Prix Henry Vieuxtemps
The Prix Henry Vieuxtemps is a violin competition held in Verviers, Belgium. It is named after the famed violinist and composer Henri Vieuxtemps.
Applicants must be at or below 26 years of age, have attended a Belgian Conservatory for one year, and received a degree in violin performance.
Program
First Round:
- The first movement of a concerto by W. A. Mozart (with cadenza)
- A sonata or partita for solo violin by J. S. Bach or a sonata by E. Ysaye
- One of the studies (Op. 48) or a short piece by Henry Vieuxtemps
Final Round:
- A virtuoso piece by Henry Vieuxtemps (this work can be a movement of a concerto)
- A complete violin sonata
- A complete violin concerto
- A piece of your choice
Previous winners
- 1920 : Alfred Dubois
- 1923 : Hector Clokers
- 1925 : Lambert Hody
- 1927 : Edmond Ferari
- 1929 : François Wigny
- 1931 : Arthur Michot
- 1933 : Carlo van Neste
- 1935 : Marie Walthéry
- 1937 : Albert Speguel
- 1939 : Arthur Grumiaux
- 1941 : Georges Octors
- 1943 : Marcel Debot
- 1945 : not awarded
- 1947 : not awarded
- 1949 : G. Lardinois-Altmann
- 1951 : Pierre Jetteur
- 1953 : Clémens-René Quatacker
- 1955 : Henri-Emmanuel Koch
- 1957 : not awarded
- 1959 : Sándor Károlyi
- 1961 : Léopold Douin
- 1963 : Charles Jongen
- 1966 : Jean Hervé
- 1970 : Mayumi Fujikawa
- 1974 : János Máté
- 1978 : John Snow
- 1982 : Ginette De Cuyper
- 1986 : Eric Melon
- 1990 : Péi Péi Zhu
- 1994 : Jean-Gabriel Raelet
- 1998 : Tatiana Samouïl
- 2002 : Lei Wang
- 2006 : Hrachya Avanesyan
- 2011 : Claire Dassesse
- 2015 : Floris Willem
- 2017 : not awarded
- 2020 : Vilmos Csikos
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