XVII International Chopin Piano Competition
The XVII International Chopin Piano Competition was held in Warsaw on April 13–24, 2015 and October 1–23, 2015. Prize winners' concerts were on October 21–23, 2015.
Seong-Jin Cho of South Korea won the competition.
Awards
Seong-Jin Cho won the competition, playing the Piano Concerto in E minor, Opus 11 in the final. The prize money was €30,000. In addition, he also won the €3,000 prize for best polonaise, playing the Polonaise in A flat major, Opus 53 in the second stage.Charles Richard-Hamelin of Canada came second, Kate Liu of the United States came third, Eric Lu of the United States came fourth, Tony Yike Yang of Canada came fifth, and Dmitry Shishkin of Russia was placed sixth.
The following prizes were awarded:
In addition, four special prizes were awarded independently:
Jury
The juries consisted of:Preliminary round jury
- Akiko Ebi
- Adam Harasiewicz
- Yves Henry
- Andrzej Jasiński
- Ivan Klánský
- Anna Malikova
- Alberto Nosè
- Piotr Paleczny Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń ;
- Marta Sosińska-Janczewska
- Dina Joffe
Competition jury
Philippe Entremont caused controversy when he gave Seong-Jin Cho, the winner of the competition, a score of just 1 in the final, the lowest possible score. This was a substantial deviation from the other jurors; 14 of the 17 jurors gave Cho 9 or more points, leading to speculation that Entremont had trouble with Cho's teacher Michel Béroff. A popular conjecture that Entremont may have been racially motivated could not be proven by statistical analysis.
Competitor results
Yes: percentage of jurors who voted to pass the participant to the next roundPts: average number of points