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. 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

• 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

• 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)

External links

• List of prize-winners on the official website