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Concours Géza Anda

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The Concours Géza Anda is a triennial international piano competition that takes place every three years 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.

List of winners

  1. France Georges Pludermacher (1979)
  2. Germany Heidrun Holtmann (1982)
  3. no first prize; second prize - Japan Yukino Fujiwara and Turkey Hüseyin Sermet, jointly (1985)
  4. Germany Konstanze Eickhorst (1988)
  5. Hungary Dénes Várjon (1991)
  6. Italy Pietro de Maria (1994)
  7. Italy Corrado Rollero (1997)
  8. Italy Filippo Gamba (2000)
  9. Russia Alexei Volodin (2003)
  10. Russia Sergey Koudriakov (2006)
  11. South Korea Jinsang Lee (2009)
  12. Russia Varvara Nepomnyashchaya (2012)
  13. United States Andrew Tyson (2015)
  14. United States Claire Huangci (2018)

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