The Viotti International Music Competition (
Italian : Concorso Internazionale di Musica Viotti ), named after the Italian composer and violinist
Gian (Giovanni) Battista Viotti (1755–1824), is held every year in
Vercelli ,
Piedmont . It was founded by violinist Joseph Robbone in 1950 and has been, since 1957, a member of the
World Federation of International Music Competitions .
The competition is dedicated primarily to
piano and
opera singing, with rotating categories of voice (even numbered years), piano (odd numbered years),
[1]
[2] but also features sections for
violin ,
chamber music ,
oboe ,
guitar ,
dance and
composition , among others.
In the fifty years since its inception, thousands of competitors have taken part, many of whom have reached international fame. They include
Luigi Alva ,
Claudio Abbado ,
Cathal Breslin ,
Luciano Pavarotti ,
Mirella Freni ,
Nicola Martinucci ,
Salvatore Accardo ,
Joaquín Achúcarro ,
Daniel Barenboim ,
Renato Bruson ,
Piero Cappuccilli ,
Raina Kabaivanska ,
Sumi Jo ,
Yeol Eum Son ,
Jeanne You ,
Violetta Egorova .
The judges have included
Franco Corelli ,
Carlo Maria Giulini ,
Klaus Hellwig ,
Yehudi Menuhin ,
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli ,
Birgit Nilsson ,
Carl Orff ,
Aureliano Pertile ,
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf ,
Renata Scotto ,
Joan Sutherland , and
Richard Aaker Trythall , Raina Kabaivanska.
Piano Winners
1950s
1950
1:
Jean Micault
2:
Maria Teresa Garatti;
Carlos Rivero Morales
3:
Licia Mancini
1951
1:
Isabella Salamon
2:
[Hans] Peter Wallfisch
3:
Pieralberto Biondi
1952
1953
1:
Joaquín Achúcarro;
Luciano Bertolini;
Gabriel Tacchino
2:
Monte Hill Davis;
Eléonore Kraemer
3:
Adriana Brugnolini [Vecchiato];
Jack Edwin Guerry
1954
1:
Yoko Kono
2:
Cécile Ousset;
Chiaralberta Pastorelli;
Kurt Bauer;
Richard Cass
3:
Claudine Durussel;
Marion Zarzeczna;
Bruno Fabius; Alberto Neuman (Argentina); Emanuele Perrotta (Italy)
Grand Prix:
Daniel Barenboim
1955
1:
Cécile Ousset
2:
Alberto Colombo
3:
Danièle Dechenne–Decroos;
Günter Ludwig ;
Natascia Calza;
Pierre Delgrange;
Alain Barnheim
Finalist:
Claudio Abbado
1956
1:
Robert Alexander Bohnke
2:
Pier Narciso Masi;
James Mathis
3: —
1957
1: —
2:
Claude Conard-Dargier;
George Katz
3:
Andrée Darras
1958
1: —
2:
Ivan Roy Davis Jr.;
Claude Berard
3: —
1959
1: —
2:
John Perry;
Irène Pamboukjian;
Annick Savornin-Daru
3:
Gino Brandi;
Vittorio Del Col;
Pierre-Yves Le Roux;
Luisa De Robertis;
Raffaella D’Esposito
1960s
1960
1:
Dale Bartlett
2:
Eugenia Hymann Monacelli;
Midori Miura
3:
Bruno Pompili;
Jerzy Gajek
1961
1:
Alberto Neuman
2:
Giorgio Sacchetti
3:
Antonio Rodríguez Baciero;
Luigi Galvani
1962
1: —
2 (Grand Prix):
Lidia Rocchetti;
Christian Bernard
2:
Minka Royer-Routcheva;
Giuliano Silveri;
Alessandro Specchi
3: —
1963
1:
Franco Angeleri;
Gernot Kahl
2:
Paule-Françoise Bonnet;
Gi-In Wang –
Dag Achatz; –
Ivan Darel-Kaiserman;
Marco Vavolo
3: —
1964
1:
François-Joël Thiollier
2:
Rafael Orozco-Flores;
Lois-Carole Pachucki
3:
Claude Savard
1965
1:
Joaquín Ángel Soriano Villanueva
2:
Yoshiya Iwamoto;
Robert Spillman (US);
[Norma] Raquel Boldorini;
Leonora Milá i Romeu;
Suzanne Husson
3:
Fausto Di Cesare;
Vladimir Krpan
1966
1:
Jesús González Alonso;
Klaus Hellwig
2:
Ettore Peretti
3:
Riccardo Risaliti;
Kaori Kimura
1967
1:
Jacques Rouvier
2:
Ettore Peretti;
Catherine Collard
3:
Jivko Paunov;
Marie-Cécile Milan;
Supitra Riensuvarn
Finalist:
Jean-Louis Steuerman
1968
1:
Alexandra Ablewicz;
Anna Maria Cigoli
2:
Micaela Mingardo
3:
Danielle De Gasquet;
César Brunin Zaror;
Franz-Friedrich Eichberger
1969
1:
Sergio Marengoni
2:
Maryvonne Le Gallo [De Saint-Pulgent];
César Brunin Zaror
3:
Herbert Seidel;
Marika Noda
1970s
1970
1:
Michael Krist
2:
Yong-Hi Moon;
Marina Horak
3:
Carlos Cebro;
Takejiro Hirai
1971
1:
Vincenzo Balzani;
Hiroshi Tajika
2:
Noemi Gobbi;
Yaeko Sasaki;
Vera Drencova
3: —
1972
1:
Dirk Joeres
2:
Olivier Gardon;
Bianca Bodalia
3:
Claus-Christian Schuster;
Ramzi Yassa –
Taeko Kojima
1973
1: —
2:
Pascal Devoyon; –
Csilla Schulter;
Marioara Trifan
3:
Emanuela Bellio;
Nancy Loo
1974
1: —
2:
Anne Perchat;
Pierre Laurent Aimard
3:
Johannes Kropfitsch;
Harumi Hanafusa
1975
1:
Arnulf Von Arnim;
Edson Lopes Elias
2:
Boris Bloch;
Richard Fields;
Elena Mouzalas
3:
Jacques Gauthier;
Tomoko Mizuno [Harada];
Diana K. Weekes
1976
1:
Karina Oganjan
2:
Alexandre Malkus
3:
Wolfram Lorenz;
Svetlana Potanina
1977
1:
Erik Berchot;
Ewa Pobłocka
2:
Massimo Gon; Anne Robert [-Cambresy]
3:
Elvina Zeynalova
1978
1:
Pavel Gililov ;
Angela Hewitt
2:
Giovanni Umberto Battel;
Yovcho Margaritov Krushev (Bulgaria);
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
3:
1979
1: —
2:
Liora Ziv-Li;
Alain Jacquon
3: —
1980s
1980
1:
Gulzhamilija Kadyrbekova
2:
Vasif Hasanov;
Claudius Tanski
3:
François Chouchan;
Atsuko Isozaki
1981
1:
Babette Hierholzer
2:
Rita Kinka
3:
Mayo Yoshimura
1982
1: —
2:
Thomas Duis
3:
Anne Fawaz
1983
1:
Mari Tsuda
2: —
3:
Olivier Cazal;
Marie-Noëlle Damien
1984
1:
Oleg Volkov
2:
Pavel Zarukin
3: —
1985
1:
Mi-Joo Lee
2:
Véronique Pellissero;
Elisabeth Schlader
3:
Nobuyuki Nagaoka
1986
1:
Eckart Heiligers
2:
Peter Máté
3:
Martin Zehn
1987
1: —
2:
Mats Jansson
3:
Hie-Yon Choi
1988
1:
Ulrike Payer
2:
Luca Rasca
3:
Hisako Nagayoshi;
Sylviane Pintarelly [Calcagno]
1989
1:
Igor Kamenz
2:
Sergej Yerokhin
3:
Giampaolo Stuani;
Roberto Corlianò
1990s
1990
1: —
2:
Choi Kyoung-Ah (Korea);
Violetta Egorova
3: —
1991
1:
Andreij Sikhorskij
2:
Luca Ballerini
3:
Gabriele Maria Vianello;
Sergeij Milchten
1992
1:
Camillo Radicke (Germany)
2:
Wojciech Kocyan (Poland)
3:
Maria Clementi (Italy)
1993
1:
Vadim Rudenko
2:
Valeriu Rogacev
3:
Mutsuko Yamamoto
1994
1: —
2:
Valeriu Rogacev
3:
Cristiano Burato;
Francesco Cipolletta
1995
1: —
2:
Aleksandar Serdar
3:
Cristiano Burato;
Etsuko Hirose
1996
1:
Eung-Joo Chung
2:
Olga Pušečnikova [Olga Kern]
3:
Tamara Stefanovich;
Seiko Ohtomo
1997
1: —
2:
Christian Leotta
3:
Julia Bartha;
Nobuhito Nakai
1998
1: —
2:
Paolo Wolfango Cremonte;
Noriko Ishiguro
3:
Miwako Takeda
1999
1:
Ayako Kimura
2:
Alessandra Maria Ammara
3:
Davide Franceschetti
2000s
2000
1: —
2:
Davide Cabassi;
Jacob Leuschner
3:
Dong Min Lim;
Ji Yeoun You [Jeanne You]
2001
1:
Hisako Kawamura
2:
Stefania Cafaro
3:
Federico Gianello
2002
1:
Yeol-Eum Son
2:
Ekaterina Mechetina
3:
Lorenzo Di Bella
2003
1:
Hyo-Sun Lim
2:
Akiko Nikami
3:
Jun Nakao
2004
1:
Feodor Amirov
2: —
3: —
2005
1:
Mizuka Kano [Hartmann]
2:
Yuko Mine [Ellinger]
3:
Boris Feiner
2007
1:
Martina Filjak
2:
Sergej Artsibashev
3:
Cathal Breslin
2009
1: —
2:
Stefan Ciric
3:
Christian Chamorel
2010s
2011
2013
1:
Jonathan Fournel
2: —
3:
Alexey Sychev;
Alexander Panfilov
2015
1:
Ilya Maximov
2:
Maxim Kinasov
3:
Alexander Bernstein
2017
1:
Konstantin Emelyanov
2:
Shiori Kuwahara;
Aristo Sham
2019
1:
Ziyu Liu
2:
Hans H. Suh
3:
Yilan Zhao
References
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