XIV International Chopin Piano Competition

Piano competition (2000)

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Award

The Fourteenth International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition

Official poster

Date

4–22 October 2000 (2000-10-04 – 2000-10-22)

Venue

National Philharmonic, Warsaw

Hosted by

Fryderyk Chopin Society [pl]

Winner

Li Yundi

Website

http://www.konkurs.chopin.pl

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The XIV International Chopin Piano Competition (Polish: XIV Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina) was held from 4 to 22 October 2000 in Warsaw. Li Yundi of China won the First Prize, becoming the first Chinese pianist and youngest first-prize winner.^[1] He was the first competitor to be awarded the First Prize (the gold medal) in 15 years since Stanislav Bunin won it in 1985.^[2]

Awards

The competition consisted of three stages and a final. After the previous two competitions had failed to produce a clear winner, the jury was once again inclined to not award first prize, though it did so in the end.^[1]

The following prizes were awarded:^[1]

Prize		Winner
	US$25,000	Li Yundi	China
	US$20,000	Ingrid Fliter	Argentina
	US$15,000	Alexander Kobrin	Russia
4th	US$11,000	Sa Chen	China
5th	US$8,000	Alberto Nosè	Italy
6th	US$6,000	Mika Sato	Japan
HM	US$2,000	Ning An	United States
	US$2,000	Etsuko Hirose	France
	US$2,000	Valentina Igoshina	Russia
	US$2,000	Radosław Sobczak [pl]	Poland
	US$2,000	Nicolas Stavy	France
	US$2,000	Mihaela Ursuleasa	Romania

In addition, three special prizes were awarded independently:

Special prize	Winner
Best Performance of a Concerto	not awarded
Best Performance of Mazurkas	not awarded
Best Performance of a Polonaise	Li Yundi	China
Best Performance of a Polonaise	Sa Chen	China

Jury

The jury consisted of:^[1]

Martha Argerich (joined during Stage II) ( VII)
Edward Auer
Paul Badura-Skoda
Arnaldo Cohen
Sequeira Costa
Halina Czerny-Stefańska ( IV)
Ikuko Endo [jp]
Kazimierz Gierzod
Lidia Grychtołówna
Adam Harasiewicz ( V)
Eugen Indjic
Andrzej Jasiński (chairman)
Ivan Klánský
Victor Merzhanov
Germaine Mounier
Hiroko Nakamura
Piotr Paleczny (vice-chairman)
Sergio Perticaroli [it]
Bernard Ringeissen (vice-chairman)
Annerose Schmidt
Regina Smendzianka
Józef Stompel [pl]
Arie Vardi

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "The 14th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition". Fryderyk Chopin Institute. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
^ "Teen's Golden Note". CNN. AsianWeek. 3 November 2000. Archived from the original on 31 January 2011.