Mozart Festival competition for singing

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The Mozart Festival for Singing at the University of Music Würzburg is a music competition that has been held since 1975. The competition has been limited to classical singing since 1977 and is held roughly every three years at the same time as the Würzburg Mozart Festival . Women and men are rated together.

Award winners

1st to 4th competition (1975–1979)

• 1975 (1st competition): Designed for violin.
• 1977 (2nd competition): Waltraud Meier (1st prize), Margit Cuwie (2nd prize), Susanne Heyng (3rd prize)
• 1978 (3rd competition): No 1st prize, Rudolf Hillebrand (2nd prize), Christiane Hampe (2nd prize), Theo Römer (3rd prize)
• 1979 (4th competition): Dorothea Wirtz (1st prize), Agnes Habereder (2nd prize), Markus Goritzki (3rd prize),

5th to 10th competition (1980–1989)

• 1980 (5th competition): No 1st prize, Regina Klepper (2nd prize), Klaus Lapins (2nd prize), Angelika Luz (3rd prize)
• 1981 (6th competition): Christoph Stephinger (1st prize), Hedwig Fassbender (2nd prize), Berthold Possemeyer (3rd prize)
• 1983 (7th competition): Ulrike Sonntag (1st prize), Mechthild Georg (2nd prize), Stefanie Ganswindt (3rd prize)
• 1985 (8th competition): Gabriele Rossmanith (1st prize), 2nd Susanne Hagen (2nd prize), Clemens Bieber (3rd prize)
• 1987 (9th competition): Lioba Braun (1st prize), Thomas Quasthoff (1st prize), Susanne Blattert (2nd prize), Otto Katzameier (2nd prize)
• 1989 (10th competition): No 1st prize, Klaus Häger (2nd prize), Silvia Klauder (3rd prize)

11th to 13th competition (1990–1999)

• 1991 (11th competition): No 1st prize, Jochen Kupfer (2nd prize), Matthias Winter (3rd prize)
• 1993 (12th competition): Simone Nold (1st prize), Thomas Bauer (2nd prize), Dörte Blase (3rd prize)
• 1996 (13th competition): Bernd Hofmann (1st prize), Diana Damrau (2nd prize), Anke Vondung (3rd prize)

From the 14th competition (since 2000)

• 2002 (14th competition): Silke Burth (1st prize), Andrea Stadel (2nd prize), Sebastian Geyer (3rd prize)
• 2006 (15th competition): Dominik Hosefelder (1st prize), Trine Wilsberg Lund (2nd prize), Steve Wächter (3rd prize)

Web links

• Mozart Festival competition for singing on the website of the University of Music Würzburg
• Mozart Festival Competition 2006 ( Memento from February 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )