The Final Round of the 2021 Piano Star International Competition just concluded yesterday. Our esteemed panel of judges listened to 146 pianists from around the world who played LIVE on Zoom and gave verbal feedback immediately after their performance. We appreciate their hard work!
Before we announce the results, a kind reminder to our contestants:
PL Excellence of Teaching Awards
Behind every contestant is a hard-working teacher. We would like to recognize the following teachers whose student had a PL Star Score of 9.0 or above in either the Preliminary Round or the Final Round (in alphabetical order):
Achira Assawadecharit
Alex McDonald
Ariel Yang
Brian Yuebing Lin
Carol Chuang
Chaeyoung Park
Christopher Janwong McKiggan
Cindy Lee
Coral Solomon
Donna Bender
Ekaterina Melkamini
Elena Fomicheva
Gabriel Sanchez
Han Chen
Hanbo Liu
Hans Boepple
Hayfield Music
Huang Yuan
Ilana Vered
Inesa Sinkevych
Isabel Keleti
Jennifer Mihee Song
Jessica Caporizzo
Jia Shi
Joel Schoenhals
Joyce Ng
Kai Chi Zhu
Kant Lormsomboon
Kathleen Sadoff
Konstantyn Travinskyy
Kookhee Hong
Kristina Henckel
Li-Pi Hsieh
Linda Parr
Lindawati Iman
Ludovica Tassani
Marcella Halim
Marina Alekseyeva
Michael Berkovsky
Michael Thomopoulos
MiHyang Joo
Minhae Lee
Monika Laczofy OAM
Nancy Feng
Natsuki Fukasawa
Nina Polonsky
Oxana Mikhailoff
Peyhwan Kuan
Pornphan Banternghansa
Qinghong Lian
Renata Shumskaya
Robin Freund-Epstein
Rosalinawati Iman
Sandra Hebert
Seonghyang Kim
Sherry Kim
Sung Lee
Vassily Primakov
Wen Peng
Yi Fan Chiang
Yi-Fang Wu
Yukimi Song
Yuko Yoshida
Zhu Sun
Grand Finalists
The Grand Final (Winners Showcase) round will be live-streamed on our Youtube and Facebook pages at the following times:
8 PM – 10 PM EST, Saturday, December 11th, 2021: Amateur A – E
3 PM – 5 PM EST, Sunday, December 12th, 2021: Professional I – III
Make sure you tune in and watch these amazing pianists!
A reminder of the rules: the Final Round PL Star Score is calculated based on the average of the scores given by the 3 judges. To make the Grand Final (Winners Showcase) round, one must be the top-4 scoring pianists in the Final Round in their respective groups. Final Round prizes are distributed as follows:
9.5 – 10.0: First Prize
9.0 – 9.4: Second Prize
8.5 – 8.9: Third Prize
8.4 or below: Finalist Certificate
New this year: for the sake of complete transparency and fairness, we are publishing all scores from the Final Round from all judges. Specific instructions/metrics were given to the judges when scoring the contestants to ensure that the scores are within a similar range. In instances where a judge has a student competing, judges were prohibited to score the contestant and were instructed to also verbally comment on their own students’ playing in order to not reveal to the other judges that the contestant is his/her student.
