International Tchaikovsky Competition

The International Tchaikovsky Competition is a classical music competition held every four years in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, for pianists, violinists, and cellists between 16 and 32 years of age and singers between 19 and 32 years of age. The competition is named after Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and is an active member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.[1]

Vladimir Putin at the gala concert of winners of the XV International Competition

The International Tchaikovsky Competition was the first international music competition held in the Soviet Union. For the XIV competition in 2011, Valery Gergiev was appointed the competition's chairman, and Richard Rodzinski, former president of the Van Cliburn Foundation, was appointed general director. A new voting system was instituted, created by mathematician John MacBain, and used by the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, and the Cleveland International Piano Competition. All rules and regulations also underwent a complete revision. Emphasis was placed on the composition of the jury, which consisted primarily of well-known and respected performing artists.[2]

The XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition was held in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, from 14 June to 1 July 2011, under the auspices of the Russian federal government and its Ministry of Culture. The competition disciplines were piano, violin, cello, and voice (male singers and female singers). The XV competition took place in June 2015.[3] The XVI competition took place 17–29 June 2019, in Moscow and St. Petersburg; woodwind and brass competition disciplines were added.[4]

Prizes

Cash prizes are awarded to the top-five competitors in each discipline of piano, violin, cello, and to each of the top four competitors in the men's and women's solo vocal categories. First prize (always awarded) is US$30,000; second, US$20,000; third, US$10,000; fourth, US$5,000; and fifth, US$3,000. An additional prize, a Grand Prix of US$100,000, may be awarded to one of the gold medalists deemed outstanding by the juries. Additional awards are given for best performance of the chamber concertos and the commissioned new work.[5]

For the 2019 competition, the prizes[6] are as follows:

Prize	Amount
Grand Prix	US$100,000 in addition to the 1st Prize amount, for a total of US$130,000
1st Prize	US$30,000 and a Gold Medal
2nd Prize	US$20,000 and a Silver Medal
3rd Prize	US$10,000 and a Bronze Medal
4th Prize	US$5,000 and a Diploma
5th Prize	US$3,000 and a Diploma
6th Prize	US$2,000 and a Diploma
Best performance of a concerto with a chamber orchestra in Round II (in the piano, violin, and cello sections)	US$2,000 and a Diploma

History

Held every four years, the first competition, in 1958, included two disciplines – piano and violin. Beginning with the second competition, in 1962, a cello category was added, and the vocal division was introduced during the third competition in 1966. In 1990, a fifth discipline was announced for the IX International Tchaikovsky Competition – a contest for violin makers which traditionally comes before the main competition. In 2019, two new categories were added to the competition, woodwinds and brass.[7]

Tianxu An incident

On 25 June 2019, at the final round of the piano category, Chinese competitor Tianxu An was supposed to play Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 followed by Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. However, the scores on the orchestra's and conductor's stands were placed in reversed order and the Rachmaninoff piece was announced first, different from what the pianist requested. Since An didn't understand Russian, he was unaware of the situation. With the piano entry in the Rachmaninoff almost immediate, the performance "began with a failure". Following the incident, jury chair Denis Matsuev invited him to perform the program again, but An declined. The competition made an official apology and the orchestra administration suspended the responsible staff after the event. An was eventually awarded a "special prize" for his confidence and courage.[8][9][10][11]

Prize winners

Winners of the prizes and medals awarded in the given year and category.[12]

Piano

Year	1st Prize/Gold	2nd Prize/Silver	3rd Prize/Bronze	4th Prize
1958	Van Cliburn	Lev Vlassenko Liu Shikun	Naum Shtarkman
1962	Vladimir Ashkenazy John Ogdon	Susan Starr Yin Chengzong	Eliso Virsaladze	Marina Goglidze-Mdivani
1966	Grigory Sokolov	Misha Dichter	Victor Eresko
1970	Vladimir Krainev John Lill	Horacio Gutiérrez	Arthur Moreira Lima Viktoria Postnikova
1974	Andrei Gavrilov	Myung-whun Chung Stanislav Igolinsky	Youri Egorov	András Schiff Eteri Andjaparidze
1978	Mikhail Pletnev	Pascal Devoyon André Laplante	Nikolai Demidenko Evgeny Ryvkin
1982	Not awarded	Peter Donohoe Vladimir Ovchinnikov	Michie Koyama[13][14][15]
1986	Barry Douglas	Natalia Trull	Irina Plotnikova
1990	Boris Berezovsky	Vladimir Mischouk	Kevin Kenner Johan Schmidt[lower-alpha 1] Anton Mordasov
1994	Not awarded	Nikolai Lugansky	Vadim Rudenko HaeSun Paik	Alexander Ghindin Zhong Xu
1998	Denis Matsuev	Vadim Rudenko	Freddy Kempf	Sergei Tarasov
2002	Ayako Uehara	Alexei Nabiulin	Jin Ju Andrey Ponochevny	Not awarded
2007	Not awarded	Miroslav Kultyshev	Alexander Lubyantsev	Dong-Hyek Lim Sergei Sobolev
2011	Daniil Trifonov	Yeol Eum Son	Seong-Jin Cho	Alexander Romanovsky
2015	Dmitry Masleev	Lucas Geniušas George Li	Sergei Redkin Daniel Kharitonov	Lucas Debargue
2019	Alexandre Kantorow	Mao Fujita Dmitry Shishkin	Konstantin Emelyanov Kenneth Broberg Alexey Melnikov	An Tianxu

Violin

Year	1st Prize/Gold	2nd Prize/Silver	3rd Prize/Bronze
1958	Valery Klimov	Victor Pikaizen	Ştefan Ruha
1962	Boris Gutnikov	Shmuel Ashkenasi Irina Bochkova	Nina Beilina Yoko Kubo
1966	Viktor Tretiakov	Masuko Ushioda Oleg Kagan	Yoko Sato Oleh Krysa
1970	Gidon Kremer	Vladimir Spivakov Mayumi Fujikawa	Liana Isakadze
1974	Not awarded	Eugene Fodor Ruben Aharonyan Rusudan Gvasaliya	Marie-Annick Nicolas Vanya Milanova
1978	Ilya Grubert Elmar Oliveira	Mihaela Martin Dylana Jenson	Irina Medvedeva Alexandr Vinnitsky
1982	Viktoria Mullova Sergei Stadler	Tomoko Kato	Stephanie Chase Andres Cardenes
1986	Ilya Kaler Raphaël Oleg	Xue Wei Maxim Fedotov	Jane Peters
1990	Akiko Suwanai	Evgeny Bushkov	Alyssa Park
1994	Not awarded	Anastasia Chebotareva Jennifer Koh	Graf Murzha Marco Rizzi
1998	Nikolai Sachenko	Latica Honda-Rosenberg	Ichun Pan
2002	Not awarded	Tamaki Kawakubo Xi Chen	Tatiana Samouil
2007	Mayuko Kamio	Nikita Boriso-Glebsky	Yuki Manuela Janke
2011[16]	Not awarded	Sergey Dogadin Itamar Zorman	Jehye Lee
2015	Not awarded	Yu-Chien Tseng	Alexandra Conunova Haik Kazazyan Pavel Milyukov
2019	Sergey Dogadin	Marc Bouchkov	Donghyun Kim

Cello

Year	1st Prize/Gold	2nd Prize/Silver	3rd Prize/Bronze
1962	Natalia Shakhovskaya	Leslie Parnas Valentin Feygin	Natalia Gutman Mikhail Khomitser
1966	Karine Georgian	Stephen Kates Arto Noras	Kenichiro Yasuda Eleonora Testelets
1970	David Geringas	Victoria Yagling	Ko Iwasaki
1974	Boris Pergamenschikov	Ivan Monighetti	Hirofumi Kanno Seta Baltayan
1978	Nathaniel Rosen	Mari Fudzivara Daniel Veis	Alexander Kniazev Alexander Rudin
1982	Antonio Meneses	Alexander Rudin	Georg Faust
1986	Mario Brunello Kirill Rodin	Suren Bagratuni Martti Rousi	Sara Sant'Ambrogio John Sharp
1990	Gustav Rivinius	Françoise Groben Alexander Kniazev	Bion Tsang Tim Hugh
1994	Not awarded	Not awarded	Not awarded
1998	Denis Shapovalov	Li-Wei Qin	Boris Andrianov
2002	Not awarded	Johannes Moser	Claudius Popp Alexander Chaushian
2007	Sergey Antonov	Alexander Buzlov	István Várdai
2011	Narek Hakhnazaryan	Edgar Moreau	Ivan Karizna
2015	Andrei Ioniță	Alexander Ramm	Alexander Buzlov
2019	Zlatomir Fung	Santiago Cañón Valencia	Anastasia Kobekina

Vocal, female

Year	1st Prize/Gold	2nd Prize/Silver	3rd Prize/Bronze	4th Prize
1966	Jane Marsh	Veronica Tyler Evelina Stoytseva	Not awarded
1970	Elena Obraztsova Tamara Sinyavskaya	Not awarded	Evdokia Kolesnik
1974	Not awarded	Lyudmila Sergiyenko Stefka Evstatieva Sylvia Sass	Galina Kalinina Tatiana Erastova
1978	Lyudmila Shemchuk	Lyudmila Nam	Ewa Podleś Mariana Ciaromila
1982	Lidiya Zabilyasta	Khuraman Gasimova	Dolora Zajick
1986	Natalia Erasova	Barbara Kilduff[lower-alpha 2] Felicia Filip	Maria Guleghina
1990	Deborah Voigt	Marina Shaguch	Emilia Oprea Maria Khokhlogorskaya
1994	Hibla Gerzmava Marina Lapina	Laura Claycomb Tatiana Zakharchu	Irina Gelahova
1998	Mieko Sato	Elena Manistina	Maira Mukhamed
2002	Aitalina Afanasieva-Adamova	Wu Bixia	Anna Samuil
2007	Albina Shagimuratova	Olesya Petrova	Marika Gulordava
2011	Sunyoung Seo	Not awarded	Elena Guseva
2015	Yulia Matochkina	Svetlana Moskalenko	Mane Galoyan
2019	Maria Barakova	Aigul Khismatullina	Maria Motoligina	Angelina Akhmedova Oksana Mayorova

Vocal, male

Year	1st Prize/Gold	2nd Prize/Silver	3rd Prize/Bronze	4th Prize
1966	Vladimir Atlantov	Nikolai Okhotnikov	Simon Estes Konstantin Lisovsky
1970	Yevgeny Nesterenko Nikolai Ogrenich	Vladislav Piavko Zurab Sotkilava	Victor Trishin
1974	Ivan Ponomarenko	Kolos Kováts	Anatoly Ponomarenko Vladimir Malchenko
1978	Not awarded	Valentin Pivovarov Nikita Storojev	Yuri Statnik
1982	Paata Burchuladze	Gegham Grigoryan	Vladimir Chernov
1986	Alexander Morozov Grigory Gritsyuk	Barseg Tumanyan	Sergei Martynov
1990	Hans Choi	Boris Statsenko	Oleg Kulko Wojciech Drabowicz
1994	Chen-Ye Yuan	Not awarded	Mikhail Davydov Ho Gwan Su
1998	Besik Gabitashvili	Yevgeny Nikitin	Alexander Kisselev
2002	Mikhail Kazakov	Andrej Dunaev	Kim Don Seub
2007	Alexander Tsymbalyuk	Dmitry Belosselskiy	Maxim Paster
2011	Jongmin Park	Enkhbatyn Amartüvshin	Not awarded
2015	Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar	Chuanyue Wang	Hansung Yoo
2019	Georgios Alexandros Stavrakakis	Gihoon Kim	Migran Agagzanyan	Enkhbold Ankhbayar

Woodwinds

Year	1st Prize/Gold	2nd Prize/Silver	3rd Prize/Bronze	4th Prize	5th Prize	6th Prize	7th Prize	8th Prize
2019	Matvey Demin (Flute)	Joidy Blanco (Flute)	Alessandro Beverari (Clarinet)	Lola Descours (Bassoon)	Nikita Vaganov (Clarinet)	Juri Vallentin (Oboe)	Livia Duleba (Flute)	Sofiya Viland (Flute)

Brass

Year	1st Prize/Gold	2nd Prize/Silver	3rd Prize/Bronze	4th Prize	5th Prize	6th Prize	7th Prize	8th Prize
2019	Zeng Yun (French horn) Aleksey Lobikov (Trombone)	Fedor Shagov (Tuba)	Felix Dervaux (French horn)	Henrique dos Santos (Tuba)	Ansel Norris (Trumpet)	Peter Steiner (Trombone)	Hae-Ree Yoo (French horn)	Zhasulan Abdykalykov (Trumpet)

Grand Prix

Year	Winner	Category
1994[12]	Hibla Gerzmava	Vocal, female
2011[17]	Daniil Trifonov	Piano
2015[18]	Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar	Vocal, male
2019[19]	Alexandre Kantorow	Piano

Belgian pianist been labelled as German in the source.
American soprano been labelled as Japanese in the source.

References

"Web Page Under Construction". www.fmcim.org. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
"Everything to play for at the Tchaikovsky competition". the Guardian. 20 September 2011. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
Brown, Ismene (6 July 2015). "Tchaikovsky piano competition sees self-taught Frenchman take Russia by storm". The Telegraph. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
"The XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition". Retrieved 2 February 2019.
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 31 December 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link).
"#TCH15 – Awards". tch15.medici.tv. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
"Конкурс имени Чайковского – все новости и публикации". Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
An Tianxu has decided not to give a repeat performance of his programme. Tchaikovsky Competition (Report). 26 June 2019.
Miles, Josephine (27 June 2019). "Tchaikovsky finalist's chances scuppered after programme mix-up". Rhinegold Publishing.
"Orchestra plays one concerto while soloist is expecting another". The Strad. 28 June 2019.
"Unbelievable hiccup during the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition". France Musique. 3 July 2019.
"XV "International Tchaikovsky Competition: The Laureates"/"Past prizewinners of the International Tchaikovsky Competition since 1958: full list"". Retrieved 19 July 2019.
Schmemann, Serge (9 July 1982), "Tchaikovsky Piano Jury Gives No Gold Medal", New York Times, retrieved 11 May 2019
"Конкурс имени Чайковского: лауреаты и члены жюри за все годы". 4 April 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
Kozinn, Allan (1 March 1996). "James Barbagallo, U.S. Pianist, 43, Who Won Prizes". Retrieved 19 July 2019 – via NYTimes.com.
Чао, Чайковский! в Российской газете
"#TCH15 – Daniil Trifonov, Grand Prix Winner 2011: "Very Happy to Be Back"". tch15.medici.tv. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
"Grand Prix of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition has been announced!". tchaikovskycompetition.com. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
"Alexandre Kantorow became the Grand Prix winner at the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition". tch16.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019.

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[16] Belgian pianist been labelled as German in the source.

[18] American soprano been labelled as Japanese in the source.

[1] "Web Page Under Construction". www.fmcim.org. Retrieved 19 July 2019.

[2] "Everything to play for at the Tchaikovsky competition". the Guardian. 20 September 2011. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[3] Brown, Ismene (6 July 2015). "Tchaikovsky piano competition sees self-taught Frenchman take Russia by storm". The Telegraph. Retrieved 7 July 2015.

[4] "The XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition". Retrieved 2 February 2019.

[5] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 31 December 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link).

[6] "#TCH15 – Awards". tch15.medici.tv. Retrieved 19 July 2019.

[7] "Конкурс имени Чайковского – все новости и публикации". Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 19 July 2019.

[8] An Tianxu has decided not to give a repeat performance of his programme. Tchaikovsky Competition (Report). 26 June 2019.

[9] Miles, Josephine (27 June 2019). "Tchaikovsky finalist's chances scuppered after programme mix-up". Rhinegold Publishing.

[10] "Orchestra plays one concerto while soloist is expecting another". The Strad. 28 June 2019.

[11] "Unbelievable hiccup during the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition". France Musique. 3 July 2019.

[list-12] "XV "International Tchaikovsky Competition: The Laureates"/"Past prizewinners of the International Tchaikovsky Competition since 1958: full list"". Retrieved 19 July 2019.

[13] Schmemann, Serge (9 July 1982), "Tchaikovsky Piano Jury Gives No Gold Medal", New York Times, retrieved 11 May 2019

[14] "Конкурс имени Чайковского: лауреаты и члены жюри за все годы". 4 April 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2019.

[15] Kozinn, Allan (1 March 1996). "James Barbagallo, U.S. Pianist, 43, Who Won Prizes". Retrieved 19 July 2019 – via NYTimes.com.

[17] Чао, Чайковский! в Российской газете

[19] "#TCH15 – Daniil Trifonov, Grand Prix Winner 2011: "Very Happy to Be Back"". tch15.medici.tv. Retrieved 19 July 2019.

[20] "Grand Prix of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition has been announced!". tchaikovskycompetition.com. Retrieved 19 July 2019.

[21] "Alexandre Kantorow became the Grand Prix winner at the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition". tch16.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019.