XI International competition of young pianists “A step towards mastery”
2 – 9 June 2017, Saint-Petersburg
Special prize of EMCY was awarded to: Chang Jooyoung (South Korea)
According to the results of auditions of the competition in category “A”:
1st prize was awarded to: Weller Emil (Austria)
2nd prize was awarded to: Starovoitov Starovoitov (Russia)
3rd prize was awarded to: Lin Jiahong (Canada) and Voronina Sophia (Russia)
According to the results of auditions of the competition in category “B”:
1st prize was awarded to: Malinin Valentin (Russia)
2nd prize was awarded to: Atroschenko Kirill (Belarus)
3rd prize was awarded to: Ma Leroy (Australia)
According to the results of auditions of the competition in category “C”:
1st prize was awarded to: Buerki Simon (Switzerland)
2nd prize was awarded to: Abdiel Calvin (Australia)
3rd prize was awarded to: Ramankulov Osmon (Russia)
The Jury of the competition:
Dr. Claudio CONSTANTINI (Netherlands)
Associate Professor at the Vytautas Magnus University Music Academy
EMCY Vice President Justas DVARIONAS (Lithuania)
Dr. Paul RICKARD – FORD (Australia)
Professor of Tianjin Conservatory
Alexey SOKOLOV (Russia)
Professor at the University of Maryland (USA) and the Sunhwa arts School (South Korea)
Ginha PARK (South Korea)
The chairman of the Jury – Professor of the St.-Petersburg conservatory, people’s artist of
the Russian Federation Ekaterina MURINA (Russia)