the cleveland international piano competition is an american piano competition that takes place biennially in cleveland, ohio. the initial competition in 1975 and the nine others that followed were sponsored jointly by the robert casadesus society and the cleveland institute of music to honor the memory of french pianist robert casadesus. as a result, the competition was then called the casadesus international piano competition. in 1994, a new organization was formed: the piano international association of northern ohio (piano). prize winners of the cleveland international piano competition have included renowned artists like nicholas angelich, sergei babayan, angela hewitt, daejin kim, antonio pompa-baldi, and jean-yves thibaudet, among others.