Concours Géza Anda
The Concours Géza Anda is a triennial international piano competition in Zürich, Switzerland. It was founded in memory of Hungarian pianist Géza Anda by his widow Hortense Anda-Bührle. The purpose of the competition is to discover and promote young pianists who will pass on the musical spirit of Géza Anda. The Géza Anda Foundation provides winners with free concert management for three years after the competition (up to 200 engagements).
Winners
| Ed. | Year | First prize | Second prize | Third prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1979 |  Georges Pludermacher | ||
| 2nd | 1982 |  Heidrun Holtmann |  Hung-Kuan Chen | Laurent Cabasso |
| 3rd | 1985 | (not awarded) | tie:  Yukino Fujiwara and  Hüseyin Sermet | Michael Endres |
| 4th | 1988 | Konstanze Eickhorst | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Yukino Fujiwara | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Ricardo Castro |
| 5th | 1991 |  Dénes Várjon |  Konstantin Scherbakov | Matthias Kirschnereit |
| 6th | 1994 |  Pietro De Maria | Yoshiko Iwai | Luca Ballerini |
| 7th | 1997 | Corrado Rollero |  Roustem Saitkoulov | Yuka Imamine |
| 8th | 2000 | Filippo Gamba |  Henri Sigfridsson | Andrey Shibko |
| 9th | 2003 | Alexei Volodin | Sergey Kuznetsov | Hisako Kawamura |
Mozart–Schumann Prize:  Christoph Berner | ||||
| 10th | 2006 | Sergey Koudriakov | Nikolai Tokarev | Tomomi Okumura |
| 11th | 2009 |  Jinsang Lee | Alexei Zuev | Tatiana Kolesova |
| Jinsang Lee also won Audience Prize, Mozart Prize, and Schumann Prize. | ||||
| 12th | 2012 | Varvara Nepomnyashchaya | Dasol Kim | Elmar Gasanov |
| 13th | 2015 |  Andrew Tyson | Aleksandr Shaikin |  Rolando Rolim |
| 14th | 2018 | Claire Huangci | Jong Hai Park | Sergey Tanin |
References
- Alle Preisträger seit 1979
- Die Gewinner des Concours Géza Anda seit 1979
- List of prize-winners at Concours Géza Anda [until 2009, the date of publication], p. 81, in: Géza Anda, the Troubadour of Piano (dissertation by Judit Kertész, Franz Liszt Academy of Music, 2011)
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