Missouri Southern International Piano Competition

The Missouri Southern Competition was a biannual international piano competition organized by the Missouri Southern State University

Missouri Southern State University

Missouri Southern State University is a public, state university located in Joplin, Missouri. Missouri Southern State University was formerly Missouri Southern State College and is also known as Missouri Southern, MSSU, or MoSo for short. Established in 1937 as Joplin Junior College, Missouri...

first held in 1987. It was dissolved in 2008 following the retirement of its director, Vivian León.

Selected list of jurors

Enrique Graf

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Tong-Il Han

Han Tong-il is a South Korean pianist.-Background:Han was born in Hamheung, South Hamgyong, Korea, an area now part of North Korea. He began learning the piano and musical composition from his father at the age of 4. He fled south during the Korean War, ending up in Seoul. He was a guest on the...

Martin Jones Ming-Qiang Li

Ming-Qiang Li

Li Ming-Qiang - is a Chinese classical pianist. He studied under Alfred Wittenberg and Tatiana Kravchenko, and as a young pianist in the late 1950s and early 1960s won awards at several Eastern European music competitions: the Smetana Competition in Prague in 1957 , the Enescu Competition in...

Oleg Volkov

Oleg Volkov is a Russian pianist, b. 1958.He was second to Marc Raubenheimer at the 1982 Paloma O'Shea Competition and subsequently served as Victor Merzhanov's assistant professor at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1990 he settled in the United States and began a concert career.-References:* El País,...

Ramzi Yassa

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Prize winners

Year	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
1987
Senior division	Alan Chow	Heather Staves	Boris Slutsky
Junior division	Diana Chiang	Michael Spaid	Tina Tandela
1988
Senior division	Jackson Leung	Cheng Fei Mao	Xiang-Dong Kong Xiang-Dong Kong Xiang-Dong Kong is a Chinese pianist. He was one of the young musicians featured in From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China....
Junior division	Beau Mansfield	Kôji Attwood	Sarah E. Finch
1990
Senior division	Mia Chung	Steven Heyman	Hayuru Taima
Junior division	Christine Peery	not awarded	Candice Lee
1992
Senior division	Elisabeth Smirnova	Read Gainsford	Richard Dowling
Junior division	Albert Kim	Andrew Armstrong	Atsuko Oba
1994
Senior division	Carl Cranmer	Roberto Corlianò	Sasha Starcevich
Junior division	Melanie Hadley	Shen Wen	Paul Hadley
1996
Senior division	Natasha Khislenko	Atsuko Oba	Derison Duarte
Junior division	Jian Liu	Tian Tian	Dmitri Levkovich
1998
Senior division	Kriszta Kovács	Daria Monastyrski	Anton Mordasov Anton Mordasov Anton Mordasov is a Russian pianist, born in Novosibirsk in 1972.A student at the Novosibirsk Music College under renowned Professor, Academician, Honored Artist of Russia Mary Lebenzon, in 1990 he won the Rachmaninov Competition and shared the IX Tchaikovsky Competition's 3rd prize with Kevin...
Junior division	Daniela Bracchi	Diana Ionescu	Wen-Yin Chan
			Yundi Li
2000
Senior division	Petronel Malan Petronel Malan Petronel Malan is a South African concert pianist.Grammy-nominated South African pianist Malan is an exclusive recording artist for the internationally recognized label Hänssler Classic based in Holzgerlingen near Stuttgart in Germany...	Elissei Babanov	Yoshikazu Nagai
Junior division	Di Wu Di Wu (pianist) Di Wu is a Chinese pianist.-Early life and education:Born into a musical family in Nanjing, Jiangsu, Di Wu entered Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music at age 12. She made her professional debut at age 14 with the Beijing Philharmonic, and has since toured widely to positive reviews...	Kyu-Yeon Kim	Chufang Huang
2002
Senior division	Robert Henry	Li Wang Li Wang Wang Li is a pianist. He began his piano studies under his father, Wang Yanqiao, a composer In China, and was accepted to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing at the age of 6. His studies later continued in Japan under Hiroko Edo, and in France at the Conservatoire national...	Young-Ah Tak
Junior division	Avan Yu Avan Yu Avan Yu is a Canadian pianist.He won a number of prizes including Missouri Southern International Piano Competition, XVI Santander International Piano Competition and Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition....	Jonathan Ware	Sun-Ho Lee
2004
Senior division	Jie Chen Jie Chen Jie Chen is a Chinese pianist.Chen studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music. She debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 16, and has concertized around the world, including performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.She has won...	not awarded	Sandro Russo
Junior division	Wenbin Jin	Chenyang Xu	Si-Chen Ma
2006
Senior division	Tatiana Tessman	Sergei Saratovsky	Sang-Il Han
Junior division	Xiaoqiu Xue	Lo-An Lin	Mi-Eun Kim
2008
Senior division	Avan Yu Avan Yu Avan Yu is a Canadian pianist.He won a number of prizes including Missouri Southern International Piano Competition, XVI Santander International Piano Competition and Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition....	Tian Lu	Peggy Pei-Zhang Sung
Junior Division	Behzod Abduraimov	Anna Han	Yale Wok

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