FIRST PRIZE
Princess Mary Gold Medal and £15,000
The Audrey and Stanley Burton Charitable Trust

Sofya Gulyak, 29
Russian Federation

Brahms: Concerto no. 1 in D minor, op. 15 

Studied at the Kazan State Conservatoire; the Ecole Normale de Music de Paris and the Piano Academy Incontri Col Maestro, Imola

Teachers: Elfya Burnasheva, Marian Rybicki, Boris Petrushansky

First Prize: William Kapell International Piano Competition, 2007
Second Prize: Busoni International Piano Competition, 2007
Third Prize: Marguerite Long International Piano Competition, 2007
First Prize: Helsinki International Maj Lind Piano Competition, 2007
First Prize: Gyeongnam International Piano Competition, South Korea, 2008

Alexej Gorlatch, 21
Ukraine

Beethoven: Concerto no. 5 in E flat major, op. 73 Emperor

Studied at the Music School, Passau; the University of Arts, Berlin and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hannover

Teachers: Eduard-Georg Georgiew, Martin Hughes, Karl Heinz Kämmerling

First Prize: Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, 2006
First Prize: International August- Everding Competition, 2006
Audience’s Favourite: Bonn International Beethoven Competition, 2007
Second Prize: Seoul International Music Competition, 2008
First Prize: National German Music Competition, 2008
First Prize, Debut Recital Prize and Best Performance of a Commissioned Piece: AXA Dublin International Piano Competition, 2009

THIRD PRIZE
Bronze Medal and £7,000
The Geoffrey de Keyser Memorial Award donated by
Sir Christopher Walford

Alessandro Taverna, 25
Italy  

Chopin: Concerto no. 1 in E minor, op. 11

Studied at the "Incontri col Maestro" of Imola and the Accademia Nazionale 'S.Cecilia', Rome

Teachers: Sergio Perticaroli, Leonid Margarius, Franco Scala, Louis Lortie

First Prize: ‘A. Scriabin’ International Piano Competition, Grosseto, 2003
Semi-Finalist: Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, 2006
First Prize: ‘Concerti in Villa’ International Piano Competition, Vicenza, 2006
Semi-Finalist: UNISA International Piano Competition, 2008
Second Prize: London International Piano Competition, 2009
First Prize: Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition, 2009

David Kadouch, 23
France

Beethoven: Concerto no. 5 in E flat major, op. 73 Emperor

Studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de danse, Paris and the Reina Sofia Escuela Superior de Musica, Madrid

Teachers: Jacques Rouvier, Dmitri Bashkirov

Third Prize: Beethoven Bonn Competition for Piano, 2005
Best Pianist: Salzburg Academy, 2005
Best Pianist: Verbier Academy, 2007
Public Prize: The Mecklenburg Festival, 2008

FIFTH PRIZE
£4,000
Lady Solti

Rachel Cheung, 17
China

Rachmaninov: Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18

Studied at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts

Teacher: Eleanor Wong

First Prize: Steinway and Sons International Youth Piano Competition, 2001
First Prize: Llangollen International Musical Eisteddford, 2002
First Prize and Concerto Prize: International Competition for Young Pianist in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz, 2003
First Prize: Gina Bachauer International Junior Piano Competition, Salt Lake City, 2004
Second Prize and Schubert Prize: Alessandro Casagrande International Piano Competition, 2008  

SIXTH PRIZE
£3,500
The Robert Tebb Trust

Jianing Kong, 23
China

Beethoven: Concerto no. 5 in E flat major, op. 73 Emperor

Studied at the Xin Hai Conservatory of Music, Guang Dong; the Purcell School, London and the Royal College of Music, London

Teachers: Ronald Smith, Ruth Nye, Gordon Fergus Thompson, Dmitri Alexeev

Barcape Prize: Scottish International Piano Competition, 2007
Second Prize: Tunbridge Wells International Competition for Young Artists, 2008