Concours Géza Anda

The Concours Géza Anda is a triennial international piano competition in Zürich, Switzerland. It was founded in memory of Hungarian pianist Géza Anda by his widow Hortense Anda-Bührle. The purpose of the competition is to discover and promote young pianists who will pass on the musical spirit of Géza Anda. The Géza Anda Foundation provides winners with free concert management for three years after the competition (up to 200 engagements).

Winners

Ed. Year First prize Second prize Third prize
1st 1979 France Georges Pludermacher
2nd 1982 West Germany Heidrun Holtmann Taiwan Hung-Kuan Chen France Laurent Cabasso
3rd 1985 (not awarded) tie: Japan Yukino Fujiwara and Turkey Hüseyin Sermet West Germany Michael Endres
4th 1988 West Germany Konstanze Eickhorst Japan Yukino Fujiwara Brazil Ricardo Castro
5th 1991 Hungary Dénes Várjon Soviet Union Konstantin Scherbakov Germany Matthias Kirschnereit
6th 1994 Italy Pietro De Maria Japan Yoshiko Iwai Italy Luca Ballerini
7th 1997 Italy Corrado Rollero Russia Roustem Saitkoulov Japan Yuka Imamine
8th 2000 Italy Filippo Gamba Finland Henri Sigfridsson Russia Andrey Shibko
9th 2003 Russia Alexei Volodin Russia Sergey Kuznetsov Japan Hisako Kawamura
Mozart–Schumann Prize: Austria Christoph Berner
10th 2006 Russia Sergey Koudriakov Russia Nikolai Tokarev Japan Tomomi Okumura
11th 2009 South Korea Jinsang Lee Russia Alexei Zuev Russia Tatiana Kolesova
Jinsang Lee also won Audience Prize, Mozart Prize, and Schumann Prize.
12th 2012 Russia Varvara Nepomnyashchaya South Korea Dasol Kim Russia Elmar Gasanov
Elmar Gasanov also won Schumann Prize.
13th 2015 United States Andrew Tyson Russia Aleksandr Shaikin Brazil Rolando Rolim
14th 2018 United States Claire Huangci South Korea Jong Hai Park Russia Sergey Tanin
15th 2021 Germany Anton Gerzenberg United Kingdom Julian Trevelyan Czech Republic Marek Kozák
Julian Trevelyan also won Audience Prize and Mozart Prize
16th 2024 Russia Ilya Shmukler tie: Latvia Dumants Liepins and Russia Dmitry Yudin (not awarded)
Ilya Shmukler also won Audience Prize, Mozart Prize, Special Price of the Hungarian Radio Arts Group, and Junior Jury Prize


References

  • List of prize-winners and chairmen of the jury at Concours Géza Anda [until 2021, the date of publication], p. 135, in: Wolfgang Rathert: Géza Anda. Pianist. Ein Panorama zum 100. Geburtstag / A Panorama on his 100th Birthday, herausgegeben von der / published by Géza Anda Foundation [German-Englisch]. Hofheim, Wolke 2021 (ISBN 978-3-95593-104-9).