Students

Students that have been admitted to the International Piano Foundation "Theo Lieven" and the International Piano Academy Lake Como have become some of the most outstanding young pianists of today:

Alessandra Ammara Piotr Anderszewski Nicolas Angelich Gabriele Baldocci Jonathan Biss Luiza Roxana Borac Ivo Boytchev Sodi Braide Davide Cabassi Michelangelo Carbonara Katherine Chi Naida Cole Hélène Couvert Mirabela Dina Severin Von Eckardstein Ingrid Fliter Lorena di Florio Kirill Gerstein Jonathan Gilad Alon Goldstein Markus Groh François Frédéric Guy Stephen Ham Stanislav Ioudenitch Miguel Ituarte Amir Katz Valery Kuleshov Yong-Kyu Lee Claire-Marie Le Guay Victoria Kogan Sonia Chan Shani Diluka Davide Franceschetti Michèle Gurdal Alessandro Deljavan Kotaro Fukuma Denis Kozhukhin François Dumont Vittorio Forte Martin Helmchen

Christian Leotta Constantin Lifschitz Jenny Lin Aleksander Madzar Claudio Martinez-Mehner Alexander Melnikov Vladimir Mischuk Eduardo Monteiro Raffaele Moretti Simon Mulligan HaeSun Paik Jong-Gyung Park Jong-Hwa Park Cédric Pescia Olivier Peyrebrune Enrico Pompili Roberto Prosseda Edna Stern Eugeny Sudbin Mae-Ting Sun Per Tengstrand Michael Thalmann Sergio Daniel Tiempo Mauricio Vallina Frédéric Vaysse-Knitter Alexei Volodin Vanessa Wagner Amad Weiland Anthony Zerpa-Falcon Benjamin Kim Sergio Monteiro Roberto Plano Ya-ou Xie Daniel Wnukowski Hong-Chun Youn

International Competitions & Prizes

Students of the International Piano Foundation "Theo Lieven" and the International Piano Academy Lake Como have won an impressive array of prizes in some of the most prestigious international competitions, amongst which:
 
Van Cliburn ­ - Fort Worth                1st prize
Queen Elizabeth  -­  Brussels        Two 1st prizes
A. Rubinstein  ­-  Tel Aviv                1st prize
G. Bachauer ­ - Salt Lake City        1st and 2nd prizes
F. Chopin ­ - Warsaw                         2nd prize
U. Micheli  ­-  Milan                             1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes
F. Busoni  ­-  Bolzano                         2nd and 3rd prizes
D. Ciani  - ­ Milan                                 1st prize
A. Casagrande - ­ Terni                    2nd and 3rd prizes
E. Honens - ­ Calgary                        1st and 3rd prizes
M. Canals  - ­ Barcelona                   1st prize
P. O'Shea  - ­ Santander                   2nd prize
F. Schubert  - ­ Dortmund                  Two 1st prizes and 2nd prize
M. Argerich Competition                 
Buenos Aires                                      1st prize
Sanremo Classico                            Two 1st prizes
Viotti - ­ Vercelli                                    Three 1st prizes
Cantù                                                      Four 1st prizes and 3rd prize
Sulmona                                               1st prize
E. Porrino - ­Cagliari                           1st prize           
A. Rendano - ­ Cosenza                   1st prize
Cleveland                                            Two 1st prizes
Maria Callas  - ­ Athens                     1st and 3rd prizes
Geza Anda  -  Zurich                         1st prize
Valsesia Musica - Varallo (VC)    1st prize 
Carlos Gomes Prize 2005 - Brazil    "Pianist of the Year"
Gyeongnam International 2005 - S.Korea 1st prize
ARD Munich International Piano Competition 2006-1st Prize
Leeds International Piano Competition 2006 - 3rd Prize

 
Due to their excellence, the students of the two schools have received some of the most coveted awards in music:
 
Gilmore Artist Award
Gilmore Young Artist
Victoire de la Musique ­- Paris
Avery Fisher Award -­ New York
 
Most of the students of the two schools have already embarked on successful international careers and have already performed in the greatest concert halls of the world. They have recorded with important classical music labels:
 
Accord, Arktos, Arts, Bis, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Doron, EMI, Ermitage,
Harmonia Mundi, Lyrinx, Naxos, Philips, Foné, Sony, Virgin.