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Yuki Kondo is a regular at the winning podiums of International piano competitions, and a hotly tipped favorite to win the trophy in Tromsø. This wonderful performer from Aichi, Japan, [...]

Armenian pianists have previously won the Second Prize in Top of the World, but with Mariam Kharatyan, they aim to make it all the way to the top. Mariam was born in 1987, and started playing the [...]

Yurino Izumi epitomizes the new wave of Japanese pianists – self-confident, cool and blessed with a phenomenal talent. She started competing from the age of 7, and has raked in several [...]

In later years, South Korea have nurtured an enormous amount of classical talents, but few are as gifted as the tremendous David Jae-Weon Huh. Born in South Korea, pianist David Jae-Weon Huh is [...]

Ukraine-born Margaryta Golovko is a regular at the prize podiums of European piano competitions, and has already performed concerts in 9 countries spread across 3 continents. Margaryta was born [...]

Lindsay Garritson is the only American performer in Top of the World 2015, but with qualities like hers, we still expect the US to be among the top candidates to win this year. Garritson has [...]

Despite being only 18 years of age, Jun Hwi Cho has already 8 first prizes in piano competitions to his name, both from his home country South Korea and from USA. He became the 1st Prize Winner [...]

We continue our presentation round with the marvelous Czech pianislt Robert Bily – winner of more than 70 national and international awards aand prizes Born in 1997 in Usti nad Labem (Czech [...]

In the days leading up to Top of the World International Piano Competition, we will be presenting one contestant per day. We will start with the tremendous, Russian talent – Igor Andreev [...]