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The ARD International Music Competition (german: link=no, Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD) is the largest international classical music competition in Germany. It is organised by the
Bayerischer Rundfunk Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR; "Bavarian Broadcasting") is a public-service radio and television broadcaster, based in Munich, capital city of the Free State of Bavaria in Germany. BR is a member organization of the ARD consortium of public broadcas ...
and held once a year in
Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
. Since its inception in 1952, it has become one of the most prestigious classical music competitions. It takes place usually in September. It became one of the founding members of the
World Federation of International Music Competitions The World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC) is an organization based in Geneva, Switzerland that maintains a network of the internationally recognized organisations that aim to discover the most promising young talents in classi ...
in 1957. A prize at this international competition acted as a springboard for a later career. Notable past winners include:
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Francisco Araiza José Francisco Araiza Andrade (born 4 October 1950), is a Mexican operatic tenor and lied singer who has sung as soloist in leading concert halls and in leading tenor operatic roles in the major opera houses of Europe and North America during t ...
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Natalia Gutman Natalia Grigoryevna Gutman (russian: Наталья Григорьевна Гутман) (born 14 November 1942 in Kazan), PAU, is a Russian cellist. She began to study cello at the Moscow Music School with R. Sapozhnikov. She was later admitted t ...
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Christoph Eschenbach Christoph Eschenbach (; born 20 February 1940) is a German pianist and conductor. Early life Eschenbach was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). His parents were Margarethe (née Jaross) and Heribert Ringmann. He was orphaned durin ...
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Anna Malikova Anna Malikova (born 14 July 1965) is a Russian pianist. Life Malikova was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where she received her first musical education with Tamara A. Popovich at Uspensky Music School. At the age of 14 years she entered Central Mu ...
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Nobuko Imai , is a Japanese classical violist with an extensive career as soloist and chamber musician. Since 1988 she has played a 1690 Andrea Guarneri instrument. Biography Imai began her musical training at the age of six. She began studying at Tokyo' ...
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Thomas Quasthoff Thomas Quasthoff (born 9 November 1959) is a German bass-baritone. Quasthoff has a range of musical interest from Bach cantatas, to lieder, and solo jazz improvisations. Born with severe birth defects caused by thalidomide, Quasthoff is , and has ...
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Yuri Bashmet Yuri Abramovich Bashmet (russian: link=no, Юрий Абрамович Башмет; born 24 January 1953) is a Russian conductor, violinist, and violist. Biography Yuri Bashmet was born on 24 January 1953 in Rostov-on-Don in the family of A ...
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Christian Tetzlaff Christian Tetzlaff (born 29 April 1966) is a German violinist. Biography Tetzlaff was born in Hamburg. His parents were amateur musicians and met in a church choir. He began playing the violin and piano at the age of 6, and made his concert debu ...
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History

Between 1947 and 1950, the Radio Frankfurt held a "Young Soloists Competition". The earliest competition discovered two female vocalists who would soon take their place among the international talented:
Christa Ludwig Christa Ludwig (16 March 1928 – 24 April 2021) was a German mezzo-soprano and occasional dramatic soprano, distinguished for her performances of opera, lieder, oratorio, and other major religious works like masses, passions, and solos in symp ...
and
Erika Köth Erika Köth (15 September 1925 in Darmstadt – 20 February 1989 in Speyer) was a German operatic high coloratura soprano, particularly associated with the roles of Ariadne auf Naxos, Zerbinetta and Don Giovanni, Zerlina. Köth began a musical ...
. Instrumentalists included flautist
Karlheinz Zöller Karlheinz Zöller (24 August 1928 – 29 July 2005) was a German flutist, and solo fluteplayer in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra between 1960–1969 and 1976–1993. Early life and education Karlheinz Zöller was born in Höhr-Grenzhausen (near ...
and pianist Robert-Alexander Bohnke. The newly founded ARD continued the concept of bringing together talented young musicians from the entire globe. The competition categories change from year to year and include solo instrumentsm voice and chamber ensembles. An emphasis has been placed on modern music, and contemporary composers have regularly been commissioned to write new pieces for this Competition since 2001. 350 to 450 young musicians usually apply each year, out of whom 200 candidates, from 35 to 40 countries, make it past the preliminary round. A large percentage of competitors come from countries other than Germany (up to 86%). The 2020 edition was cancelled because of the
COVID-19 pandemic in Germany The COVID-19 pandemic in Germany has resulted in confirmed cases of COVID-19 and deaths. On 27 January 2020, the first case in Germany was confirmed near Munich, Bavaria. By mid February, the arising cluster of cases had been fully containe ...
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Categories

*2000: Flute, Voice, Piano duo, Viola, String quartet *2001: Violin, Cello, Wind quintet, Percussion, Saxophone *2002: Piano, Oboe, Bassoon, Piano trio *2003: Voice, Clarinet, Trumpet, Double bass, *2004: Flute, Viola, String quartet, Harp *2005: Violin, Piano duo, Horn, Cello *2006: Piano, Voice (Opera), Voice (Concert/Lied), Wind quintet *2007: Oboe, Trombone, Piano trio, Percussion *2008: Bassoon, Clarinet, Viola, String quartet *2009: Violin, Voice, Double bass, Harp *2010: Flute, Piano duo, Horn, Cello *2011: Piano, Oboe, Piano duo, Trumpet, Organ *2012: Voice, Clarinet, String quartet *2013: Violin, Bassoon, Viola, Piano trio *2014: Piano, Cello, Wind quintet, Percussion *2015: Flute, Voice, Piano duo, Trombone *2016: Horn, Double bass, String quartet, Harp *2017: Piano, Violin, Oboe, Guitar *2018: Voice, Trumpet, Viola, Piano trio *2019: Bassoon, Clarinet, Cello, Percussion Piano competition had been held almost uninterruptedly from 1952 to 1973, except the years 1955 and 1964. It was then held every other year till 1981. It was held consecutively from 1981 to 1983, and then every other year again till 1999. In 1953, three categories were added: violin, flute, violin-piano duo. Violin competition was held every 3 years from 1966 to 1984. Four categories were added in 1954: voice, oboe, bassoon, clarinet. The voice competition had been held every year from 1954 to 1972. It was then held every two years till 2000. Oboe competition had been held every five years from 1976 to 1996. Bassoon competition had been held six times in the 20th century. The competition kept expanding categories in the following years, adding piano duo (1955), horn (1956), cello (1957), organ (1957). New categories in 1958 were cello-piano duo, trumpet, and harpsichord, which would only have three additional editions. String quartet competition opened in 1959. The 1960s saw the first edition of piano trio (1961), viola (1962), trombone (1965), wind quintet (1966). Two categories briefly appeared: string trio (1961, 1969) and piano sight-reading (1963, 1965). Four categories premiered in the 1970s: guitar (1976), percussion (1977), double bass (1979), and recorder, which was only held twice so far (1978, 1988). The first harp competition was held in 1983, as its only edition in the 20th century.


Management

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Organization
''Artistic Directors'': Oswald Beaujean and Meret Forster ''Managing Director'': Elisabeth Kozik ''Project Management'': Anja Krainz ''Public Relations'': Ruth Wischmann


Prize money

Prize money per category * 1. Prize €10,000 * 2. Prize €7,500 * 3. Prize €5,000


Winners

* Prize-winners of the ARD International Music Competition Full lists of winners can be retrieved from the competition's website.


2000s

;2000 ''Voice (female)'' *1st Prize: Zoryana Kushpler, Ukraine *3rd Prizes (shared):
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, Germany; Christa Mayer, Germany ''Voice (male)'' *1st Prize:
Konrad Jarnot Konrad Jarnot (born 1972) is an English baritone who works in opera and oratorio and is a notable performer of Lieder. He is a professor at the Robert Schumann Hochschule. Early life Born at Brighton,Nathaniel Webster, USA *3rd Prize: Friedemann Röhlig, Germany ''Viola'' *2nd Prize: Danusha Waskiewicz, Germany ''Flute'' *2nd Prizes (shared): Rozàlia Szabó, Hungary;
Henrik Wiese Henrik Wiese (born 22 July 1971) is a German flutist. Life and career Born in Vienna, Wiese studied in his hometown of Hamburg with Ingrid Koch-Dörnbrak and in Munich with Paul Meisen. In 1995, he was engaged as principal flutist at the Bavar ...
, Germany *3rd Prize: Kersten McCall, Germany ''Piano Duo'' *1st Prize: Mati Mikalai / Kai Ratassepp, Estonia *2nd Prize: Duo d'Accord, Taiwan/Germany ''String Quartet'' *2nd Prize: Avalon String Quartett, France/Canada/USA *3rd Prize: Quartetto Prometeo, Italy ;2001 ''Violin'' *2nd Prize:
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, Germany *3rd Prizes (shared): Min Jung Kang, Korea; Yamei Yu, Germany ''Cello'' *1st Prize:
Danjulo Ishizaka Danjulo Ishizaka (born 14 May 1979) is a German cellist and professor at the Berlin University of Arts and City of Basel Music Academy Life Ishizaka, born in Bonn, Germany, is the son of the German piano teacher Ruth Nathrath and Japanese im ...
, Germany *2nd Prizes (shared):
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, USA; Monika Leskovar, Croatia *3rd Prize: Thomas Carroll, Great Britain ''Saxophone'' *2nd Prize: Alexandre Doisy, France *3rd Prizes (shared): Lutz Koppetsch, Germany; Julien Petit, France ''Percussion'' *1st Prize: Marta Klimasara, Poland *2nd Prize: Eirik Raude, Norway *3rd Prize: Christophe Roldan, France ''Wind Quintet'' *1st Prize: Miró Ensemble, Spain *2nd Prize: Orsolino Quintett, Germany/Austria *3rd Prize: St. Petersburg Woodwind Quintet, Russia ;2002 ''Bassoon'' *2nd Prize:
Matthias Rácz Matthias Rácz (born 1980) is a German bassoonist. Career Rácz was born in Berlin and began his musical education at the age of 6, first on the piano and at 10 also on the bassoon. During his school days at the Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Gymnas ...
, Germany *3rd Prizes (shared): Jaakko Luoma, Finland;
Lyndon Watts Lyndon Jeffrey Frank Watts (born 19 January 1976) is an Australian bassoonist. He is principal bassoonist of the Münchner Philharmoniker and an academic teacher. Professional career Watts studied the bassoon from 1988 and completed his senio ...
, Australia ''Oboe'' *3rd Prizes (shared): Nora Cismondi, France; Alexandre Gattet, France ''Piano'' *1st Prize: Denys Proshayev, Ukraine *2nd Prize: Ferenc Vizi, Romania *3rd Prize: Chiao-Ying Chang, Taiwan ''Piano Trio'' *2nd Prizes (shared): Trio con Brio, Denmark/Korea; Trio Ondine, Sweden/Denmark/Norway ;2003 ''Voice (female)'' *1st Prize: Marina Prudenskaja, Russia *2nd Prizes (shared): Andrea Lauren Brown, USA;
Measha Brueggergosman Measha Brueggergosman (née Gosman; June 28, 1977) is a Canadian soprano who performs both as an opera singer and concert artist. She has performed internationally and won numerous awards. Her recordings of both classical and popular music ha ...
, Canada *3rd Prize:
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, Russia ''Voice (male)'' *1st Prize:
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, Korea *3rd Prizes (shared):
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, Canada;
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, Germany ''Double Bass'' *1st Prize:
Nabil Shehata Nabil Shehata (born 1980) is a Germany, German-Egyptians, Egyptian conductor and double bass soloist. In 2019 he became conductor and artistic director of the Philharmonie Südwestfalen. Biography Nabil Shehata began his career as a conductor i ...
, Germany *2nd Prize:
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, Slovakia *3rd Prize: Ödön Rácz, Hungary ''Clarinet'' *2nd Prize: Olivier Patey, France *3rd Prize: Florent Pujuila, France ''Trumpet'' *1st Prize:
David Guerrier David Guerrier (born 2 December 1984) is a French classical trumpeter and cornet player. Life Born in Pierrelatte, Guerrier began his musical studies in 1990 at the Conservatoire du Tricastin first at the piano, then at the age of seven, he bega ...
, France *2nd Prize: Giuliano Sommerhalder, Switzerland *3rd Prizes (shared): Gabor Richter, Hungary; Guillaume Couloumy, France ;2004 ''Viola'' *1st Prize:
Antoine Tamestit Antoine Tamestit (born 1979) is a French violist. Tamestit studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, and further with Jesse Levine at Yale University, and with Tabea Zimmermann. He won the 2001 Primrose International Viola Competition, the 2003 Yo ...
, France *2nd Prize: Ryszard Groblewski, Poland *3rd Prize: Tomoko Akasaka, Japan ''Flute'' *1st Prize: Magali Mosnier, France *2nd Prize: Pirmin Grehl, Germany *3rd Prize: Andrea Oliva, Italy ''String Quartet'' *1st Prize: Ébène Quartet, France *2nd Prize: Faust Quartett, Germany *3rd Prize: Quatuor Benaïm, Israel/France ''Harp'' *1st Prize: Anton Sie, Netherlands *2nd Prize: Nabila Chajai, France *3rd Prize: Mirjam Schroder, Germany ;2005 ''Violin'' *1st Prize: Keisuke Okasaki, Japan *2nd Prize:
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, Japan *3rd Prize:
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, Germany ''Cello'' *1st Prize: Jing Zhao, China *2nd Prize: Alexander Bouzlov, Russia *3rd Prize: Alexander Chaushian, Armenia/Great Britain ''Horn'' *1st Prize: Szabolcs Zempléní, Hungary *2nd Prizes (shared): Louis-Philippe Marsolais, Canada;
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, Germany *3rd Prize: Christoph Eß, Germany ''Piano Duo'' *2nd Prizes (shared): Victor y Luis del Valle, Spain; Piano Duo Poskute – Daukantas, Lithuania *3rd Prize: Silivanova – Puryzhinskiy, Russia ;2006 ''Voice/Opera'' *1st Prize: Jun Mo Yang, Korea *2nd Prize: Joshua Hopkins, Canada *3rd Prizes (shared): Ilse Eerens, Belgium;
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, Armenia ''Voice/Lied'' *2nd Prizes (shared): Roxana Constantinescu, Rumania; Carolina Ullrich, Chile/Germany *3rd Prizes (shared): Colin Balzer, Canada; Peter Schöne, Germany ''Piano'' *1st Prize: Benjamin Kim, USA *2nd Prizes (shared): Hisako Kawamura, Japan; Marianna Shirinyan, Armenia ''Wind Quintet'' *1st Prize: Quintette Aquilon, France *2nd Prize: Quintett Chantily, Germany/Hungary/Russia/Finland *3rd Prize: Weimarer Bläserquintett, Germany ;2007 ''Oboe'' *1st Prize: Ramón Ortega Quero, Spain *2nd Prize: Ivan Podyomov, Russia *3rd Prize:
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, Russia ''Trombone'' *1st Prize: Fabrice Millischer, France *2nd Prize: Frederic Belli, Germany *3rd Prize: Juan Carlos Matamoros, Spain ''Percussion'' *1st Prize: Johannes Fischer, Germany *2nd Prize: Vassilena Serafimova, Bulgaria ''Piano Trio'' *1st Prize: Tecchler Trio, Switzerland/Germany *2nd Prize: Morgenstern Trio, Germany/France *3rd Prize: Trio Cérès, France ;2008 ''Viola'' *2nd Prize: Wen Xiao Zheng, China *3rd Prize:
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, China ''Clarinet'' *1st Prize:
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, Germany *3rd Prizes (shared): Shelly Ezra, Israel; Taira Kaneko, Japan ''Bassoon'' *2nd Prizes (shared): Christian Kunert, Germany; Philipp Tutzer, Italy *3rd Prize: Václav Vonášek, Czech Republic *Bärenreiter Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work:
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, France ''String Quartet'' *1st Prize: Apollon Musagete Quartett, Poland *2nd Prize: Afiara String Quartet, Canada *3rd Prizes (shared): Gémeaux Quartet, Germany/Switzerland; Verus String Quartet, Japan ;2009 ''Violin'' *1st Prize: Hyeyoon Park, Korea *2nd Prize:
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, Japan *3rd Prize:
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, USA ''Double Bass'' *1st Prize: Gunars Upatnieks, Latvia *2nd Prize: Stanislau Anishchanka, Belarus *3rd Prizes (shared): Olivier Thiery, France; Ivan Zavgorodniy, Ukraine ''Voice'' *1st Prize: Anita Watson, Australia *2nd Prize: Sunyoung Seo, Korea; Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Germany *3rd Prize: Hye Jung Lee, Korea; Falko Hönisch, Germany


2010s

;2010 ''Flute'' *1st Prize: Loïc Schneider, France *2nd Prize: Daniela Koch, Austria *3rd Prize: Sooyun Kim, South Korea/USA *BR Klassik Prize: Ivannay Ternay, Ukraine ''Cello'' *1st Prize: Julian Steckel, Germany *2nd Prize:
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, Japan *3rd Prize: Tristan Cornut, France ''Horn'' *1st Prize:
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, Czech Republic *2nd Prizes (shared): Dániel Ember, Hungary; Paolo Mendes, Germany ''Piano Duo'' *2nd Prize: Hyun Joo & Hee Jin June – Remnant Piano Duo, South Korea *3rd Prize: Susan & Sarah Wang – DoubleWang Duo, USA *Special Prize: Pianoduo Groebner & Trisko, Austria ;2011 ''Oboe'' *2nd Prizes (shared): Philippe Tondre, France, with Public Prize; Ivan Podyomov, Russia *3rd Prize: Cristina Gómez Godoy, Spain; Marc Lachat, France ''Organ'' *1st Prize: Schöch, Austria *2nd Prize: Anna-Victoria Baltrusch, German *3rd Prize: Lukas Stollhof, Dutch ''Trumpet'' *1st Prize: Manuel Blanco Gómez-Limón, Spain *2nd Prize: Alexandre Baty, France *3rd Prize: Ferenc Mausz, Hungary, with Public Prize ''Piano'' *1st Prize: Alexej Gorlatch, Ukraine, with Public Prize *2nd Prize:
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( Claire Huangci), USA *3rd Prize:
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, South Korea *Special Prizes: EunAe Lee, South Korea ;2012 ''Voice (male)'' *2nd Prizes (shared): Dashon Burton, USA; Hansung Yoo, South Korea, with Public Prize *3rd Prize: Kyubong Lee, South Korea ''Voice (female)'' *1st Prize:
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, Ukraine *2nd Prizes (shared):
Sumi Hwang Sumi Hwang (; born 25 January 1986) is a South Korean soprano. Early life and education Hwang was born in Yecheon, South Korea. She studied at the Seoul National University where she received both her bachelor's and master's degrees in music. I ...
, South Korea; Anna Sohn, South Korea *3rd Prize: Sophia Christine Brommer, Germany, with Public Prize ''Clarinet'' *2nd Prizes (shared): Sergey Eletskiy, Russia; Stojan Krkuleski, Serbia, with Public Prize;
Annelien Van Wauwe Annelien Van Wauwe (born 1987) is a Belgian clarinetist who performs internationally as a soloist. She was educated by Sabine Meyer and other internationally known teachers. She has won numerous international competitions and performs with top i ...
, Belgium ''String Quartet'' *1st Prize:
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, Germany, with Public Prize *2nd Prize: Novus String Quartet, South Korea *3rd Prize:
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, USA/Canada ;2013 ''Violin'' *2nd Prizes (shared):
Bomsori Kim Bomsori Kim (, born December 13, 1989) is a South Korean classical violinist. She performs as a recitalist and as a Solo (music), soloist with leading orchestras and conductors. As a violinist, Bomsori has won prizes at ten international viol ...
, South Korea;
Christel Lee Christel Lee (born on October 25, 1990, Bloomington, Indiana, United States) is a Korean American-Canadian violinist. She has studied at the Juilliard School, at the Kronberg Academy, and at the Munich College for Music and Theatre. Lee won ...
, USA, with Public Prize *Special Prize of the Munich Chamber Orchestra:
Diana Tishchenko Diana Tishchenko (; born 1990) is a German classical violinist of Ukrainian descent and the winner of the International Long Thibaud Crespin Competition in Paris 2018. Named “Rising Star” by the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) in ...
, Ukraine ''Viola'' *1st Prize:
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, South Korea *2nd Prize: Kyoungmin Park, South Korea, with Public Prize *3rd Prize: Katarzyna Budnik-Gałązka, Poland *Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work:
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, France *Special Prize of the Henning Tögel Talent Foundation for Outstanding Talents: Lydia Rinecker, Germany ''Bassoon'' *2nd Prizes : Rie Koyama, Japan, with Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work *3rd Prize: María José Rielo Blanco, Spain, with BR-Klassik Online-Preis ''Piano Trio'' *2nd Prizes (shared): Van Baerle Trio, Netherlands, with Public Prize; Trio Karénine, France, with Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work ;2014 ''Percussion'' * 1. Prize: Simone Rubino (Italy), Public Prize, Brüder Busch Prize * 2. Prize:
Alexej Gerassimez Alexej Gerassimez (born 1987 in Essen) is a German solo percussion player and composer. Gerassimez was born in Essen, Germany. His brothers are also musicians: Nicolai Gerassimez is a pianist and Wassily Gerassimez is a cellist. He studied at the ...
(Germany), Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work * 3. Prize: Christoph Sietzen (Luxembourg ) * Special Prize U21: Vivi Vassileva (Germany), Semifinal * Special Prize of Mozart Gesellschaft München: Vivi Vassileva (Germany), Semifinal ''Violoncello'' * 1. Prize: István Várdai (Hungary) * 2. Prize:
Andrei Ioniță Andrei Ionuț Ioniță (born 1 January 1994 in Bucharest) is a Romanian cellist. He won first prize in the cello division of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition. Ioniță began studying piano when he was five years old and started cel ...
(Romania), Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work, Special Prize Premiertone-Website * 3. Prize: Bruno Philippe (France), Public Prize * Alice-Rosner-Prize for an excellent interpretation of G. Ligeti Sonate for Violoncello solo: Pablo Ferrández (Spain), Semifinal * Bärenreiter-Urtext-Prize: Alexey Zhilin, 2. Round ''Wind Quintet'' * 2. Prize: Azahar Ensemble (Spain), Public Prize, ifp-Musikpreis * 3. Prize: Acelga Quintett (Germany/Luxembourg) * 3. Prize: Quintette Klarthe (France), BR-KLASSIK Onlineprize, Special Prize Palazzetto Bru Zane * Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work: Canorusquintett (Germany), Semifinal * Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany: Canorusquintett (Germany), Semifinal * Bärenreiter-Urtext-Prize: Arcadia Wind Quintet (Venezuela), 1. Round ''Piano'' * 2. Prize:
Chi-Ho Han Chi Ho Han (; born 19 January 1992) is a South Korean pianist. He has won the 10th Seoul International Music Competition, 2nd Prize in ARD international music competition in Munich (with no 1st prize awarded) and Silver Medal (2nd Prize) in Gin ...
(South Korea), Publik Prize, Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work * 3. Prize: Kang-Un Kim (South Korea), Osnabrücker Musikpreis * 3. Prize: Florian Mitrea (Rumania), Special Prize Münchener Kammerorchester * Bärenreiter-Urtext-Prize: Nadjezda Pisareva (Russia), 2. Round ;2015 Voice * 1. Prize: Emalie Savoy (USA), Special Prize „Orpheus“,Special Prize GENUIN classics * 2. Prize: Sooyeon Lee (South Korea), Public Prize * 3. Prize: Marion Lebegue (France), Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work * Bärenreiter-Urtext-Prize: Jae Eun Park (South Korea) ''Trombone'' * 1. Prize: Michael Buchanan (Great Britain), Public Prize * 2. Prize: Jonathan Reith, (France) * 3. Prize: Guilhem Kusnierek (France) * Special Prize of Mozart Gesellschaft München: Juan González Moreno (Spain), Semifinal * Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work: José Milton Vieira Leite Filho (Brasil) ''Piano Duo'' * 1. Prize: Alina Shalamova & Nikolay Shalamov (Bulgaria/Russia), Public Prize, Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work, ifp-Musikpreis * 2. Prize: Duo Ani und Nia Sulkhanishvili (Georgia) * 2. Prize: Duo ShinPark (South Korea) * 3. Prize: Piano Duo Lok Ping & Lok Ting Chau (Hong Kong) * Bärenreiter-Urtext-Prize: Piano Duo Chen – Armand (France/South Korea), Semifinal * Special Prize U21: Piano Duo Chen – Armand (France/South Korea), Semifinal ''Flute'' * 1. Prize: Sébastian Jacot (Switzerland ), Special Prize from Münchener Kammerorchester, Brüder-Busch-Prize, Osnabrücker Musikpreis * 2. Prize: Francisco López Martín (Spain), Public Prize, Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work, BR-KLASSIK Online-Prize * 3. Prize: Eduardo Belmar (Spain) * Bärenreiter-Urtext-Prize: Othonas Gkogkas (Greece) * Alice-Rosner-Prize: For an excellent interpretation of Heinz Holliger Sonate (in)solit(air)e: Mayuko Akimoto (Japan) ;2016 ''Harp'' * 1. Prize: Agnès Clément (France), Publik Prize, Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work * 2. Prize: Anaïs Gaudemard (France), Special Prize from Münchener Kammerorchester * 3. Prize: Rino Kageyama (Japan) * Special Prize of Mozart-Gesellschaft München: Magdalena Hoffmann (Germany), Semifinal * Special Prize U21: Magdalena Hoffmann (Germany), Semifinal * Bärenreiter-Urtext-Prize: Marika Cecilia Riedl (Germany) ''Horn'' * 2. Prize: Marc Gruber (Germany), Publik Prize, Brüder-Busch-Prize * 2. Prize: Kateřina Javůrková (Czech Republic), BR-KLASSIK Online-Preis * 3. Prize: Félix Dervaux (France), Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work * 3. Prize: Nicolas Ramez (France) * Bärenreiter-Urtext-Prize: Nicolás Gómez Naval (Spain) ''Double Bass'' * 1. Prize: Wies de Boevé (Belgium), Publik Prize, ifp-Musikpreis * 2. Prize: Michael Karg (Germany) * 3. Prize: Dominik Wagner (Germany/Austria), Special Prize of Andreas-Wilfer-Meisterwerkstatt building Cellos and doublebasses * Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work: Michail-Pavlos Semsis (Greece) * Bärenreiter-Urtext-Prize: Marek Romanowski (Poland) ''String Quartet'' * 1. Prize: Quatuor Arod (France),
IDAGIO IDAGIO is a streaming service specializing in classical music with both free and paid tiers. The company is based in Berlin, Germany. History IDAGIO was founded in 2015 by Till Janczukowicz, a former artist manager, and Christoph Lange, who pre ...
-Onlinepreis * 2. Prize: Aris Quartett (Germany), Publik Prize, Special Prize GENUIN classics, Special Prize ProQuartet, Osnabrücker Musikpreis * 3. Prize: Quartet Amabile (Japan), Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work * Bärenreiter-Urtext-Prize: Quatuor Hanson (France/Great Britain) * Alice-Rosner-Preis: For an excellent interpretation of Streichquartett nr. 1 from György Ligeti: Quatuor Arod (France) * Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany: Giocoso Streichquartett Vienna * Prize of Karl-Klingler-Stiftung: Goldmund Quartett (Germany) ;2017 ''Violin'' * 2. Prize: Sarah Christian, Germany, Public Prize, Special Prize from Münchener Kammerorchesters, Henle-Urtextpreis * 2. Prize: Andrea Obiso, Italy, Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work, Henle-Urtextpreis * 3. Prize: Kristīne Balanas, Latvia, Henle-Urtextpreis Piano * 1. Prize: JeungBeum Sohn, South Korea, Henle-Urtextpreis * 2. Prize: Fabian Müller, Germany, Public Prize, Brüder-Busch-Prize, Henle-Urtextpreis, Special Prize GENUIN classics * 3. Prize: Wataru Hisasue, Japan, Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work, Henle-Urtextpreis ''Guitar'' * 2. Prize: Junhong Kuang, China, Public Prize, ifp-Musikpreis * 2. Prize: Davide Giovanni Tomasi, Italy/Switzerland * 3. Prize: Andrey Lebedev, Australia, Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work ''Oboe'' * 2. Prize: Kyeong Ham, South Korea, BR-KLASSIK Online-Preis * 2. Prize: Thomas Hutchinson, New Zealand , Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work * 2. Prize: Juliana Koch, Germany, Public Prize, Osnabrücker Musikpreis ;2018 ''Voice'' *1st Prize: Natalya Boeva, Russia *2nd Prize: Milan Siljanov, Switzerland *3rd Prize: Mingjie Lei, China *3rd Prize: Ylva Sofia Stenberg, Sweden ''Trumpet'' *1st Prize Selina Ott, Austria *2nd Prize: Célestin Guérin, France *2nd Prize: Mihály Könyves-Tóth, Hungary *3rd Prize: (not awarded) ''Piano Trio'' *1st Prize: Aoi Trio, Japan *2nd Prize: (not awarded) *3rd Prize: Trio Marvin, Kazakhstan / Russia / Germany *3rd Prize: Lux Trio, Korea ''Viola'' *1st Prize: Diyang Mei, China *2nd Prize: Yucheng Shi, China *3rd Prize: Takehiro Konoe, Japan ;2019 ''Violoncello'' *1st Prize: Haruma Sato, Japan *2nd Prize: Friedrich Thiele, Germany *3rd Prize: Sihao He, China ''Bassoon'' *2nd Prize: Andrea Cellacchi, Italy *2nd Prize: Mathis Stier, Germany *3rd Prize: Theo Plath, Germany ''Clarinet'' *1st Prize: Joë Christophe, France *2nd Prize: Carlos Alexandre Brito Ferreira, Portugal *2nd Prize: Han Kim, South Korea ''Percussion'' *1st Prize: Kai Strobel, Germany *2nd Prize: Aurélien Gignoux, France/Switzerland *3rd Prize: Weiqi Bai, China


Prior 2000


Piano

*1952 Alberto Colombo Italy *1952 Laurence Davis Australia *1952 Peter Wallfisch Israel *1954
Ingrid Haebler Ingrid Haebler (born 20 June 1929) is an Austrian pianist. She studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum, Vienna Music Academy, Conservatoire de Musique de Genève and privately in Paris with Marguerite Long. She toured worldwide. She is best known f ...
Austria *1954 Fernande Kaeser Switzerland *1956 Robert-Alexander Bohnke FRG *1957 1. Prize
Thérèse Dussaut Thérèse Dussaut (born 20 September 1939) is a French pianist and music educator. Life Born in Versailles, the daughter of composers Robert Dussaut and Hélène Corvatti, Thérèse Dussaut studied piano in France with Marguerite Long and Pierr ...
France *1957 2. Prize Sumiko Inouchi Japan *1958 1. Prize Hans Eckart Besch FRG *1958 2. Prize
Michael Ponti Michael Ponti (29 October 1937 – 17 October 2022) was a German-American classical pianist. He was the first to record the complete piano works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. He made more than 80 recordings, around 50 of rarely play ...
US *1958 2. Prize Dieter Weber Austria *1959 1. Prize Friedrich Wilhelm Schnurr FRG *1959 2. Prize Gernot Kahl FRG *1959 2. Prize Norman Shetler US *1961 2. Prize Pavica Gvozdić Yugoslavia *1961 3. Prize Alexandra Ablewicz Poland *1962 2. Prize
Christoph Eschenbach Christoph Eschenbach (; born 20 February 1940) is a German pianist and conductor. Early life Eschenbach was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). His parents were Margarethe (née Jaross) and Heribert Ringmann. He was orphaned durin ...
FRG *1962 3. Prize Milena Mollova Bulgaria *1963 2. Prize Edith Fischer Switzerland *1965 1. Prize Judith Burganger US *1965 3. Prize Dag Achatz Sweden *1966 1. Prize Claude Savard France *1966 3. Prize
Mitsuko Uchida is a classical pianist and conductor, born in Japan and naturalised in Britain, particularly noted for her interpretations of Mozart and Schubert. She has appeared with many notable orchestras, recorded a wide repertory with several labels, w ...
Japan *1967 3. Prize
Anthony Goldstone Anthony Goldstone (25 July 1944 – 2 January 2017) was an English pianist, known for his eclectic repertoire. He also played a prominent part in promoting works for piano duo with his wife Caroline Clemmow. Early life Goldstone was born on 2 ...
UK *1967 3. Prize Valery Kastelsky USSR *1968 1. Prize
Anne Queffélec Anne Queffélec (born 17 January 1948) is a French classical pianist, born in Paris. Biography Anne Queffélec is the daughter of Henri Queffélec and sister of Yann Queffélec, both noted writers. Her brother Hervé Queffélec is a mathema ...
France *1969 2. Prize Erika Lux Hungary *1969 3. Prize
Piotr Paleczny Piotr Paleczny (born 10 May 1946 in Rybnik, Poland) is a Polish classical pianist, winner of the 3rd prize of the VIII International Chopin Piano Competition in 1970. In 1990 he served on the jury of the Paloma O'Shea Santander International P ...
Poland *1970 2. Prize André De Groote Belgium *1971 2. Prize Marian Migdal Poland *1971 2. Prize Martino Tirimo UK *1972 1. Prize
Chen Pi-hsien Chen Pi-hsien (; born 15 November 1950) is a Taiwanese-German classical pianist. She has received honors at several international piano competitions. She teaches at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and lives in Germany at present. Biography C ...
Taiwan *1972 3. Prize Roland Keller FRG *1973 1. Prize
James Tocco James Tocco (born 1943) is an American concert pianist. He is the youngest of thirteen children born to Vincenzo and Rose Tocco, both Sicilian immigrants. Early life Born of Sicilian immigrant parents in Detroit, Michigan, Tocco's love of music ...
US *1973 2. Prize Myung-whun Chung Korea *1975 1. Prize Diane Walsh US *1975 2. Prize Natasha Tadson Israel *1975 3. Prize Nina Tichman US *1979 1. Prize Hans-Christian Wille FRG *1979 2. Prize
Marioara Trifan Marioara Trifan (born 8 March 1950) is an internationally performing American pianist and conductor. Career Trifan was born in Los Angeles and grew up in New Jersey. She studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, and at the Juilliard ...
US *1981 3. Prize Rolf Plagge FRG *1983 1. Prize
Kei Itoh Kei Itoh is a Japanese pianist. Itoh graduated at the Tōhō Gakuen Daigaku in 1977, finishing her studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Musikhochschule Hannover. She won the 1979 Epinal and 1983 Munich Competitions. She has been awarded th ...
Japan *1983 3. Prize Andrei Nikolsky USSR *1983 3. Prize Hai-Kyung Suh Korea *1985 1. Prize Kalle Randalu USSR *1985 2. Prize Daniel Gortler Israel *1987 2. Prize Ricardo Castro Brazil *1987 2. Prize
Bernd Glemser Bernd Glemser (born 1962, Dürbheim) is a German pianist. A student of Vitaly Margulis, in 1989 he became Germany's youngest piano professor at Saarbrücken's Musikhochschule. He has recorded major pieces by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Schumann, ...
FRG *1987 3. Prize Thomas Duis FRG *1989 1. Prize Susanne Grützmann GDR *1989 2. Prize
Alexandre Tharaud Alexandre Tharaud (born 9 December 1968) is a French pianist. He is active on the concert stage and has released a large and diverse discography. Life and career Born in Paris, Tharaud discovered the music scene through his mother who was a danc ...
France *1989 3. Prize Kyōko Tabe Japan *1991 2. Prize
Momo Kodama is a Japanese classical pianist. She was born in Osaka but grew up in Europe, attending the Conservatoire de Paris with older sister Mari. She made her debut in 1991 with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and was the youngest winner of the Internat ...
Japan *1993 1. Prize
Anna Malikova Anna Malikova (born 14 July 1965) is a Russian pianist. Life Malikova was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where she received her first musical education with Tamara A. Popovich at Uspensky Music School. At the age of 14 years she entered Central Mu ...
Russia *1995 3. Prize
Claire-Marie Le Guay Claire-Marie Le Guay (born 13 June 1974) is a French classical pianist. Early life Le Guay was born in Paris, France. She began playing piano at age 4 and entered the Paris Conservatoire at age 14, where she studied with Jacques Rouvier, Pasca ...
France *1997 3. Prize
Etsuko Hirose « Hirose, Etsuko, 1979- »
on ''lccn.loc.gov'' (accessdate=13 December 2018) is a Japanese classica ...
Japan *1999 2. Prize
Severin von Eckardstein Severin von Eckardstein (born 1 August 1978) is a German classical pianist. He was born in Düsseldorf, and took his first piano lessons when he was six years old. At the age of 12, he was accepted into a young-talent class at the Robert Schuman ...
Germany


Piano Duo

*1955 Kurt Bauer / Heidi Bung West Germany *1955
Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky Aloys (14 May 1931 – 22 August 2017) and Alfons (9 October 1932 – 5 May 2010) Kontarsky were German duo-pianist brothers who were associated with a number of important world premieres of contemporary works. They had an international reputatio ...
West Germany *1964 2. Prize Marie-José Billard / Julien Azaïs France *1964 2. Prize Joanne and Joyce Weintraub US *1974 1. Prize Anthony & Joseph Paratore US *1974 2. Prize Elif and Bedii Aran Turkey *1974 3. Prize Marina Horak /
Håkon Austbø Håkon Austbø (born October 22, 1948) is a Norwegian classical pianist. He has created many recordings for the label Brilliant Classics and Naxos Records, and is also a professor at the Amsterdam conservatory. Born in Kongsberg, Austbø studie ...
Yugoslavia/Norway *1980 2. Prize Alexander and Natalia Bagdasarov USSR *1980 2. Prize Cameron Grant / James Winn US *1980 3. Prize Carlos Duarte / Varda Shamban Venezuela/Israel *1986 3. Prize Zsuzsanna Kollar / Gabriella Lang Hungary *1986 3. Prize Stenzl Pianoduo West Germany *1992 2. Prize Thomas Hecht / Sandra Shapiro US *1992 3. Prize Silke-Thora Matthies / Christian Köhn Germany *1996 2. Prize Irene Alexeytchuk / Yuri Kot Ukraine *1996 2. Prize Genova & Dimitrov Bulgaria


Organ

*1957 1. Prize
Franz Lehrndorfer Franz Lehrndorfer (10 August 1928 – 10 January 2013) was a German organist, composer, and pedagogue. Biography Franz Lehrndorfer was born in Salzburg and spent his youth in Kempten. He received his first music lessons from his father, a cho ...
West Germany *1957 2. Prize Viktor Lukas West Germany *1959 1. Prize Hedwig Bilgram West Germany *1959 2. Prize
Lionel Rogg Lionel Rogg (born Geneva, April 21 1936) is a Swiss organist, composer and teacher of musical theory. He is best known for performing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose complete organ works he has recorded three times. At 15, Rogg took cha ...
Switzerland *1962 1. Prize Wolfgang Sebastian Meyer West Germany *1962 2. Prize François Desbaillet Switzerland *1962 3. Prize Mireille Lagacé Canada *1966 2. Prize Cherry Rhodes US *1966 3. Prize Daniel Roth France *1966 3. Prize Günther Kaunzinger West Germany *1971 1. Prize
Edgar Krapp Edgar Krapp (born June 3, 1947 in Bamberg) is a German organist and music professor. Krapp is a member of the Board of the Neue Bachgesellschaft (New Bach Society) in Leipzig and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Biography Krapp's first organ l ...
West Germany *1971 3. Prize Charles Benbow US *1971 3. Prize Gerhard Weinberger West Germany *1975 2. Prize Klemens Schnorr West Germany *1975 3. Prize
Martin Lücker Martin Lücker (born 11 October 1953) is a Germans, German classical organist, and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main. Career Born in Preußisch Oldendorf, Lücker studied organ in Hannover and in Vi ...
West Germany *1979 2. Prize
Ludger Lohmann Ludger Lohmann (born 1954 in Herne) is a highly acknowledged organist. Lohmann studied school and church music, musicology, philosophy and geography in Cologne. He studied organ with Wolfgang Stockmeier and harpsichord with Hugo Ruf. He took ...
West Germany *1979 3. Prize Karol Gołębiowski Poland *1987 2. Prize Heidi Emmert West Germany *1987 2. Prize Martin Sander West Germany *1987 3. Prize Stefan Palm West Germany *1994 2. Prize Ariane Metz Germany *1994 3. Prize Leonhard Amselgruber Germany *1999 2. Prize Martin Kaleschke Germany


Harpsichord

*1956 2. Prize
Zuzana Ruzickova Zuzana is a common female given name in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is often translated to other languages as Zuzanna ( Polish), Suzanne, Susan, or Susannah – all commonly derived from the Hebrew language name Shoshana, meaning "lilly ...
Czechoslovakia *1958 1. Prize Vera Schwarz Austria *1964 2. Prize William Read US *1964 3. Prize Gottfried Bach West Germany *1964 3. Prize Jörg Ewald Dähler Switzerland *1970 2. Prize Martha Brickman Canada *1984 1. Prize Władysław Marek Kłosiewicz Poland


Voice

*1954 FRG *1955 Johannes Wilbrink Netherlands *1957 1. Prize Jadwiga Románska Poland *1958 2. Prize Demeter Marczis Hungary *1958 2. Prize
Jacques Villisech Jacques Villisech was a French bass-baritone in opera and concert. He was an early specialist singing Baroque music in historically informed performance. Career Villisech was an actor and singer in the theatre company of Jean-Louis Barrault. ...
France *1960 1. Prize
Ivan Rebroff Ivan Rebroff (31 July 193127 February 2008) was a German-born vocalist, allegedly of Russian ancestry, who rose to prominence for his distinct and extensive vocal range of four and a half octaves, ranging from the soprano to bass registers. ...
FRG *1960 2. Prize Annabelle Bernard US *1960 2. Prize
Raymond Michalski Raymond Michalski (born 8 June 1933) is an American operatic bass-baritone. Michalski was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. He studied voice with Rosalie Miller at the Mannes School of Music in New York City before making his professional stage de ...
US *1960 3. Prize
Teresa Żylis-Gara Teresa Żylis-Gara (23 January 1930 – 28 August 2021) was a Polish operatic soprano who enjoyed a major international career from the 1950s through the 1990s. She made her stage debut at the Opera Krakowska in 1958 in the title role of Moni ...
Poland *1960 4. Prize Thomas Carey US *1961 1. Prize US *1961 3. Prize
Benjamin Luxon Benjamin Matthew Luxon (born 24 March 1937, Redruth, Cornwall) is a retired British baritone. Biography He studied with Walther Gruner at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (while working part-time as a PE teacher in the East End) and est ...
UK *1962 1. Prize Poland *1962 1. Prize Kenneth John Bowen UK *1962 2. Prize Franco Bordoni Italy *1963 1. Prize
Jules Bastin Jules Bastin (18 August 1933 – 2 December 1996, in Waterloo) was a Belgian operatic bass. Born in , he made his debut in 1960 at La Monnaie, singing Charon in ''L'Orfeo''. He appeared at major opera houses throughout Europe, including the Royal ...
Belgium *1963 1. Prize Veronica Tyler US *1964 3. Prize Yugoslavia *1964 Concert Prize
Max van Egmond Max van Egmond (born 1 February 1936 in Semarang) is a Dutch bass and baritone singer. He has focused on oratorio and Lied and is known for singing works of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was one of the pioneers of historically informed performance of B ...
Netherlands *1964 Lied Prize
Bruce Abel Bruce Abel (25 July 1936 – 10 March 2021) was an American bass singer. Biography Abel studied singing at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City under Hans Heinz, where he excelled in studies of French art songs and German lieder. He ...
US *1965 1. Prize Australia *1965 2. Prize Teresa Wojtaszek-Kubiak Poland *1966 1. Prize
Ileana Cotrubaș Ileana Cotrubaș (; born 9 June 1939) is a Romanian operatic soprano whose career spanned from the 1960s to the 1980s. She was much admired for her acting skills and facility for singing opera in many different languages. Life and career Cotrub ...
Romania *1966 1. Prize USSR *1966 2. Prize
Siegmund Nimsgern Siegmund Nimsgern (born 14 January 1940) is a German bass-baritone, born in Sankt Wendel, Saarland, Germany. After leaving school in 1960 he studied singing and musical education at the Hochschule für Musik Saar with Sibylle Fuchs, Jakob St ...
FRG *1967 1. Prize
Knut Skram Knut Skram (born 18 December 1937) is a Norwegian baritone. Considered one of the most important Norwegian opera singers of his generation, his career has spanned more than four decades. Life and career Born in the village of Sæbø in western N ...
Norway *1967 3. Prize
Joan Carden Joan Carden AO OBE (born 9 October 1937) is an Australian operatic soprano. She has been described as "a worthy successor to Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland" and was sometimes known as "the other Joan" (a reference to Sutherland and ...
Australia *1968 1. Prize
Jessye Norman Jessye Mae Norman (September 15, 1945 – September 30, 2019) was an American opera singer and recitalist. She was able to perform dramatic soprano roles, but refused to be limited to that voice type. A commanding presence on operatic, concert ...
US *1968 1. Prize
Michael Schopper Michael Schopper (born 28 May 1942) is a German bass-baritone in opera and concert, and an academic teacher. Michael Schopper was educated with the Regensburger Domspatzen and studied on a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volke ...
FRG *1970 3. Prize
Victor von Halem Victor von Halem (26 March 1940 – 28 May 2022) was a German operatic bass. He was a member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin for nearly 30 years as well as a guest singer in the major opera houses and festivals of Europe and North America. He sang a ...
FRG *1971 2. Prize Anita Terzian US *1972 1. Prize
Robert Holl Robert Holl (born 10 March 1947) is a Dutch bass-baritone classical singer. Life and career Holl was born in Rotterdam and studied at the Rotterdams Conservatorium. After winning the first prize at the 1971 International Vocal Competition 's-He ...
Netherlands *1972 3. Prize Otoniel Gonzaga Philippines *1972 3. Prize
Edith Guillaume Edith Sussanne Antonie Guillaume (Juni 14, 1943 - September 11, 2013) was a Danish mezzo-soprano who sang for the Danish National Opera and the Royal Danish Opera. She is remembered for performing in several modernist works, including those of Krzy ...
Denmark *1974 1. Prize
Margaret Anne Marshall Margaret Anne Marshall OBE (born 4 January 1949) is a Scottish soprano. Marshall was born in Stirling. Her career started in the 1970s and she has sung a wide range of classical and operatic roles up to her retirement in 2004. She received the ...
UK *1974 2. Prize
Hanns-Friedrich Kunz Hanns-Friedrich Kunz (born 21 February 1945) is a German choral conductor. Life and career Born in Ochsenhausen, Kunz first studied music at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. He then moved to Freiburg where ...
FRG *1974 3. Prize
Francisco Araiza José Francisco Araiza Andrade (born 4 October 1950), is a Mexican operatic tenor and lied singer who has sung as soloist in leading concert halls and in leading tenor operatic roles in the major opera houses of Europe and North America during t ...
Mexico *1976 2. Prize
Mitsuko Shirai Mitsuko Shirai (born 28 May 1947) is a Japanese mezzo-soprano and music professor.Alan Blyth, "Mitsuko Shirai", Grove Music Online Biography Born in Nagano Prefecture, Nagano, Shirai first trained in Tokyo before settling in Germany, where she co ...
Japan *1978 2. Prize
Zehava Gal Zehava Gal ( he, זֶהָבָה גַּל) is an Israeli-born operatic mezzo-soprano. Zehava Gal has sung leading roles in both European and North American opera houses and festivals, including La Scala, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Paris Opera, ...
Israel *1980 1. Prize Japan *1980 2. Prize
Edith Wiens Edith Wiens OC (born 9 June 1950) is a Canadian opera, recital and concert singer with a soprano voice. Early life and education Wiens, daughter of a Mennonite pastor, grew up in Vancouver where she finished high school at the age of 16. She ...
Canada *1980 3. Prize Pamela Coburn US *1982 1. Prize Kaaren Erickson US *1982 2. Prize
Anne Sofie von Otter Anne Sofie von Otter (born 9 May 1955) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano. Her repertoire encompasses lieder, operas, oratorios and also rock and pop songs. Early life Von Otter was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father was Göran von Otter, a Swedis ...
Sweden *1984 3. Prize Ian Christopher Smith, Trinidad and Tobago *1986 1. Prize Barbara Kilduff US *1986 1. Prize
Derek Lee Ragin Derek Lee Ragin (born June 17, 1958) is an American countertenor. _Biography.html" ;"title="Derek Lee Ragin > Biography">Derek Lee Ragin > Biographyallmusic Early life Derek Ragin was born in West Point, New York and grew up in Newark, New Jerse ...
US *1986 2. Prize Japan *1988 1. Prize
Thomas Quasthoff Thomas Quasthoff (born 9 November 1959) is a German bass-baritone. Quasthoff has a range of musical interest from Bach cantatas, to lieder, and solo jazz improvisations. Born with severe birth defects caused by thalidomide, Quasthoff is , and has ...
FRG *1988 2. Prize Lívia Ághová ČSSR *1990 1. Prize
Andrzej Dobber Andrzej Dobber (born 28 May 1961 in Więcbork) is a Polish baritone, honored with the title of Kammersänger by the Senate of the City of Hamburg and awarded the silver medal for Merit to Culture - Gloria Artis by the Polish Minister of Culture. ...
Poland *1990 1. Prize Elena Moșuc Romania *1990 2. Prize
Oliver Widmer Oliver Widmer (born 24 March 1965) is a Swiss operatic bass-baritone whose international career has encompassed lieder, opera, and oratorio. In 1998 he created the role of Jäger in Heinz Holliger's opera ''Schneewittchen (opera), Schneewittchen''. ...
Switzerland *1990 3. Prize
Bodil Arnesen Bodil Victoria Arnesen (19 April 1967 in Harstad) is a Norwegian operatic soprano who studied music in Stavanger and Munich. Arnesen has had opera and concert engagements in Europe, USA and Asia and has recorded several albums. She has been awarde ...
Norway *1992 2. Prize
Melinda Paulsen Melinda Paulsen (born 1964) is an American mezzo-soprano and contralto who has appeared mostly in Germany, with a focus on concert singing. She has been an academic voice teacher at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. Early life and education Pauls ...
US *1994 1. Prize Poland *1994 2. Prize Christian Elsner Germany *1996 2. Prize Anna Korondi Hungary *1996 2. Prize
Hanno Müller-Brachmann Hanno Müller-Brachmann (born 1970) is a German bass-baritone who made an international career in both opera and concert. A member of the Berlin State Opera from 1998 to 2011, he first sang Mozart roles such as The Magic Flute, Papageno and The M ...
Germany


Violin

*1953
Igor Ozim Igor Ozim (born 9 May 1931) is a Slovenian classical violinist and pedagogue, based in Salzburg, Austria. Career Igor Ozim was born in 1931 in Ljubljana. He came from a musical family: both parents played the piano and his brother the violin. At ...
Yugoslavia *1956 Edith Peinemann West Germany *1958 2. Prize
Oscar Yatco Professor Oscar C. Yatco (23 November 1930 – 1 July 2014) was a Filipino people, Filipino-born German Conductor (music), conductor and violinist. Early life Yatco obtained his music teacher's diploma at the young age of 16 from the University ...
Philippines *1961 2. Prize Yossi Zivoni Israel *1961 3. Prize Gerhard Hetzel West Germany *1966 1. Prize Konstanty Kulka Poland *1966 2. Prize Isabella Petrosian USSR *1966 3. Prize Yuri Mazurkevich USSR *1969 2. Prize Cristiano Rossi Italy *1969 2. Prize Masako Yanagita Japan *1969 3. Prize
Emmy Verhey Emmy Verhey (born 13 March 1949, in Amsterdam) is a Dutch violinist. Biography Verhey received her first violin lesson from her father when she was seven. Within a year, she played the Violin Concerto in A minor and the Concerto for Two Vi ...
Netherlands *1972 2. Prize Nilla Pierrou Sweden *1972 3. Prize Ernst Kovačič Austria *1975 2. Prize Dora Schwarzberg Israel *1975 3. Prize Kaja Danczowska Poland *1975 3. Prize Eugen Sârbu Romania *1978 3. Prize
Olivier Charlier Olivier Charlier (born 17 February 1961) is a French classical violinist. He plays on a violin by Carlo Bergonzi dated 1747. Biography Charlier was born in Albert, Somme and admitted at the age of 10 to the Conservatoire de Paris where he at ...
France *1978 3. Prize Irina Tseitlin stateless *1981 2. Prize Gwen Hoebig Canada *1981 3. Prize Florian Sonnleitner West Germany *1984 1. Prize Takumi Kubota Japan *1984 2. Prize
Christian Tetzlaff Christian Tetzlaff (born 29 April 1966) is a German violinist. Biography Tetzlaff was born in Hamburg. His parents were amateur musicians and met in a church choir. He began playing the violin and piano at the age of 6, and made his concert debu ...
West Germany *1984 3. Prize Peter Matzka US *1988 2. Prize Mi-kyung Lee Korea *1988 3. Prize Sonig Tchakerian Italy *1992 2. Prize Erez Ofer Israel *1992 3. Prize Pavel Šporcl ČSSR *1992 3. Prize Scott St. John Canada *1995 1. Prize Piotr Pławner Poland *1995 2. Prize Bettina Gradinger Austria *1999 2. Prize Bin Huang China *1999 3. Prize Andrei Bielov Ukraine *1999 3. Prize Francesco Manara Italy


Violin Duo

*1953 Ronald Woodcock /
Lamar Crowson John Lamar Crowson (May 27, 1926 – August 25, 1998) was an American concert pianist and a chamber musician.'' Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (2009) Crowson was born in Tampa, Florida. His early education was in Portland, Oregon, wit ...
Australia/US *1955 Renato Giangrandi / Arlette Eggmann Italy *1956 Alan Grishman / Joel Ryce US *1957 1. Prize György Pauk/
Peter Frankl Peter Frankl (born 2 October 1935) is a Hungary, Hungarian-born United Kingdom, British pianist. He mainly performs music from the Classical period (music), Classical period (particularly Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart), the Romantic music, Rom ...
Hungary *1957 2. Prize
Thomas Brandis Thomas Brandis (Hamburg, June 23, 1935 – March 30, 2017) was a German violinist, chamber music performer, pedagogue and former concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic. Biography Born in Hamburg (Germany) in 1935, Brandis trained as a violinist ...
/ Robert Henry West Germany/US *1960 2. Prize Albert Kocsis / Zsuzsanna Szabó Hungary *1960 3. Prize Joseph and Arlene Pach Canada *1963 1. Prize Clara Bonaldi / Sylvaine Billier France *1963 2. Prize Gerhard Hetzel / Ramón Walter West Germany/Switzerland *1963 3. Prize
Andrew Dawes Andrew Dawes (February 7, 1940 – October 30, 2022) was a Canadian violinist. He was known for his performances with the Orford String Quartet. Early life and education Dawes was born in High River, Alberta.Curtin Call: A Photographer's Candi ...
/ Marylou Kolbinson Canada *1968 2. Prize Rolf Schulte/ Taoko Ouchi West Germany/Japan *1968 2. Prize
Donald Weilerstein Donald Weilerstein (born 1940) is an American violinist and pedagogue. Early life and education Weilerstein was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Berkeley, California. He began playing the violin at the age of four and earned a Bachelor o ...
/ Susan Halligan US *1968 3. Prize Takahiro Muroya / Naoyuki Inoue Japan *1971 1. Prize
Levon Chilingirian Levon Chilingirian OBE (Լևոն Չիլինկիրեան born 28 May 1948) is a UK-based violinist of Armenian origin. The founder of the Chilingirian Quartet, he is also a professor and Chamber Music Artist in Residence at the Royal Academy of ...
/ Clifford Benson UK *1971 2. Prize Isidora Schwarzberg /
Boris Petrushansky Boris Petrushansky (born 3 June 1949 in Moscow) is a Russian-Italian pianist. Petrushansky started an intercontinental concert career in the mid-1970s after graduating from the Moscow Conservatory. Among his teachers were Heinrich Neuhaus and Le ...
USSR *1971 3. Prize Ildikó Bán / Katalin Váradi Hungary *1974 3. Prize
Mirosław Ławrynowicz Mirosław Ławrynowicz (born June 16, 1947, in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland and died April 6, 2005, in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish violinist and teacher. Biography Youth Ławrynowicz was born on 16 June 1947 in Warsaw. He finished the National H ...
/ Krystyna Makowska Poland *1974 3. Prize John and Dorothee Snow UK *1979 2. Prize
Pavel Vernikov Pavel Vernikov ( ukr, Павло Верніков) is a Ukrainian violinist, a member of Vienna University and a winner of Munich International Competition. Biography Vernikov was born in Odesa where he graduated from the Stolyarsky Music School w ...
/ Konstantin Bogino USSR *1979 3. Prize Peter and Gabriel Rosenberg West Germany *1983 2. Prize Peter Matzka /Teresa Turner-Jones US *1983 3. Prize Kazuki and Emiko Sawa Japan *1990 1. Prize
Hagai Shaham Hagai Shaham ( he, חגי שחם, born July 8, 1966) is an Israeli violin virtuoso. He began studying the violin at the age of six and was the last student of the late Professor Ilona Feher. He is also a violin teacher, a professor
/ Arnon Erez Israel *1990 2. Prize
Mayumi Seiler Mayumi Seiler (born November 14, 1963) is a Canadian-Austrian violinist of Japanese/German parentage, born in Osaka, Japan. Education and career Starting the violin from the age of three, Seiler received her musical education at the Mozarteum ...
/ Tünde Kurucz Austria/Hungary *1998 2. Prize Ariadne Daskalakis /
Miri Yampolsky Miri Yampolsky is a Russian pianist and a naturalised Israeli citizen. In 1994, Yampolsky won the IX José Iturbi Competition. A lecturer at the Cornell University's Department of Music, she has organised a Shostakovich Festival at Ithaca Itha ...
US/Israel *1998 3. Prize Akiko Tanaka / Evgeny Sinaiski Japan/Russia *1998 3. Prize Marco Rogliano / Maurizio Paciariello Italy


Viola

*1962 3. Prize Hermann Voss West Germany *1967 2. Prize
Nobuko Imai , is a Japanese classical violist with an extensive career as soloist and chamber musician. Since 1988 she has played a 1690 Andrea Guarneri instrument. Biography Imai began her musical training at the age of six. She began studying at Tokyo' ...
Japan *1971 1. Prize Vladimir Stopitschev USSR *1971 2. Prize Rainer Moog West Germany *1971 3. Prize
Uri Mayer Uri Mayer (born August 4, 1946, in Târgu Mureș, Romania) is Romanian-born Canadian violist and conductor. Mayer moved to Israel at a young age, and studied at the Conservatory of Music of Tel-Aviv and the University of Tel-Aviv. His conductin ...
Israel *1976 1. Prize
Yuri Bashmet Yuri Abramovich Bashmet (russian: link=no, Юрий Абрамович Башмет; born 24 January 1953) is a Russian conductor, violinist, and violist. Biography Yuri Bashmet was born on 24 January 1953 in Rostov-on-Don in the family of A ...
USSR *1976 2. Prize Wolfram Christ West Germany *1980 2. Prize Johannes Flieder Austria *1980 3. Prize
Kim Kashkashian Kim Kashkashian (born August 31, 1952) is an American violist. She is recognized as one of the world's top violists. She has spent her career in the US and Europe and collaborated with many major contemporary composers. In 2013 she won a Grammy ...
US *1983 2. Prize Barbara Westphal West Germany *1989 2. Prize Hideko Kobayashi Japan *1989 3. Prize Roberto Díaz Chile *1993 2. Prize Hsin-Yun Huang Taiwan *1993 3. Prize Gilad Karni Israel *1997 1. Prize Naoko Shimizu Japan *1997 2. Prize
Cathy Basrak Cathy Basrak (born 1977) is an American violist. She is the Assistant Principal Violist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and gave the premiere of the John Williams' viola concerto. She previously won several important viola competitions such a ...
US


Cello

*1957 1. Prize Georg Donderer West Germany *1957 2. Prize
Leslie Parnas Leslie Parnas (November 11, 1931 – February 1, 2022) was an American classical cellist. A prize winner at several international music competitions, he appeared as a soloist with orchestras around the world and performed and recorded a number of ...
US *1963 2. Prize
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (born July 28, 1942 in Tokyo) is a Japanese cellist. He started to study music under the tutorship of Hideo Saito, founder of the Tokyo Conservatory."Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi", Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Tsutsumi made his debut as celli ...
Japan *1963 3. Prize Raphael Sommer Israel *1968 2. Prize
Valentin Erben Valentin Erben (born 1945 in Vienna) is an Austrian cellist. Life He studied with Walter Reichardt in Munich, Tobias Kühne in Vienna and André Navarra in Paris. In 1970, he became a charter member of the Alban Berg Quartett, with which he play ...
Austria *1968 3. Prize Geneviève Teulières France *1973 2. Prize
Denis Brott Denis Brott , SMOM (born December 9, 1950) is a Canadian cellist, music teacher, conductor and founder and artistic director of thMontreal Chamber Music Festival
Canada *1973 2. Prize
Jean Deplace Jean Lucien Deplace (12 July 1944 – 30 November 2015) was a French cello, cellist. Many well-known cellists studied with Deplace. Deplace studied with Maurice Maréchal and won first prize for cello in 1963 at the Paris Conservatory. Deplace ...
France *1973 3. Prize
Frans Helmerson Frans Helmerson (born 1945) is a Swedish cellist, pedagogue, and conductor. Biography Helmerson was born in 1945 and by the age of 8 began playing cello. Later on, he studied with Guido Vecchi in Götheborg, Giuseppe Selmi in Rome, and with Willia ...
Sweden *1977 1. Prize
Antônio Meneses Antônio Meneses Neto (born 23 August 1957 in Recife) is a Brazilian cellist. Antonio Meneses was born into a family of musicians. His father was first horn player at the Opera of Rio de Janeiro. He began to study the cello when he was ten. Durin ...
Brasil *1977 3. Prize Georg Faust West Germany *1982 2. Prize
Alexander Baillie Alexander Baillie (born 6 January 1956) is an English cellist, recognised internationally as one of the finest of his generation. He is currently professor of cello at the Bremen Hochschule and previously taught at Birmingham Conservatoire, as ...
UK *1982 2. Prize
Young-Chang Cho Young-Chang Cho (born 1958 in Seoul) is a Korean classical cellist teaching at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany's Ruhr Area. Career Young-Chang Cho was born in Seoul in 1958. He began cello lessons at the age of eight. From 1971, ...
Korea *1986 2. Prize Michal Kaňka ČSSR *1986 2. Prize
Gustav Rivinius Gustav Rivinius (born in 1965 in Saarland) is a German cellist and professor for cello at the Hochschule für Musik Saar. Life Rivinius began his cello studies at the age of six with Hermann Dirr in Munich. Later he studied in Saarbrücken for s ...
West Germany *1986 3. Prize
Jean-Guihen Queyras Jean-Guihen Queyras is a French cellist. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on 11 March 1967, and moved with his parents to Algeria when he was 5 years old; the family moved to France 3 years later. He is a professor at the Musikhochschule F ...
France *1990 2. Prize
Alban Gerhardt Alban Gerhardt (born 25 May 1969, Berlin) is a German cellist. From a musical family, Gerhardt is the son of a mother who sang coloratura soprano, and his father, Axel Gerhardt, was a second violinist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for ov ...
West Germany *1990 2. Prize
Michael Sanderling Michael Sanderling (born 21 February 1967) is a German conductor and violoncellist. Biography Born in East Berlin, Michael Sanderling is the son of the contrabassist Barbara Wagner and the conductor Kurt Sanderling. He received his first c ...
GDR *1990 3. Prize Ludwig Quandt West Germany *1994 1. Prize Jens Peter Maintz Germany *1994 2. Prize
Tatjana Vassiljeva Tatjana Vassiljeva (born 1977) is a Russian cello, cellist with many prizes. Biography Vassiljeva was born in Novosibirsk, Russia and played cello since she was six years old. From 1989 to 1995 she attended Central Music School under a direction ...
Russia *1994 3. Prize
Tanja Tetzlaff Tanja Tetzlaff (born 1973) is a German cellist. She played first as an orchestra member, but then as a soloist, a founding member of the Tetzlaff Quartet, a string quartet led by her brother Christian Tetzlaff, and as a chamber musician. She h ...
Germany *1998 2. Prize Niklas Eppinger Germany *1998 3. Prize
Sol Gabetta Sol Gabetta (born 18 April 1981) is an Argentine cellist. The daughter of Andrés Gabetta and Irène Timacheff-Gabetta, she has French and Russian ancestry. Her brother Andrés is a baroque violinist. Career Gabetta began to learn violin at ...
Argentina


Bass

*1979 2. Prize Michinori Bunya Japan *1979 3. Prize Jiři Hudec ČSSR *1979 3. Prize Josef Niederhammer Austra *1985 2. Prize
Esko Laine Esko Laine (born 1961 in Helsinki) is a professor of music at Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin and Orchestra#Organization, principal double bassist for the Berlin Philharmonic. Laine began his musical career as a cello, cellist but sw ...
Finland *1985 2. Prize Dorin Marc Romenia *1985 3. Prize Håkan Ehren Norway *1991 2. Prize Giuseppe Ettore Italy *1991 3. Prize Janne Saksala Finland


Flute

*1953 Peter-Lukas Graf Switzerland *1953 Konrad Hampe West Germany *1960 1. Prize Paul Meisen West Germany *1960 2. Prize Michel Debost France *1960 2. Prize Hirohiko Kato Japan *1964 2. Prize Michel Debost France *1964 2. Prize
Paula Robison Paula Robison (born June 8, 1941) is a flute soloist and teacher. Early life and education Paula Robison was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the daughter of David V. and Naomi Robison, an actor. David Robison was a playwright and writer for film ...
(nee Sylvester) US *1964 3. Prize Sylvia Navarro Uruguay *1970 2. Prize Valentin Zverev USSR *1970 3. Prize Gunther Pohl West Germany *1974 2. Prize
Abbie de Quant Abbie de Quant (born 1946, The Hague) is a Dutch flautist. She taught at the music academies of Amsterdam and Utrecht and had her own bi-annual concert series at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. Abbie de Quant studied with Koos Verheul at the Music ...
Netherlands *1974 2. Prize Roswitha Staege West Germany *1974 3. Prize
Irena Grafenauer Irena Grafenauer (born 19 June 1957 in Ljubljana, Slovenia) is a Slovenian flute player and soloist, a pupil of Boris Čampa, Karlheinz Zöller and Aurèle Nicolet. Irena Grafenauer born to father Stanko Grafenauer, a geologist, and to mother M ...
Yugoslavia *1979 2. Prize Irena Grafenauer Yugoslavia *1979 3. Prize Shigenori Kudō Japan *1985 3. Prize Gaby Pas-Van Riet Netherlands *1990 1. Prize Petri Alanko Finland *1990 2. Prize Michael Martin Kofler Austria *1995 2. Prize Davide Formisano Italy *1995 2. Prize Sabine Kittel Germany


Oboe

*1954 Gaston Maugras France *1961 1. Prize
Heinz Holliger Heinz Robert Holliger (born 21 May 1939) is a Swiss virtuoso oboist, composer and conductor. Celebrated for his versatility and technique, Holliger is among the most prominent oboists of his generation. His repertoire includes Baroque and Classic ...
Switzerland *1961 2. Prize André Lardrot France *1961 3. Prize Maurice Bourgue France *1967 1. Prize
Maurice Bourgue Maurice Bourgue (born 6 November 1939) is a French oboist, composer, and conductor. Biography Maurice Bourgue studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in the oboe class of Étienne Baudo and chamber music of Fernand Oubradous. He won a First Pr ...
France *1967 3. Prize Anatoly Lyubimov USSR *1972 2. Prize
Hansjörg Schellenberger Hansjörg Schellenberger is a German oboist and conductor born in 1948. He won the first prize at the German Jugend musiziert Competition with seventeen, which led to a scholarship enabling him to further his education at Interlochen (Michigan ...
West Germany *1976 3. Prize Thomas Indermühle Switzerland *1981 2. Prize Klaus Becker West Germany *1981 3. Prize David Walter France *1986 2. Prize Volkmar Schöller West Germany *1986 3. Prize
Nicholas Daniel Nicholas Daniel (born 9 January 1962) is a British oboe, oboist and conductor. In 2003 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Leicester International Music Festival. Education He was educated at Salisbury Cathedral School and the Purcell S ...
UK *1986 3. Prize Fabian Menzel West Germany *1991 2. Prize François Leleux France *1991 3. Prize Washington Barella Brasil *1996 2. Prize Stefan Schilli Germany *1996 3. Prize
Clara Dent Clara Dent-Bogányi is an Austria, Austrian oboist and teacher. She has been a soloist with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and a teacher at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg, in addition to winning international competitions. Biography C ...
Austria *1996 3. Prize Dominik Wollenweber Germany


Bassoon

*1954 André Rabot France *1958 2. Prize Gábor Janota Hungary *1965 3. Prize
Klaus Thunemann Klaus Thunemann (born 19 April 1937) is a German bassoonist, considered "one of the finest bassoonists of his generation". Biography Klaus Thunemann was born in Magdeburg on 19 April 1937. He originally studied piano but from the age of 18 foc ...
West Germany *1975 2. Prize Jiři Seidl ČSSR *1984 2. Prize Dag Jensen Norway *1984 3. Prize Holger Straube GDR *1990 2. Prize
Sergio Azzolini Sergio Azzolini (born 1967, in Bolzano) is an Italian bassoonist and music conductor. Early life Azzolini was born in Bolzano, Italy in 1967 and learned bassoon after his mother suggested being a musician would provide a long term job for him. ...
Italy *1990 2. Prize Dag Jensen Norway


Clarinet

*1954 Norbert Bourdon France *1957 1. Prize Edmond Boulanger France *1957 2. Prize
Karl Leister Karl Leister (born 15 June 1937) is a classical clarinet player from Wilhelmshaven, Germany. At a very young age, he learned to play the clarinet from his father, also a clarinetist, and later studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. As ...
West Germany *1962 2. Prize Karl Leister West Germany *1968 1. Prize Franklin Cohen US *1968 3. Prize Kurt Weber Switzerland *1973 3. Prize Rainer Schumacher West Germany *1977 3. Prize Claude Faucomprez France *1977 3. Prize
David Shifrin David Shifrin (born January 2, 1950) is an American classical clarinetist and artistic director. Biography David Shifrin received early musical training at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in 1963. He attended the Music Academy of the West su ...
US *1982 2. Prize
Philippe Cuper Philippe Cuper is a French clarinetist, born in Lille on 25 April, 1957. He is considered to be one of the best representatives of the current French clarinet school. Biography Studies Cuper received his early training in Marcq en Baroeul ...
France *1982 2. Prize
Charles Neidich Charles Neidich (born 1953 in New York City) is an American classical clarinetist, composer, and conductor. Early career A native New Yorker of Russian and Greek descent, Charles Neidich began his clarinet studies with his father, Irving Neidich ...
US *1982 3. Prize
John Bruce Yeh John Bruce Yeh (born 1957) is an American clarinetist. He has been the assistant principal clarinetist and E-flat clarinetist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1977. Yeh is the founder and director of the chamber ensemble, Chicago Pro Mu ...
US *1987 2. Prize Anna-Maija Korsimaa Finland *1987 3. Prize Fabrizio Meloni Italy *1987 3. Prize Richard Rimbert France *1992 2. Prize
Sharon Kam Sharon Kam ( he, שרון קם; born August 11, 1971) is an Israeli–German clarinetist. She won the ARD International Music Competition in 1992. Biography After completing her music studies at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, wher ...
Israel *1992 3. Prize
Alessandro Carbonare Alessandro Carbonare is an Italian clarinetist. Carbonare started on E clarinet at age 5. At age 21 he became co-principal of the Lyon Opera Orchestra, and later joined the Orchestre National de France. has been the principal clarinetist with the ...
Italy *1998 3. Prize Nicolas Baldeyrou France


Trumpet

*1958 2. Prize Werner Roelstraete Belgium *1963 1. Prize Maurice Jean André France *1963 3. Prize Francis Marcel Hardy France *1971 2. Prize Janis Marshelle Coffman US *1971 2. Prize Guy Michel Touvron France *1980 2. Prize Richard Steuart Canada *1980 3. Prize Ketil Christensen Denmark *1986 2. Prize
Reinhold Friedrich Reinhold Friedrich (born 14 July 1958) is a German trumpeter and university lecturer in Karlsruhe. Career Born in Weingarten, Friedrich was from 1983 to 1999 Solo trumpeter at the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt. In 1986 he was awarded a pr ...
West Germany *1986 3. Prize Urban Agnas Sweden *1986 3. Prize George Vosburgh US *1993 2. Prize Wolfgang Bauer Germany *1993 3. Prize Jens Lindemann Canada *1997 3. Prize
Gábor Boldoczki Gábor Boldoczki (born 1976 in Szeged, Hungary) is a Hungarian trumpeter who plays Classical music. He played first trumpet in 2004 in the Salzburg Festival. He has been a professor of trumpet at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music The Liszt Fe ...
Hungary *1997 3. Prize Olivier Theurillat France


Horn

*1956 Gerd Seifert West Germany *1960 2. Prize Josef Brazda ČSSR *1960 2. Prize
Peter Damm Peter Damm (born 27 July 1937, Meiningen, Thuringia, Thüringen) is a German French horn, horn player. He began his musical education aged eleven, on the violin, and started playing the horn in 1951 and graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy in 19 ...
GDR *1960 3. Prize Jaroslav Kotulan ČSSR *1960 3. Prize Hans Helfried Richter West Germany *1964 1. Prize Hermann Baumann West Germany *1964 2. Prize Ferenc Tarjáni Hungary *1964 3. Prize Jaroslav Kotulan ČSSR *1969 1. Prize Norbert Hauptmann West Germany *1969 2. Prize
Zdeněk Tylšar Zdeněk Tylšar (29 April 1945 – 18 August 2006) was a Czech horn player and music pedagogue, brother of hornist Bedřich Tylšar. He was the principal hornist and leader of the horn section with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra for almost 40 yea ...
ČSSR *1969 3. Prize Pavel Jevstignejev USSR *1973 2. Prize Johannes Ritzkowsky West Germany *1973 3. Prize Vladimíra Bouchalová ČSSR *1973 3. Prize Vladislav Grigorov Bulgaria *1978 2. Prize John MacDonald Canada *1978 3. Prize Zdeněk Divoký ČSSR *1978 3. Prize James Ross US *1983 1. Prize Radovan Vlatković Yugoslavia *1983 3. Prize Marie-Luise Neunecker West Germany *1983 3. Prize Corbin Wagner US *1988 2. Prize Jindřich Petráš ČSSR *1988 2. Prize James Sommerville Canada *1988 3. Prize Geoffrey Bain Winter US *1994 1. Prize
Radek Baborák Radek Baborák (born 11 March 1976 in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech conductor and French horn player. Career Radek Baborák was born into a musical family. He commenced his horn studies at the age of eight under the tutelage of Karel Kren ...
ČSSR *1994 2. Prize Markus L. Frank Germany *1994 3. Prize Markus Maskuniitty Finland *1999 2. Prize Alessio Allegrini Italy *1999 2. Prize László Seemann Hungary *1999 3. Prize Sibylle Mahni Switzerland


Trombone

*1965 2. Prize Jean-Pierre Mathieu France *1965 2. Prize Zdeněk Pulec ČSSR *1974 2. Prize Ronald Barron US *1974 2. Prize Branimir Slokar Yugoslavia *1974 3. Prize Michel Becquet France *1981 2. Prize Michel Becquet France *1981 2. Prize Michael Mulcahy Australia *1981 3. Prize Gilles Millière France *1989 2. Prize Jonas Krister Bylund Sweden *1989 3. Prize Heather Buchman US *1989 3. Prize Thomas Horch West Germany *1995 3. Prize András Fejér Hungary *1995 3. Prize Jean Raffard France


String quartet

*1959 2. Prize Weller Quartett Austria *1965 1. Prize Dimov Quartet Bulgaria *1965 2. Prize
Bernède Quartet The Bernède quartet was a French string quartet established in 1963 in Paris and disestablished in 1991. Members First violin * Jean-Claude Bernède (1935–1991) Second violin * Jacques Prat (1963–1967) * Gérard Montmayeur (1967–19 ...
France *1970 1. Prize
Tokyo String Quartet The was an international string quartet that operated from 1969 to 2013. The group formed in 1969 at the Juilliard School of Music. The founding members attended the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, where they studied with Professor Hideo ...
Japan *1973 3. Prize Wilanów Quartet Poland *1977 2. Prize Éder Quartett Hungary *1982 2. Prize Havlák Quartett ČSSR *1982 3. Prize
Auryn Quartet The Auryn Quartet was a German string quartet. Founded in 1981, the members were Andreas Arndt (cello), Stewart Eaton (viola), Matthias Lingenfelder (*1959) and Jens Oppermann (*1960), both violin. After winning several early awards - including the ...
West Germany *1987 2. Prize
Parisii Quartet The Parisii Quartet is a French string quartet ensemble founded in 1981. Members * Arnaud Vallin, first violin (2002-....) - Thierry Brodard (1981-2002) * Doriane Gable (2013-....) second violin - Jean-Michel Berrette, (1981-2013) * Dominique ...
France *1987 2. Prize
Petersen Quartet The Petersen Quartet was a string quartet founded in 1979 by students at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in Berlin, including founding first violinist, Ulrike Petersen, who has recently rejoined the quartet to alternate in the first chair wit ...
GDR *1991 2. Prize Mandelring Quartett Germany *1991 2. Prize Neues Leipziger Streichquartett Germany *1996 1. Prize
Artemis Quartet The Artemis Quartet is a German string quartet, founded in 1989 in Lübeck, and now based in Berlin. The quartet is named for the Greek goddess of hunting and the wilderness. History The first members of the Artemis Quartet, Wilken Ranck, Is ...
Germany/Russia *1996 3. Prize Quatuor Castagneri France/Romania


Piano trio

*1961 1. Prize Junges Wiener Trio Austra *1969 1. Prize Derevjanko Trio USSR *1969 2. Prize Bondurjanskij Trio USSR *1969 3. Prize Stuttgarter Klaviertrio West Germany *1976 3. Prize Oslo Trio Norway *1981 2. Prize Zingara Trio U.K. *1981 3. Prize Apollo Trio Korea/US *1981 3. Prize Grüneburg Trio West Germany *1988 2. Prize Trio Wanderer France *1995 1. Prize Trio Bartholdy France *1995 2. Prize Trio di Parma Italy *1998 2. Prize Clemente Trio Germany *1998 2. Prize Trio di Parma Italy


Wind quintet

*1966 1. Prize Bläserquintett des Akademischen Kirov Theaters USSR *1966 2. Prize Akademisches Bläserquintett Prag ČSSR *1966 3. Prize Bläserquintett der Deutschen Oper Berlin West Germany *1975 2. Prize Syrinx Quintett West Germany *1975 3. Prize Bläserquintett der Jeunesses Musicales Budapest Hungary *1980 2. Prize Chalumeau Quintett West Germany *1980 2. Prize Nielsen Quintett France *1985 2. Prize Berliner Bläserquintett GDR *1985 3. Prize Albert Schweitzer Quintett West Germany *1985 3. Prize British Woodwind Quintet U.K. *1989 1. Prize Ma’alot Quintett West Germany *1989 2. Prize Arcis Quintett West Germany *1989 3. Prize Kammervereinigung Berlin GDR *1993 2. Prize Quintetto Bibiena Italy *1993 2. Prize Quintette Debussy France *1993 3. Prize Kammervereinigung Berlin Germany *1997 1. Prize Afflatus Quintett ČSSR *1997 2. Prize Quintette Nocturne France *1997 3. Prize Orsolino Quintett Germany/Austra


Percussion

*1977 2. Prize Sumire Yoshihara Japan *1977 3. Prize Midori Takada Japan *1985 1. Prize Peter Sadlo West Germany *1997 2. Prize Markus Leoson Sweden


Harp

*1983 2. Prize Isabelle Moretti France


Guitar

*1976 2. Prize
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US *1976 3. Prize Ricardo Fernández-Iznaola Venezuela *1982 2. Prize Stefano Grondona Italy *1982 2. Prize
Timo Korhonen Timo Korhonen (born 6 November 1964) is a Finnish classical guitarist and is one of the most distinguished classical guitarists in his generation. Short Biography Korhonen gave his debut at 14 in his hometown Rautalampi, Finland. His internat ...
Finland *1982 3. Prize Thomas Müller-Pering West Germany *1989 1. Prize Luis Orlandini Chile *1989 3. Prize Miguel Charosky Argentina *1989 3. Prize Alexander Swete Austria *1993 2. Prize Joaquín de Jesús Clerch Diaz Cuba *1993 2. Prize Pablo Márquez Argentina


Recorder

*1978 3. Prize Shigeharu Hirao-Yamaoka Japan *1978 3. Prize Michael Schneider West Germany *1988 2. Prize
Robert Ehrlich Robert Leroy Ehrlich Jr. (born November 25, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 60th Governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007. A Republican, Ehrlich represented Maryland's United States House of Representatives, Maryland ...
U.K. *1988 2. Prize Carin van Heerden South Africa *1988 3. Prize
Dan Laurin Dan Laurin (1960 in Jönköping, Sweden) is a Swedish recorder player. Life and career He studied under Ulla Wijk, Paul Nauta and Eva Legêne at the Conservatories of Odense and Copenhagen from 1976 to 1982. Since 1980 he has been on the conc ...
Sweden


Piano playing from the sheet

*1963 1. reward Karl Bergemann West Germany *1963 2. reward Solange Robin-Chiapparin France *1963 3. reward Sylvaine Billier France *1965 2. reward Frank Maus West Germany *1965 2. reward Lucia Negro Italy *1965 3. reward Waldemar Strecke West Germany


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