The NYIPC has been held at the Manhattan School of Music since its inception in 2002, with opening ceremonies at Steinway Hall.
Rather than a traditional competition model where the focus is on winning, the NYIPC provides an opportunity for contestants to perform, network, exchange information, and cultivate a support system that will sustain them through their pre-professional years.
Former NYIPC prizewinners perform with Chamber Music Society Two;[2] have received the Avery Fisher Career Grant;[3][4] the Gilmore Young Artist Award;[5] The Juilliard School's William Petschek Recital Award;[6] the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts at Harvard University; have won the Young Concert Artists Auditions,[7] and Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition; and maintain active careers as solo performers, collaborative pianists, composers, and pedagogues.
Winners of the NYIPC are awarded concert and recital appearances through the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation's Young Artists Series.
Commissioned composers have included: 2006 - Michael Torke, Bays of Huatulco (renamed Blue Pacific)[9] 2008 - John Musto, Improvisation and Fugue 2010 - No work commissioned 2012 - Avner Dorman, Three Etudes 2014 - Gabriela Lena Frank, Nocturno Nazqueño 2016 - Lowell Liebermann, Two Impromptus 2018 - Gregory Spears, Toccata (Troika)