List of prize-winners of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition

This is a list of musicians who have been awarded in the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig since its foundation in 1950.

1950
Piano Organ Harpsichord Voice Violin
 * 1　Tatiana Nikolayeva
 * 2　Galina Feodorowa, Margarita Fyodorova
 * 3　Jörg Demus, Waldemar Maciszewski
 * 1　Amadeus Webersinke, Karl Richter
 * 2　Ludwig Dörr, Gerhard Tipp
 * 3　Walter Schönheit, Diethard Hellmann
 * 2　Ingrid Heiler
 * 2　Eva Fleischer
 * 3　Alina Bolechowska, Christa Maria Ziese
 * 1　Igor Besrodny
 * 2　Michail Waimann, Alexei Gorokhov
 * 3　Werner Häutling, Agnes Vadas

1964
Piano Organ Voice
 * 1　Ilse Graubin
 * 2　Wolfgang Wappler, Melita Dukowa-Kolin
 * 3　Igor Lazko, Gerhard Erber, Brunhild Partsch
 * 1　Petr Sovadina
 * 2　Karl-Rainer Böhme, Andreas Buschnakowski
 * 3　Jan Hora
 * 1　Bruce Abel
 * 2　Wolfgang Hellmich, Rolf Wollrad
 * 3　Wladimir Swistow

1968
Piano Organ Voice Violin
 * 1　Valery Afanassiev
 * 2　Ivan Klánský
 * 3　Evgeni Koroliov
 * 1　Henning Wagner
 * 2　Daniel Chorzempa
 * 3　Christian Collum
 * 1　Heidi Berthold-Riess
 * 2　Eberhard Büchner
 * 3　Siegfried Lorenz
 * 1　Oleg Kagan
 * 2　Christian Funke
 * 3　Andras Kiss

1972
Piano Organ Harpsichord Voice – female Voice – male Violin
 * 1　Winfried Apel
 * 2　Jean-Louis Steuermann
 * 3　Michail Petuchow
 * 4　Gabriele Kupfernagel
 * 5　Wadim Sacharow
 * 1　Heribert Metzger
 * 2　Istvan Ella
 * 3　Hans Fagius
 * 4　Friedrich Kircheis
 * 5　Gottfried Preller
 * 1　Lionel Party
 * 2　Armin Thalheim
 * 3　Gyöngyver Szilvassy
 * 4　Alexander Sung
 * 5　Magdalena Myczka
 * 1　Rosemarie Lang
 * 2　Regina Werner
 * 3　Julianne Paszthy
 * 4　Nadeshda Wainer
 * 1　Dieter Weimann
 * 2　Gheorghe-Emil Crasnaru
 * 3　Peter Tschaplik
 * 4　Frank-Peter Späthe
 * 1　Wladimir Iwanow
 * 2　Konrad Other
 * 3　Lidija Schutko

1976
Piano Organ Voice – female Voice – male Violin Cello
 * 1　Mikhail Volchok
 * 2　Larissa Dedowa
 * 3　Dietmar Nawroth
 * 4　Konstantin Preda
 * 5　Emma Tachmisjan
 * 1　Elisabeth Ullmann
 * 2　Joachim Dalitz
 * 3　Hartmut Rohmeyer
 * 4　Matthias Eisenberg
 * 5　Thomas Sauer
 * 1　Carola Nossek
 * 2　Katalin Pitti
 * 3　Nannita Peschke
 * 4　Ursula Ankele-Fischer
 * 1　Waldemar Wild
 * 2　Gábor Németh
 * 3　Frieder Lang
 * 4　Miloslav Podalsky
 * 1　Nilla Pierrou
 * 2　Thorsten Rosenbusch
 * 3　Daniel Phillips
 * 4　Ralf-Carsten Brömsel
 * 5　René Henriot
 * 1　Alexander Rudin
 * 2　Yvan Chiffoleau
 * 3　Josef Feigelson
 * 4　Tamas Koó
 * 5　Akiko Kanamaru

1980
Piano Organ Voice – female Voice – male Violin Cello
 * 1　Anaid Nersesjan
 * 2　Kei Itoh
 * 3　Irina Berkowitsch
 * 4　Bair Schagdaron
 * 5　Gerald Fauth
 * 1　Zsuzsana Elekes
 * 2　Jaroslav Tůma
 * 3　Kristiane Köbler
 * 4　Bernhard Buttmann
 * 5　Matthias Süß
 * 1　Jadwiga Rappé
 * 2　Liliana Bizineche
 * 3　Monika Straube
 * 4　Gabriele Pietschnigg
 * 1　Yukio Imanaka
 * 2　Andreas Sommerfeld
 * 3　Christoph Rösel
 * 4　Andreas Scheibner
 * 1　Michael Erxleben
 * 2　Thorsten Janicke
 * 3　Waltraut Wächter
 * 4　Carlos Egry-Bulnes
 * 5　Dora Bratschkowa
 * 1　Kerstin Feltz
 * 2　Marin Cazacu
 * 3　Michael Nellessen
 * 4　Thomas Ahrndt
 * 5　Matthias Bräutigam

1984
Piano Organ Voice – female Voice – male Violin Flute
 * 1　Alexander Paley
 * 2　Susanne Grutzmann
 * 3　Noriko Kodama
 * 4　Walery Pjasetzkij
 * 5　Ueli Wiget
 * 6　Eliso Bolkwadse
 * 7　Lora Dimitrova
 * 8= Dirk Fischbeck
 * 8= Chihiro Kawahara
 * 8= Katrin Arzberger
 * 1　John Gavin Scott
 * 2　Christoph Mehner
 * 3　Michael Schönheit
 * 4　Arvid Gast
 * 5　Rainer Maria Rückschloß
 * 6　Kayo Ohara
 * 7　Martin Sander
 * 8　John Butt
 * 1　Angela Liebold
 * 2　Bettina Denner-Deckelmann
 * 3　Constanta Adriana Mestes
 * 4　Ute Selbig
 * 5　Maria Ardo
 * 6　Ingrid Kertesi
 * 1　Egbert Junghanns
 * 2　Kenzo Ishii
 * 3　Ralph Eschrig
 * 4　Mario Hoff
 * 5　hans-Peter Bartels
 * 6　Reinhart Groschel
 * 1　Johannes Ludwig Von Schwartz
 * 2　Birgit Jahn
 * 3　Anna Rabinova
 * 4　Lothar Strauß
 * 5　Kai Vogler
 * 6　Sylvia-Elisabeth Viertel
 * 7　Thomas Bottcher
 * 8　Juri Merschewskij
 * 1　Wolfgang Ritter
 * 2　Monika Hegedüs
 * 3　Matthias Rust
 * 4　Alison Mitchell
 * 5　Karin Beck
 * 6　Urszula Janik
 * 7　Janos Balint
 * 8　Keigo Mori

1988
Piano Organ Voice – female Voice – male Violin Cello
 * 1　Gerald Fauth
 * 2　Nikolai Lugansky
 * 3　Alexej Botowinow
 * 4　Albrecht Hartmann
 * 5　Megumi Hashiba
 * 6　Dana Sasinowa
 * 1　Martin Sander
 * 2　Stefan Kircheis
 * 3　Wolfgang Kläsener
 * 4　Valter Savant-Levet
 * 5　Andreas Strobelt
 * 6　Markus Lang
 * 2　Kerstin Klesse
 * 3　Katherina Müller
 * 4　Naomi Tsuji
 * 5　Reinhild Wäntig
 * 6　Bożena Harasimowicz
 * 2　Matthias Bleidorn
 * 3　Frank Schiller
 * 4　Daniel Kaleta
 * 5　Torsten Frisch
 * 6　Fred Hoffmann
 * 1　Antje Weithaas
 * 2　Katrin Scholz
 * 3　Kazimierz Olechowski
 * 4　Hiroko Suzuki
 * 5　Marat Bisengaliew
 * 6　Denitza Kazakova
 * 1　Marc Coppey
 * 2　Michael Sanderling
 * 3　Raphaël Pidoux
 * 4　Anton Istomin
 * 5　Sybille Hesselbarth
 * 6　Friedemann Ludwig

1992
Piano Organ Harpsichord Violin
 * 2　Ragna Schirmer
 * 3　Juri Bogdanov
 * 4　Yukiyo Endo
 * 5　Anna Schibaeva Belo
 * 2　Luca Antoniotti, Michael Bloss
 * 3　Valter Savant-Levet
 * 2　Daniela Numico
 * 3　Anikó Soltész, Mechthild Stark
 * 4　Akiko Kuwagata
 * 6　Agnes Várallyay
 * 1　Rachel Barton
 * 2　Thomas Timm, Axel Strauß
 * 4　Albrecht Winter

Voice – female Voice – male
 * 1　Bogna Bartosz
 * 2　Yvonne Albes
 * 3　Alla Simonichvili
 * 4　Antje Perscholka
 * 5　Bettine Eismann
 * 6　Irina Potapenko
 * 2　Jochen Kupfer
 * 4　Dietrich Greve

1996
Piano Organ Harpsichord Violin Voice – female Voice – male
 * 2　Cornelia Herrmann
 * 3　Christopher Hinterhuber
 * No prize awarded
 * 3　Giampietro Rosato
 * 2　Natsumi Tamai
 * 3　Amanda Favier, Aki Sunahara
 * 2　Klaudia Zeiner, Simone Kermes, Anne Buter
 * 1　Christoph Genz
 * 2　Ekkehard Abele
 * 3　Ralf Ernst, Marcus Volpert

1998
Piano Cello Voice – female Voice – male
 * 2　Ragna Schirmer
 * 3　Miku Nishimoto-Neubert, Mari Kokuho
 * 1　Emil Rovner
 * 2　Renaud Déjardin
 * 3　Ophélie Gaillard
 * 1　Asako Motojima
 * 2　Letizia Scherrer
 * 3　Konstanze Maxsein
 * 1　Jan Kobow
 * 2　Andreas Post, Matthias Vieweg
 * 3　Marcus Niedermeyr

2000
Harpsichord Organ
 * 2　Wiebke Weidanz, Pieter-Jan Belder
 * 3　Philippe Leroy
 * 1　Johannes Unger
 * 2　Gunther Rost
 * 3　Yuichiro Shiina

2002
Piano Violin and Baroque violin Voice – female Voice – male
 * 1　Martin Stadtfeld
 * 2　Andrew Brownell, Eric Fung
 * 2　Laura Vikman
 * 3　Sonja Starke
 * 1　Franziska Gottwald
 * 2　Sigrid Horvath
 * 3　Barbara Tišler
 * 1　Dominik Wörner
 * 2　Daniel Johannsen
 * 3　Seung-Hee Park

2004
Cello and Baroque cello Voice Organ
 * 1　Olivier Marron
 * 2　Adam Mital
 * 3　Richard Harwood
 * 1　Julius Pfeifer
 * 2　Trine Wilsberg Lund
 * 3　Markus Flaig
 * 1　Jörg Halubek
 * 2　Elke Eckerstorfer
 * 3　Frédéric Champion

2006
Harpsichord Piano Violin and Baroque violin
 * 1　Francesco Corti
 * 2　Ilpo Laspas
 * 3　François Guerrier
 * 1　Irina Zahharenkova
 * 2　Varvara Nepomnyashchaya
 * 3　Elena Vorotko
 * 1　Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir
 * 2　Mayumi Hirasaki
 * 3　Dmitry Sinkovsky

2008
Organ Voice Cello and Baroque cello
 * 1 Bálint Karosi
 * 2 Ilpo Laspas
 * 3 Lukas Stolhof
 * 1 Marie Friederike Schoder
 * 2 Margot Oitzinger
 * 3 Jens Hamann
 * 1 Philip Higham
 * 2 Toru Yamamoto
 * 3 Davit Melkonyan

2010
Piano
 * 1 Ilya Poletaev
 * 2 Stepan Simonian
 * 3 Ekaterina Richter

Harpsichord
 * 1 Maria Uspenskaya
 * 2 Magdalena Malec
 * 3 Nadja Lesaulnier

Violin and Baroque violin
 * 1 Evgeny Sviridov
 * 2 Shunsuke Sato
 * 3 Friederike Starkloff

2012
Organ


 * 1. Johannes Lang
 * 2. Sebastian Küchler-Blessing
 * 3. Matthias Neumann

Voice


 * 1. Dávid Szigetvári
 * 2. Benno Schachtner
 * 3. Matthias Winckhler

Cello and Baroque cello


 * 1. Beiliang Zhu
 * 2. Ditta Rohmann
 * 3. Clara Pouvreau

2014
Piano


 * 1. Hilda Huang, United States
 * 2. Schaghajegh Nosrati, Germany
 * 3. Georg Kjurdian, Latvia

Harpsichord


 * 1. Jean-Christophe Dijoux, France
 * 2. Olga Pashchenko, Russia
 * 3. Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya, Russia

Violin and Baroque violin


 * 1. Seiji Okamoto, Japan
 * 2. Marie Radauer-Plank, Austria
 * 3. Niek Baar, Netherlands

2016
Organ

Voice Cello and Baroque cello
 * 1. Kazuki Tomita, Japan
 * 2. Pavel Svoboda, Czech Republic
 * 3. Alina Nikitina, Russia
 * 1. Patrick Grahl, Tenor, Germany
 * 2. Raphael Höhn, Tenor, Switzerland
 * 3. Geneviève Tschumi, Contralto, Switzerland
 * 1. Paolo Bonomini, Cello, Italy
 * 2. Ursina Braun, Cello, Switzerland
 * 3. Vladimir Waltham, Baroque cello, France/United Kingdom

2018
Piano
 * 1. Rachel Naomi Kudo (US)
 * 2. Arash Rokni (Iran)
 * 3. Jonathan Ferrucci (Australia/Italy)

Harpsichord
 * 1. Avinoam Shalev (Israel)
 * 2. Andrew Rosenblum (US)
 * 3. Anastasia Antonova (Russia)

Violin
 * 1. Maria Włoszczowska (Poland)
 * 2. Maia Cabeza (US/Canada)
 * 3. Hed Yaron Meyerson (Germany/Israel) Baroque violin

2020
The 2020 Competition in Leipzig has been canceled due to the Corona crisis.

 2022 

Piano


 * 1. Olga Davnis (Russia)
 * 2. Mattia Fusi (Italy)
 * 3. Eden Agranat Meged (Israel)

Harpsichord


 * 1. Alexander von Heißen (Germany)
 * 2. Irene González Roldán (Spain)
 * 3. Dmytro Kokoshynskyy (Ukraine)

Violin/Baroque Violin


 * 1. Charlotte Spruit (Netherlands)
 * 2. Qingzhu Weng (China)
 * 3. Sophia Prodanova (Bulgaria)