializing in the music championed by Arthur Rubinstein. The competition has been held every three years in Tel Aviv, Israel since 1974.
The Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition is an international piano competition specializing in the music championed by Arthur Rubinstein. The competition has been held every three years in Tel Aviv, Israel since 1974.
The Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition came into being in 1973, at the initiative of Jan Jacob Bistritzky, a close friend of Arthur Rubinstein, who was honored to give his name to the Competition.
Conceived in the spirit of this legendary pianist, the Competition is committed to attaining standards of the highest order and is a valid international forum for presenting talented, aspiring young pianists and fostering their artistic careers.
The Competition first took place in 1974 and is held every three years.
Rubinstein himself attended the first two competitions, when the winners were Emanuel Ax and Gerhard Oppitz, renowned pianists today.
In 2003 pianist Idith Zvi succeeded Mr. Bistritzky as artistic director, a role she held until her retirement in 2020. Since July 2020, the artistic director of the Competition is pianist Ariel Cohen.
The past 40+ years of its history have continuously produced pianists who went on to international acclaim: Gerhard Oppitz, Angela Cheng, Alexander Korsantia, Kirill Gerstein, Alexander Gavrylyuk; Igor Levit, Khatia Buniatishvili, Boris Giltburg, David Fung, Daniil Trifonov, Alberto Ferro and others.
| Year | First prize | Second prize | Third prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 [1] |  Emanuel Ax | Eugene Indjic |  Janina Fialkowska  Seta Tanyel |
| 1977 [2] |  Gerhard Oppitz |  Diana Kacso |  Etsuko Terada |
| 1980 [3] | Gregory Allen |  Ian Hobson |  Geoffrey Tozer |
| 1983 [4] | Jeffrey Kahane |  Hung-Kuan Chen |  Fei-Ping Hsu |
| 1986 [5] | not awarded | Thomas Duis |  Angela Cheng |
| 1989 [6] | Ian Fountain Benjamin Frith | not awarded |  Krzysztof Jabłoński |
| 1992 [7] |  Giorgia Tomassi | Simone Pedroni |  Ilya Itin |
| 1995 [8] |  Alexander Korsantia |  Sergey Tarasov |  Ohad Ben-Ari |
| 1998 [9] |  Igor Tchetuev | Vitaly Samoshko |  Jong-Gyung Park |
| 2001 [10] | Kirill Gerstein |  Ferenc Vizi | Massimiliano Ferrati |
| 2005 [11] |  Alexander Gavrylyuk | Igor Levit |  Yeol Eum Son |
| 2008 [12] | not awarded | Roman Rabinovich Ching-Yun Hu |  Khatia Buniatishvili |
| 2011 [13] | Daniil Trifonov | Boris Giltburg | Ilya Rashkovsky |
| 2014 [14] | Antonii Baryshevskyi |  Steven Lin | Seong-Jin Cho |
| 2017 [15] | Szymon Nehring | Daniel Ciobanu | Sara Daneshpour |
| 2021 [16] |  Juan Pérez Floristán |  Shiori Kuwahara | Cunmo Yin |
| 2023 [17] | Kevin Chen | Giorgi Gigashvili | Yukine Kuroki |
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