Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers

The Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers was constituted in 1956 in East Berlin within the framework of the commemorations on the 100th anniversary of Robert Schumann's death. A second edition was organized on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, and three years later a third edition was arranged in Zwickau, his birthplace.[1] The competition, a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions,[2] has taken place in Zwickau every 3 or 4 years since.[3]

Prize winners

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Piano

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Piano[3]
Year
1956 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize (ex-a.)
  Annerose Schmidt   Irina Sijalova   Lidia Grychtołówna
  Mikhail Voskresensky
1960 No piano category No piano category No piano category
1963 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) 3rd prize
  Nelly Akopyan   Rutka Carakcieva   Aniko Szegedi
  Peter Rösel
1966 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize (ex-a.)
  Eliso Virsaladze   Svetlana Navasardyan   Raina Padareva
  Evgenia Sachareva
1969 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
  Dezső Ránki   Tatyana Ryumina   Okitaka Uehara
1974 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
  Pavel Egorov   Dina Joffe   Petru Grossmann
1977 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
  Emma Tahmizian   Dana Borşan   Christoph Taubert
1981 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize (ex-a.)
  Yves Henry   Susanne Grützmann   Kalle Randalu
  Balázs Szokolay
1985 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
  Tamriko Siprashvili   Zuzana Paulechová   Mzija Gogashvili
1989 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
  Éric Le Sage   Sachiko Yonekawa   Alexander Melnikov
1993 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
  Temirzhan Yerzhanov   Eiji Shigaki   Corrado Rollero
1996 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize (ex-a.)
  Mikhail Mordvinov     Dana Ciocarlie   Lyubov Gegechkori
  Christian Seibert
2000 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
  Kiai Nara   Ulugbek Palvanov   Andrea Rebaudengo
2004 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
  Akiko Yamamoto   Nicolas Bringuier     Soojin Ahn
2008 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
  Mizuka Kano   Akiko Nikami   Da Sol Kim
2012 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
  Aljoša Jurinić   Florian Noack   Luca Buratto
2016 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
not awarded   Tomoyo Umemura   Tiffany Poon
  Cheng Zhang   Maiko Ami

Voice

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Voice[3]
Year
1956 1st prize (ex-a.) 2nd prize (ex-a.) 3rd prize
  Kira Isotova   Sigrid Kehl   Dan Iordăchescu
  Aleksander Vedernikov   Jiří Bar
1960 1st prize 2nd prize (ex-a.) 3rd prize (ex-a.)
  Vitali Gromadski   Wolfgang Hellmich   Sylvia Geszty
  Roman Horák   Violanta Sirotinina
1963 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
  Karl Heinz Stryczek   Evgeni Isakov   Friederike Apelt
1966 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
  Ionel Pantea   Julia Albonico   Jürgen Hartfiel
1969 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
Ladies   Heidi Berthold-Riess   Rosemarie Lang   Georgina Orlovschi
Gentlemen   Ruben Lisician   Peter Tschaplik   Siegfried Lorenz
1974 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
Ladies   Mitsuko Shirai   Andrea Ihle   Violetta Madjarova
Gentlemen   Lászlo Polgár   Sergej Lejferkus   Mihai Zamfir
1977 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
Ladies   Edith Wiens   Mary Ann Hart   Jana Mrázová
Gentlemen   Boris Mareskin   Alibek Dnisev   Christoph Rösel
1981 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
Ladies not awarded   Constanza Mestes   Györgyi Benza (Ex aequo)
  Nadja Cvetkova (Ex aequo)
Gentlemen   Jürgen Kurth   Andreas Scheibner   Matthias Weichert
1985 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
Ladies not awarded   Cornelia Wosnitza   Kirsten Bertkau
Gentlemen   Karsten Mewes   Egbert Junghanns   Thomas Mäthger
1989 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
Ladies not awarded   Angela Liebold (Ex aequo)   Britta Schwarz
  Svetlana Sumaceva (Ex aequo)
Gentlemen   Frank Schiller   Matthias Goerne   Torsten Frisch
1993 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
Ladies not awarded   Asako Motojima   Barbara Hölzl (Ex aequo)
  Fumiko Hatayama (Ex aequo)
Gentlemen   Locky Chung   Stefan Geyer   Raimond Spogis
1996 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
Ladies   Risako Kurosawa   Maria-Riccarda Schmid   Bodil Arnesen
Gentlemen   Henryk Böhm   Hideki Kadoya   Marius Budoin
2000 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
Ladies   Annette Dasch   Christa Mayer   Measha Brueggergosman
Gentlemen not awarded   Klemens Geyrhofer   Kyu-Hee Cho
2004 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
Ladies not awarded   Stefanie Irányi (Ex aequo)   Julia Amos
  Lydia Teuscher (Ex aequo)
Gentlemen   Colin Balzer   Daniel Wolfgang Johannsen   Peter McGillivray
2008 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
Ladies   Anne-Theresa Albrecht     Carolina Ullrich   Julia Hajnóczy (Ex aequo)
  Sophie Harmsen (Ex aequo)
Gentlemen   Christoph Pohl (Ex aequo)   Jesse Blumberg
  Tomasz Wija (Ex aequo)
2012 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
Ladies   Anna Lucia Richter   Fatma Said   Simone Easthope (Ex aequo)
  Annika Boos (Ex aequo)
Gentlemen   Mauro Peter   Georg Gädker (Ex aequo) not awarded
  Sebastian Wartig (Ex aequo)
2016 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
Ladies   Henriette Gödde   Hiltrud Kuhlmann    Hagar Sharvit
Gentlemen   André Baleiro   Jean-Christophe Fillol   Jonathan Michie

String quartet

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String Quartet[3]
Year
1960 1st prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
  Jan-Evert-Andersson-Quartett   Peter-Komlós-Quartett   Christian-Lucaß-Quartett

References

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  1. ^ "International Robert Schumann Contest for Pianists and Singers". Schumann in Zwickau. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  2. ^ ""Robert Schumann" International Competition". World Federation of International Music Competitions. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d "Winners". Schumann in Zwickau. Retrieved 23 January 2016.