Midwest International Piano Competition

The Midwest International Piano Competition is a piano competition held biannually at the University of Northern Iowa School of Music since 2014. It awards more than $25,000 in prize money, with a first prize of $10,000, and has two categories: Senior for up to 32 years old and Junior for up to 17 years old.[1] The jury members of the inaugural competition included Arthur Greene, Alexander Toradze, and Miroslav Brejcha.[2]

Prize winners

Senior category
Year1st prize2nd prize3rd prize
2016 Timur Mustakimov Allison Lee Zhenni Li
2014 Margaryta Golovko Elina Akselrud Tomer Gewirtzman

Junior category
Year1st prize2nd prize3rd prize
2016 J.J. (Jun Li) Bui Arthur Wang Jeffrey Chin
2014 Michael Lu
 Mayuki Miyashita		 William Yang Yinuo Wang

References
  1. "Ukrainian Pianist Margaryta Golovko Wins First Prize in Midwest International Piano Competition". Iowa Public Radio. 2014-06-07. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
  2. "UNI School of Music to present International Piano Competition | Newsroom". Uni.edu. 2014-06-07. Retrieved 2014-08-11.


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