Pianist Jonathan Mamora, twenty-seven, has been proclaimed the winner of the sixty-eighth edition of the Maria Canals International Music Competition, by an international jury made up of Yukiko Akagi, Vincenzo Balzani, Hung-Kuan Chen, Nina Kereselidze, Pavel Nersessian, Ewa Osinska, Vestard Šimkus and Alba Ventura. All of them, below the presidency in the jury of Carlos Cebro. The winner has obtained the first prize, Fundación Jesús Serra Prize, with an quantity of €25.000 and a minimum of five concerts with an orchestra in Spain, and has surpassed Valentin Malinin, twenty-one, and Roman Lopatynskyi, twenty-nine, who have won the second and third prize respectively. The second prize is provided by the Fundació Carulla and is valued at €10.000 and the third, the Maria Canals prize, is valued at €6.000.

The Final took space in the Concert Corridor of Barcelona's Palau de la Música Catalana and was held with the support of the Banco Sabadell Foundation. The three finalists have been accompanied during their performance by the JONC (Youth National Orchestra of Catalonia), directed by Manel Valdivieso. The winner, Jonathan Mamora, has interpreted the Concerto for piano and orchestra no. three in D minor, op. thirty by Sergei Rachmaninov. Following the announcement of the winners, he went straight ahead with a different kind of engagement, and proposed to his girlfriend on stage, in front of the audience of the Palau de la Musica Catalana.