The Cleveland International Piano Competition is an American piano competition that takes place biennially in Cleveland, Ohio. The initial Competition in 1975 and the nine others that followed were sponsored jointly by the Robert Casadesus Society and the Cleveland Institute of Music to honor the memory of French pianist Robert Casadesus. As a result, the Competition was then called the Casadesus International Piano Competition. In 1994, a new organization was formed: the Piano International Association of Northern Ohio (PIANO). Prize winners of the Cleveland International Piano Competition have included renowned artists like Nicholas Angelich, Sergei Babayan, Angela Hewitt, Daejin Kim, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Kotaro Fukuma and among others.

The first Competition with the new name of "Cleveland" took place in August 1995. The 2001 Competition finals were held at Severance Hall with the Cleveland Competition Orchestra conducted by Jahja Ling. The success of this venture led to negotiations in 2003 with the Musical Arts Association resulting in the engagement of the Cleveland Orchestra to play for the four finalists at Severance Hall.

The Cleveland International Piano Competition is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.

Past prize winners

Year	First	Second	Third	Fourth
2021	Martín García García	Lovre Marušić	Byeol Kim	Yedam Kim
2016	Nikita Mndoyants	Leonardo Colafelice	Dinara Klinton	Georgiy Tchaidze
2013	Stanislav Khristenko	Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev	François Dumont	Jiayan Sun
2011	Alexander Schimpf	Alexei Chernov	Eric Zuber	Kyu Yeon Kim
2009	Martina Filjak	Dmitri Levkovich	William Youn	Evgeny Brakhman
2007[1]	Alexander Ghindin	Yaron Kohlberg	Alexandre Moutouzkine	Ran Dank
2005	Chu-Fang Huang	Sergey Kuznetsov	Stanislav Khristenko	Spencer Myer
2003	Kotaro Fukuma	Soyeon Lee	Konstantin Soukhovetski	Andrius Zlabys
2001	Roberto Plano	Minsoo Sohn	Özgür Aydin	Gilles Vonsattel
1999	Antonio Pompa-Baldi	Vassily Primakov	Shoko Inoue	Sean Botkin
1997	Per Tengstrand	Gulnora Alimova	Ning An	Dror Biran
1995	Margarita Shevchenko	/ Marina Lomazov	Dmitri Teterin	Giampaolo Stuani
1993	Amir Katz	Not awarded	Seizo Azuma Yuko Nakamichi	Katsunori Ishii

Year	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Sixth
1991	Ilya Itin	Anders Martinson	Markus Pawlik	Jean-François Bouvery	Timothy Bozarth	Hsin-Bei Lee
1989	Sergei Babayan	Nicholas Angelich	Megumi Kaneko	Pascal Godart	François Chaplin	Eglé Januleviciuté
1987	Thierry Huillet	Asaf Zohar	Jonathan Bass	Beatrice Hsin-Chen Long	Takayuki Ito	Hiroko Atsumi
1985	Daejin Kim	Benedetto Lupo	Hélène Jeanney	Neil Rutman	Yves Henry	Dan-Wen Wei
1983	Youngshin An	Mayumi Kameda	Stéphane Lemelin	Roy Kogan	Dimitry Cogan	Silke-Thora Matthies
1981	Philippe Bianconi	Dan Riddle	Rémy Loumbrozo	Roy Kogan	Timothy Smith	Michael Boriskin
1979	Edward Newman	Jean-Yves Thibaudet	Angela Hewitt	Frederick Blum	Peter Vinograde	Douglas Weeks
1977	Nathalie Béra-Tagrine	Barry Salwen	Douglas Montgomery	Laura Silverman	Géry Moutier	Sandra Shuler
1975	John Owings	Julian Martin	John-Patrick Millow	Roe Van Boskirk	Katsurako Mikami	Paweł Chęciński