International Tchaikovsky Competition

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Vladimir Putin at the gala concert of winners of the XV International Competition

The International Tchaikovsky Competition is a classical music competition held every four years in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, for pianists, violinists, and cellists between 16 and 32 years of age and singers between 19 and 32 years of age. The competition is named after Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and is an active member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.[1]

The International Tchaikovsky Competition was the first international music competition held in the Soviet Union. For the XIV competition in 2011, Valery Gergiev was appointed the competition's chairman, and Richard Rodzinski, former president of the Van Cliburn Foundation, was appointed general director. A new voting system was instituted, created by mathematician John MacBain, and used by the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, and the Cleveland International Piano Competition. All rules and regulations also underwent a complete revision. Emphasis was placed on the composition of the jury, which consisted primarily of well-known and respected performing artists.[2]

The XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition was held in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, from 14 June to 1 July 2011, under the auspices of the Russian federal government and its Ministry of Culture. The competition disciplines were piano, violin, cello, and voice (male singers and female singers). The XV competition took place in June 2015.[3] The XVI competition took place 17–29 June 2019, in Moscow and St. Petersburg; woodwind and brass competition disciplines were added.[4]

Prizes[]

Cash prizes are awarded to the top-five competitors in each discipline of piano, violin, cello, and to each of the top four competitors in the men's and women's solo vocal categories. First prize (always awarded) is US$30,000; second, US$20,000; third, US$10,000; fourth, US$5,000; and fifth, US$3,000. An additional prize, a Grand Prix of US$100,000, may be awarded to one of the gold medalists deemed outstanding by the juries. Additional awards are given for best performance of the chamber concertos and the commissioned new work.[5]

For the 2019 competition, the prizes[6] are as follows:

Prize Amount
Grand Prix US$100,000 in addition to the 1st Prize amount, for a total of US$130,000
1st Prize US$30,000 and a Gold Medal
2nd Prize US$20,000 and a Silver Medal
3rd Prize US$10,000 and a Bronze Medal
4th Prize US$5,000 and a Diploma
5th Prize US$3,000 and a Diploma
6th Prize US$2,000 and a Diploma
Best performance of a concerto with a chamber orchestra in Round II (in the piano, violin, and cello sections) US$2,000 and a Diploma

History[]

Held every four years, the first competition, in 1958, included two disciplines – piano and violin. Beginning with the second competition, in 1962, a cello category was added, and the vocal division was introduced during the third competition in 1966. In 1990, a fifth discipline was announced for the IX International Tchaikovsky Competition – a contest for violin makers which traditionally comes before the main competition. In 2019, two new categories were added to the competition, woodwinds and brass.[7]

Tianxu An incident[]

On 25 June 2019, at the final round of the piano category, Chinese competitor Tianxu An was supposed to play Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 followed by Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. However, the scores on the orchestra's and conductor's stands were placed in reversed order and the Rachmaninoff piece was announced first, different from what the pianist requested. Since An didn't understand Russian, he was unaware of the situation. With the piano entry in the Rachmaninoff almost immediate, the performance "began with a failure". Following the incident, jury chair Denis Matsuev invited him to perform the program again, but An declined. The competition made an official apology and the orchestra administration suspended the responsible staff after the event. An was eventually awarded a "special prize" for his confidence and courage.[8][9][10][11]

Prize winners[]

Winners of the prizes and medals awarded in the given year and category.[12]

Piano[]

Year 1st Prize/Gold 2nd Prize/Silver 3rd Prize/Bronze 4th Prize
1958 United States Van Cliburn Soviet Union Lev Vlassenko
China Liu Shikun 		Soviet Union Naum Shtarkman
1962 Soviet Union Vladimir Ashkenazy
United Kingdom John Ogdon 		United States Susan Starr
China Yin Chengzong 		Soviet Union Eliso Virsaladze Soviet Union Marina Goglidze-Mdivani
1966 Soviet Union Grigory Sokolov United States Misha Dichter Soviet Union  [fr]
1970 Soviet Union Vladimir Krainev
United Kingdom John Lill 		Cuba Horacio Gutiérrez Brazil Arthur Moreira Lima
Soviet Union Viktoria Postnikova
1974 Soviet Union Andrei Gavrilov South Korea Myung-whun Chung
Soviet Union Stanislav Igolinsky 		Soviet Union Youri Egorov Hungary András Schiff
Georgia (country) Eteri Andjaparidze
1978 Soviet Union Mikhail Pletnev France Pascal Devoyon
Canada André Laplante 		Soviet Union Nikolai Demidenko
Soviet Union
1982 Not awarded United Kingdom Peter Donohoe
Soviet Union Vladimir Ovchinnikov 		Japan [13][14][15]
1986 United Kingdom Barry Douglas Soviet Union  [ru] Soviet Union Irina Plotnikova
1990 Soviet Union Boris Berezovsky Soviet Union Vladimir Mischouk United States Kevin Kenner
Belgium Johan Schmidt
Soviet Union Anton Mordasov
1994 Not awarded Russia Nikolai Lugansky Russia Vadim Rudenko
South Korea 		Russia Alexander Ghindin
China  [fr]
1998 Russia Denis Matsuev Russia Vadim Rudenko United Kingdom Freddy Kempf Russia
2002 Japan Ayako Uehara Russia China Jin Ju
Russia Andrey Ponochevny 		Not awarded
2007 Not awarded Russia Miroslav Kultyshev Russia Alexander Lubyantsev South Korea Dong-Hyek Lim
Russia
2011 Russia Daniil Trifonov South Korea Yeol Eum Son South Korea Seong-Jin Cho Ukraine Alexander Romanovsky
2015 Russia Dmitry Masleev LithuaniaRussia Lucas Geniušas
United States George Li 		Russia Sergei Redkin
Russia Daniel Kharitonov 		France Lucas Debargue
2019 France Alexandre Kantorow Japan Mao Fujita
Russia Dmitry Shishkin 		Russia
United States Kenneth Broberg
Russia 		China

Violin[]

Year 1st Prize/Gold 2nd Prize/Silver 3rd Prize/Bronze
1958 Soviet Union Valery Klimov Soviet Union  [fr] Romania  [ro]
1962 Soviet Union Boris Gutnikov Israel Shmuel Ashkenasi
Soviet Union  [ru] 		Soviet Union Nina Beilina
Japan
1966 Soviet Union Viktor Tretiakov Japan Masuko Ushioda
Soviet Union Oleg Kagan 		Japan
Soviet Union Oleh Krysa
1970 Soviet Union Gidon Kremer Soviet Union Vladimir Spivakov
Japan 		Soviet Union Liana Isakadze
1974 Not awarded United States Eugene Fodor
Soviet Union Ruben Aharonyan
Soviet Union 		France
Bulgaria Vanya Milanova
1978 Soviet Union Ilya Grubert
United States Elmar Oliveira 		Romania
United States Dylana Jenson 		Soviet Union Irina Medvedeva
Soviet Union
1982 Soviet Union Viktoria Mullova
Soviet Union Sergei Stadler 		Japan United States Stephanie Chase
United States Andres Cardenes
1986 Soviet Union Ilya Kaler
France Raphaël Oleg 		China  [ru]
Soviet Union Maxim Fedotov 		Australia Jane Peters
1990 Japan Akiko Suwanai Soviet Union  [ru] United States
1994 Not awarded Russia Anastasia Chebotareva
United States Jennifer Koh 		Russia  [ru]
Italy
1998 Russia  [ru] Germany China
2002 Not awarded JapanUnited States Tamaki Kawakubo
China 		Russia  [de]
2007 Japan Mayuko Kamio Russia Nikita Boriso-Glebsky Germany
2011[16] Not awarded Russia Sergey Dogadin
Israel Itamar Zorman 		South Korea  [ru]
2015 Not awarded Taiwan Yu-Chien Tseng Moldova
Russia
Russia Pavel Milyukov
2019 Russia Sergey Dogadin Belgium South Korea

Cello[]

Year 1st Prize/Gold 2nd Prize/Silver 3rd Prize/Bronze
1962 Soviet Union Natalia Shakhovskaya United States Leslie Parnas
Soviet Union  [ru] 		Soviet Union Natalia Gutman
Soviet Union  [ru]
1966 Soviet Union  [ru] United States
Finland Arto Noras 		Japan
Soviet Union  [ru]
1970 Soviet Union David Geringas Soviet Union  [nl] Japan
1974 Soviet Union Boris Pergamenschikov Soviet Union Ivan Monighetti Japan Hirofumi Kanno
Bulgaria
1978 United States Nathaniel Rosen Japan
Czechoslovakia 		Soviet Union Alexander Kniazev
Soviet Union Alexander Rudin
1982 Brazil Antonio Meneses Soviet Union Alexander Rudin West Germany Georg Faust
1986 Italy Mario Brunello
Soviet Union Kirill Rodin 		Soviet Union
Finland Martti Rousi 		United States Sara Sant'Ambrogio
United States
1990 West Germany Gustav Rivinius Luxembourg Françoise Groben
Soviet Union Alexander Kniazev 		United States Bion Tsang
United Kingdom  [ru] 		Ukraine Natalia Khoma
1994 Not awarded Not awarded Not awarded
1998 Russia Denis Shapovalov Australia Li-Wei Qin Russia  [ru]
2002 Not awarded Germany Johannes Moser Germany
Armenia
2007 Russia Sergey Antonov Russia Hungary
2011 Armenia Narek Hakhnazaryan France Edgar Moreau Belarus Ivan Karizna
2015 Romania Andrei Ioniță Russia Alexander Ramm Russia
2019 United States Colombia  [es] Russia Anastasia Kobekina

Vocal, female[]

Year 1st Prize/Gold 2nd Prize/Silver 3rd Prize/Bronze 4th Prize
1966 United States United States
Bulgaria 		Not awarded
1970 Soviet Union Elena Obraztsova
Soviet Union Tamara Sinyavskaya 		Not awarded Soviet Union
1974 Not awarded Soviet Union  [ru]
Bulgaria Stefka Evstatieva
Hungary Sylvia Sass 		Soviet Union
Soviet Union
1978 Soviet Union Lyudmila Shemchuk Soviet Union Poland Ewa Podleś
Romania
1982 Soviet Union Soviet Union Khuraman Gasimova United States Dolora Zajick
1986 Soviet Union United States
Romania Ana Felicia Filip 		Soviet Union Maria Guleghina
1990 United States Deborah Voigt Soviet Union Romania
Soviet Union
1994 Georgia (country) Hibla Gerzmava
Russia Marina Lapina 		United States Laura Claycomb
Ukraine 		Russia
1998 Japan  [jp] Russia Kazakhstan Maira Mukhamed
2002 Russia China  [fr] Russia  [de]
2007 Russia Albina Shagimuratova Russia Olesya Petrova Japan
2011 South Korea Not awarded Russia
2015 Russia Russia Armenia
2019 Russia Russia Russia Uzbekistan
Russia

Vocal, male[]

Year 1st Prize/Gold 2nd Prize/Silver 3rd Prize/Bronze 4th Prize
1966 Soviet Union Vladimir Atlantov Soviet Union United States Simon Estes
Soviet Union
1970 Soviet Union Yevgeny Nesterenko
Soviet Union  [ru] 		Soviet Union
Soviet Union Zurab Sotkilava 		Soviet Union
1974 Soviet Union  [ru] Hungary Soviet Union
Soviet Union
1978 Not awarded Soviet Union
Soviet Union Nikita Storojev 		Soviet Union
1982 Soviet Union Paata Burchuladze Soviet Union Gegham Grigoryan Soviet Union Vladimir Chernov
1986 Soviet Union
Soviet Union 		Soviet Union Barseg Tumanyan Soviet Union
1990 United States Soviet Union Soviet Union
Poland Wojciech Drabowicz
1994 China Chen-Ye Yuan Not awarded Russia
North Korea
1998 Georgia (country) Russia Yevgeny Nikitin Russia
2002 Russia  [ru] Russia South Korea
2007 Ukraine Alexander Tsymbalyuk Russia Dmitry Belosselskiy Ukraine
2011 South Korea Jongmin Park Mongolia Enkhbatyn Amartüvshin Not awarded
2015 Mongolia Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar China South Korea
2019 Greece South Korea Russia Mongolia

Woodwinds[]

Year 1st Prize/Gold 2nd Prize/Silver 3rd Prize/Bronze 4th Prize 5th Prize 6th Prize 7th Prize 8th Prize
2019 Russia Venezuela Italy France Russia Germany Hungary Russia

Brass[]

Year 1st Prize/Gold 2nd Prize/Silver 3rd Prize/Bronze 4th Prize 5th Prize 6th Prize 7th Prize 8th Prize
2019 China
Russia 		Russia France Portugal United States Italy South Korea Kazakhstan

Grand Prix[]

Year Winner Category
1994[12] Georgia (country) Hibla Gerzmava Vocal, female
2011[17] Russia Daniil Trifonov Piano
2015[18] Mongolia Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar Vocal, male
2019[19] France Alexandre Kantorow Piano

See also[]

References[]

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