9th International FRANZ LISZT Piano Competition Weimar - Bayreuth 2018
30 October to 10 November 2018
Our prize winners
- 1st prize - Anton Yashkin
- 2nd prize - Ruben Micieli
- 3rd prize - Grigoris Ioannou
Special Awards
| For the best interpretation of the sonata in B minor by Franz Liszt | Ruben Micieli |
| For the best interpretation of a sonata by Joseph Haydn | Maria Khokhlova |
| For the best interpretation of a work by Claude Debussy | Yoshito Kitaba |
| For a particularly talented participant | Tamta Magradze |
| Scholarship for one semester at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar | Viktoria Baskakova |
| Audience Award | Anton Yashkin |
Franz Liszt, after whom the competition and the University of Music in Weimar is named, always felt obligated to support young artists. He was significantly more than "just" a piano virtuoso and composer: He worked over a period of decades as a teacher, court conductor, a writer on music and cultural politician in Weimar.
His (never implemented) plans for a Goethe-Stiftung (Goethe-foundation) were intended to yearly award prizes in the areas of music, painting, sculpture and literature - the International FRANZ LISZT Piano Competition Weimar-Bayreuth still keeps several of these ideas alive even in the 21st century. Liszt probably would have liked the idea of a pianist performance comparison in his own name. In the last few years of his life every summer, he gave a free of charge, week long master class to eleven selected pianists in the Weimar "Hofgärtnerei" (court garden) - today known as the Liszt house.