11th
International Piano Competition

in Memoriam Walter Blankenheim

2021/ 2022

First PriZe

HONGYi soPHIA cAI Australia

 

Second PriZe

jULIEN cOHEN France

THIRD PriZe

mai HIGUCHI  Japon

 

DiplomA:

chung hon michael cheng USA

DiplomA:

Shion ota  Japon

 

Honorable mention:

Seunghye lee South korea

10th
International Piano Competition

J. S. Bach, Würzburg 2019

 

1st Prize not awarded

2nd Prize NOT awarded

3rd Prize Mattia Fusi, Italy

4th Prize Alexander Koryakin, Russia

 

  • Diploma: Iuchi Saori, Japan
  • Diploma: Joanna Krauze, Poland
  • Audience Award: Mattia Fusi, Italy
  • Special Prize of the Jury for the outstanding interpretation of the 4 Duets:
    Alexander Koryakin, Russia
  • Special Prize awarded by the State Institute of Music A.G. Schnittke, Moscow (a concerto appearance with the Chamber Orchestra of the Schnittke Institute in St. Petersburg) AND Special Prize „Löffler-Preis“ (Piano Recital in Gotha im „Löffler-Haus“ during the Bach Days 2021:
    Joanna Krauze, Poland
  • Special Prize – the Walter Blankenheim Award: Georgi Boykin, Bulgaria
  • Special Prize – Yamaha Award:
    Philipp Adrian Voepel, Germany
  • Special Prize „Friends of Bach in Memory of Walter Blankenheim“ : Victoria Frances Young, USA
  • Special Prize awarded by the State Institute of Music A.G. Schnittke, Moscow (a concerto appearance with the Chamber Orchestra of the Schnittke Institute in Moscow) :
    Sergey Korolev, Russia/Germany

9th
International Piano Competition

J. S. Bach, Würzburg 2016

1st Prize not awarded

2nd Prize Maciej Słapiński, Poland

3rd Prize not awarded

4th Prize Laurens de Man, Netherlands

 

 

  • Diploma: Max Nyberg, Sweden
  • Diploma: Georgi Boykin, Bulgaria
  • Special Price: Max Nyberg, Sweden for the interpretation of Ricercar six-voice of „Musikalisches Opfer“
  • Special Price „Gisela Skrzypietz“: Maciej Słapiński, Poland for the interpretation of preludes and fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier
  • Praise and acknowledgement: Daae Jeon, South Korea

8th
International Piano Competition

J. S. Bach, Würzburg 2013

1st Prize not awarded

2nd Prize Daniël van der Hoeven, Netherlands

3rd Prize Rosamaria Bene, Italy

4th Prize Ai Kayukawa, Japan

4th Prize Naoya Fujiwara, Japan

 

Special Prize of the Jury

  • Victoria Young, USA for outstanding interpretation of Contrapunctus No . 4 and Contrapunctus No. 8 of “Art of Fugue”

7th
International Piano Competition

J. S. Bach, Würzburg 2010

1st Prize not awarded

2nd Prize not awarded

3rd Prize Hilda Huang, USA

4th Prize Ágnes Juhász, Ungarn

4th Prize Rosamaria Bene, Italy

 

Diplomas

  • Kirill Monorosi, Australia
  • Elizaveta Ivanova, Russia

6th
International Piano Competition

J. S. Bach, Würzburg 2007

1st Prize Esther Birringer, Germany

2nd Prize Yukiko Nakai, Japan

3rd Prize Kirill Zwegintsow, Ukraine

4th Prize Rie Kawata, Japan

 

Diplomas

  • Sholpan Barlykova, Russia
  • Rosamaria Bene, Italy
  • Andreas Hecker, Germany

Special Prize of the Jury for a French Suite

  • Olga Witthauer, Germany

5th
International Piano Competition

J. S. Bach, Saarbrücken 2004

1st Prize Chih-Yu Chen, Taiwan

3rd Prize Maria Perrotta, Italy

 

Diplomas

  • Esther Birringer, Germany
  • Myoung-Joon Cho, Korea
  • Eun-Jung Kim, Korea
  • Se hwa Yoon, Korea

Special Prize

  • Oleksandra Pershyna, Ukraine

Praise and acknowledgement

  • Anne Salie, Germany
  • Jorge Garcia Herranz, Spain
  • Adam Szvoren, Hungary

4th
International Piano Competition

J. S. Bach, Saarbrücken 2001

1st Prize Gianluca Luisi, Italy

2nd Prize Keiko Ishitobi, Japan

2nd Prize Maria K.-Westerman, Russia

3rd Prize Marina Ivanova, Russia

3rd Prize Gerold Huber, Germany

4th Prize Eri Nakamura, Japan

 

Diplomas

  • Chih-Yu Chen, Taiwan
  • Ave Kruup, Estonia

 

Special Prizes

  • Young-Sook Cho, South-Korea
  • Natalia Kaiser, Germany
  • Naoya Seino, Japan

 

Praise and acknowledgement

  • Jorge García Herranz, Spain

3rd
International Piano Competition

J. S. Bach, Saarbrücken 1998

1st Prize not awarded

2nd Prize Yorck Kronenberg, Germany

3rd Prize Inga Kazanteva, Russia

4th Prize Marrett Popp, Germany

4th Prize Christopher Hinterhuber, Austria

 

Diploma

  • Marina Ivanova, Russland

Praise and acknowledgement

  • Ludmilla Hallaeva, Russia
  • Thomas Walczak, Germany

2nd
International Piano Competition

J. S. Bach, Saarbrücken 1995

1st Prize Andrea Padova, Italy

2nd Prize Nataliya Kislenko, Russia

3rd Prize Andreas Woyke, Germany

3rd Prize Anton Boldyrev, Russia

 

Diploma

  • Julia Schirinova, Usbekistan
  • Alexeij Krasnoskulov, Russia

Praise and acknowledgement

  • Marina Ivanova, Russia
  • Mariya Massycheva, Russia

1st
International Piano Competition

J. S. Bach, Saarbrücken 1992

1st Prize Ekaterina Dershavina, Russia

2nd Prize Nana Mamaeva, Ukraine

3rd Prize Nataliya Kislenko, Russia

3rd Prize Elena Metelskaya, Belarus

4th Prize Andrea Padova, Italy

4th Prize Kalvis Jordans, Latvia