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Concours Géza Anda

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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).

Jinsang Lee is the winner of the Géza Anda Competition 2009. He also won all special prizes such as Audience Prize, Mozart Prize and Schumann Prize. The 13th Competition was held in June 2015.

Winners

edition year first prize second prize third prize
1st 1979 France Georges Pludermacher
2nd 1982 Germany Heidrun Holtmann
3rd 1985 not awarded tie: Japan Yukino Fujiwara and Turkey Hüseyin Sermet
4th 1988 Germany Konstanze Eickhorst
5th 1991 Hungary Dénes Várjon
6th 1994 Italy Pietro de Maria
7th 1997 Italy Corrado Rollero
8th 2000 Italy Filippo Gamba
9th 2003 Russia Alexei Volodin
10th 2006 Russia Sergey Koudriakov
11th 2009 South Korea Jinsang Lee
12th 2012 Russia Varvara Nepomnyashchaya
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

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