title: Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition
text: # Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition
  
  The Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition was founded in 2002 by Alexander Braginsky in collaboration with the Yamaha Corporation. It took place every two years in Minneapolis–Saint Paul before the 2008 edition was delayed to 2009 due to the arrangement of a junior edition of the competition. The -e- refers to the competition's focus on Internet and Disklavier technologies. The e-competition is one of the biggest, most significant competitions available for young artists. Many of its past competitors have gone on to achieve significant success on the global competition/concert stage.
  
  ## Prize winners
  
  ### Senior competition
  
  | Year | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize | 4th prize | 5th prize | 6th prize |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 2002 | Mei-Ting Sun | Victoria Korchinskaya | not awarded | Edisher Savitski | Tatyana Kolessova | Wen-Yin Chan |
  | 2004 | Jie Chen | Yung Wook Yoo | Denis Evstioukhine | Tatyana Kolesova | Hanna Shybayeva | Inesa Synkevych |
  | 2006 | Edisher Savitski | Ryo Yanagitani | Victoria Korchinskaya | Mikhail Mordvinov | Einav Yarden | Gregory DeTurck |
  | 2009 | Alessandro Taverna | Pavel Yeletskiy | Hélène Tysman | Eric Zuber | Howard Na | Grace Eun Hae Kim |
  | 2014 | Peter Friis Johansson | Alexey Chernov | Frank Dupree | Marianna Prjevalskaya | Chen Guang | not awarded |
  | 2018 | KaJeng Wong | Timur Mustakimov | Su Yeon Kim | — | — | — |
  
  ### Junior competition
  
  | Year | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize | 4th prize | 5th prize |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 2008 | Frank Düpree Nansong Huang | not awarded | Jan Lisiecki Osip Nikiforov | not awarded | Vladimir Levitsky |
  | 2011 | Aristo Sham | Tristan Teo | Su Yeon Kim | Annie Zhou Misora S. Ozaki | not awarded |
  | 2013 | Eric Lu | Carmen Knoll | Yuanfan Yang | JiaXin Min | Christopher Son Richardson |
  | 2015 | Nathan Lee | Elliot Wuu | Arsenii Mun | YanZhou Li | Christopher Son Richardson |
  | 2017 | Shuan Hern Lee | Youl Sun | Andrew Li | Rio Kai Rui | Yongqiu Liu |
  | 2019 | Kevin Chen | Yu Lei | Eric Guo | Solomon Ge | Caleb Borick |
  