The Tenth edition will be a significant milestone in our history, particularly as it is to take place in the 1st year of the 21st century. For this event, we received 850 official enquiries from pianists across 52 countries. Full documentation was submitted by a record 185 candidates from 44 countries. The Artistic Advisory Committee, headed by Prof. Arie Vardi, then selected 53 candidates (average age 26.5 years) representing 24 countries to compete for the Arthur Rubinstein Award. These pianists have achieved important prizes in other international contests and have also appeared in recitals and concerts in many different countries. All the competing pianists in the 10th contest will be allowed a free choice of repertoire based on fixed guidelines and will play works that portray their individual artistic personality. Israeli Composition Since its inception (1974), the Rubinstein Competition has commissioned, financed and published 15 works by Israeli composers. The obligatory repertoire pieces in the contest are also premiered by us. In keeping with the rules and regulations, the competitors will choose either: "Tone - Alleys" by Ben-Zion Orgad or "Memories" by Oded Zehavi for performance in the 10th Competition. LIST OF COMPETITORS Armenia Ruben DALIBALTAYAN Austria Florian KRUMPOCK Bulgaria Iliya PANCHEV China Sa CHEN Yang SHEN Chinese-Taipei Chiao-Ying CHANG Meng-Chiech
LIU Finland
Robert UTTER
Germany Jan Gottlieb JIRACEK Georgia Ketevan BADRIDZE Vakhtang KODANASHVILI Great
Britain Anthony HEWITT Hungary Kriszta KOVACS Israel Ron REGEV Yael WEISS Italy Giuseppe ANDALORO Alessandra Maria AMMARA Massimiliano FERRATI Enrico POMPILI Roberto PROSSEDA Irene RUSSO Japan Nami EJIRI Etsuko HIROSE Ryoko HISAYAMA Yoko KIKUCHI Ayako KIMURA Kiai NARA Yuma OSAKI Eriko SANO Mariko SANO Miho TOKAJI Lithuania Evelina PUZAITE Luxemburg Jean MULLER New
Zealand Henry WONG DOE Philippines Albert TIU Republic
of Korea Won KIM Romania Shwan SEBASTIAN Ferenc VIZI Russia Kirill GERSTEIN Olga KERN Denis LOSSEV Yury MARTYNOV Maxim PHILIPPOV Vassily PRIMAKOV Yevgeny SUDBIN Dmitri VOROBIEV Sweden Francisca SKOOGH Turkey/USA Ozgur AYDIN USA Sean BOTKIN Rufus CHOI Ya-Fei CHUANG Molly KISER Uzbekistan Ulugbek
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