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t a e r G VALERY GERGIEV ARTISTIC PATRON OF THE INTERNATIONAL PIANO FORUM

Ladies and Gentlemen, Both countries, and Russia, are con- nected to the deep, magnificent and won- derful roots of . Like no other language, music brings people, cultures and generations together. It is understood across all national borders. Its inexhaustible power, beauty and purity give me the inner strength to stand up for cultural identity, friendship and peace. Which is why it is a great honour for me to act as the cultural patron of the International Piano Forum, which awards the International German Piano Award every year. The International Piano Forum promotes brilliant piano talents worldwide with great dedication and supports them in making an international stage career – a challenge I am pleased to accompany. Through the connection between the Tchaikovsky Competition and the International German Piano Award, even more musical bridges will be built between the two countries. The secret of music lies in always making it sound alive, allowing everyone to feel the warmth and life hidden within it and creating from it an emotional story.

Valery Gergiev

INTERNATIONAL PIANO FORUM 2 LARS VOGT ARTISTIC PATRON OF THE INTERNATIONAL GERMAN PIANO AWARD

The International German Piano Forum aims to find and support worldwide, who are able to feel the creative spirit of the greatest com- posers of classical music in history, due to their outstanding artistic personalities and performances. With this talent, these pianists are able to transmit this spirit with the help of their artistic knowledge to the audience in a moving and convincing way. The task of a is diverse and includes an exact knowledge of the compositi- ons, the composers, the period and the musical language. Most importantly it includes an understanding of one's self and the boundless vastness, which are slumbering in all of us and composers have wonderfully addressed throughout history. The promotion of such talents is a responsible task that the International Piano Forum has undertaken for seven years now with the International German Piano Award, through continuous commitment to its laureates and nominees. No easy task, but it's worth it. What would life be without music? As the Artistic Patron of the International German Piano Award, I would like to thank all the sponsors, patrons and contributors and appeal to them to continue to support this initiative in the future.

Lars Vogt

INTERNATIONAL PIANO FORUM 3 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

UNDER THE ARTISTIC PATRONAGE OF UNDER THE ARTISTIC PATRONAGE OF

Maestro Valery Gergiev Lars Vogt Conductor Pianist and Conductor

UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF

Dr. h.c. Petra Roth Dr. Peter Ramsauer Former Mayor of the City of Frankfurt Main Former German Minister · Pianist himself

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Dr. Rolf-E. Breuer Former chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank AG Paavo Järvi Artistic Director, German Kammerphil - harmonie Bremen; Chief Conductor, Orchestre de Paris; Music Director Laureate, Cincinnatti Symphony Orchestra Mario Liepe Director, Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium – Musikakademie, Frankfurt am Main Dr. Stephan Pauly Intendant and Director, Alte Oper, Frankfurt am Main Sebastian Weigle Chief Musical Director Oper Frankfurt and artistic Director of the Opera and Museumsorchestra Axel Wintermeyer, MdL Minister of State and Chief of the State Chancellery Ministry of Hesse, Wiesbaden

INTERNATIONAL PIANO FORUM 4 NOMINATION AND LAUREATE- JURYMEMBERS 2011 – 2017

Prof. Ogtay Abasguliyev Prof. Jura Margulis Aserbaidschan Russia Conrad van Alphen Prof. Dr. Siegfried Mauser Netherlands Germany Prof. Dr. Paul Badura-Skoda Prof. Dr. Rudolf Meister Austria Germany Maurizio Baglini Pablo Mielgo Italy Spain Dr. Eleonore Büning Dr. Dariusz Mikulsk Germany Poland Dr. Alexander Buhr Prof. Ekaterina Murina Germany Russia Prof. Hung-Kuan Chen Michael Ponti United States of America United States of America Prof. Paul Dan Jorge Luis Prats Germany Cuba Gaetan Le Divelec Prof. Wojciech Rajski Great Britain Poland Josep Caballé Domenech Frederic Anthony Rzewski Spain Belgium Prof. Thomas Duis Prof. Georg Friedrich Schenck Germany Germany Gudni Emilsson Prof. Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy Island Germany Enrico Fischer Reinhard Seehafer Germany Germany Prof. Norma Fisher Lior Shambadal Great Britain Israel Renchang Fu Yekwon Sunwoo Republic of China South Korea Lukas Geniuˇsas Prof. Alexander Tchaikovsky Russia Russia Petras Geniuˇsas Amir Tebenikhin Lithuana Kazakhztan Prof. Bernd Goetzke Pieter Van Winkel Germany Netherlands Giorgi Jordania Prof. Catherine Vickers Georgia Germany Dr. Milton Rubén Laufer Boian Videnoff United States of America Bulgaria Dmitri Levkovich Sebastian Weigle Ucraine Germany Prof. David Lively Gregor Willmes United States of America Germany Alexei Ljubimow Andrea Zietzschmann Russia Germany Prof. Wolfgang Manz Germany

INTERNATIONAL PIANO FORUM 5 NOMINEES FOR THE INTERNATIONAL GERMAN PIANO AWARD 2011 – 2017

2011 2014 Nareh Arghamanyan Valentina Babor Germany Joseph Moog David Gray Germany Great Britain Christopher Park Lindsay Garritson Germany USA Amir Tebenikhin Misha Namirovsky Kazakhztan Russia Hélène Tysman Jie Yuan France People’s Republic of China Anna Vinnitskaya Albertina Eunju Song Russia South Korea 2012 2015 Ah Ruem Ahn Francois Dumont South Korea France Lukas Geniusˇas Ching-Yun Hu Russia Taiwan Andrey Gugnin Alexander Lubyantsev Russia Russia Toghrul Huseynli Maria Mazo Aserbaijan Germany Ho Jeong Lee Andrejs Osokins South Korea Latvia Igor Levit Yekwon Sunwoo Russia South Korea Dudana Mazmanishvili Georgy Tchaidze Georgia Russia Igor Tchetuev Andrew Tyson Urkraine USA Irene Veneziano 2013 Italy Gábor Farkas Alexander Yakovlev Hungary Russia Viviana Lasaracina Italy 2017 Dmitri Levkovich Moye Chen Urcraine People’s Republic of China Alexey Pudinov Zhenni Li Russia People’s Republic of China Edoardo Turbil Eric Lu Italy People’s Republic of China Thomas Wypior Fabio Martino Germany Brazil Jiayan Sun People’s Republic of China Alexander Yakovlev Russia

INTERNATIONAL PIANO FORUM 6 LAUREATES OF THE INTERNATIONAL GERMAN PIANO AWARD 2011 – 2017

2011 2012

Amir Tebenikhin Lukas Geniusˇas Kazakhztan Russia

2013 2014

Dmitri Levkovich Misha Namirovsky Ucraine Russia

2015 2016 GERMAN PIANO AWARD

Yekwon Sunwoo Witaru Hisasue South Korea Japan

2017

Eric Lu People’s Republic of China

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Publisher: International Piano Forum President: Maryam Maleki Phone Office: +49 (0) 69 97176 123 [email protected] www.ipf-frankfurt.com

Grand Piano: C. Bechstein Grand Piano D282

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