The Geneva International Music Competition () is one of the world's leading international music competitions, founded in 1939. In 1957, it was one of the founding members of the World Federation of International Music Competition (WFIMC), whose headquarters are in Geneva.
Today, the Geneva Competition alternates between several main disciplines: piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, cello, viola, string quartet, voice and percussion. Every second year, it offers a Composition Prize. Upcoming competitions are cello & oboe (2021), piano & composition (2022), flute & string quartet (2023) and voice & composition (2024).
Its prizewinners include world-famous artists such as Martha Argerich, Arturo Benedetti-Michelangeli, Victoria de los Ángeles, Alan Gilbert, Nelson Goerner, Friedrich Gulda, Heinz Holliger, Nobuko Imai, Melos Quartet, Emmanuel Pahud, Maurizio Pollini, Georg Solti, José van Dam, Christian Zacharias and Tabea Zimmermann.
In addition to its official prizes, the Geneva International Music Competition offers a career development programme, which provides precious support and advice to help boost laureates' careers. This programme includes two years of concert management, as well as CD recordings, international tours, a festival and professional workshops.
1st prize winners
1939 Clarinet Robert Gugolz
1939 Piano Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
1939 Voice Maria Stader,
1942 Piano Georg Solti
1947 Clarinet Henri Druart
1948 Piano Charles Reiner
1950 Clarinet Paul-Jacques Lambert
1953 Piano Jacques Klein
1954 Voice Pamela Bowden
1957 Clarinet Petko Radev
1957 Piano Dominique Merlet (ex aequo)
1957 Piano Martha Argerich (ex aequo)
1957 Voice James Milligan
1959 Oboe Heinz Holliger
1960 Clarinet Peter Rieckhoff
1961 Piano Désiré N'Kaoua
1961 Flute Michel Debost
1962 Organ Joachim Grubich
1971 Cello Myung-wha Chung
1972 Clarinet Thomas Friedli
1972 Viola Atar Arad
1972 Voice Konstantin Ploujnikov
1973 Double Bass Ivan Kotov
1973 Flute Kohno Toshiko
1973 Quartet Quatuor Kreuzberger
1973 Trombone Anatole Skobelev
1974 Harp Olga Ortenberg
1974 Voice Gary Kendall
1975 Guitar Dusan Bogdanovic
1976 Piano Tatiana Chebanova
1976 Voice Katherine Ciesinski
1977 Oboe Jean-Christophe Gayot
1977 Viola AnaBela Chaves
1977 Voice Kristine Ciesinski
1978 Voice Margareta Haverinen
1979 Voice Jean Christian
1980 Bassoon Gilbert Audin
1980 Vocal Quartet New York Vocal Ensemble
1982 Percussion Peter Sadlo
1982 Piano Evgeny Krouchevsky
1982 Viola Tabea Zimmermann
1983 Bass Nico Abondolo
1983 Voice Juliana Gondek
1984 Conducting Grzegorz Nowak
1985 Organ Jonathan Biggers
1985 Voice Chihiro Bamba
1986 Cello Leonid Gorokhov
1987 Trumpet Ole Edvard Antonsen
1987 Viola Hong-Mei Xiao
1987 Voice Maria Diaconu
1988 Guitar Viktor Vidović
1988 Oboe Alex Klein
1988 Trombone Jonas Bylund
1990 Clarinet Fabio Di-Casola
1990 Piano Nelson Goerner
1990 Violin Zheng-Rong Wang
1991 Cello Wenn-Sinn Yang
1991 Tuba Jens Bjørn-Larsen
1992 Flute Emmanuel Pahud
1993 Organ: Alessio Corti
1993 Violin Manara Francesco
1993 Voice: Jane Irwin
1994 Conducting: Alan Gilbert
1995 Bassoon: Laurent Lefèvre
1995 Cello: Claudio Bohorquez
1995 Guitar: Georgi Vassiliev
1996 Trumpet: André Henry
1997 Clarinet: Martin Fröst
1998 Double Bass: Janusz Widzyk
1998 Oboe: Alexei Ogrintchouk
2000 Cello: Rafael Rosenfeld
2000 Voice: Annette Dasch (ex aequo)
2000 Voice: Werner Erik Nelson (ex aequo)
2001 Flute: Silvia Careddu
2001 Piano: Roland Krüger
2001 Quartet: Quatuor Terpsycordes
2002 Percussion: Aiyun Huang
2002 Piano: Sergey Koudriakov
2005 Viola: Ryszard Groblewski
2008 Cello: István Várdai
2009 Voice: Polina Pasztircsák
2010 Piano: Mami Hagiwara
2011 Composition: Artur Akshelyan
2011 Quartet: Artemis Quartet (ex aequo)
2011 Quartet: Hermès Quartet (ex aequo)
2012 Piano: Lorenzo Soulès
2013 Composition: Kwang Ho Cho
2014 Piano: Ji-Yeong Mun
2015 Composition: Shoichi Yabuta
2016 Quartet: Vision String Quartet
2017 Composition: Jaehyuck Choi
2018 Clarinet: Kevin Spagnolo
2018 Piano: Théo Fouchenneret (ex aequo)
2018 Piano: Dmitry Shishkin (ex aequo)
2019 Composition: Daniel Arango-Prada (ex aequo)
2019 Composition: Hinako Takagi (ex aequo)
2019 Percussion: Hyeji Bak,
Search all prizewinners from 1939
Previous Disciplines
1995 and before, the competition also included a prize for Bassoon.
See also
:Category:Winners of the Geneva International Music Competition
References
External links
Main website
History and List of Most Notable Winners
E-Shop Prizewinners CDs
World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC) website
Music competitions in Switzerland
Swiss music
Events in Geneva
1939 establishments in Switzerland
Recurring events established in 1939