We are pleased to announce the 7th Aarhus International Piano Competition For Young Pianists.
The competition will take place March 7 - March 15 2025 in Aarhus, Denmark.
Read more about Schedule, Age Categories, Prizes and more in the menu Information 2025
In the document link below you can see how the jury voted in 2023:
Category A:
1st prize: Kai Rong Toby Tan, Singapore
2nd prize: Yuhe Jin, China
3rd prize: Yuri Yasui, Japan
Carl Nielsen Prize: Kai Rong Toby Tan, Singapore
Category B:
1st prize: Simon Haje, Germany
2nd prize: Valdemar Wenzel Most, Denmark
3rd prize: Emir Ilgen, Turkey
4th prize: Elias Ackerley, United Kingdom
Carl Nielsen Prize: Valdemar Wenzel Most, Denmark
Other prizes:
Audience Prize: Rune Leicht Lund, Denmark
EMCY Prize: Simon Haje, Germany
Here is the result of the final round in category A of Aarhus International Piano Competition 2023. A huge congratulations to the three prizewinners who will perform at the final concert tomorrow. At the final concert the prizes will be announced. We are looking forward to hearing you again.
Buy tickets here: https://www.aarhussymfoni.dk/koncert/aipc-2023/
The prizewinners are:
Yuhe Jin, China
Kai Rong Toby Tan, Singapore
Yuri Yasui, Japan
Here is the result of the second round in category B of Aarhus International Piano Competition 2023. A huge congratulations to the four pianists who will perform in the final round. We are looking forward to hearing you again with Aarhus Symphony Orchestra. Buy tickets here: https://www.aarhussymfoni.dk/koncert/aipc-2023/
The finalists are:
Elias Ackerley, United Kingdom
Simon Haje, Germany
Emir Ilgen, Turkey
Valdemar Wenzel Most, Denmark
Here is the result of the first round in category A of Aarhus International Piano Competition 2023. A huge congratulations to all the pianists who continue to the second round. We are looking forward to hearing you again.
The following pianists will play in the second round:
Yuhe Jin, China
Megan Lo, Canada
Zichen Ma, China
Sehyeok Son, South Korea
Kai Rong Toby Tan, Singapore
Ivaylo Vassilev, Bulgaria
Ryan Wang, Canada
Jiayou Xu, China
Yuri Yasui, Japan
Yiran Zhou, China
Here is the result of the first round in category B of Aarhus International Piano Competition 2023. A huge congratulations to all the pianists who continue to the second round. We are looking forward to hearing you again.
The following pianists will play in the second round:
Elias Ackerley, United Kingdom
Simon Haje, Germany
Emir Ilgen, Turkey
Jonas Emtkjær Jensen, Denmark
Yu Wei Lee, Taiwan
Sherri Hoi-Ching Lun, Hong Kong
Rune Leicht Lund, Denmark
Valdemar Wenzel Most, Denmark
Leah Nicholson, United Kingdom
Yoka Saito, Japan
Reuben Tsang, Australia
Ruogu Wen, China
AIPC 2023 is ready for takeoff! Yesterday all 42 participants arrived and the ballot established the order of playing. It was a wonderful day. Welcome to everyone!
Tonight: Opening concert.
Tomorrow: Competition start. If you are not in Aarhus, you can watch our live stream on our website.
We are happy to publish the names of the 42 young and talented pianists, who will take part in Aarhus International Piano Competition 2023. In November we recieved an overwhelming 214 applications, and the preselection jury chose the 42 pianists listed below based on anonymized audio recordings only. We look forward to welcome all participants to Aarhus and to experience their fantastic piano playing.
Kenneth Chen, Canada
Alejandro Gonzalez Gerwig, Germany
Seokyoung Hong, South Korea
Yuhe Jin, China
Julia Kaufmann, Germany
Dayou Kim, South Korea
Yu Tung Liang, Taiwan
Megan Lo, Canada
Zichen Ma, China
Elisabeth Namchevadze, Germany
Can Sarac, Turkey
Sehyeok Son, South Korea
Kai Rong Toby Tan, Singapore
Ivaylo Vassilev, Bulgaria
Ryan Wang, Canada
Yinqi Wang, China
Jiayou Xu, China
Yuri Yasui, Japan
Yiran Zhou, China
Adam Znamirovsky, Czech Republic
Elias Ackerley, United Kingdom
Jun Chen, China
Simon Haje, Germany
Nicolai Kanha Kehlet Hansen, Denmark
Emir Ilgen, Turkey
Jonas Hasager Emtkjær Jensen, Denmark
Yu Wei Lee, Taiwan
Seo Jun Lim, South Korea
Sherri Hoi-Ching Lun, Hong Kong
Rune Leicht Lund, Denmark
Valdemar Wenzel Most, Denmark
Leah Nicholson, United Kingdom
Ji Gang Park, South Korea
Keona Rose, USA
Kamila Sacharzewska, Poland
Yuanzhen Sun, China
Reuben Tsang, Australia
Yiguo Wang, China
Ruogu Wen, China
Hon Yu Wong, Australia/Hong Kong
Ruby Wu, China
Yuxuan Zhao, China
214 young pianists from all over the world have applied to take part in Aarhus International Piano Competition 2023. We are overwhelmed and thankful that so many young pianists want to perform in Aarhus!
All files have now been carefully checked and completely anonymized; files renamed, tags removed, and so on.
Everything is now passed on to the preliminary jury who will select the 42 pianists who will be invited to come to Aarhus in March 2023.
We wish the best of luck to all the pianists and we hope to see you in Aarhus.
We are expecting to have a result from the preliminary jury in December and we will notice all applicants immediately after, and no later than December 15th 2022.