Andrey Ponochevny

Andrey Ponochevny (; born 31 December 1976) is a Belarusian-American pianist.

Biography 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 Riga International Music Competition 1st prize 1991 Concertino Prague, Radio Competition for Young Musicians 2nd prize Anna Kravtchenko. 1996 Tomassoni International Piano Competition, Köln 1st prize 1998 William Kapell International Piano Competition, Maryland 1st prize 2002 Tchaikovsky International Competition, Moscow 3rd prize Ayako Uehara. 2005 AXA International Piano Competition, Dublin 5th prize Antti Siirala. 2005 Hong Kong International Piano Competition 4th prize Ilya Rashkovsky. 2007 Louisiana International Piano Competition 2nd prize Dizhou Zhao 2010 New Orleans International Piano Competition 2nd prize Eduard Kunz