縱觀此次比賽，最後入選的6位參賽者都有相當高水準的演出及表現。令此比賽創辦人Fanny Waterman感到非常欣慰及滿意。http://blog.roodo.com/jonathanliou/archives/2190703.html
Sunwook Kim (born in Seoul, 1988) is a South Korean pianist.
He is a student at the Korea National University of Arts under Daejin Kim. Sunwook Kim won the 2006 Leeds Competition, becoming the youngest pianist to achieve so since Michael Roll, who won the inaugural edition at 17. He had previously won the IX Ettlingen Competition and the XVIII Concours Clara Haskil. He was awarded the Artist of the Year prizes from the Daewon Cultural Foundation (2005) and Kumho Asiana Group (2007).
Kirill Karabits (born December 1976, in Kiev, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) is a Ukranian conductor. His father was the conductor and composer Ivan Karabyts.
Karabits' early teachers included Tatiana Kozlov. In Kiev, he studied at the
Karabits was assistant conductor of the Budapest Festival Orchestra from 1998 to 2000. He also served as associate conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France from 2002 to 2005.
In October 2006, Karabits made his first conducting appearance with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO), and returned in October 2007, where both concerts received acclaim. In November 2007, the BSO announced the appointment of Karabits as their 13th Principal Conductor, after a unanimous vote from the orchestra musicians, effective with the 2009-2010 season. Karabits held the title of Principal Conductor-Designate for the 2008-2009 season, with three concert appearances. He made his first conducting appearance at The Proms with the BSO in August 2009, and formally took up the BSO principal conductorship in October 2009. He is the first Ukrainian conductor to be named principal conductor of a
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