PREMIO PAGANINI 2006 Edition Results 1st prize € 25.000,00 - Feng NING (China) 25 years 2nd prize - € 10.000,00 - Yura LEE(South Korea) 21 years 3rd prize - € 5.000,00 - Rika MASATO (Japan) 17 years The following finalists has received a sum of € 1,500.00 each - Hyunjoo CHOO (South Korea) 17 years - Bo-Kyung LEE (South Korea) 20 years - Sergey MALOV (Russia) 23 years Special Prizes: € 3.000,00 Prize in memory of Enrico Costa offered by the Costa Family to the youngest participant admitted to the Final; Hyunjoo CHOO € 4.000,00 Prize in memory ofRenato De Barbieri offered by the Government of the Province of Genoa to one of the finalists for the best interpretation of Paganini’s Capricci within the Preliminary and Semifinal Stages; Feng NING € 1.600,00 Prize in memory of Mario Ruminelli offered by the Ruminelli Family to the first place winner; Feng NING € 1.000,00 Prize Associazione Amici Nuovo Carlo Felice offered by the Association for the best interpretation of the commissioned piece Syncopations by Azio Corghi Sergey MALOV The winner Feng NING On October, 12 on the occasion of the "Christopher Columbus Celebrations" the winner has the honour to play in concert the violin "Cannone", the famous Guarneri del Gesù (1743), belonged to Niccolò Paganini that the violinist left to Genoa, his native town. Worldwide concert engagements for the winner.