No winner at Rachmaninov piano competition

Artem Abashev of Tchaikovsky in Russia - a post-graduate student at the Kazan State Conservatory of Music - did, however, take second prize of $20,000 for a performance of his compatriot's Concerto No 2 in C minor.

And the third prize of $15,000 was awarded to Great Britain's Fazliddin Husanov, who began his studies at a specialist music school in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and became a piano professor at Cardiff's Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2001. He also performed the second concerto.

Culminating at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on 22 June, the contest was judged by an international panel chaired by American pianist Earl Wild. Twenty-four competitors from across the globe took part in the 10-day event, performing their chosen concerti with Moscow's Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra.

Though Sergei Rachmaninov was born and raised in Russia, he moved to the US in 1921 and died in Beverly Hills, California in 1943.

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