Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition

The Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition is an international piano competition specializing in the music championed by Arthur Rubinstein. The competition has been held every three years in Tel Aviv, Israel since 1974.

History

The Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition came into being in 1973, at the initiative of Jan Jacob Bistritzky, a close friend of Arthur Rubinstein, who was honored to give his name to the Competition.

Conceived in the spirit of this legendary pianist, the Competition is committed to attaining standards of the highest order and is a valid international forum for presenting talented, aspiring young pianists and fostering their artistic careers.

The Competition first took place in 1974 and is held every three years.

Rubinstein himself chaired the jury for the first two competitions, when the winners were Emanuel Ax and Gerhard Oppitz.

In 2003 pianist Idith Zvi succeeded Mr. Bistritzky as artistic director, a role she held until her retirement in 2020. Since July 2020, the artistic director of the Competition is pianist Ariel Cohen.

The past 40+ years of its history have continuously produced pianists who went on to international acclaim:Seong-Jin Cho Gerhard Oppitz, Angela Cheng, Alexander Korsantia, Kirill Gerstein, Alexander Gavrylyuk; Igor Levit, Khatia Buniatishvili, Boris Giltburg, David Fung, Daniil Trifonov, Alberto Ferro and others.

Winners

Year	First prize	Second prize	Third prize
1974[1]	Emanuel Ax	Eugene Indjic	Janina Fialkowska Seta Tanyel
1977[2]	Gerhard Oppitz	Diana Kacso	Etsuko Terada
1980[3]	Gregory Allen	Ian Hobson	Geoffrey Tozer
1983[4]	Jeffrey Kahane	Hung-Kuan Chen	Fei-Ping Hsu
1986[5]	not awarded	Thomas Duis	Angela Cheng
1989[6]	Ian Fountain Benjamin Frith	not awarded	Krzysztof Jabłoński
1992[7]	Giorgia Tomassi	Simone Pedroni	Ilya Itin
1995[8]	Alexander Korsantia	Sergey Tarasov	Ohad Ben-Ari
1998[9]	Igor Tchetuev	Vitaly Samoshko	Jong-Gyung Park
2001[10]	Kirill Gerstein	Ferenc Vizi	Massimiliano Ferrati
2005[11]	Alexander Gavrylyuk	Igor Levit	Yeol Eum Son
2008[12]	not awarded	Roman Rabinovich Ching-Yun Hu	Khatia Buniatishvili
2011[13]	Daniil Trifonov	Boris Giltburg	Ilya Rashkovsky
2014[14]	Antonii Baryshevskyi	Steven Lin	Seong-Jin Cho
2017[15]	Szymon Nehring	Daniel Ciobanu	Sara Daneshpour
2021[16]	Juan Pérez Floristán	Shiori Kuwahara	Cunmo Yin
2023[17]	Kevin Chen	Giorgi Gigashvili	Yukine Kuroki

See also

Music of Israel