Previous editions

Previous editions

I Competition (1999)
1st prize - Diana Shapiro & Stanislawa Varshavsky (Israel)
2nd prize - Irina Kotlyar & Gregory Shifrin (Israel)
3rd prize - not awarded

Jury: 

Krystyna Borucińska - Polska
Krystyna Bożek-Słobodnik - Polska
Bracha Eden - Izrael
Barbara Halska - Polska
Witalis Raczkiewicz - Polska
Guido Scano - Włochy
Valery Shatsky - Białoruś
Daniel Spiegelberg - Szwajcaria
Volker Stenzl - Niemcy
Aleksander Tamir - Izrael
Andrzej Tatarski - Polska

II Competition (2002)
1st prize . Olga Chipak & Oleksiy Kushnir (Ukraine)
2nd prize - not awarded
3rd prize - ex equo - Lutoslawski Piano Duo - Emilia Sitarz & Bartłomiej Wąsik and Aleksandra Szczęsnowicz & Lech Napierała

Jury:

Barbara Halska - Polska
Bracha Eden - Izrael
Yuri Didenko - Rosja
Maciej Paderewski - Polska
Witalis Raczkiewicz - Polska
Valery Shatsky - Białoruś
Daniel Spiegelberg - Szwajcaria
Volker Stenzl - Niemcy
Aleksander Tamir - Izrael
Veronika Vitaite - Litwa

III Competition (2005)
1st prize - Kuni Seo & Shinichiro Kato (Japan)
2nd prize - not awarded
3rd prize - Sebastian Bartmann & Barbara Rieder (Germany)
4th prize - not awarded
5th prize - Jekaterina Alipova & Julia Morozova (Lithuania)

Jury:

Barbara Halska - Polska
Yuri Didenko - Rosja
Witalis Raczkiewicz - Polska
Valery Shatsky - Białoruś
Yuri Scherbakov - Ukraina
Daniel Spiegelberg - Szwajcaria
Volker Stenzl - Niemcy
Veronika Vitaite - Litwa

IV Competition (2008)
1st prize - Ping Lok Chau & Ting Lok Chau (China)
2nd prize - Victor Del Valle & Luis Del Valle (Spain)
3rd prize - Susan Wang & Sarah Wang (USA)
4th prize - Polina Grigorieva & Yulia Yurchenko (Russia)
5th prize - Ebe Müntel & Jorma Toots (Estonia)

Jury:

Barbara Halska - Polska
Maciej Paderewski - Polska
Maja Nosowska - Polska
Margaret Anne Stachiewicz - Norwegia
Mona Spigseth Sagstad - Norwegia
Daniel Spiegelberg - Szwajcaria
Volker Stenzl - Miemcy
Yuri Sherbakov - Ukraina
Veronika Vitaite - Litwa

V Competition (2011)
1st prize - Jaekyung Yoo & Yoon-Jee Kim (Korea)
2nd prize - Irina Silivanova & Maxim Puryzhinskiy (Russia)
3rd prize - Ani 2nd Sulkhanishvili & Nia Sulkhanishvili (Georgia)
4th prize - Alina Novik & Dmytro Veselovskyy 

Jury:

Barbara Halska        -Polska
Krystyna Borucińska - Polska
Kęstutis Grybauskas - Litwa
Ludmila Kasjanenko - Ukraina
Ewa Pobłocka - Polska
Anna Prabucka-Firley -Polska
Daniel Spiegelberg - Szwajcaria
Volker Stenzl - Niemcy
Aleksander Tamir - Izrael

About Competition

The International Piano Duo Competition is an event of major importance in the Polish music life, especially in Białystok and the Podlasie region, where the concerts of the participants take place. For the numerous international group of piano players those “duet’s agons” are a chance to develop their artistic careers.