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Music competition in Leipzig, Germany
The International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition (German: Internationaler Bach Wettbewerb Leipzig ) is a music competition in
Leipzig , Germany, held by the
Bach-Archiv Leipzig .
[1] It was founded in 1950
[2] and was held every four years from 1964 to 1996 with five subjects and is now held every two years with three changing subjects violin / baroque violin, piano, harpsichord or in the fields of voice, cello / baroque violoncello and organ.
[1] From 1965 the competition is a member of the
World Federation of International Music Competitions in Geneva.
[3]
Prizes
Prizes for participants:
[3]
Prize
Amount
1st prize
€10,000
2nd prize
€7,500
3rd prize
€5,000
The Prize winners have the right to use the title "Bach Prize Winners".
Prizewinners
Prize winners have included:
Harpsichordists:
Pieter-Jan Belder (2000),
Andrew Rosenblum (2018)
Pianists:
Tatiana Nikolayeva ,
Margarita Fyodorova ,
Jörg Demus ,
Waldemar Maciszewski (1950),
Igor Lazko (1964),
Valery Afanassiev ,
Svetlana Navasardyan ,
Ivan Klansky (1968),
Kei Itoh (1980),
Ueli Wiget (1984),
Nikolai Luganski (1988),
Ragna Schirmer (1992 & 1998),
Cornelia Herrmann ,
Christopher Hinterhuber (1996),
Miku Nishimoto-Neubert (1998),
Martin Stadtfeld (2002),
Irina Zahharenkova (2006),
Ilya Poletaev (2010),
Hilda Huang (2014),
Paul Posnak
Organists:
Amadeus Webersinke ,
Karl Richter ,
Diethard Hellmann (1950),
Daniel Chorzempa (1968),
Hans Fagius (1972),
Matthias Eisenberg (1976),
Jaroslav Tůma (1980),
John Scott (1984),
Balint Karosi (2008)
Violinists:
Alexei Gorokhov (1950),
Oleg Kagan (1968),
Hiroko Suzuki ,
Johannes Ludwig Von Schwartz (1984),
Marat Bisengaliev (1988),
Rachel Barton (1992),
Shunsuke Sato (2010)
Cellists:
Alexander Rudin (1976),
Michael Sanderling (1988),
Richard Harwood (2004)
Flutists: Matthias Rust, Alison Mitchell (1984)
Singers:
Bruce Abel (1964),
Gábor Németh (1976),
Jadwiga Rappé (1980),
Bogna Bartosz (1992),
Simone Kermes ,
Christoph Genz ,
Ekkehard Abele (1996),
Jan Kobow (1998),
Franziska Gottwald (2002),
Dominik Wörner (2002),
Markus Flaig (2004),Hongyi Cai(2022)
Jury
President:
Robert D. Levin
[3] (since 2002)
Members of jury have included:
[2]
Pianists:
Dmitri Shostakovich (1950),
[4]
Jan Ekier (1964),
Paul Badura-Skoda (2006),
Bruno Canino (2006),
Malcolm Bilson (chairmaster of pianists – 2010),
João Carlos Martins (2010),
Bernard Ringeissen (2010),
Tamás Vásáry (2010),
Fanny Waterman (2010)
Harpsichordists:
Magdalena Myczka (2000, 2010),
Bob van Asperen (2006),
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (2006),
Masaaki Suzuki (2006),
Richard Egarr (2010),
Robert Hill (chairmaster of harpsichordists – 2010),
Andrea Marcon (2010),
Andreas Staier (2018)
Organists:
Bronisław Rutkowski (1964, died during the competition),
Hans Fagius (2012),
Ton Koopman (chairmaster – 2012)
Christopher Hogwood has served as a juror in the vocal category in 2012
Violinists:
Reinhard Goebel (2018)
References
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