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Results at the Santa Cecilia Competition

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Bogdan Dugalic wins the 2025 Santa Cecilia international Piano Competition in Porto

With more than 50 years of history, the Santa Cecília International Piano Competition (CISC) is one of the largest and oldest piano competitions. Managed by the Curso de Música Silva Monteiro, since 2012 has been internationalized and brought together thousands of participants, including Portuguese and others candidates from a dozen different nationalities. CISC inscribes Porto as a meeting point and a musical talent lever of promising pianistic careers.
CISC also holds the Piano Marathon and, from the 2024 edition, the Piano Itinerant bringing together professional audiences with all interested listeners, making this competition a celebration of music in the city.

At the same time, and outside the competitive period, CISC develops a set of Masterclasses between the city and abroad and the Festival, who invites former candidates from previous editions of the competition to perform again, nourishing and prolonging the relationship between the musicians and audiences.
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In this year´s edition,there were 149 applications submitted by young pianists up to 32 years of age, with 40 selected to take part in the live rounds of the Santa Cecília International Piano Competition, 16 of which were women. Interestingly, the finalists turned out all male despite an all-female jury (except for the jury chair).

First Prize was won by 22-year old Bogdan Dugalic from Belgrade, a student of Pavel Gililov in Salzburg and previous winner of several national and international competitions, notably Second Prize of the 2022 nternational Maj Lind Piano Competition in Helsinki. Second Place went to Dmytro Semykras (24) from Sumy in northeastern Ukraine, followed by Mikhail Kambarov (23) from Nizhny Novgorod.

Bogdan Dugalic, First Prize Winner of the 2025 Santa Cecilia Competition

Winners:
First Prize: Bogdan Dugalic
Second Prize: Dmytro Semykras
Third Prize; Mihkail Kambarov

Jury: 
Álvaro Teixeira Lopes (Chair), Dina Yoffe, Grace Chung, Jill Lawson, Katarina Krpan, Natalia Troull, Sofia Cabruja, Svetlana Eganian

Artists:
Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música/ Roberto Tibiriçá, Conductor
 

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