South Korea’s Seong-Jin Cho (21) has won the prestigious 17th international Frederic Chopin piano competition in the Polish capital, Warsaw. He was followed by Charles Richard-Hamelin of Canada and the third prize winner was Kate Liu of the United States.
- The first prize includes concerts in some of the world’s best-known halls,contracts for recordings and a 30,000-euro award with a gold medal.
- Cho also won a euros 3,000 award for the best polonaise performance.
- Chopin piano competition was initiated in 1927 and has been held every five years since 1955.
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