Louisiana International Piano Competition

I PRIZE: Michael Namirovski, Israel
II PRIZE: Junhui Chen, China
*due to medical reasons the third finalist, Yi-Yang Chen, was not able to perform in the final round

Diploma: Corbin Beisner, USA
Diploma: Anastasia Dedik, Russia
Diploma: Anke Pan, Germany
Diploma: Irina Sidorenko, Russia
Diploma: Peter Toth, Hungary
Diploma: Yi-Yang Chen, Taiwan

Corbin Beisner, USA
Frederic Chen, Taiwan
Junhui Chen, China
Wang Chen, China*
Yi-Yang Chen, Taiwan
Julian Clef, India/UK*
Anastasia Dedik, Russia
Christopher Goodpasture, USA
Jae Won Kim, South Korea
Min-Jung Kim, South Korea
Younggun Kim, Canada
Zhenni Li, China
Miroslava Mintcheva, Bulgaria
Evan Mitchell, USA
Amaury Morales, Dominican Republic
Michael Namirovsky, Israel
Anke Pan, Germany
Igor Pancevski, Macedonia
Yasmin Rowe, UK
Alina Sarkisyan, Russia
Irina Sidorenko, Russia
Junghye Shin, South Korea
Diyi Tang, China
Peter Toth, Hungary
Carlos Vargas, Dominican Republic
Hyun Ji You, South Korea
Haobing Zhu, China

I PRIZE: Chaeyoung Park, USA
II PRIZE:Stephanie Tang, USA
III PRIZE: Zihui Song, China
Honorable Mention: Yijia Lin, China
Honorable Mention:Phoebe Pan, USA
Honorable Mention: Victoria Young, USA

I PRIZE: Daniil Tsvetkov, Russia
II PRIZE: John Fisher, Australia
III PRIZE: Kun Yao, Canada

left to right: David Holcombe (LIPC President), Daniil Tsvetkov, John Fisher, Kun Yao, and Nikita Fitenko (Artistic Director)

Diploma: Joshua Chandra, USA
Diploma: Eric Clark, USA
Diploma: Andreas Eggertsberger, Austria
Diploma: Jee In Hwang, Korea
Diploma: Lin Peng, China
Diploma: Yu-Chi Tai, Taiwan

Christopher Atzinger*, USA
Joshua Chandra, USA
Ai-Ying Chiu, Taiwan
Da Jung Cho, South Korea
Vivian Choi, Australia
Eric Clark, USA
Andreas Eggertsberger, Austria
John Fisher, Australia
Jamina Gerl, Germany
Tihamer Hlavacsek*, Hungary
Jee In Hwang, South Korea
Peter John, USA
Arsentiy Kharitonov, Russia
Kho Woon Kim*, South Korea
Hyun-Soo Lee, South Korea
Julia Mustonen*, Finland
Jonathan Ong, Australia
Lin Peng, Republic of China
Valeriya Polunina, Russia
Yordan Rashkov*, Bulgaria
Anita Ratser, Russia
Yu-Chi Tai, Taiwan
Alessandra Tiraterra*, Italy
Daniil Tsvetkov, Russia
Andrii Vaskevych, Ukraine
Rasa Vitkauskaite, Lithuania
Zhao Wang, Republic of China
Kun Yao, Canada
Tal Zilber, Israel

I PRIZE: Kate Liu, Singapore
II PRIZE: Lin Peng, China
III PRIZE: Fantee Jones, USA
Honorable Mention: Chaeyoung Park, South Korea
Honorable Mention: Synthia Soto, Costa Rica

2009 Junior Level Contestants at the Closing Ceremony in Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center

Clark Chen, CA, USA
Alison Chiang, TX, USA
Soomin Heo, South Korea
Héctor Estuardo Hernández Villatoro, Guatemala
Felix Jarrar, CT, USA
Fantee Jones, CA, USA
Ji Woo Lim, South Korea
Jongkwan Lim, South Korea
Kate Liu, Singapore
Gregory Martin, NM, USA
Stephanie Ng, GA, USA
Jason Nong*, FL, USA
Jeffery Ou, Taiwan
Chaeyoung Park, South Korea
Lin Peng, Republic of China
Cynthia Soto, Costa Rica
Hannah Swayze, CA, USA
Andrew Tan, LA, USA
Anna Tan, LA, USA
Rebecca Zhang, VA, USA

Tamas Ungar, Chair (USA)
Joel Harrison (USA)
Marianne Jacobs (Sweden)
Michael Krist (Austria)
Seok-Rahn Kwon (South Korea)
Murray McLachlan (UK)
Stanislav Pochekin (Russia)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2005 Competition Jury

Joseph Banowetz, Chair (USA)
Yuri Didenko (Russia)
Yuri Gilbo (Germany)
Joel Harrison (USA)
Igor Lebedev (Russia)
Hyekyung Lee (South Korea)
Oxana Yablonskaya (Russia/USA)

2005 Competition Pictures


Left to Right: Richard Gwartney, Yuri Gilbo, Nikita Fitenko, Hyekyung Lee, Joseph Banowetz, Igor Lebedev, Yuri Didenko, Oxana Yablonskaya, and Joel Harrison	2005 Contestants	Artistic Director Nikita Fitenko at the Closing Ceremony

Executive Director Richard Gwartney and the Artist Level First Prize Winner Anna Polusmiak at the closing ceremony	Junior Level Competition Coordinator Katerina Zaitseva and the Junior Level First Prize Winner Joshua Wright at the closing ceremmony	After master class with Oxana Yablonskaya