International Robert Schumann Competition for piano and voice
The International Robert Schumann Competition for Piano and Singing is a German music competition in the field of classical music that is held in Zwickau every four years .
history
It was launched in 1956, on the 100th anniversary of Robert Schumann's death, and first took place in Berlin . The winners then also appeared in Schumann's native town of Zwickau as part of the Robert Schumann Festival . From 1963 the entire competition took place in Zwickau. The venues there changed. At times, they included the chamber music hall of the Schumann House, the Lindenhof vaudeville, the idyllically located, no longer existing Swan Castle and the cathedral parish hall. Today it is the Gewandhaus as the main venue of the Plauen-Zwickau Theater and the Art Nouveau hall of the concert and ball house "New World".
The competition program, for which the Robert-Schumann-Gesellschaft Zwickau , which was founded in 1957 and was newly founded in 1957, is responsible as co-organizer of the music event, has changed in detail over the years and decades, but of course the large piano and song cycles are made up of them Schumanns the immovable cornerstones.
The competition is a member of the World Federation of Music Competitions in Geneva. The patronage was among others the Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony Georg Milbradt .
List of winners (1st prizes)
Pianists
- 1956: Annerose Schmidt (GDR),
- 1960: ( Jan Evert Andersson Quartet (Sweden) - string quartet)
- 1963: Nelly Akopjan (USSR),
- 1966: Elisso Wirsaladze (USSR),
- 1969: Dezsö Ránki (Hungary),
- 1974: Pavel Egorov (USSR),
- 1977: Emma Tahmizian (Bulgaria),
- 1981: Yves Henry (France),
- 1985: Tamara Siprashvili (USSR),
- 1989: Éric Le Sage (France),
- 1993: Temirzan Erzanov (Kazakhstan),
- 1996: Mikhail Mordvinov (Russia),
- 2000: Kiai Nara (Japan),
- 2004: Akiko Yamamoto (Japan),
- 2008: Mizuka Kano (Japan),
- 2012: Aljoša Jurinić (Croatia),
- 2016: (not awarded).
Singer
- 1956: Kira Isotova and Aleksander Vedernikov (USSR),
- 1960: Vitali Gromadski (USSR),
- 1963: Karl Heinz Stryczek (GDR),
- 1966: Ionel Pantea (Romania),
- 1969: Heidi Berthold-Riess (GDR), Ruben Lisician (USSR),
- 1974: Mitsuko Shirai (Japan), Lászlo Polgár (Hungary),
- 1977: Edith Wiens (Canada), Boris Mareskin (USSR),
- 1981: Jürgen Kurth (GDR),
- 1985: Karsten Mewes (GDR),
- 1989: Frank Schiller (GDR),
- 1993: Locky Chung (South Korea),
- 1996: Risako Kurosawa (Japan), Henryk Böhm (Germany),
- 2000: Annette Dasch (Germany),
- 2004: Colin Balzer (Canada),
- 2008: Anne-Theresa Albrecht (Germany), Christoph Pohl (Germany), Tomasz Wija (Poland),
- 2012: Anna Lucia Richter (Germany), Mauro Peter (Switzerland),
- 2016: Henriette Gödde (Germany), André Baleiro (Portugal).
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ In 1960 the instrumental competition was held once as a string quartet competition.
- ↑ Schumann in Zwickau - Prize Winner. In: schumannzwickau.de. Retrieved April 5, 2017 .