Onutė Grażinytė from Lithuania (4th Category), Robert Aleksander Maciejowski from Poland (3rd Category), Kamila Sacharzewska from Poland(2nd Category) and Neng Ieong from China (1st Category) are the winners of the 2013 Peter Toperczer International Piano Competition in Košice, Slovakia.
The objective of the Peter Toperczer International Piano Competition is to support talented children and enable them to present themselves on major concert stages. The endeavour of the promoters is to help the young pianists feel well in Košice and to ensure that the knowledge emerging from the competition is inspirational for their further artistic development. IPC laureates of previous years performs concerts which constitute a traditional part of the competition. This provides the opportunity to see and compare artistic growth of participating young pianists.
The first year of the International Piano Competition Košice was in 1993 and the competition gained quickly a positive response. A promoter of the project is a teacher at Mária Hemerková Elementary School of the Arts in Košice, Mrs Judita Barthová. Up to the fifth year the competition was held annually, then the Organizational Committee opted for a two-year cycle. This is the only competition in Slovakia for children under 15 (since the 13th competition under 17) with international attendance. So far, the Peter Toperczer International Piano Competition has been attended by children from the Czech Republic, Poland, Belarus, Georgia, France, England, Armenia, Ruddia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Estonia, Bulgaria, Austria, Germany, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Italy, Hungary, Iran, South Korea and China. The international judges panel came from Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, USA, Brazil, Lithuania, Poland and Germany.
Profesor Peter Toperczer was born Juli 24th 1944 in Košice. He was a prominenz Slovak pianist and became Dean of the Academy of Music and Rector of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Peter Toperczer died august 16th 2010 in Prague.
