Concours Reine Elisabeth
The Concours Reine Elisabeth (Queen Elisabeth Competition, English Queen Elisabeth Competition ) in Brussels is one of the world's most important music competitions in the fields of violin since 1937, piano since 1938, singing since 1988 and for the first time from 2017 for cello . Only one of these categories is held each year; in addition, a composition competition has been held every odd year since 1991 .
history
The competition goes back to an idea of the Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe . When he died in 1931, the Belgian Queen Elisabeth took over the planning. In honor of her friend, she named him Concours Eugène Ysaÿe . David Oistrach and Emil Gilels won the first two competitions in 1937 and 1938. Due to the Second World War , the competition was only resumed in 1951. Since then it has been held under its current name. Queen Elizabeth remained until her death in 1965, the patron , it was followed by Queen Fabiola until 2013, since 2014, finally, the competition is under the patronage of Queen Mathilde held
For the 75th anniversary of the competition in 2012, Belgium issued a 2 euro commemorative coin on which the silhouette and monogram of Elisabeth Gabriele in Bavaria can be seen.
Award winners
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| vintage | category | winner | Other award winners (selection) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | violin | Stella Chen | Timothy Chooi (2nd), Stephen Kim (3rd), Shannon Lee (4th), Júlia Pusker (5th), Ioana Cristina Goicea (6th) |
| 2018 | singing | Samuel Hasselhorn | Eva Zaïcik (2nd), Ao Li (3rd), Rocío Pérez (4th), Héloïse Mas (5th), Marianne Croux (6th) |
| 2017 | cello | Victor Julien-Laferrière | Yuya Okamoto (2nd), Santiago Cañón-Valencia (3rd), Aurélien Pascal (4th), Ivan Karizna (5th), Brannon Cho (6th) |
| 2016 | piano | Lukáš Vondráček | Henry Kramer (2nd), Alexander Beyer (3rd), Chi Ho Han (4th), Aljosa Jurinic (5th), Alberto Ferro (6th), Dmitry Shishkin |
| 2015 | violin | Ji Young Lim | Aleksey Semenenko (2nd), William Hagen (3rd), Tobias Feldmann (4th), Stephen Waarts (5th), Fumika Mohri (6th), Bomsori Kim |
| 2014 | singing | Sumi Hwang | Jodie Devos (2nd), Sarah Laulan (3rd), Yu Shao (4th), Hyesang Park (5th), Chiara Skerath (6th) |
| 2013 | piano | Boris Giltburg | Rémi Geniet (2nd), Mateusz Borowiak (3rd), Stanislav Khristenko (4th), Zhang Zuo (5th), Andrew Tyson (6th) |
| 2012 | violin | Andrei Baranov | Tatsuki Narita (2nd), Hyun Su Shin (3rd), Esther Yoo (4th), Tseng Yu-Chien (5th), Artiom Shishkov (6th), Marc Bouchkov |
| 2011 | singing | Hong Haeran | Thomas Blondelle (2nd), Elena Galitskaya (3rd), Anaïk Morel (4th), Konstantin Shushakov (5th), Clémentine Margaine (6th) |
| 2010 | piano | Denis Kozhukhin | Evgeni Bozhanov (2nd), Hannes Minnaar (3rd), Yury Favorin (4th), Kim Tae-Hyung (5th), Da Sol Kim (6th), Claire Huangci , Yekwon Sunwoo |
| 2010 | composition | Jeon Minje | |
| 2009 | violin | Ray Chen | Lorenzo Gatto (2nd), Ilian Garnetz (3rd), Suyoen Kim (4th), Nikita Boriso-Glebsky (5th), Soyoung Yoon (6th), Noah Bendix-Balgley |
| 2009 | composition | Cho Eun-Hwa | |
| 2008 | singing | Szabolcs Brickner | Isabelle Druet (2nd), Bernadetta Grabias (3rd), Anna Kasyan (4th), Yury Haradzetski (5th), Gabrielle Philiponet (6th) |
| 2007 | piano | Anna Vinnitskaya | Plamena Mangova (2nd), Francesco Piemontesi (3rd), Ilya Rashkovskiy (4th), Lim Hyo-Sun (5th), Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort (6th), Hisako Kawamura, Stanislav Khegai , Mariangela Vacatello |
| 2007 | composition | Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher | |
| 2005 | violin | Sergei Khachatryan | Yossif Ivanov (2nd), Sophia Jaffé (3rd), Saeka Matsuyama (4th), Mikhail Ovrutsky (5th), Hyuk Joo Kwun (6th) |
| 2005 | composition | Javier Torres Maldonado | |
| 2004 | singing | Iwona Sobotka | Hélène Guilmette (2nd), Shadi Torbey (3rd), Teodora Gheorghiu (4th), Diana Axentii (5th), Lionel Lhote (6th) |
| 2003 | piano | Severin von Eckardstein | Wen-Yu Shen (2nd), Roberto Giordano (4th), Kazumasa Matsumoto (5th), Jin Ju (6th) |
| 2003 | composition | Ian Munro | |
| 2001 | violin | Baiba Skride | Kam Ning (2nd), Barnabás Kelemen (3rd), Alina Pogostkina (4th), Feng Ning (5th), Akiko Ono (6th) |
| 2001 | composition | Søren Nils Eichberg | |
| 2000 | singing | Marie-Nicole Lemieux | |
| 1999 | piano | Vitaly Samoschko | Shai Wosner (4th), Roland Krüger |
| 1999 | composition | Uljas Voitto Pulkkis | |
| 1997 | violin | Nikolaj Znaider | Kristóf Baráti (3rd), Jaakko Kuusisto |
| 1997 | composition | Hendrik Hofmeyr | |
| 1996 | singing | Stephen Salters | |
| 1995 | piano | Markus Groh | Per Tengstrand |
| 1995 | composition | John Weeks | |
| 1993 | violin | Yayoi Toda | Bin Huang (7th), Marco Rizzi (8th) |
| 1993 | composition | Piet Swerts | |
| 1992 | singing | Thierry Félix | |
| 1991 | piano | Frank Braley | Sergei Babayan (10th) |
| 1991 | composition | Patrice Challulau | |
| 1989 | violin | Vadim Repin | Akiko Suwanai (2nd) |
| 1988 | singing | Aga Winska | |
| 1987 | piano | Andrei Nikolsky | Akira Wakabayashi (2nd), Konstanze Eickhorst (8th), Hung-Kuan Chen (11th), Balasz Szokolay (12th) |
| 1985 | violin | Nai Yuan Hu | |
| 1983 | piano | Pierre-Alain Volondat | Daniel Blumenthal (4th), Eliane Rodrigues (5th), Hüseyin Sermet (8th) |
| 1980 | violin | Yuzuko Horigome | Peter Zazofsky (2nd), Eugène Sarbu (7th) |
| 1978 | piano | Abdel-Rahman El-Bacha | Brigitte Engerer (3rd), Robert Groslot (6th) |
| 1976 | violin | Mikhaïl Bezverkhny | |
| 1975 | piano | Mikhaïl Faerman | Olivier Gardon (6th), Daniel Rivera (10th) |
| 1972 | piano | Valery Afanassiev | Jeffrey Swann (2nd), David Lively (4th), Emanuel Ax (7th), James Tocco (8th), Cyprien Katsaris (9th), Pi-Hsien Chen (12th) |
| 1971 | violin | Miriam Fried | Ana Chumachenco (4th), Joshua Epstein (6th), Zakhar Bron (12th) |
| 1968 | piano | Eketarina Novitzkaya | Valery Kamychov (2nd), Jeffrey Siegel (3rd), Semion Kroutchine (4th), André De Groote (5th), François-Joël Thiollier (6th), Edward Auer (7th), Elisabeth Leonskaya (9th ) ), Mitsuko Uchida (10th), François-René Duchâble (11th), Waleed Howrani (12th) |
| 1967 | violin | Philippe Hirshhorn | Stoika Milanova (2nd), Gidon Kremer (3rd), Jean-Jacques Kantorow (6th) |
| 1964 | piano | Eugene Moguilevsky | Nikolai Petrow (2nd), Michael Ponti (6th) |
| 1963 | violin | Alexei Micklin | Jean Ter-Merguerian (9th) |
| 1963 | composition | Léon Jongen | |
| 1960 | piano | Malcolm Frager | Gábor Gabos (5th), Jerome Lowenthal (9th) |
| 1960 | composition | Marcel Poot | |
| 1959 | violin | Jaime Laredo | Shmuel Ashkenasi (7th) |
| 1956 | piano | Vladimir Ashkenazy | John Browning (2nd), Cécile Ousset (4th), Lasar Berman (5th), Peter Frankl (12th) |
| 1955 | violin | Berl Senofsky | Julian Sitkowetski (2nd), Pierre Doukan (3rd), Alberto Lysy (6th) |
| 1953 | composition | Michał Spisak | James Cohn (9th) |
| 1952 | piano | Leon Fleisher | Karl Engel (2nd), Maria Tipo (3rd), Yuri Boukoff (8th), Philippe Entremont (10th) |
| 1951 | violin | Leonid Kogan | Mikhail Vayman (2nd) |
| 1938 | piano | Emil Gilels | Moura Lympany (2nd), Jakow Flier (3rd), Lance Dossor (4th), Nivea Marino-Bellini (5th), Robert Riefling (6th), Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (7th), André Dumortier (8th) ), Rose Schmidt (9th), Monique de la Bruchollerie (10th), Marcella Barzetti (11th), Colette Gaveau (12th) |
| 1937 | violin | David Oistrach | Ricardo Odnoposoff (2nd), Elisabeth Gilels (3rd), Boris Goldstein (4th) |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of the prize winners on queenelisabethcompetition.be, with search function