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2007 Competition Winners and Contestants

Artist Level Winners
I PRIZE: Dizhou Zhao (China)
II PRIZE:Andrey Ponochevny (Belarus)
III PRIZE Ching-Yun Hu (Taiwan)

Additional Awards

Audience Award and Diploma: Andrea Lam, Australia
Diploma: Jeewon Lee, Korea
Diploma: Anna Ryaguzova, Russia
Diploma: Anton Smirnov, Russia
Diploma: Jakub Tchorzewski, Poland
Diploma: Chetan Tierra, USA

Artist Level Contestants

Carlos Avila, USA
Polina Bespalko, Russia
Yuri Chayama, Japan
Soo Hyun Cho, Korea
Kyung Wha Chu, Korea
Christopher Falzone, USA
Martina Filjak, Croatia
Yoshio Hamano, Japan
Ching-Yun Hu, Taiwan
Arsentiy Kharitonov, Russia
Andrea Lam, Australia
Jeewon Lee, Korea
Alex McDonald, USA
Julia Mustonen, Finland
Yuka Nakayama, Japan
Hye-Yeon Park, Korea
Andrey Ponochevny, Belarus
Michael Rector, USA
Anna Ryaguzova, Russia
Nikolay Saratovskiy, Russia
Sergei Saratovsky, Russia
Yukiko Sekino, Japan
Anton Smirnov, Russia
Svetlana Smolina, USA/Russia
Jakub Tchorzewski, Poland
Chetan Tierra, USA
Dmitri Vorobiev, Russia
Dizhou Zhao, China

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2007 Junior Level Winners

I PRIZE: Song Yang, China
II PRIZE: Yon-Joon Yoon, Korea
III PRIZE: Margarita Loukachkina, Russia

Additional Awards

Audience Award: Adam Mayon, USA
Audience Award: Anna Tan, USA
Honorable Mention: Qin Fan, China
Honorable Mention: Grace Ma, USA
Honorable Mention: Mark Mayea, USA

Junior Level Contestants

Junsuk Ahn, Korea
Vivian Chang, USA
Yun Jin Chen, Canada
Michael Dawkins, USA
Qin Fan, China
Philip Kwoka, USA
Angeline Larrivee, USA
Jong Kwan Lim, Korea
Margarita Loukachkina, Russia
Grace Ma, USA
Mark Mayea, USA
Adam Mayon, USA
Jonathan Ni, USA
David Reid, USA
Megan Richters, USA
Derek Shyr, USA
Alexander Seyedain-Ardabili, Iran
Michael Stewart, USA
Ran Sun, China
Andrew Tan, USA
Anna Tan, USA
Chelsea Wang, USA
Stephanie Webb, USA
John Wen, USA
Brian White, USA
Matthew Wieczorek, Poland
Shang Wu, China
Song Yang, China
SoYoung Sarah Yang, Korea
Yon-Joon Yoon, Korea
Zahra Yusifli, Azerbaijan

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2007 Competition Jury

Nelita True, Chair (USA)
Ivo Kaltchev (Bulgaria/USA)
Hugues Leclere (France)
Yuko Matsumoto (Japan)
Kevin Robert Orr (USA)
Alexander Tutunov (Belarus)
Alexander Zolotarev (Germany)

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2005 Competition Winners and Contestants

Artist Level Winners

I PRIZE: Anna Polusmiak-Shelest, Ukraine
II PRIZE: Rufus Choi, USA
III PRIZE: Alexei Gulenco, Moldova

Additional Awards

Audience Award: Willem Van Schalkwyk, Namibia
Prize For the Best Performance of Baroque Composition: Bo Ra Keum, Korea
Prize For the Best Performance of Classical Composition: Anna Bogolyubova, Ukraine
Prize For the Best Performance of Romantic Composition: Tatiana Larionova, Russia
Prize For the Best Performance of Contemporary Composition: Young Hyun Cho, Korea
Prize For Mastering the Art of Piano Transcription:Yuri Blinov, Belarus
Diploma: Jae-Hyuck Cho, USA

Artist Level Contestants

Christopher Atzinger, USA
Yuri Blinov, Belarus
Anna Bogolyubova, Ukraine
Young-Hyun Cho, Korea
Jae-Hyuck Cho, USA
Rufus Choi, USA
Washington Garcia, Ecuador
Adonis Gonzalez, Cuba
Alena Gorina, Belarus
Alexei Gulenco, Moldova
Miao Hou, China
Chih-Long Hu, Taiwan
Bo Ra Keum, Korea
Soo Jin Kim, Korea
Uliana Kozhevnikova, Russia
Tatiana Larionova, Russia
Haicong Ni, China
Yumi Nomoto, Japan
Jessica Osborne, USA
May Phang, Canada
Anna Polusmiak, Ukraine
Yana Reznik, Russia
Nima Sarkechik, France
Michael Schneider, USA
Daniel Stipe, USA
Yuri Tanaka, Japan
Willem Van Schalkwyk, Namibia
Juan Vizcarra, Peru

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2005 Junior Level Winners

I PRIZE: Joshua Wright, USA
II PRIZE: Michael Dawkins, USA
III PRIZE: Lena Ye, USA

Junior Level Contestants

Kenneth Chan, Louisiana, USA
Haokui Chen, Louisiana, USA
Allyson Crow, Louisiana, USA
Michael Dawkins, Louisiana, USA
Hannah Kelly, Louisiana, USA
Christopher Lam, Texas, USA
Danielle Loh, Singapore
Benjamin Rhinehart, Louisiana, USA
Thomas Robichaux, Louisiana, USA
Andrew Tan, Louisiana, USA
Anna Tan, Louisiana, USA
Joshua Wright, Utah, USA
Lena Ye, Iowa, USA

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