Andrey Ponochevny

Ponochevny graduated from Belarusian Academy of Music where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees. He also holds his Artist Diploma from TCU, Fort Worth and SMU, Dallas, where he studied with Tamas Ungar and Joaquin Achucarro. He was awarded the Bronze Medal at the XIII Tchaikovsky competition. Ponochevny has won First Prize at the "Tomassoni International Piano Competition in Cologne", Germany (1996) and the First Prize at the "William Kapell International Piano Competition in Maryland", USA (1998). His other competition accolades include top prizes in Prague, Warsaw (Chopin), Dublin (AXA), Moscow, Hong Kong, Riga (Latvia), Alexandria and New Orleans (Louisiana). He received an honorable mention at the XIII International Chopin Piano Competition. Among his numerous awards, he was twice named "Outstanding Artist in China" (2009 and 2011). In his hometown of Minsk (Belarus), he was awarded the title "Minskovite of the year" in 2002. In addition to his concert schedule, Mr.Ponochevny also teaches piano at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas, and at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Ponochevny is a Yamaha Artist. Record of piano prizes • Year — Competition — Prize — 1st prize winner • 1987 — Latvia Riga International Music Competition — 1st prize • 1991 — Czechia Concertino Prague, Radio Competition for Young Musicians — 2nd prize — Ukraine Anna Kravtchenko. • 1996 — Germany Tomassoni International Piano Competition, Köln — 1st prize • 1998 — William Kapell International Piano Competition, Maryland — 1st prize • 2002 — Russia Tchaikovsky International Competition, Moscow — 3rd prize — Japan Ayako Uehara. • 2005 — Ireland AXA International Piano Competition, Dublin — 5th prize — Finland Antti Siirala. • 2005 — Hong Kong Hong Kong International Piano Competition — 4th prize — Russia Ilya Rashkovsky. • 2007 — Louisiana International Piano Competition — 2nd prize — China Dizhou Zhao • 2010 — New Orleans International Piano Competition — 2nd prize — Russia Eduard Kunz