The Panama International Piano Competition is held at the Teatro Nacional in Panama City every two years. It was established in 2004 by Jaime and Nelly Ingram. [1] The 7th Competition is scheduled to take place in October 2016. [2] Award winners receive cash prizes. Additional special prizes are available for the best performance of one of the first two Sonatas composed by Alberto Ginastera, best performance of a Brazilian composition, and best performance of a work composed by Joaquín Rodrigo. [3]
Asterisk (*) denotes winner of Audience Choice Award
| Year | Prize | Winner | Country | Jurors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 [4] | 1st | Yung Wook Yoo | Jaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury) Efraín Paesky Roger Woodward Frank Fernández Fernando Puchol Solomon Mikowsky Sequeira Costa Sergei Dorensky | |
| 2nd | Tatjana Mitchko* | |||
| 3rd | Alexander Moutouzkine | |||
| 4th | Inesa Sinkevych | |||
| 5th | Eduardo Fernández | |||
| 6th | Amir Tebenikhin | |||
| 2006 [5] | 1st | Mario Alonso Herrero | Jaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury) Akiko Ebi Carmen Graf-Adnet Leonid Kuzmin Miguel Proença Joaquín Soriano Blanca Uribe Ralph Votapek | |
| 2nd | Kookhee Hong* | |||
| 3rd | Jingjing Wang | |||
| 4th | Marcos Madrigal | |||
| 5th | Anna Khanina | |||
| 2008 [6] | 1st | Jingjing Wang | Jaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury) Andreas Bach Sequeira Costa Aquiles Delle Vigne Natalia Mitchailidou Ramzi Yassa Leslie Wright | |
| 2nd | Fernando Altamura | |||
| 3rd | Edward Neeman | |||
| 4th | Olga Kozlova | |||
| 5th | Carles Marín | |||
| 6th | Chun Chieh Yen | |||
| 7th | Oxana Shevchenko* | |||
| 8th | Jorge Jiménez | |||
| 2010 [7] | 1st | Alexander Moutouzkine | Jaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury) Solomon Mikowsky Aquiles Delle Vigne Elías López Sobá Thomas Mastroianni Víctor Rodríguez Warren Thomson Dan-Wen Wei | |
| 2nd | Alexandra Beliakovich | |||
| 3rd | Takafumi Mori | |||
| 4th | Anna Kurasawa* | |||
| 5th | Robert Buxton | |||
| 2012 [8] | 1st | not awarded | Jaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury) Ann Schein Caio Pagano Artur Pizarro Fernando Puchol Luis Ascot Olivier Gardon Luis Troetsch | |
| 2nd | Marianna Prjevalskaya* | |||
| 3rd | Jina Seo | |||
| 4th | Fernando Cruz | |||
| 5th | Yuki Ishimaru | |||
| 2014 [9] | 1st | Kho Woon Kim | Jaime Ingram (Chairman of the Jury) Mamiko Suda Luis Ascot Caio Pagano Claudio Vásquez Harold Martina Solomon Mikowsky Fernando Puchol | |
| 2nd | Marcos Madrigal* | |||
| 3rd | Maiko Ami | |||
| 4th | Willanny Darias | |||
| 5th | Marcel Tadokoro | |||
| 2016 [10] | 1st | Jinhyung Park | ||
| 2nd | Yeon Min Park | |||
| 3rd | Nikolai Kuznetsov | |||
| 4th | Po Wei Ger | |||
| 5th | Armen Sarkisian |