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News / Current Events The 3rd Kurt Leimer Piano Contest was held in Zurich from January 31 to February 4, 2011. No first and second prizes have been awarded at this year's Kurt Leimer Piano Contest. The Swiss Aglaia Graf and the Georgian Sergei Kiselev were honored with a third prize ex aequo of the amount of 10,000 Swiss francs each. In addition, the Russian Pavel Yeletskiy received the Kurt Leimer Special Price. Aglaia Graf was born in Basel. Aged fourteen years and after studies with the Polish pianist Alicja Masan she was accepted to study at the Music Academy Basel where she received the concert diploma with honors in 2007. Since then she studies piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. She received first prizes as both soloist and chamber musician. In 2006 she was awarded the “European Cultural Prize”. Sergei Kiselev was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1987. Aged seven he began piano lessons. In 2004 he commenced studies at the State Conservatory of his native town. Since 2008 he has been a student of Hans Jürg Strub at the University of the Arts Zurich. Currently he is developing his reputation as a soloist and chamber musician. Pavel Yeletskiy was born in Kalinkovitchi, Belarus, in 1982, and started playing the piano at five years of age. In 1993 he was a laureate of the International Zvetajewa Junior Support Competition. In 1995 he was accepted to study at the Moscow State Conservatory and four years later he became student of Lev Naumov. Currently Yeletskiy is a postgraduate student at the Berne University of the Arts. In 2001 he won the Vladimir Horowitz Competition in Kiev and at the Minnesota Piano Contest of 2009 he was placed second, and awarded the special Schubert Prize.
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