Geneva International Music Competition
The Geneva International Music Competition (French: Concours international d'exécution musicale de Genève) is one of the world's leading international music competitions, founded in 1939. In 1957, it was one of the founding members of the World Federation of International Music Competition (WFIMC), whose headquarters are in Geneva.[1]
Today, the Geneva Competition alternates between several main disciplines: piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, cello, viola, string quartet, voice and percussion. Every second year, it offers a Composition Prize. Upcoming competitions are cello & oboe (2021), piano & composition (2022), flute & string quartet (2023) and voice & composition (2024).[2]
Its prizewinners include world-famous artists such as Martha Argerich, Arturo Benedetti-Michelangeli, Victoria de los Ángeles, Alan Gilbert, Nelson Goerner, Friedrich Gulda, Heinz Holliger, Nobuko Imai, Melos Quartet, Emmanuel Pahud, Maurizio Pollini, Georg Solti, José van Dam, Christian Zacharias and Tabea Zimmermann.[3]
In addition to its official prizes, the Geneva International Music Competition offers a career development programme, which provides precious support and advice to help boost laureates’ careers. This programme includes two years of concert management, as well as CD recordings, international tours, a festival and professional workshops.[4]
1st prize winners[]
- 1939 Clarinet
Switzerland
- 1939 Piano Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Italy
- 1939 Voice Maria Stader,
Hungary
- 1942 Piano Georg Solti
Hungary
- 1947 Clarinet
France
- 1950 Clarinet
France
- 1953 Piano Jacques Klein
Brazil
- 1954 Voice Pamela Bowden
United Kingdom
- 1957 Clarinet Petko Radev
Bulgaria
- 1957 Piano Dominique Merlet
France (ex aequo)
- 1957 Piano Martha Argerich
Argentina (ex aequo)
- 1960 Clarinet
West Germany
- 1962 Organ
Poland
- 1971 Cello Myung-wha Chung
South Korea
- 1972 Clarinet Thomas Friedli
Switzerland
- 1972 Viola Atar Arad
Israel
- 1972 Voice Konstantin Ploujnikov
Soviet Union
- 1973 Double Bass Ivan Kotov
Soviet Union
- 1973 Flute
Japan
- 1973 Quartet
West Germany
- 1973 Trombone
Soviet Union
- 1974 Harp
Soviet Union
- 1974 Voice Gary Kendall
United States
- 1975 Guitar Dusan Bogdanovic
Yugoslavia
- 1976 Piano
Soviet Union
- 1976 Voice Katherine Ciesinski
United States
- 1977 Oboe
France
- 1977 Viola
Portugal
- 1977 Voice Kristine Ciesinski
United States
- 1978 Voice
Finland
- 1979 Voice
France
- 1980 Bassoon
France
- 1980 Vocal Quartet
United States
- 1982 Percussion
West Germany
- 1982 Piano
Soviet Union
- 1982 Viola Tabea Zimmermann
West Germany
- 1983 Bass
United States
- 1983 Voice
United States
- 1984 Conducting Grzegorz Nowak
Poland
- 1985 Organ
United States
- 1985 Voice
Japan
- 1986 Cello Leonid Gorokhov
Soviet Union
- 1987 Trumpet Ole Edvard Antonsen
Norway
- 1987 Viola Hong-Mei Xiao
China
- 1987 Voice
Romania
- 1988 Guitar Viktor Vidović
Yugoslavia
- 1988 Oboe Alex Klein
Brazil
- 1988 Trombone Jonas Bylund
Sweden
- 1990 Clarinet
Switzerland
- 1990 Piano
Argentina
- 1990 Violin
China
- 1991 Cello
Switzerland
- 1991 Tuba
Denmark
- 1992 Flute Emmanuel Pahud
Switzerland
- 1993 Organ: Alessio Corti
Italy
- 1993 Violin
Italy
- 1993 Voice:
United Kingdom
- 1994 Conducting: Alan Gilbert
United States
- 1995 Bassoon: Laurent Lefèvre
France
- 1995 Cello:
Sweden
- 1995 Guitar:
Bulgaria
- 1996 Trumpet: André Henry
France
- 1997 Clarinet: Martin Fröst
Sweden
- 1998 Double Bass: Janusz Widzyk
Poland
- 1998 Oboe:
Russia
- 2000 Cello:
Switzerland
- 2000 Voice: Annette Dasch
Germany (ex aequo)
- 2000 Voice:
United States (ex aequo)
- 2001 Flute:
Italy
- 2001 Piano:
Germany
- 2001 Quartet: Quatuor Terpsycordes
Switzerland
- 2002 Percussion:
Canada
- 2002 Piano:
Russia
- 2005 Viola:
Poland
- 2008 Cello:
Hungary
- 2009 Voice: Polina Pasztircsák
Hungary
- 2010 Piano:
Japan
- 2011 Composition:
Armenia
- 2011 Quartet: Artemis Quartet
Germany (ex aequo)
- 2011 Quartet:
France (ex aequo)
- 2012 Piano:
France
- 2013 Composition:
South Korea
- 2014 Piano: Ji-Yeong Mun
South Korea
- 2015 Composition:
Japan
- 2016 Quartet:
Germany
- 2017 Composition: Jaehyuck Choi
South Korea
- 2018 Clarinet:
Italy
- 2018 Piano: Théo Fouchenneret
France (ex aequo)
- 2018 Piano: Dmitry Shishkin
Russia (ex aequo)
- 2019 Composition: Daniel Arango-Prada
Colombia (ex aequo)
- 2019 Composition: Hinako Takagi
Japan (ex aequo)
- 2019 Percussion: Hyeji Bak,
South Korea
Search all prizewinners from 1939
See also[]
- Category:Winners of the Geneva International Music Competition
References[]
- ^ "Who we are". World Federation of International Music Competitions. 17 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ^ "The Competition | Concours de Genève". www.concoursgeneve.ch. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ^ "Search Laureates | Concours de Genève". www.concoursgeneve.ch. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ^ "Career development | Concours de Genève". www.concoursgeneve.ch. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
External links[]
- Music competitions in Switzerland
- Swiss music
- Events in Geneva
- 1939 establishments in Switzerland
- Recurring events established in 1939