Pianists selected to compete
in the Sviatoslav Richter
International Piano Competition


  1. Murad Adigezalzade (Azerbaijan)

  2. Alexey Chernov (Russia)

  3. Nami Ejiri (Japan)

  4. Maria Grigorenko (Russia)

  5. Viacheslav Gryaznov (Russia)

  6. Yuzo Kakeya (Japan)

  7. Eleonora Karpukhova (Russia)

  8. Yakov Katsnelson (Russia)

  9. Inga Kazantseva (Russia)

  10. Sergey Koudriakov (Russia)

  11. Peter Laul (Russia)

  12. Denis Losev (Russia)

  13. Dmitri Lyudkov (Russia)

  14. Claudio Carbo Montaner (Spain)

  15. Emi Nakajima (USA)

  16. Eldar Nebolsin (Russia)

  17. Jong Hwa Park (Korea)

  18. Maxim Philippov (Russia)

  19. Oleg Polianski (Ukraine)

  20. Vadim Rudenko (Russia)

  21. Vadim Sakharov (Russia)

  22. Andrey Shibko (Russia)

  23. Mikhail Shilyaev (Russia)

  24. Balasz Szokolay (Hungary)

  25. Ani Takidze (Georgia)

  26. Natalia Taldykina (Russia)

  27. Makoto Ueno (Japan)

  28. Ferenz Vizi (Romania)

  29. Kensei Yamaguchi (Japan)

  30. Fan-Chiang Yi (Taiwan-Germany)

  31. Yung Wook Yoo (Korea)

  32. Asaf Zohar (Israel)



A total of 113 applications were received from:

Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Israel, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Spain, Taiwan-Germany, Ukraine, UK, USA.


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Moscow 121069, Russia
phone +7 (095) 290-56-32
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