At the seventeenth Ettlingen International Competition for young Pianists, which was performed as an Online Finale from August 7-9, 2020, the following prizes were awarded:
Category A (Participants up to 15 years)
First Prize: Maria Eydman 2005 Germany
Second Prize: Haerim Park 2006 Korea (Republic)
Third Prize: Hanyuan Zhu 2004 China
Encouragement Awards
Eva Garet 2006 Romania
Seokhyun Seo 2006 Korea (Republic)
Jacky Xiaoyu Zhang 2008 United Kingdom
Special Commendation for young talents
Mariko Hagiwara 2008 Japan
Jacky Xiaoyu Zhang 2008 United Kingdom
EMCY-Prize: Maria Eydman 2005 Germany
Category B (Participants up to 20 years)
First Prize: Kiron Atom Tellian 2002 Austria
Second Prize: Elia Cecino 2001 Italy
Third Prize: Ron Maxim Huang 2001 Germany
Third Prize: Chun Lam U 2002 China (Hong Kong)
Encouragement Award
Vitalii Petrov 2003 Russian Federation
Haydn-Prizes
Elia Cecino 2001 Italy
Kiron Atom Tellian 2002 Austria
288 young pianists, coming from 33 nations, applied for this year’s competition. After the preselection by recordings 112 were admitted.
The competition was planned to take place from August 8 to 16, 2020. Unfortunately, the auditions in August couldn’t take place in Ettlingen due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Instead, the 20 best-ranked applicants in each category were invited to submit a video recording for the Online Finals 2020.