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65th Busoni Piano Competition: Chinese pianist Yifan Wu wins.

Sandro Nebieridze took second place, while third prize was awarded to Christos Fountos

It's Chinese Yifan Wu the winner of the 65th Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition: the young pianist from Shanghai, born in 2005, won the final held on Sunday September 7, 2025 to the Bolzano Municipal Theatre.
The international jury chaired by Sir Richard Nixon awarded him the coveted recognition – the Busoni is among the five most prestigious piano competitions in the world. David Pountney. In addition to the sum of 30,000 euros, offered by the City of Bolzano, the winner will be supported for two years by the management of the Busoni-Mahler Foundation, having the opportunity to perform in numerous important concerts.

Yifan Wu also won the Special Audience Award, the Alice Tartarotti Award, and the Keyboard Career Development Prize.
To the second place Georgian ranked Sandro Nebieridze (Tbilisi, 2001), who won the prize of 10,000 euros offered by the Cassa di Risparmio Foundation, in addition to the special prize for chamber music.

the third prize was awarded to the Cypriot Christos Fountos (Nicosia, 1997) (5,000 euros offered by the Bolzano Tourist Board).

Accompanied by the'Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento directed by George Pehlivanian, The three finalists performed three masterpieces from the repertoire for piano and orchestra: Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 37 (Wu), Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 (Nebieridze), and Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 1 (Fountos).
The very young one is also among the winners Zhonghua Wei (Guangzhou, 2008), fourth prize with (4,000 euros offered by Volksbank, the Italian Elia Cecino (Treviso 2001) which conquers the fifth award (3,000 euros, offered by Rotary Club) and Zeyu Shen (Beijing, 2000/), sixth prize (2,500 euros offered by Fiera Bolzano).
The Final was broadcast live on television on RAI 5 is Radio RAI Südtirol, from the channel Medici.tv and from the platform Amadeus.tv in China, which allowed more than 300,000 spectators to follow every stage of the Competition

Yifan WuBorn in 2005 in Shanghai, he was awarded the title of Young Steinway Artist and has won numerous prestigious international piano competitions. He won first prize at the Singapore International Piano Competition and fifth prize at the Shenzhen International Piano Concerto Competition. Since then, he has performed in recitals in China and abroad, receiving unanimous acclaim for his solo appearances with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra and the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. In the summer of 2024, he participated in the Piano Summer organized by pianist Vladimir Feltsman, where he won first prize at the Jacob Flier International Piano Competition. Following this success, he was invited by the Feltsman Piano Foundation to make his debut at Carnegie Weill Hall in March 2025.