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Results of the 9th Sendai Intl. Music Competition

Competitions

Held in Violin and Piano, the competition presented a number of outstanding young artists

The Ninth Sendai international Music Competition was held from 24 May to 8 June 2025 (Violin) and from 14 June to 29 June (Piano) at the Sendai City Youth Cultural Center Hitachi Systems Hall Sendai. It offered a cash prize of JPY 3.000.000, a Gold Medal, Concerts with the Sendai Philharmonic and other orchestras in Japan as well as a number of recitals and a CD Production.

In the violin section, no First Prize was awarded; Second Prize went to Boha Moon. Originally from Seoul, she moved to the US to study at the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College at the age of 10. She currently studies at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ida Kavafian. Other competition success includes winning fifth prize at the 2021 Menuhin Competition and second prize at the Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians. She has also taken classes from Nam-yun Kim, Pierre Amoyal and Josef Špaček, as well as participated in masterclasses with Mihaela Martin, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Philip Draganov and others. 
 

Awards:
First Prize: not awarded
Second Prize: Boha Moon (19), 
Third Prize: Aozhe Zhang (17)
Audience Prize: Haram Kim, Csikos Vilmos, Momo Matoba

Jury:
Yuzuko Horigome, Masafumi Hori, Young-Uck Kim, Boris Belkin, Friedemann Eichhorn, Jaime Laredo, Cho-Liang Lin, Mihaela Martin, Liviu Prunaru, Ryu Terakado, Kyoko Yonemoto

Artists:
Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra/ Junichi Hirokami, Conductor

Violinist Boha Moon with the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra

In the piano section, First Prize was awarded to Elizaveta Ukrainskaia. Born in Offenbach am Main, Germany, she grew up in St Petersburg, Russia. She studies with Alexander Sandler at the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory, and previously worked with with Lyubov Rudova at the Special Music School of the St Petersburg Conservatory and with Vera Ovcharova at the Lyahovitskaya Music School. Elizaveta is a First Prize winner of the International Piano Competition in Bremen (2016), RNCM James Mottram International Piano Competition (2018), and of the Delphic games (Rostov, 2019). Elizaveta’s performances have brought her across Europe, and to the United Kingdom and America. She first took part in the Verbier Festival Academy in 2021

Pianist Elizaveta Ukrainskaia

Awards:
First Prize: Elizaveta Ukrainskaia (29), Offenbach am Main
Second Prize: Aleksandr Kliuchko (25)
Third Prize: Kaoru Amano (12)
Audience Prizes: Elizaveta Ukrainskaia, Aleksandr Kliuchko, Kaoru Amano

Jury:
Ichiro Nodaira (Chair), Akiko Ebi, Jacques Rouvier, Josep Colom, Dang Thai Son, Kevin Kenner, Daejin Kim, Matthias Kirschnereit, Shigeo Neriki

Artists:
Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra/ Ken Takaseki

 

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