Geneva International Music Competition
The Geneva International Music Competition (Concours international d'exécution musicale de Genève) is a music competitions held in Geneva, founded in 1939 (the first international competition) in the Geneva Conservatory for a wide variety of instruments, voice, conducting, and chamber music.[1]
1st prize winners
Year Discipline Prizewinners Country Prize [2]
- 2012 Piano Lorenzo Soulès France
- 2011 Quartet Armida Quartet Germany (ex-aequo)
- 2011 Quartet Hermès Quartet France (ex-aequo)
- 2010 Piano Mami Hagiwara Japan
- 2009 Voice Pasztircsák Polina Hungary
- 2008 Cello István Várdai Hungary
- 2005 Viola Ryszard Groblewsky Canada
- 2002 Percussion Aiyun Huang Canada
- 2002 Piano Sergey Koudriakov Russia
- 2001 Flute Silvia Careddu Italy
- 2001 Piano Roland Krüger Germany
- 2000 Voice Annette Dasch Germany (ex-aequo)
- 2000 Voice Werner Erik Nelson United States (ex-aequo)
- 2000 Cello Rafael Rosenfeld Switzerland
- 1998 Oboe Alexei Ogrintchouk Russia
- 1997 Clarinet Martin Fröst Sweden
- 1995 Cello Claudio Bohorquez Sweden
- 1995 Guitare Georgi Vassiliev Bulgaria
- 1994 Conducting Alan Gilbert United States
- 1993 Voice Jane Irwin United Kingdom
- 1993 Organ Alessio Corti Italy
- 1993 Violin Manara Francesco Italy
- 1992 Flute Emmanuel Pahud Switzerland
- 1991 Tuba Jens Bjorn-Larsen Denmark
- 1991 Cello Wenn-Sinn Yang Switzerland
- 1990 Clarinet Fabio Di-Casola Switzerland
- 1990 Piano Nelson Goerner Argentina
- 1990 Violin Zheng-Rong Wang China
- 1988 Guitare Viktor Vidović Croatia
- 1988 Trombone Jonas Bylund Sweden
- 1987 Viola Hong-Mei Xiao China
- 1987 Voice Maria Diaconu Romania
- 1987 Trumpet OleEdvard Antonsen Norway
- 1986 Cello Leonid Gorokhov Russia
- 1985 Voice Chihiro Bamba Japon
- 1985 Organ Jonathan Biggers United States
- 1983 Voice Juliana Gondek United States
- 1983 Bass Nico Abondolo United States
- 1982 Viola Tabea Zimmermann Germany
- 1982 Percussion Peter Sadlo Germany
- 1982 Piano Evgueni Krouchevsky Russia
- 1980 Basoon Gilbert Audin France
- 1980 Vocal Quartet New York Vocal Ensemble United States
- 1979 Voice Jean Christian France
- 1978 Voice Margareta Haverinen Finland
- 1977 Viola AnaBela Chaves Portugal
- 1977 Voice Kristine Ciesinski United States
- 1977 Oboe Jean-Christophe Gayot France
- 1976 Voice Katherine Ciesinski United States
- 1976 Piano Tatiana Chebanova Russia
- 1975 Guitare Dusan Bogdanovic Yougoslavia
- 1974 Voice Gary Kendall United States
- 1974 Harp Olga Ortenberg Russia
- 1973 Quartet Quatuor Kreuzberger Germany
- 1973 Flute Kohno Toshiko Japan
- 1973 Trombone Anatole Skobelev Russia
- 1972 Viola Atar Arad Israel
- 1972 Voice Konstantin Ploujnikov Russia
- 1972 Clarinet Thomas Friedli Switzerland
- 1971 Cello Myung-wha Chung South Korea
- 1960 Clarinet Peter Rieckhoff Germany
- 1957 Clarinet Petkov Radev Bulgaria
- 1957 Piano Martha Argerich Argentina
- 1954 Voice Pamela Bowden
- 1953 Piano Jacques Klein Brazil
- 1950 Clarinet Paul-Jacques Lambert France
- 1947 Clarinet Henri Druart France
- 1939 Clarinet Robert Gugolz Switzerland
- 1939 Voice Maria Stader, Hungary