On August 10 Stanislav Khristenko was named the Mixon First Prize winner of the 2013 Cleveland International Piano Competition. He was selected from a field of 28 candidates who performed over a ten-day period.
In addition to a cash prize of $50,000 presented by Mr. and Mrs. A. Malachi Mixon III, one of the largest cash prizes of its kind, Mr. Khristenko receives more than 50 concert engagements, three years of management services, a recording by Steinway & Sons, New York, and a New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall on May 19, 2014
Additional awards included:
Second Prize: Award of $25,000 to Arseny Tarasevich- Nikolaev
Third Prize: Award of $15,000 to François Dumont
Fourth Prize: Award of $10,000 to Jiayan Sun
Audience Prize: Jiayan Sun
Baroque Prize: Award of $2,500 to Andrejs Osokins for best performance of a Baroque composition.
Beethoven Prize: Award of $2,000 to Stanislav Khristenko for best performance of a work by Beethoven.
Cairns Family American Prize: Award of $1,500 to Oskar Jezior for the best performance of an American work composed after 1944.
Chopin Prize: A tie. Two awards of $2,000 presented to François Dumont and Ruoyu Huang for the best performance of a work by Chopin.
Contemporary Prize: Award of $2,500 to Ben Schoeman for the best performance of a contemporary work.
French Prize: Award of $2,500 to François Dumont for the best performance of a work by a French composer.
Mozart Prize: Award of $1,500 to Miao Huang for the best performance of a work by Mozart.
Russian Prize: Award of $2,500 to Arseny-Tarasevich-Nikolaev for the best performance of a work by a Russian composer.