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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:

In January  2010       KALAMAZZO Michigan USA
                               Kirill Gerstein (Russia) won the
                               prestigious Gilmore Artist Award
 
In May 2010             BRUSSELS, Belgium
                               Denis Kozhukhin (Russia) won the
                               1st  Prize at the Queen Elisabeth
                               International Piano Competition.
 
In October 2010         WARSAW, Poland
                                Yulianna Avdeeva  won the
                                 1st  Prize at the Chopin Piano
                                 Competition 2010 in Warsaw, Poland
 
In October 2010          WARSAW, Poland
                                 François Dumont won the 5th Prize
                                 at the Chopin Piano Competition in
                                 Warsaw, Poland

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