International Mozart Competition Salzburg

Jury at the International Mozart Competition Salzburg 2018, String Quartet category

The International Mozart Competition Salzburg is a music competition that has been held in Salzburg since 1975 . Until 2014, the competition was held every three to four years. The competition has been held at the biennial rhythm since 2014 . The Mozart Competition is organized by the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. The categories are singing , piano , violin , horn and string quartet , but these are held alternately in the competition years. The competition has been associated with the Fédération Mondiale des Concours Internationaux de Musique (FMCIM) since 1990 .

Award winners

First competition (1975)

• Singers: Ann-Marie Connors (1st prize), Bettina Schoeller (3rd prize), Maria Gallamini (competition scholarship )
• Singers: István Gáti (1st prize), Robert Currier Christesen (2nd prize), Ferdinand Silhanek (sponsorship and recognition prize)
• Piano: Diane Walsh (2nd prize), Michel Dalberto (3rd prize) and Andrea Nemecz (3rd prize). No 1st prize was awarded.

Second competition (1978)

• Singers: Elise Galama (1st prize) and Edith Wiens (1st prize)
• Singer: James Wagner (1st prize)
• Violin: Thomas Zehetmair (1st prize)

Third competition (1985)

• Singers: Uwe Heilmann (2nd prize), Shigeru Tachibana (2nd prize), Peter Galliard (sponsorship prize), Robert Hayward (1985, sponsorship prize), Thomas Schulze (recognition prize). A first prize for singers was not awarded.
• Piano: Mariora Trifan (2nd prize), Nikoletta Pantazatou (sponsorship prize), Ulrike Payer (sponsorship prize), Yuka Sakai (sponsorship prize), Nicola Frisardi (prize) and Aleksadar Madzar (1985, prize). No 1st prize was awarded.
• Violin: Marieke Blankestijn (1st prize and prize), Peter Tanfield (sponsorship prize), Sabine Scheffel (prize)

Fourth competition (1988)

• Singers: George Mosley (1st prize), Krzysztof Szmyt (2nd prize), Ralph Eschrig (recognition prize)
• Piano: Sarah Briggs (2nd prize), Tünde Kurucz (2nd prize), Emily White (special prize), Wieland Nordmeyer (sponsorship and recognition prize) and Gabriele Seidel (sponsorship prize). No 1st prize was awarded.

Fifth competition (1990/1991)

• Singers: Victoria Loukianetz (1st Prize), Eva Mei (Caterina Cavalieri Prize)
• Piano: Andrey Pisarev (1st prize), Sergio Ciomei (2nd prize), Tal Weissman (3rd prize), David Buechner (special prize), Andreu Riera (recognition prize)
• Violin: Mikhail Tsinman (2nd prize), Alexander Janiczek (2nd prize), Hanna Weinmeister (3rd prize), Chie Abiko (Felix Unger Prize), Daniel Sepec (sponsorship prize) and Alexander Hohenthal (recognition prize). A 1st prize was not awarded.

Sixth competition (1995)

• Singers: Magdalena Kožená (1st Prize), Etsuko Kanoh (2nd Prize), Anita Krause (3rd Prize), Yukiko Nishi (3rd Prize), Melanie Diener (Prize of the International Mozarteum Foundation), Waltraud Mucher (Prize of the International Mozarteum Foundation), Naoko Fujii (sponsorship award), Simone Schröder (recognition award)
• Piano: Silvia Cuccurullo (1st Prize), Roberta Pili (2nd Prize), Alexandre Dossin (3rd Prize), Sheila Arnold (Mozart Prize), Mari Kondo (Special Prize)
• Violin: Rainer Woltes (sponsorship award)

Seventh competition (1997/1999)

The seventh competition took place in the categories of composition, voice, violin, piano and fortepiano, and was held in September 1997 (compositions) and between January 8 and 22, 1999 (voice, violin, piano and fortepiano).

• Piano: Irma Kliauzaite (1st Prize and Madame Fukuda Prize), Christina Marton (2nd Prize), Mami Kino (3rd Prize), Cornelia Herrmann (Special Prize), Roberto Prosseda (Special Prize), Sergei Terekhov (Special Prize)
• Violin: Barnabás Kelemen (1st Prize and Madame Fukuda Prize), Sophie Rowell (2nd Prize), Susanna Henkel (3rd Prize), Sebastian Breuninger (Prize of the International Mozarteum Foundation)

Eighth competition (2001/2002)

The eighth competition took place in the categories of composition (2001) and voice, piano and violin and was held from January 11th to 26th, 2002.

• Singers: Genia Kühmeier (1st Prize), Beatrix Fodor (2nd Prize), Astrid Monika Hofer (3rd Prize), Kimy McLaren (Prize of the International Mozarteum Foundation)
• Singers: Hye-Soo Sonn (1st Prize), Yosep Kang (2nd Prize), Wilfried Zelinka (3rd Prize), Yun Hwan Cho (Prize of the International Mozarteum Foundation)
• Piano: Yoko Kikuchi (1st Prize, Madame Fukuda Prize), Jae-Won Cheung (2nd Prize), Masako Sakai (3rd Prize), Jacob Leuschner (Wiesbaden Mozart Prize), Emese Mali (Prize of the International Mozarteum Foundation)
• Violin: Esther Hoppe (1st Prize and Madame Fukuda Prize), Akiko Yamada (2nd Prize), Joanna Kamenarska (3rd Prize), Yuki Kasai (Prize of the International Mozarteum Foundation)

Ninth competition (2006)

The ninth competition took place only in the singing category and was held from August 7th to 16th, 2006. Prize winners:

• Singers: Elena Xanthoudakis (1st Prize and Madame Fukuda Prize), Bénédicht Tauran (2nd Prize and Audience Prize), Evgenia Grekova (Prize of the International Mozarteum Foundation), Sofia Fomina (Sponsorship Prize), Gabriela Scherer (Material Prize)
• Singers: Arttu Kataja (3rd prize), Daniel Johannsen (special prize for the best Mozart song interpretation), Daniel Schmutzhard (special prize for the best interpretation of contemporary composition). Neither 1st nor 2nd prize was awarded to the singers.

Tenth competition (2011)

The tenth competition took place from February 9th to 19th, 2011 in the categories piano and violin.

• Piano: Federico Colli (1st prize and sponsorship prize from the International Mozarteum Foundation), Ji Hye Jung (2nd prize), Xiaoxi Wu (3rd prize)
• Violin: Sergei Malow (1st prize), Ying Xue (2nd prize), Sarah Christian (3rd prize)

Eleventh competition (2014)

The eleventh competition took place in the singing and string quartet categories and was held from February 5 to 15, 2014.

• String quartet: Novus String Quartet (1st prize), Quatuor Varèse (2nd prize and special prize from the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg), Quatuor Lumière (3rd prize)
• Singing: Matthias Winckhler (1st prize and special prize for the best interpretation of a song by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), Siobhán Stagg (2nd prize and special prize for the best interpretation of a song by Richard Strauss), Sophie Rennert (3rd prize)

Twelfth competition (2016)

The twelfth competition took place in the violin category from February 1st to 5th and in the piano category from February 5th to 11th, 2016.

• Violin: 1st prize Ziyu He (China), 2nd prize Thomas Reif (Germany), 3rd prize Benjamin Marquise Gilmore (Netherlands)
• Piano: 1st prize Saskia Giorgini (Netherlands / Italy), 2nd prize Yoonhee Yang (South Korea), 3rd prize Julia Kociuban (Poland)

Thirteenth competition (2018)

Awarding of the prize to the Quatour Tchalik

The thirteenth competition took place in the singing and string quartet categories and was held from February 2nd to 15th, 2018.

• String quartet: Quatuor Tchalik (France; 1st prize, special prize for the best interpretation of a string quartet by Mozart and the Bärenreiter Urtext Prize), Eliot Quartet (Germany; 2nd prize and Bärenreiter Urtext Prize), Quatuor Akos (France; 3 . Prize and Bärenreiter Urtext Prize)
• Singing: Anna El-Khashem (Russia; 1st prize and special prize for the best interpretation of a vocal work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), Peter Kellner (Slovakia; 2nd prize and audience prize), Mojca Bitenc (Slovenia; 3rd prize)

Fourteenth competition (2020)

The fourteenth competition will take place in the categories violin, piano and horn from February 1st to 15th, 2020.

Web links

Commons : International Mozart Competition  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the competition
• List of award winners 1975–2006 (PDF; 302 kB)
• Entry at the FMCIM

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Prize winners of the voice section  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 8th competition, Salzburg 2002.  
2. ↑ 9th International Mozart Competition (PDF; 1.9 MB), Salzburg 2006. Documentation.
3. ↑ 12th International Mozart Competition . Retrieved February 12, 2016.
4. ↑ 12th International Mozart Violin Competition . Retrieved February 12, 2016.
5. ↑ orf.at - Mozart competition: Giorgini best pianist . Article dated February 12, 2016, accessed February 12, 2016.
6. ↑ orf.at: Quatuor Tchalik wins Mozart competition . Article dated February 9, 2018, accessed February 9, 2018.
7. ↑ orf.at: Mozart competition: Anna El-Khashem best singer . Article dated February 16, 2018, accessed February 16, 2018.