Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition

[2] Organized by the Albéniz Foundation and chaired by the Infanta Margarita and sponsored by a network of civil service and private companies,[3] it arranges an extensive world tour for the winners,[4] including debuts in auditoriums such as the National Auditorium of Music and the Wigmore Hall[citation needed] and cash prizes.

During the last stages of the competition, the participants perform with guest artists and ensembles.

[7] Members of the jury have included Josep Colom, Gary Graffman, Federico Mompou, Vlado Perlemuter, Joaquín Achúcarro, Aldo Ciccolini, Nikita Magaloff, Paul Badura-Skoda, Hiroko Nakamura, Fou Ts'ong, Eliso Virsaladze, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Rafael Orozco, Philippe Entremont, Alicia de Larrocha, Dmitri Bashkirov, Dmitri Alexeev, Akiko Ebi, Márta Gulyás and Arie Vardi.

[7] This is a partial listing of prize-winners of the Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition.

4th: Silvie Carbonel 5th: Margarita Höhenrieder 4th: Janina Drath 5th: Nina Hamaguchi 6th: Marie Sprimont 7th: Milan Langer 4th: Alec Chien 5th: Eric N'Kaoua 6th: Kazuoki Fujii 4th: Fei-Ping Hsu 5th: Daniel Rivera 6th: William Koehler 7th: Nigora Akhmedova 8th: Edward Zilberkant Special prize: Viktor Chernelievsky 4th: Pavel Nersessian 5th: Matthias Fletzberger Brenno Ambrosini Viktor Lyadov Jean-François Dichamp Claudio Martínez Mehner Isabel Dubuis Mariana Gurkova Oxana Rapita Alexander Sandler Emily White Marta Zabaleta Markus Groh Mariana Gurkova Eduardo Monteiro Vadim Rudenko Armands Ābols Carl Cranmer Miguel Ituarte Polina Leschenko David M. Louie