In July 2010, Zuzana Simurdova, graduate piano student of Gregory Chaverdian in the
Diploma in Advanced Music Performance Studies program, won the 2010 Chopin Award at the IBLA Foundation's International Music Competition in Ragusa, Sicily.
A jury of 15 members chaired by Marcello Abbado awarded the prize to Simurdova for her performance of Chopin's
Piano Concerto No. 1.
The
IBLA Foundation
organizes its annual music competition for pianists, singers,
instrumentalists and composers. Winners have been presented in such
venues as Lincoln Center Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall in New
York, the Tokyo Opera City Hall, the Tchaikovsky Bolshoi Hall in Moscow
as well as other prestigious venues in Canada, Europe, Russia and the
USA.
