Jurors
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John Giordano (chairman) -
Marcello Abbado -
Peter Cossé - Richard Dyer
- Claude Frank
- Thomas Frost
- Joseph Kalichstein
- Jürgen Meyer-Josten
- Menahem Pressler
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Tadeusz Strugala -
Guangren Zhou
The Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition took place in Fort Worth, Texas from May 20 to June 5, 2005. It was won by Russian pianist Alexander Kobrin, while Joyce Yang and Sa Chen were awarded the Silver and bronze medals. [1] [2]
John Giordano (chairman)
Marcello Abbado 
Peter Cossé Richard Dyer Claude Frank Thomas Frost Joseph Kalichstein Jürgen Meyer-Josten Menahem Pressler 
Tadeusz Strugala
Guangren Zhou| Contestant | R1 | SF | F |
|---|---|---|---|
 Lilian Akopova |  | ||
| Ning An |  | | |
| Giuseppe Andaloro | | ||
| Stephen Beus | | ||
 Sodi Braide | | ||
| Davide Cabassi | | | |
| Jie Chen | | | |
| Sa Chen | | |  |
| Ying Feng | | | |
| Grace Fong | | ||
| Davide Franceschetti | | ||
| Alexey Grynyuk | | ||
| Chu-Fang Huang | | | |
| Mariya Kim | | ||
 Alexander Kobrin | | |  |
| Marina Kolomytseva | | ||
| Alexey Koltakov | | ||
 So-yeon Lee | | ||
 Ang Li | | ||
 Chih-Han Liu | | ||
 Albert Mamriev | | ||
 Gabriela Martínez | | | |
| Maria Mazo | | | |
| Alexandre Moutouzkine | | ||
| Esther Park | | ||
| Roberto Plano | | | |
| Daria Rabotkina | | ||
| Ilya Rashkovsky | | ||
| Elizabeth Joy Roe | | ||
| Rui Shi | | ||
| Rem Urasin | | ||
| Xiaohan Wang | | | |
| Di Wu | | ||
| Joyce Yang | | |  |
 Andrius Zlabys | | ||
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