2015 Leeds International Piano Competition
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The 2015 Leeds International Piano Competition was the 18th edition of the tournament, and it was held in the University of Leeds and the Leeds Town Hall from 26 August to 13 September 2015, with the Hallé Orchestra acting in the final conducted by Mark Elder. Russian pianist Anna Tsybuleva won the competition.
Jury
Fanny Waterman (chairman)
Nikolai Demidenko
Pascal Devoyon- Danny Evans
- Adam Gatehouse
Han Tong-il
Jerome Lowenthal- Robert McDonald
Marios Papadopoulos- Boris Petrushansky
- Anne Queffélec
Eleanor Wong
Results
| Competitor | R1 | R2 | SF | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Anna Tsybuleva |  | | | 1st |
 Heejae Kim | | | | 2nd |
 Vitaly Pisarenko | | | | 3rd |
 Drew Petersen | | | | 4th |
 Tomoki Kitamura | | | | 5th |
 Wei Yun | | | | 6th |
 Ashley Fripp | | |  | |
| Hong Hi-hwang | | | | |
| Alexander Panfilov | | | | |
 Shizuka Susanna Salvemini | | | | |
 Szuyu Rachel Su | | | | |
| Sun Jun | | | | |
| Jamie Bergin | | | ||
| Cho Jun-hwi | | | ||
 Kiveli Dörken | | | ||
| Giuseppe Guarerra | | | ||
| Huh Jae-weon | | | ||
| Daiki Kato | | | ||
 Daniel Lebhardt | | | ||
| Lee Taek-gi | | | ||
| Rodolfo Leone | | | ||
| Li Zhenni | | | ||
| Yuka Morishige | | | ||
| Park Joo-hyeon | | | ||
| Costanza Principe | | | ||
| Shin Chang-yong | | | ||
| Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev | | | ||
| Won Jae-yeon | | | ||
| Yang Yuanfan | | | ||
| Masaru Yoshitake | | | ||
 Alina Bercu | | |||
| Anna Bulkina | | |||
| Jenny Chen | | |||
| Cho Jun | | |||
| Daniel Ciobanu | | |||
| Lindsay Garritson | | |||
| Eriko Gomita | | |||
| Guang Chen | | |||
| Julia Hamos | | |||
 Shalva Khotenashvili | | |||
| Kim Myung-hyun | | |||
| Kim Yoon-ji | | |||
| Lim Hyun-jin | | |||
| Lin Peng | | |||
| Mizuho Nakada | | |||
 Adi Neuhaus | | |||
| Nariya Nogi | | |||
| Oh Yeon-taek | | |||
| Kana Okada | | |||
 Célia Oneto Bensaid | | |||
| Park Hyo-eun | | |||
 Stephanie Proot | | |||
| Mihai Ritivoiu | | |||
 Tamila Salimdjanova | | |||
| Nikolai Saratovsky | | |||
| Shen Mengsheng | | |||
| Song Jeung-beum | | |||
 Nattapol Tantikarn | | |||
| Wang Chun | | |||
 Wong Chiyan | | |||
| Wu Chuyong | | |||
| Wu Zhenyi | | |||
| Yong Chang | | |||
| Yoon Joon | |
Reactions
Andrew Clements from The Guardian found that while Tcybuleva's playing in the final was fluent:
- "...she often seemed incapable of seeing the overall shape of the work [Brahms' 2nd Concerto], and her role in projecting it."
Clements further commented that "only Petersen and Kim gave any sense that they chose music they genuinely loved" (Rachmaninov's 1st and Beethoven's 4th respectively), while describing Pisarenko as "another pianist with steely technique and limited musical imagination in the current Russian mould."[1][2][3]