LVPC and YLVPC 2026

Prizes:

	LVPC	YLVPC
1^st Prize	$35,000	$5,000
2^nd Prize	$20,000	$3,000
3^rd Prize	$10,000	$2,000

Applications open 1^st March and close midnight 15^th April.

ALL applicants will be contacted regarding their application status by 4^th May. Successful applicants will not receive feedback.

The Lev Vlassenko Piano Academy is pleased to announce the 2026 Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition and Young Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition.

Auditions will be held by submission of high quality recorded video by midnight 15^th April.

First Round held in June in four capital cities:

Sydney	Auckland (NZ)	Melbourne	Brisbane
5^th and 6^th June	9^th, 10^th and 11^th June	13^th and 14^th June	20^th June

Semi-finals will be held in Brisbane on 27^th and 28^th June.

Finals performances with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra will be on 3^rd July at the Queensland Conservatorium Theatre, Brisbane.

JURY

Chair of Jury: Sergio Tiempo

Sergio Tiempo is regarded as one of the most individual and thought-provoking pianists of his generation. He made his professional debut at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw aged fourteen and soon became internationally renowned for his raw energy and musical versatility, from Brahms to Villa-Lobos and Ginastera.

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Sergio Tiempo began his piano studies with his mother, Lyl Tiempo. Whilst at the Fondazione per il Pianoforte in Como, Italy, he worked with Dimitri Bashkirov, Fou Tsong, Murray Perahia and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He continues to receive frequent musical guidance and advice from Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire and performs regularly with fellow-countryman and friend Gustavo Dudamel.

Recent highlights have included an eight-concert tour across US and Europe with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, performing Ginastera’s First Piano Concerto in the composer’s centenary year, a residency with Queensland Symphony Orchestra and his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Further orchestral collaborations include the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Brussels Philharmonic, Orquestra Nacional do Porto, Simón Bolívar Orchestra, Singapore Symphony, BBC Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Northern Sinfonia, St Petersburg Symphony, Auckland Philharmonia, Phoenix Symphony, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Zurich Chamber and Stavanger Symphony Orchestras alongside eminent conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Myung Whun Chung, Thierry Fischer, Emmanuel Krivine, Alondra de la Parra, Ludovic Morlot, Alexander Prior and Leonard Slatkin.

A committed recitalist, engagements have included a sell-out recital debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London’s International Piano Series, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Wigmore Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie and Edinburgh International Festival as well as return visits to the Oslo Chamber Music Festival, Warsaw Chopin Festival, Music Days in Lisbon, and recital tours in China, Korea, Italy, and South America. Sergio Tiempo performs at the Martha Argerich Festival in Lugano each year, with recital partners including the formidable Mischa Maisky, Nelson Freire, and fellow pianist and sister Karin Lechner.

Sergio Tiempo has made a number of highly distinctive and acclaimed recordings. On EMI Classics, he recorded Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit and three Chopin Nocturnes for ‘Martha Argerich Presents’, and on Deutsche Gramophon he has recorded several discs with Mischa Maisky, including a disc of Rachmaninov which was awarded five stars by Classic FM and the BBC Music Magazine. Sergio Tiempo and Karin Lechner recorded Tango Rhapsody, a new work for two pianos and orchestra by Argentinean composer Federico Jusid, commissioned especially for the duo and the RSI Lugano. Further recordings with Karin Lechner include a disc of French music Avanti Classic entitled ‘La Belle Epoque’ released on Avanti Classic, a label with who Sergio Tiempo recorded his latest disc, entitled ‘Legacy’, in January 2018, and will also release two separate duo recordings with his musical mentors, Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire.

Prof. Gil Garburg

Pianist Gil Garburg has earned applause from audiences and praise from critics worldwide. He has performed in over 70 countries on five continents and regularly play as a soloist with major orchestras, including the Vienna Symphony, Lucerne Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Belgian National Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Portland Symphony, German Chamber Philharmonic, Berlin Symphony, Prague Symphony, and many others. He performs in venues such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Vienna Musikverein, Berlin Philharmonie, Sydney Opera House, Salzburg Festival Hall, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, KKL Lucerne, Rudolfinum Prague, Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and more.

Together with pianist Sivan Silver, his partner in music and life, Prof. Garburg is a member of the Silver Garburg Piano Duo. Held as one of today’s leading piano duos, the duo enjoys a flourishing international career. They have recorded a dozen albums, which include works for one and two pianos, as well as concerti by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Their recordings won awards and critical acclaim and have been described as “Grandiose” (Pizzicato, Supersonic award), “thrilling” (Fono Forum, Album of the Month), “superb” (Concerti, Album of the month). In 2024, the duo released a double album dedicated to Schubert’s works: “It is rare to hear such a soulful sounding piano. Sensitive and heartfelt playing that often moves the listener to tears. It is impossible to imagine it better or more beautiful” (Klassik Heute).

Since 2014, Gil Garburg has held a professorship for piano duo at the Graz University of Music and Performing Arts. Previously, he taught at the Hanover Musikhochschule, at which he completed their studies under Prof. Arie Vardi. Prof. Garburg gives masterclasses at leading academic institutions and serves as artistic director and head of the piano duo jury at the International Chamber Music Competition “Franz Schubert and Modern Music” in Graz.

During the current concert season, Gil Garburg will tour North and South America, Australia, Asia, and many European countries. Among other venues, he returns to the Musikverein in Vienna and the Philharmonie in Berlin, where he performs as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

This is the nineteenth visit of Gil Garburg to Australia.

Mira Yevtich

Mira Yevtich is a Serbian‐born concert pianist and internationally respected piano pedagogue. With a career spanning continents, she has earned recognition for her deeply expressive interpretations, a broad repertoire, and her dedication to nurturing young talents. She began playing piano in Belgrade at the age of four. Her early promise led her to Moscow, where she studied at the Central Special Music School under Eugeny Timakin, and later earned a PhD from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Stanislav Neuhaus. She completed both a Bachelor’s and a Doctorate there, then pursued a second doctorate at the Gnessin Academy with Boris Berlin. As a performer, she has appeared internationally in the United States, Australia, Russia, France, Italy, the UK, and many more countries. She has performed under the baton of Evgeny Svetlanov, Valery Gergiev, Yuri Bashmet, Ilmar Lapinsh, Alexander Polishchuk, Arnold Katz, Alexander Annissimov, Alexander Sladkovsky and others. Her repertoire spans from Baroque composers to contemporary figures such as Rodion Schedrin, Valentin Silvestrov, Olivier Messiaen, Carl Vine, Ivan Jevtic, Alexander Raskatov, Henri Dutilleux, and Boris Papandopulo, among many others.

Several distinguished composers have dedicated works to Yevtich: Ivan Jevtic wrote his sonata (1983), Piano Concerto No. 2 (1986), and Piano Concerto No. 3 (1990) in her honour; in 2006, Alexander Tchaikovsky dedicated his Sonata No. 2; and Alexander Raskatov composed the concerto Gens Extorris expressly for her, as a tribute to her father-in-law. This is a deeply personal work reflecting their close artistic connection. Her recordings have been released on labels including Bel Air Music (Monte‐Carlo), Quartz Music (London), Col legno (Munich), and Jugoton (ex-Yugoslavia). Yevtich is also an active educator. From 1993 to 1998, she taught at the Australian Institute of Music. Over the years, she has led masterclasses and held guest appointments at the Rimsky‐Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Monash University in Melbourne, the Royal College of Music in London, the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, as well as at leading music conservatories in Sydney, Adelaide, and Canberra. She regularly serves on juries of international piano competitions in Sydney, Cleveland, Shanghai, and St. Petersburg. In addition to her performing and teaching roles, Yevtich co‐founded significant cultural initiatives, including the Southern Highlands International Piano Competition in Australia and the Mariinsky International piano festival in St. Petersburg.

Ayesha

Australian pianist Ayesha Gough is known for her captivating performances, combining superb technique with deeply emotional interpretations. Her performance with the Russian National Orchestra, under the baton of Mikhail Pletnev, was described by Moscow’s Musical Life Magazine as virtuosic and sensitive.

First prize-winner at the 2015 Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition, Ayesha has performed with the Queensland Symphony, the Queensland Conservatorium Symphony, and the Queensland Pops Orchestra under such conductors as Edvard Tchivzhel, Nicholas Braithwaite, Daniel Carter, and Marco Bellasi. Her recital opportunities have taken her throughout Australia, as well as New Zealand, Italy, the UK, Japan, and China.

Ayesha has developed her own style of unique and engaging performances grounded in traditional pianism. As the recipient of the 2022 Michael Kieran Harvey Scholarship, she created the project ‘Landings’, an exploration of the Australian landscape via her own improvisation, videography, and poetry.

Ayesha studied under Oleg Stepanov for 10 years, both at a pre-tertiary and tertiary level, at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University. She also briefly studied with Boris Petrushansky at the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale in Imola, Italy, and in 2020, she graduated from the Royal College of Music, London, with a Masters with Distinction.

ROUND 1 JURY

Sydney: Oleg Stepanov OAM and Phillip Shovk

Phillip Shovk

Phillip Shovk is considered one of Australia’s foremost concert pianists, chamber musicians, accompanists and pedagogues. After initial lessons with Anatole Mirosznyk, he continued his studies with George Humphrey at the Sydney Conservatorium High School from where he graduated with the Frank Hutchens Prize for being the most promising performer of his year. He then furthered his studies at the Moscow State Conservatory, studying with Professor Valery Kastelsky (himself a student of the legendary Heinrich Neuhaus) and graduating as a Master of Fine Arts with highest marks in all musical subjects. In 1987 he become a Laureate at the Vianni di Motta competition in Lisbon and in 1988 at the Sydney International Competition, where he was awarded the Hephzibah Menuhin Prize and the Best Australian Pianist Prize. He was awarded a Best Accompanist prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1994.

He has performed to great acclaim in Russia, Georgia, Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Singapore, New Zealand, China, USA, Spain, Norway and the UK. Phillip Shovk has also adjudicated at many of Australia’s leading competitions including the Sydney International Piano Competition, the Lev Vlassenko Competition, Sydney Eisteddfod, Yamaha Youth Competition, Hephzibah Menuhin Competition and others. He has also been a jury member of Concours Animato in Paris, the New Zealand National Concerto Competition, the Singapore National Piano Competition and the Keri Keri International Piano Competition. He has taught at the Conservatoire Rachmaninoff in Paris, the Australian Institute of Music and Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester. He is presently Lecturer in Piano and Accompaniment at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Auckland: Oleg Stepanov OAM and Natasha Vlassenko OAM

Oleg Stepanov OAM

Natasha Vlassenko OAM

Melbourne: Oleg Stepanov and Aura Go

Aura Go

Australian pianist Aura Go is a performer, curator and educator. She performs across the globe – as soloist in concerti spanning J.S. Bach to Sofia Gubaidulina; as recitalist and chamber musician in imaginative programs that interweave old and new music; and as speaker and actor in interdisciplinary performance projects. In recent seasons, Aura has been soloist with the Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Queensland Symphony Orchestras, Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria. Festival appearances have included the Edinburgh Festival, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, PianoEspoo, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Australian Festival of Chamber Music and the Musica Viva Festival.

With pianist Tomoe Kawabata, Aura formed the KIAZMA Piano Duo, now established as one of Australia’s most dynamic ensembles. She also enjoys a musical partnership with Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve (Principal Cello, Australian Chamber Orchestra), with whom she recorded the complete Beethoven cello sonatas and Webern works for cello for ABC Classics. A passionate advocate for new and underrepresented repertoire, Aura’s discography includes first recordings of works by Lisa Illean (with Emma McGrath, Tilman Robinson and ANAM Strings), Japanese works for piano duo (with KIAZMA), and duets of Ekaterina Komalkova (with Ian Munro). In 2023 Aura toured nationally in a critically acclaimed performance as pianist-actor in the stage adaptation of Paul Kildea’s Chopin’s Piano.

Born in Melbourne, Aura studied at the Victorian College of the Arts and the Australian National Academy of Music before completing her Master of Music at the Yale School of Music. She then spent seven years in Helsinki, combining an active performing career with doctoral research at the Sibelius Academy. Her PhD explored the intersections of acting and music performance, focusing on developing musicians’ embodied imagination as a foundation for sincere, creative and compelling performances. A passionate educator, Aura has taught piano at Yale College (USA) and the Sibelius Academy (Finland), and has been invited as a visiting artist to institutions including the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus (Denmark), the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (Poland), Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences (University of Arkansas, USA), and the Australian National Academy of Music. She is now Head of Piano at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at Monash University, where she leads a vibrant program that nurtures creativity, collaboration and artistic curiosity.

Brisbane: Peter Roennfeldt and Ayesha

Peter Roennfeldt

Peter Roennfeldt holds degrees in music from the Universities of Queensland and Adelaide, and a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati, USA. For more than three decades he was on the academic staff of Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, including a seven-year tenure as its Director. His involvement with the Conservatorium and its Research Centre continues in an honorary capacity, as Professor Emeritus. As a performer, Peter Roennfeldt is active as pianist in vocal and instrumental chamber music and as harpsichordist-conductor in baroque opera and choral music.

He has a reputation as an enterprising keyboard musician and ensemble director. His diverse performance projects are inspired by the repertoire and its context, both within the lives of its creators and its original performers. Of equal importance is the opportunity to share this interest with his artistic collaborators, whose unique contributions are invaluable in presenting convincing and appealing interpretations for an appreciative audience.

AUDITION PANEL

Mykola Suk

Born in Kiev, Ukraine, into a musical family, Mykola studied at Kiev Specialized Music School and made his first public appearance at the age of eight. He later studied at Moscow Conservatory. He gained international recognition as the winner of the First Prize and Gold Medal at the 1971 International Liszt-Bartok Competition in Budapest, Hungary. Still very much attached to Liszt’s music, he was called “the greatest present-day Liszt pianist” by former music critic for the New York Times, Joseph Horowitz. He has performed in the most prestigious venues from the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory to Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall in New York. He has given recitals in countries of the former Soviet Union, France, Germany, England, Finland, Egypt, Mexico, United States, Canada, Korea, China, Mongolia and Australia. He has appeared as soloist with numerous leading orchestras, from the Russian National Symphony under Mikhail Pletnev to the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn under Roman Kofman. He has collaborated artistically with the world’s outstanding conductors, among them Charles Bruck, János Ferencsik, Arvid Jansons, Stefan Turchak, James DePreist and Carl St. Clair. His passion for chamber music has brought him to many distinguished chamber music festivals and collaborations throughout the world, among them, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (Finland), Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Kiev International Music Festival (Ukraine) and International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York City.

Mykola Suk is an avid believer in 20th and 21st century piano literature. He was honored to premiere numerous works, especially by Ukrainian composers. He has given master classes at many festivals and music schools around the world, and has taught as an adjunct faculty member at various music schools. Mykola Suk completed his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance at the Moscow Conservatory, studying with Lev Vlassenko.

Irena Gulzarova

Irena Gulzarova is a pianist recognized for her rare combination of artistic depth and strategic selectivity, focusing her career on high-level state and international engagements. Her playing has been praised for “incomparable technical skill, breathtaking phrasing and emotional potential” (Basler Zeitung). Zubin Mehta has described her as “an artist with unusual pianistic talent.” Throughout her career, she has appeared at renowned venues such as Carnegie Hall (Perelman Stage), the Tonhalle Zürich, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Oxford Piano Festival and the Grafenegg Festival. She has performed with the Vienna Philharmonic, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Qatar Philharmonic, Moscow Chamber Orchestra and the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria.

Born in Tashkent in 1982 into a family of musicians, Gulzarova gave her first public performance at the age of eight and toured in Germany by thirteen. She studied at the V. Uspensky Specialized Central Music School under Lyudmila Mermelstein and Alla Kim, continued at the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan with Prof. Marat Gumarov while simultaneously studying with Prof. Alexander Mndoyants at the Moscow State Conservatory.

ELIGIBILITY

The Competitions are open to permanent residents or citizens of Australia or New Zealand; or applicants who are from another nation and have studied in Australia or New Zealand for at least one year preceding 3^rd July 2026, and are not a previous first prize winner of the Competition.

Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition is open to pianists who, on 1^st January 2026, are aged at least 16 and no older than 30: you cannot have had your 31^st birthday.

Young Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition is open to pianists who, on 1^st January 2026, are aged at least 12 and no older than 16: you cannot have had your 17^th birthday.

APPLICATIONS open 1^st March and close midnight 15^th April, 2026.

Competition auditions will be in the form of a single video performance to be played from memory and submitted as per the Requirements for Audition Videos. All works must be performed in a single take without editing except the Concerto movement which may be performed as an additional take, without editing.

Audition repertoire for Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition:

Virtuoso Study by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov or Scriabin
First Movement of a Classical Sonata by Mozart, Haydn or Clementi
Work from the Specified List
Major Work of at Least 15 minutes duration
First Movement of the Concerto the Applicant has nominated to play in the finals

Audition repertoire for Young Lev Piano Competition:

Bach Prelude and Fugue from Well Tempered Klavier
Virtuoso Study by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov or Scriabin
First Movement of a Classical Sonata by Mozart, Haydn or Clementi
The Movement of the Concerto the Competitor has nominated to play in the finals

Requirements for all Audition Videos:

Applicants will be responsible for making their own audition video and must arrange venue, piano, video and accompanist themselves.
Audition videos without piano accompaniment for the concerto will not be considered.
The video must be a high-quality representation of the Applicant’s performance with the camera view showing the Applicants face, hands and keyboard at all times.
Audition videos must have been recorded after 15 December 2025.
Audition Videos must be certified by both the Auditionee and the person who operated the recording equipment that the performance is that of the Applicant, unedited and performed in one single complete take with the exception of the Concerto Movement which may, for practical reasons, be recorded as one take in a different venue and on a different date after 15 December 2025.

REPERTOIRE- LEV VLASSENKO PIANO COMPETITION
(ages 16 to 30)

First Round Requirements:

Recital of 50 – 55 mins to be performed live which must include:

A Prelude and Fugue by Bach or Shostakovich
A Virtuoso Study by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov or Scriabin
A Classical Sonata by Haydn, Mozart or Clementi
A Romantic Work(s) from the Specified List
and Own Choice of Work(s) if time permits

Semi-finals Round Requirements:

A 60 – 65 mins Recital to be performed live which must include:

Competitors must take note of the following:

Works performed in First Round cannot be performed in Semi-finals Round
All Works must be performed from memory
Changes to nominated repertoire may be made up until 30^th April, 2026
No change can be made to the nominated piano concerto
All sonatas must be performed in their entirety
No works for prepared piano are permitted

REPERTOIRE LIST for LVPC

SPECIFIED LIST

Johannes Brahms

Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 21: No.1
Variations on a Theme of Schumann, Op. 9
Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 35 either Book I or Book II or both Books

Frédéric Chopin

Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38
Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52

Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20
Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31
Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp minor, Op. 39
Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54

Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante in E-flat major, Op. 22
Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op. 44
Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49
Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op. 60
Polonaise-fantaisie in A-flat major, Op. 61

César Franck

Prélude, Choral et Fugue, FWV. 21

Franz Liszt

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor, S. 244/2
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D-flat major, S. 244/6
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10 in E major, S. 244/10
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11 in A minor, S. 244/11
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 in C-sharp minor, S. 244/12
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15 in A minor, S. 244/15
Hungarian Rhapsody N0. 19 in D minor S.244
Rhapsodie Espagnole, S. 254

Années de pèlerinage, Première année: Suisse, S. 160: No. 6, Vallée d’Obermann
Années de pèlerinage, Deuxième année: Italie, S. 161: No. 7, Après une lecture de Dante: Fantasia Quasi Sonata

Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173: No. 7, Funérailles
Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173: No. 3, Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S. 171
Mephisto Waltz No. 1, S. 514
Années de pèlerinage, Deuxième année: Italie, Supplément, S. 162: Venezia e Napoli: No. 1, Gondoliera; No. 2, Canzona; No. 3, Tarantella (performed in its entirety)

Felix Mendelssohn

Fantasia in F-sharp minor, Op. 28
Variations sérieuses, Op. 54

Sergei Rachmaninov

Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42
Variations on a Theme of Chopin Op 22

Robert Schumann

Abegg Variations, Op. 1
Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13
Toccata, Op. 7

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Dumka: Russian rustic scene, Op. 59
6 Morceaux, Op. 19: No. 6 in F major, Theme and Variations

CONCERTO LIST for LVPC

Only concertos from this list may be performed during the Competition. All concertos must be performed in their entirety.

Béla Bartók

Piano Concerto No. 3 in E major, Sz. 119, BB 127

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op 37
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73

Frédéric Chopin

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21

Edvard Grieg

Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16

Franz Liszt

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S. 124
Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S. 125

Felix Mendelssohn

Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K. 453
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488
Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503
Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, K. 537

Sergei Prokofiev

Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26

Sergei Rachmaninov

Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

Maurice Ravel

Piano Concerto in G major, M. 83

Camille Saint-Saëns

Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22

Robert Schumann

Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23

REPERTOIRE- YOUNG LEV VLASSENKO PIANO COMPETITION
(ages 12 to 16)

First Round Requirements:

Recital of 25 to 30 mins to be performed live which must include:

Semi-finals Round Requirements:

Recital of 30 to 35 mins to be performed live which must include:

Competitors must take note of the following:

Works performed in First Round cannot be performed in Semi-finals Round
All Works must be performed from memory
Changes to nominated repertoire may be made up until 30^th April, 2026
No change can be made to the nominated piano concerto
No works for prepared piano are permitted
Changes to the nominated piano concerto cannot be made after your application has been received

CONCERTO LIST for YLVPC

Only concerto movements from this list may be performed during the Competition.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15
III. Rondo. Allegro scherzando
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19
III. Rondo Molto allegro
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
III. Rondo. Allegro – Presto

Frédéric Chopin

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
I. Allegro maestoso

Edvard Grieg

Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16
I. Allegro molto moderato
III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato – Quasi presto – Andante maestoso

Felix Mendelssohn

Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
I. Molto allegro con fuoco in G minor; or
III. Presto. Molto allegro e vivace

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467
III. Allegro vivace assai
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488
III. Allegro assai

Camille Saint-Saëns

Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
III. Presto

Robert Schumann

Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
I. Allegro affettuoso

Dmitri Shostakovich

Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102
III. Allegro

LVPC and YLVPC 2026

The Lev Vlassenko Piano Academy is pleased to announce the 2026 Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition and Young Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition.

ELIGIBILITY

Audition repertoire for Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition:

Audition repertoire for Young Lev Piano Competition:

Requirements for all Audition Videos:

REPERTOIRE- LEV VLASSENKO PIANO COMPETITION (ages 16 to 30)

First Round Requirements:

Semi-finals Round Requirements:

REPERTOIRE LIST for LVPC

SPECIFIED LIST

CONCERTO LIST for LVPC

REPERTOIRE- YOUNG LEV VLASSENKO PIANO COMPETITION (ages 12 to 16)

First Round Requirements:

Semi-finals Round Requirements:

CONCERTO LIST for YLVPC

REPERTOIRE- LEV VLASSENKO PIANO COMPETITION
(ages 16 to 30)

REPERTOIRE- YOUNG LEV VLASSENKO PIANO COMPETITION
(ages 12 to 16)