The Hilton Head International Piano Competition is a piano competition held annually since 1996 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina's First Presbyterian Church.
Joseph Banowetz 
José Feghali 
Peter Frankl 
Kemal Gekić John Giordano 
Enrique Graf Ian Hobson
Leslie Howard Jerome Lowenthal 
Dominique Merlet
John O'Conor 
Piotr Paleczny Daniel Pollack 
Menahem Pressler Jerome Rose Ann Schein Carlyss Andre-Michel Schub Christopher Taylor 
Valerie Tryon Arie Vardi 
Mikhail Voskresensky Janice Weber | Year | First prize | Second prize | Third prize | Other Main Prizes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Heather Conner | Steven Spooner (ex-aequo) Charles Hulin (ex-aequo) | ||
| 1997 | Sandra Wright Shen |  José Ramón Méndez | Derison Duarte | |
| 1999 |  Min-Soo Sohn |  Gabrieilius Alekna |  Kinwai Shum | |
| 2000 |  Petronel Malan |  Cuong Hung Van |  Georgi Slavchev | |
| 2001 |  Edisher Savitski |  Yuri Blinov | Hea Jung Cho | |
| 2002 | Konstantin Soukhovetski | Dustin Gledhill | Esther Jung-A Park | |
| 2003 |  Chu-Fang Huang | Sean Kennard | Jean-François Latour | |
| 2004 | Andrew Le | Hong Xu | Elizabeth Schumann | |
| 2005 | Di Wu | Chen-Xin Xu | Ryo Yanagitani | |
| 2006 |  Dmitri Levkovich | Diyi Tang | Daniil Sayamov | |
| 2007 | Eric Zuber | Alexey Koltakov | Charlie Albright | |
| 2008 | Ran Dank |  Yelena Beriyeva |  Takashi Yamamoto | Hoang Pham Daria Rabotkina Young-Ah Tak |
| 2009 |  Michail Lifits | Chetan Tierra |  Marouan Benabdallah |  Michael Bukhman Yunjie Chen Wei-Jen Yuan |
| 2010 |  Lukáš Vondráček | Ilya Maximov | Rina Sudo |  Angelo Arciglione Elmar Gasanov Vladimir Khomyakov |
| 2011 | Zhu Wang | Drew Petersen | Jin-Hong Li |  Kate Liu Micah McLaurin Ruixue Zhang |
| 2012 | Jin Uk Kim | Wai Yin Wong | Steven Lin | Fei-Fei Dong Alexei Tartakovski Andrew Tyson |
| 2013 | Leonardo Colafelice | Jinhyung Park | Tony Yike Yang | Saeyoon Chon Yiou Li |
| 2014 | Shen Lu | Miao Huang | EunAe Lee |  Mehdi Ghazi Brian Yeubing Lin Anastasiya Naplekova |
| 2015 | Elliot Wuu | Xiaoxuan Li | Elizabeth Tsai | Tommy Jing Yu Leo Elizaveta Kliuchereva |
| 2016 | Chang-Yong Shin | Tristan Teo | SaeYoon Chon | Albert Cano Smit Hee-Jun Han Reed Tetzloff |
| 2017 | Ray Ushikubo | Andrew Li | Jaeden Izik-Dzurko | Arthur Wang  Hoi Leong Cheong |
| 2019 | Chaeyoung Park | Jakub Kuszlik | Anna Han |  Yi-Yang Chen Arisa Onoda Yuchong Wu |
| 2020 | Kevin Chen | Pyotr Akulov | Tyler Kim | Ryunosuke Kishimoto Kasey Shao |
| 2022 | Jaeden Izik-Dzurko | Illia Ovcharenko | Seongwoo Moon | Yuzhang Li Antony Ratinov Yinuo Wang |
Jerome Lowenthal is an American classical pianist. He has served as chair of the piano department at the Juilliard School in New York. Additionally, Lowenthal is on the faculty at Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.
Konstantin Alekseyevich Soukhovetski was born into a family of artists, and began playing the piano at the age of four. He studied at the Moscow Central School under the auspices of the Moscow Conservatory, where his special subjects also included composition and acting. He then studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, gaining his bachelor's degree in 2003 with the Anton Rubinstein Prize as an outstanding pianist. He received his Master's degree from Juilliard in 2005 with the support of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, and is in the Artist's diploma program at Juilliard, studying with Jerome Lowenthal. He was named winner of the William Petschek Piano Debut Recital Award for 2006. His NYC debut recital was on April 20, 2006 at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.
Sandra Wright Shen (仙杜拉), a world-renowned concert pianist, was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She received her Bachelor of Music in 1994 with a piano performance major and organ minor from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Ann Schein. In 1996, she completed her Master of Music in piano performance and also served as an Ear-Training graduate teaching assistant to Peabody professor Clinton Adams. She has performed in master classes with Jerome Lowenthal, André Watts, Lev Nauomov, and Rebecca Penneys and studied chamber music with Earl Carlyss. Wright Shen's passion for chamber music took her to Germany and Austria during the summers of 1995–1998, where she worked with the Alban Berg Quartet, Jörg Demus, and Grant Johannesen.
Jerome Rose is an American pianist and educator.
Angelo Arciglione is an Italian pianist.
Sean Eric Kennard is an American classical pianist.
Ran Dank is an Israeli classical pianist, who currently lives in New York, NY, USA.
The Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition is a music competition for young pianists that takes place in Bolzano, Italy. It was founded in 1949 by Cesare Nordio in memory of the pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni.
Douglas Humpherys is an American pianist, educator, and adjudicator.
Erik Werner Tawaststjerna was a Finnish musicologist who also worked as a pianist, pedagogue, and critic. He is remembered as a significant biographer of Jean Sibelius.
Michail Lifits is a prizewinning German concert pianist who was born into a family of musicians in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Leonardo Colafelice is an Italian pianist.
Tony Yike Yang is a Canadian-Chinese pianist.
Eric Zuber is an American virtuoso pianist and pedagogue.
Jane Austin Coop is a Canadian pianist and music pedagogue. An internationally recognized concert pianist, she has appeared as a recitalist and as a soloist with major symphony orchestras throughout the world. She has performed at such venues as the Bolshoi Hall in St. Petersburg, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, Roy Thomson Hall, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, the Beijing Concert Hall, and the Salle Gaveau in Paris. From 1980 to 2012 she taught on the faculty of the University of British Columbia’s School of Music in Vancouver. In December 2012, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. In May, 2019 she was appointed to the Order of British Columbia (O.B.C.)
Kate Liu is a Singaporean American classical pianist. On October 20, 2015 she won the third prize, the audience favorite award, and the Polish Radio Award for the best performance of a mazurka in the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland.
Elizaveta Klyuchereva is a Russian pianist who began studying music at the age of six. In 2006, she became a student at the music school of the Moscow Conservatory. She is a winner of more than 20 competitions.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Khomyakov is an American pianist.
Micah McLaurin is an American pianist.
Chetan Tierra is an American concert pianist, composer, and teacher. He is an official Yamaha artist and is best known for his competitive performances. He was the 2009 runner-up in Hilton Head International Piano Competition, José Iturbi International Music Competition, and Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in November 2006.
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