List of prize-winners of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition

This is a list of musicians who have been awarded in the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig since its foundation in 1950.

Competition by year

1950

Piano

• 1　Tatiana Nikolayeva
• 2　Galina Feodorowa, Margarita Fyodorova
• 3　Jörg Demus, Waldemar Maciszewski

Organ

• 1　Amadeus Webersinke, Karl Richter
• 2　Ludwig Dörr, Gerhard Tipp
• 3　Walter Schönheit, Diethard Hellmann

Harpsichord

• 2　Ingrid Heiler

Voice

• 2　Eva Fleischer
• 3　Alina Bolechowska, Christa Maria Ziese

Violin

• 1　Igor Besrodny
• 2　Michail Waimann, Alexei Gorokhov
• 3　Werner Häutling, Agnes Vadas

1964

Piano

• 1　Ilse Graubin
• 2　Wolfgang Wappler, Melita Dukowa-Kolin
• 3　Igor Lazko, Gerhard Erber, Brunhild Partsch

Organ

• 1　Petr Sovadina
• 2　Karl-Rainer Böhme, Andreas Buschnakowski
• 3　Jan Hora

Voice

• 1　Bruce Abel
• 2　Wolfgang Hellmich, Rolf Wollrad
• 3　Wladimir Swistow

1968

Piano

• 1　Valery Afanassiev
• 2　Ivan Klánský
• 3　Evgeni Koroliov

Organ

• 1　Henning Wagner
• 2　Daniel Chorzempa
• 3　Christian Collum

Voice

• 1　Heidi Berthold-Riess
• 2　Eberhard Büchner
• 3　Siegfried Lorenz

Violin

• 1　Oleg Kagan
• 2　Christian Funke
• 3　Andras Kiss

1972

Piano

• 1　Winfried Apel
• 2　Jean-Louis Steuermann
• 3　Michail Petuchow
• 4　Gabriele Kupfernagel
• 5　Wadim Sacharow

Organ

• 1　Heribert Metzger
• 2　Istvan Ella
• 3　Hans Fagius
• 4　Friedrich Kircheis
• 5　Gottfried Preller

Harpsichord

• 1　Lionel Party
• 2　Armin Thalheim
• 3　Gyöngyver Szilvassy
• 4　Alexander Sung
• 5　Magdalena Myczka

Voice – female

• 1　Rosemarie Lang
• 2　Regina Werner
• 3　Julianne Paszthy
• 4　Nadeshda Wainer

Voice – male

• 1　Dieter Weimann
• 2　Gheorghe-Emil Crasnaru
• 3　Peter Tschaplik
• 4　Frank-Peter Späthe

Violin

• 1　Wladimir Iwanow
• 2　Konrad Other
• 3　Lidija Schutko

1976

Piano

• 1　Mikhail Volchok
• 2　Larissa Dedowa
• 3　Dietmar Nawroth
• 4　Konstantin Preda
• 5　Emma Tachmisjan

Organ

• 1　Elisabeth Ullmann
• 2　Joachim Dalitz
• 3　Hartmut Rohmeyer
• 4　Matthias Eisenberg
• 5　Thomas Sauer

Voice – female

• 1　Carola Nossek
• 2　Katalin Pitti
• 3　Nannita Peschke
• 4　Ursula Ankele-Fischer

Voice – male

• 1　Waldemar Wild
• 2　Gábor Németh
• 3　Frieder Lang
• 4　Miloslav Podalsky

Violin

• 1　Nilla Pierrou
• 2　Thorsten Rosenbusch
• 3　Daniel Phillips
• 4　Ralf-Carsten Brömsel
• 5　René Henriot

Cello

• 1　Alexander Rudin
• 2　Yvan Chiffoleau
• 3　Josef Feigelson
• 4　Tamas Koó
• 5　Akiko Kanamaru

1980

Piano

• 1　Anaid Nersesjan
• 2　Kei Itoh
• 3　Irina Berkowitsch
• 4　Bair Schagdaron
• 5　Gerald Fauth

Organ

• 1　Zsuzsana Elekes
• 2　Jaroslav Tůma
• 3　Kristiane Köbler
• 4　Bernhard Buttmann
• 5　Matthias Süß

Voice – female

• 1　Jadwiga Rappé
• 2　Liliana Bizineche
• 3　Monika Straube
• 4　Gabriele Pietschnigg

Voice – male

• 1　Yukio Imanaka
• 2　Andreas Sommerfeld
• 3　Christoph Rösel
• 4　Andreas Scheibner

Violin

• 1　Michael Erxleben
• 2　Thorsten Janicke
• 3　Waltraut Wächter
• 4　Carlos Egry-Bulnes
• 5　Dora Bratschkowa

Cello

• 1　Kerstin Feltz
• 2　Marin Cazacu
• 3　Michael Nellessen
• 4　Thomas Ahrndt
• 5　Matthias Bräutigam

1984

Piano

• 1　Alexander Paley
• 2　Susanne Grutzmann
• 3　Noriko Kodama
• 4　Walery Pjasetzkij
• 5　Ueli Wiget
• 6　Eliso Bolkwadse
• 7　Lora Dimitrova
• 8= Dirk Fischbeck
• 8= Chihiro Kawahara
• 8= Katrin Arzberger

Organ

• 1　John Gavin Scott
• 2　Christoph Mehner
• 3　Michael Schönheit
• 4　Arvid Gast
• 5　Rainer Maria Rückschloß
• 6　Kayo Ohara
• 7　Martin Sander
• 8　John Butt

Voice – female

• 1　Angela Liebold
• 2　Bettina Denner-Deckelmann
• 3　Constanta Adriana Mestes
• 4　Ute Selbig
• 5　Maria Ardo
• 6　Ingrid Kertesi

Voice – male

• 1　Egbert Junghanns
• 2　Kenzo Ishii
• 3　Ralph Eschrig
• 4　Mario Hoff
• 5　hans-Peter Bartels
• 6　Reinhart Groschel

Violin

• 1　Johannes Ludwig Von Schwartz
• 2　Birgit Jahn
• 3　Anna Rabinova
• 4　Lothar Strauß
• 5　Kai Vogler
• 6　Sylvia-Elisabeth Viertel
• 7　Thomas Bottcher
• 8　Juri Merschewskij

Flute

• 1　Wolfgang Ritter
• 2　Monika Hegedüs
• 3　Matthias Rust
• 4　Alison Mitchell
• 5　Karin Beck
• 6　Urszula Janik
• 7　Janos Balint
• 8　Keigo Mori

1988

Piano

• 1　Gerald Fauth
• 2　Nikolai Lugansky
• 3　Alexej Botowinow
• 4　Albrecht Hartmann
• 5　Megumi Hashiba
• 6　Dana Sasinowa

Organ

• 1　Martin Sander
• 2　Stefan Kircheis
• 3　Wolfgang Kläsener
• 4　Valter Savant-Levet
• 5　Andreas Strobelt
• 6　Markus Lang

Voice – female

• 2　Kerstin Klesse
• 3　Katherina Müller
• 4　Naomi Tsuji
• 5　Reinhild Wäntig
• 6　Bożena Harasimowicz

Voice – male

• 2　Matthias Bleidorn
• 3　Frank Schiller
• 4　Daniel Kaleta
• 5　Torsten Frisch
• 6　Fred Hoffmann

Violin

• 1　Antje Weithaas
• 2　Katrin Scholz
• 3　Kazimierz Olechowski
• 4　Hiroko Suzuki
• 5　Marat Bisengaliew
• 6　Denitza Kazakova

Cello

• 1　Marc Coppey
• 2　Michael Sanderling
• 3　Raphaël Pidoux
• 4　Anton Istomin
• 5　Sybille Hesselbarth
• 6　Friedemann Ludwig

1992

Piano

• 2　Ragna Schirmer
• 3　Juri Bogdanov
• 4　Yukiyo Endo
• 5　Anna Schibaeva Belo

Organ

• 2　Luca Antoniotti, Michael Bloss
• 3　Valter Savant-Levet

Harpsichord

• 2　Daniela Numico
• 3　Anikó Soltész, Mechthild Stark
• 4　Akiko Kuwagata
• 6　Agnes Várallyay

Violin

• 1　Rachel Barton
• 2　Thomas Timm, Axel Strauß
• 4　Albrecht Winter

Voice – female

• 1　Bogna Bartosz
• 2　Yvonne Albes
• 3　Alla Simonichvili
• 4　Antje Perscholka
• 5　Bettine Eismann
• 6　Irina Potapenko

Voice – male

• 2　Jochen Kupfer
• 4　Dietrich Greve

1996

Piano

• 2　Cornelia Herrmann
• 3　Christopher Hinterhuber

Organ　

• No prize awarded

Harpsichord

• 3　Giampietro Rosato

Violin

• 2　Natsumi Tamai
• 3　Amanda Favier, Aki Sunahara

Voice – female

• 2　Klaudia Zeiner, Simone Kermes, Anne Buter

Voice – male

• 1　Christoph Genz
• 2　Ekkehard Abele
• 3　Ralf Ernst, Marcus Volpert

1998

Piano

• 2　Ragna Schirmer
• 3　Miku Nishimoto-Neubert, Mari Kokuho

Cello

• 1　Emil Rovner
• 2　Renaud Déjardin
• 3　Ophélie Gaillard

Voice – female

• 1　Asako Motojima
• 2　Letizia Scherrer
• 3　Konstanze Maxsein

Voice – male

• 1　Jan Kobow
• 2　Andreas Post, Matthias Vieweg
• 3　Marcus Niedermeyr

2000

Harpsichord

• 2　Wiebke Weidanz, Pieter-Jan Belder
• 3　Philippe Leroy

Organ

• 1　Johannes Unger
• 2　Gunther Rost
• 3　Yuichiro Shiina

2002

Piano

• 1　Martin Stadtfeld
• 2　Andrew Brownell, Eric Fung

Violin and Baroque violin

• 2　Laura Vikman
• 3　Sonja Starke

Voice – female

• 1　Franziska Gottwald
• 2　Sigrid Horvath
• 3　Barbara Tišler

Voice – male

• 1　Dominik Wörner
• 2　Daniel Johannsen
• 3　Seung-Hee Park

2004

Cello and Baroque cello

• 1　Olivier Marron
• 2　Adam Mital
• 3　Richard Harwood

Voice

• 1　Julius Pfeifer
• 2　Trine Wilsberg Lund
• 3　Markus Flaig

Organ

• 1　Jörg Halubek
• 2　Elke Eckerstorfer
• 3　Frédéric Champion

2006

Harpsichord

• 1　Francesco Corti
• 2　Ilpo Laspas
• 3　François Guerrier

Piano

• 1　Irina Zahharenkova
• 2　Varvara Nepomnyashchaya
• 3　Elena Vorotko

Violin and Baroque violin

• 1　Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir
• 2　Mayumi Hirasaki
• 3　Dmitry Sinkovsky

2008

Organ

• 1 Bálint Karosi
• 2 Ilpo Laspas
• 3 Lukas Stolhof

Voice

• 1 Marie Friederike Schoder
• 2 Margot Oitzinger
• 3 Jens Hamann

Cello and Baroque cello

• 1 Philip Higham
• 2 Toru Yamamoto
• 3 Davit Melkonyan

2010

Piano

• 1 Ilya Poletaev
• 2 Stepan Simonian
• 3 Ekaterina Richter

Harpsichord

• 1 Maria Uspenskaya
• 2 Magdalena Malec
• 3 Nadja Lesaulnier

Violin and Baroque violin

• 1 Evgeny Sviridov
• 2 Shunsuke Sato
• 3 Friederike Starkloff

2012

Organ

• 1. Johannes Lang
• 2. Sebastian Küchler-Blessing
• 3. Matthias Neumann

Voice

• 1. Dávid Szigetvári
• 2. Benno Schachtner
• 3. Matthias Winckhler

Cello and Baroque cello

• 1. Beiliang Zhu
• 2. Ditta Rohmann
• 3. Clara Pouvreau

2014

Piano[1]

• 1. Hilda Huang, United States
• 2. Schaghajegh Nosrati, Germany
• 3. Georg Kjurdian, Latvia

Harpsichord

• 1. Jean-Christophe Dijoux, France
• 2. Olga Pashchenko, Russia
• 3. Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya, Russia

Violin and Baroque violin

• 1. Seiji Okamoto, Japan
• 2. Marie Radauer-Plank, Austria
• 3. Niek Baar, Netherlands

2016

Organ[2]

• 1. Kazuki Tomita, Japan
• 2. Pavel Svoboda, Czech Republic
• 3. Alina Nikitina, Russia

Voice

• 1. Patrick Grahl, Tenor, Germany
• 2. Raphael Höhn, Tenor, Switzerland
• 3. Geneviève Tschumi, Contralto, Switzerland

Cello and Baroque cello

• 1. Paolo Bonomini, Cello, Italy
• 2. Ursina Braun, Cello, Switzerland
• 3. Vladimir Waltham, Baroque cello, France/United Kingdom

2018

Piano[3]

• 1. Rachel Naomi Kudo (US)
• 2. Arash Rokni (Iran)
• 3. Jonathan Ferrucci (Australia/Italy)

Harpsichord

• 1. Avinoam Shalev (Israel)
• 2. Andrew Rosenblum (US)
• 3. Anastasia Antonova (Russia)

Violin

• 1. Maria Włoszczowska (Poland)
• 2. Maia Cabeza (US/Canada)
• 3. Hed Yaron Meyerson (Germany/Israel) Baroque violin

2020

The 2020 Competition in Leipzig has been canceled due to the Corona crisis.

2022

Piano

• 1. Olga Davnis (Russia)
• 2. Mattia Fusi (Italy)
• 3. Eden Agranat Meged (Israel)

Harpsichord

• 1. Alexander von Heißen (Germany)
• 2. Irene González Roldán (Spain)
• 3. Dmytro Kokoshynskyy (Ukraine)

Violin/Baroque Violin

• 1. Charlotte Spruit (Netherlands)
• 2. Qingzhu Weng (China)
• 3. Sophia Prodanova (Bulgaria)

References

1. "Die Teilnehmer des Bach-Wettbewerbs 2014". Bach Archiv Leipzig. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014.
2. "The Prize Winners of the Bach Competition 2016". Bach Archiv Leipzig. Archived from the original on 28 April 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
3. "Preisträger im Internationalen Bach-Wettbewerb geehrt". Leipziger Volkszeitung (in German). 21 July 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2018.

External links

• List of prize-winners on the official website