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The Fourteenth International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition
Official poster
Date4–22 October 2000 (2000-10-04 – 2000-10-22)
VenueNational Philharmonic, Warsaw
Hosted byFryderyk Chopin Society [pl]
WinnerChina Li Yundi
Websitehttp://www.konkurs.chopin.pl
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The XIV International Chopin Piano Competition (Polish: XIV Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina) was held from 4 to 22 October 2000 in Warsaw. Li Yundi of China won the First Prize, becoming the first Chinese pianist and youngest first-prize winner. He was the first competitor to be awarded the First Prize (the gold medal) in 15 years since Stanislav Bunin won it in 1985.

Awards

Li Yundi won the competition

The competition consisted of three stages and a final. After the previous two competitions had failed to produce a clear winner, the jury was once again inclined to not award first prize, though it did so in the end.

The following prizes were awarded:

Prize Winner
1st place, gold medalist(s) US$25,000 Li Yundi  China
2nd place, silver medalist(s) US$20,000 Ingrid Fliter  Argentina
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) US$15,000 Alexander Kobrin  Russia
4th US$11,000 Sa Chen  China
5th US$8,000 Alberto Nosè  Italy
6th US$6,000 Mika Sato  Japan
HM US$2,000 Ning An  United States
US$2,000 Etsuko Hirose  France
US$2,000 Valentina Igoshina  Russia
US$2,000 Radosław Sobczak [pl]  Poland
US$2,000 Nicolas Stavy  France
US$2,000 Mihaela Ursuleasa  Romania

In addition, three special prizes were awarded independently:

Special prize Winner
Best Performance of a Concerto not awarded
Best Performance of Mazurkas not awarded
Best Performance of a Polonaise Li Yundi  China
Sa Chen  China

Jury

The jury consisted of:

References

  1. ^ "The 14th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition". Fryderyk Chopin Institute. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  2. "Teen's Golden Note". CNN. AsianWeek. 3 November 2000. Archived from the original on 31 January 2011.

Further reading

External links

International Chopin Piano Competition
List of jurors
Editions
Winners
Fryderyk Chopin Institute
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