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2009 Laureats

In recent months students of the International Piano Academy Lake Como have garnered an impressive number of international awards. One must not forget that our academy has only seven students yearly.

Here follows the list of honours:

                              LONDON, England

In April 2009        Behzod Abduraimov (Uzbekistan) won the 1^st Prize at  the London     

                              International Piano Competition.

                              Behzod who is only 18 years old, first studied at the academy in 2007, since then

                              he is an invited student of the school.  At present he studies with Stanislav

                              Ioudenitch at Park University in Missouri.                             

                              FORT WORTH, Texas, USA

In June 2009         Alessandro Deljavan (Italy) won the John Giordano Jury Chairman

                              Discretionary Award at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition,

                              Fort Worth, Texas.

                              ZUERICH, Switzerland

In June 2009          Roberto Plano (Italy)  was awarded  the Special Prize of the Géza Anda

                              Foundation at the Géza Anda Piano Competition in Zuerich, Switzerland..

                               LISBON, Portugal

In July 2009           Denis Kozhukhin (Russia) won the prestigious VENDOME Prize in Portugal.

                               CLEVELAND, USA

In August 2009      Martina Filjak  (Croatia) won the 1^st Prize at the Cleveland International

                               Piano Competition, USA.

                               CLEVELAND, USA

In August 2009      William Hong-Chun Youn (South Korea) won the 3^rd Prize at the Cleveland

                               International Piano Competition, USA.

                                   VEVEY, Switzerland

In September 2009    François Dumont (France) was one of the three finalists at the Clara Haskil

                                  International Piano Competition, Vevey, Switzerland.

                                  BOLZANO, Italy

In September 2009   Alexey Lebedev (Russia), a special student of the academy, won the 2^nd Prize

                                 at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, Bolzano, Italy.

 In October 2009      GENEVA, Switzerland

                                 Alessandro Deljavan has been awarded  “Jeudis du Piano 2008/2009”

                                 (Prix du Jury – Prix Jean Clostre)

In November  2009   HAMAMATSU CITY ,  Japan

                                  François Dumont (France) won the 4th Prize at the Hamamatsu International             

                                  Piano Competition, Japan