- Maria Canals International Music Competition
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The Maria Canals International Music Competition (Catalan: Concurs Internacional de Música Maria Canals Barcelona, IPA: [kuŋˈkurs intərnəsiuˈnaɫ də ˈmuzikə məɾi.ə kəˈnaɫz βərsəɫonə]) is a music competition held yearly in the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona. It was founded as a piano competition in 1954, but in 1964 it was expanded so other modalities could be held occasionally.[1][2]
It was founded in 1954 by the Catalan pianist Maria Remei Canals i Cendrós (born 1913) and her husband, the composer and writer Rossend Llates (1899 – 1973).[3] Since 1954, the Competition has welcomed over 7,000 participants from 100 countries and 180 jury members from all over the world.[4]
The Maria Canals competition, for which artists such as Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies and Joan Clavé have made publicity posters, was declared to be of public utility by the Spanish Interior Ministry in 1996.
Commentaries on the competition
- Of the multitude of international piano competitions, it is comforting to note that a competition like the Maria Canals at Barcelona, in which the piano is judged purely on a musical level, in which the player cannot forget the essential thing, interpretation, that such a competition takes on greater importance every year. Musicians can only praise and thank Maria Canals for her initiative. For my part, I can only warmly salute not only the longevity of this competition, but its ever more important participation in that magnificent combat in which, nobly and with exemplary probity, the artists of the future - those who will pick up the baton from their elders - face each other. - Vlado Perlemuter, 1964.[5]
- Those of us who follow the Barcelonan musical life can't forget the ascendant evolution of the Maria Canals International Music Competition, initiated in 1954, which has turned into one of the most important European competitions. In celebrating its 40th anniversary we can state that many performers of the highest level have arisen from the competition, such a thing having contributed to expand the prestige of Barcelona as an artistic city. - Xavier Montsalvatge, 2004.[6]
Palmares
Prize winners [7] Year 1954 1st prize (men) 1st prize (women) 
Miquel Farré Maria Neus Miró1956 Grand prize 1st prize (men) (ex-a.) 1st prize (women) (ex-a.) Not awarded 
Klaus Börner
Aline Demierre
Giorgio Radicula Núria Escofet1957 Grand prize 1st prize (men) 1st prize (women) Not awarded Alberto Colombo
Thérèse Castaigne1958 1st prize Françoise Thinat1959 First prize 2nd prize (men) 2nd prize (women) Not awarded Jean-Jacques Hauser
Yoko Ikeda1960 1st prize 
Andrzej Jasiński1961 1st prize Catherine Silie1962 1st prize 
Dinorah Varsi1963 1st prize 2nd prize (men) 2nd prize (women) Not awarded Jerzy Vajek Françoise Parrot1964 1st prize 
Dag Achatz1965 1st prize 
James Tocco1966 1st prize Leonora Milà1967 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) Not awarded Franco Angeleri Jacques Rouvier1968 1st prize 
Christina Viñas1969 1st prize Joseph W. Fennimore1970 1st prize 
Lupe Parrondo1971 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) Not awarded Ewa Bukojemska Yves Noack1972 1st prize 
Klára Barányi1973 1st prize Primera medalla Jonathan M. Purvin
Petru Florian1974 1st prize 2nd prize by unanimity 2nd prize (ex-a.) Not awarded 
Blanca Bodalla Akira Imai Pierre Réach1975 1st prize 2nd prize (men) (ex-a.) 2nd prize (women) Not awarded Raimondo Campisi Marioaran Trifan Roberto Capello Andrea Bonatta1976 1st prize 2nd prize Yasuto Sugimoto Elza Kolodin1977 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) 3rd prize Arnulf von Arnim
Chung-Myung Kim Silvia Natiello
Carmen Or1978 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize Bernard d'Ascoli Erik Berchot Ruriko Kikuchi1979 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize (ex-a.) Not awarded Eva Tihány Gabriela Mazza Kuniko Taguchi1980 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize 
Yuri Rosum Cathérine Joly Akos Hernadi1981 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) 3rd prize Not awarded Kazuoki Fujii
José Carlos Cocarelli Michel Gal1982 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize Hiromi Okada Karoly Mocsari Yuki Matsuzawa1983 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) 3rd prize Special prize Not awarded Bernd Glemser Antonella Vignali
Marcelino López Kyoko Koyama1984 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) 3rd prize Not awarded Rie Konishi
Galina Vratcheva Pascal Le Corre1985 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) 3rd prize Not awarded Detlef Kaiser
Constantin Sandu
Ian Munro1986 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize Special prize Chiharu Sakai Carole Carniel Nobuyuki Nagaoka Ignacio Marín1987 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize (ex-a.) Not awarded 
Christopher Oakden Keiko Nakai Alexandre Tharaud1988 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize Special prize 
Zhong Xu Olivier Cazal Junko Saito José Ramón Méndez1989 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize Special prize Gerardo Vila Christophe Simonet Yukiko Hori Miquel Jorba1990 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize (ex-a.) Mathieu PapadiamandisNot awarded 
Jovianney E. Cruz Andrei Fadeev1991 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize Yuri Martinov Yuko Nakamichi Eva-Maria Rieckert1992 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize 
Armands Ābols Akiko Kato Tomoko Doi1993 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize Amir Katz Gustavo Díaz-Jerez Rafal Luszczewski1994 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize (ex-a.) 
Sviatoslav Lips
Dmitri Morozov Frederik Lagarde Yoko Takemura1995 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize (ex-a.) Won Kim Keiji Serizawa Yulia Botchkovskaia Birgita Wollenweber1996 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize (ex-a.) Not awarded Jan Gottlieb Jiracek Saar Ahuvia Kiyo Wada1997 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) 3rd prize Special prize Not awarded Elina Hata
Li Wang Young-Ha Chung Ayako Kawai1998 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize (ex-a.) Special prize Peter Koczor Takahiro Mita Miwako Takeda Vicent Larderet Anthony Zerpa-Falcon1999 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize Kirill Gerstein Ayako Kimura Sung-Hoon Hwang2000 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize (ex-a.) Yusuke Kikuchi Ferenc Vizi Piotr Kupka Fabrice Lanoë2001 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) 3rd prize Yurie Miura Mel Adkins Mayako Asada Ekaterina Krivokochenko2002 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) 3rd prize Viv McLean Alexandre Moutouzkine Yun-Yang Lee Kook Hee Hong2003 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize 
Inesa Synkevich Yosuke Niino Sowon Hwang2004 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize Piotr Machnik Yi-Chih Lu Matei Varga2005 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize Jue Wang Yukiko Akagi Fumiyo Kawamura2006 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize José Enrique Bagaría Marie Vermeuil
Mi-Yeon I2007 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize 
Mladen Čolić
Veronika Böhmova Marisa Gupta2008 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize 
Martina Filjak Ilya Maksimov Jun Ishimura2009 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize Vestards Šimkus Jong Yun Kim Scipione Sangiovanni2010 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize Denis Zhdanov Olga Kozlova
Marko Hilpo2011 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize Mateusz Borowiak Alexey Lebedev Alexey ChernovReferences
- ^ Ana Maria Davila (2007-05-04). "Competició pianística de primera". El Mundo. http://www.elmundo.es/papel/2007/05/04/catalunya/2118185.html.
- ^ Lourdes Morgades (2007-05-02). "Un total de 114 pianistas aspiran a darse a conocer al mundo desde Barcelona en el Concurso Maria Canals". El País. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cataluna/total/114/pianistas/aspiran/darse/conocer/mundo/Barcelona/Concurso/Maria/Canals/elpepuespcat/20070502elpcat_19/Tes.
- ^ L'Enciclopèdia
- ^ Barcelona Yellow
- ^ Vlado Perlemuter. "Dans la multiplicité des Concours Internationaux de Piano...". http://www.mariacanals.org/esp/32_evolucio.asp. "Dans la multiplicité des Concours internationaux de Piano, il est réconfortant de constater qu’un Concours comme celui de Maria Canals à Barcelona, où le Piano n’est jugé qu’à l’échelle de la Musique, où l’instrumentiste ne peut pas oublier l’essentiel, l’interprète, qu’un tel Concours prend chaque année une ampleur grandissante. Les musiciens ne peuvent que louer et remercier Maria Canals de son initiative. Je ne peut, pour ma part, que souhaiter chaleureusement non seulement la longévité de ce Concours, mais une participation toujours plus importante à cette magnifique joute, où s’affrontent noblement et avec une probité exemplaire, les futurs artistes, qui prendront la relève de leurs aînés."
- ^ Xavier Montsalvatge. "Els que ja fa temps que seguim...". http://web.archive.org/web/20070108152138/www.mariacanals.org/esp/30_opinions.asp. "Els que ja fa temps que seguim la vida musical barcelonina no podem oblidar l’ascendent evolució del Concurs Internacional d’Execució Musical Maria Canals, iniciat el 1954 per convertir-se en un dels certàmens més imporrtants d’Europa. En celebrar el seu 40 aniversari, podem afirmar que, del concurs, han sorgit molts intèrprets de primera categoria, cosa que ha contribuït a expandir arreu el prestigi de la realitat artística barcelonina."
- ^ "The winners of the competition". http://www.mariacanals.org/en/concurs/historia/guanyadors.html.
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