Harriet Cohen International Music Award

The Harriet Cohen International Music Award was founded in 1951 by Sir Arnold Bax and others in 1951, in honour of the British pianist Harriet Cohen.

Contents 1 Recipients 1.1 1950s 1.2 1960s 1.3 1990s 1.4 2000s 1.5 Dates not yet determined 2 References

Recipients

1950s

1951

• Philippe Entremont – Piano Medal^[1]

1954

• Ingrid Haebler – Beethoven Medal

1955

• Donald Bell – Arnold Bax Memorial Medal, outstanding student from the Commonwealth^[2]
• Jacques Klein
• Kenneth Schermerhorn ^[3][4]

1956

• Rohan de Saram ^[5]

1957

• Mario delli Ponti – Bach Medal^[6]
• Adam Harasiewicz, for outstanding achievement in piano^[7][8]

1958

• Ahmed Adnan Saygun – Jean Sibelius Composition Medal^[9]
• Miguel Querol Gavalda – Gold Medal
• Peter-Lukas Graf

1959

• Theo Bruins - Beethoven medal^[10][11][12]
• Glenn Gould – Bach Medal^[13][14]
• İdil Biret – Dinu Lipatti gold medal^[15]
• Luis Garcia-Renart – Cello Prize^[16]

1960s

1960

• Joaquín Achúcarro – Best Debut of the Year^[17]
• Piet Kee – Bach Medal^[18]
• Bogdan Paprocki – Opera Medal^[19]

1961

• Aafje Heynis – outstanding artistry^[20]
• Oscar Mischiati – A. Davison Memorial Medal for Musicology

1962

• Barbara Hesse-Bukowska – British Medal^[21][22]
• Byron Janis – Beethoven Medal (for best performance of two Beethoven Sonatas, the "Waldstein" and Opus 109)^[23][24]
• Yonty Solomon – Beethoven Medal^[25]
• Arve Tellefsen^[26]
• Yaltah Menuhin / Joel Ryce ^[27]

1963

• Vladimir Ashkenazy – Piano Prize (shared)
• Norma Fisher – Piano Prize (shared)^[28]
• Louise Talma – Sibelius Medal for Composition^[29]
• Gloria Saarinen – Commonwealth Medal^[30]
• Francis Chagrin – Film Composer of the Year^[31]

1964

• Bernadette Greevy^[32]
• Nelson Freire

1965

• Martin Isepp – Carroll Donner Stuchell Medal for Accompanying^[33]

1966

• Marie Collier ^[34]
• Waleri Gradow (Valery Gradow)^[35][36]
• Ronald Stevenson – for Busoni centenary radio programme (possibly award year was 1967)^[37]

1967

• José-Luis Garcia^[38]

1968

• Roger Smalley – Contemporary music performance^[39]
• Maureen Forrester – the Council's Prize^[40]
• William Mathias – Bax Society Prize^[41]
• Fernande Kaeser – Beethoven Medal^[42]

1990s

1996

• Roger Owens^[43]

2000s

2001

• Ilid Jones^[44]

2002

• Cheryl Frances-Hoad (joint winner)^[45]

2005

• Victoria Davies, harpist^[46]

Dates not yet determined

• Diane Andersen – Bach Medal^[47]
• Sebastian Benda – Bach Medal^[48]
• Jennifer Bullock^[49]
• Edwin Carr
• Maria Clodes (Maria Clodes-Jaguaribe) – best young pianist of the year^[50]
• Paul Max Edlin^[51]
• Christopher Green-Armytage^[52]
• Jerome Jelinek – cello
• Fernando Laires – Beethoven Medal (in memory of Artur Schnabel)^[53]
• Aase Nordmo Løvberg (Gold medal for singing)^[54]
• Elizabeth Powell^[55]
• Abbey Simon^[56]
• Erna Spoorenberg
• Koji Toyoda – Bach medal^[57]
• Valerie Tryon^[58]
• Elena Vorotko – Bach Prize^[59]
• Ronald Woodcock^[60]

References