Concours Géza Anda

Template:Short description The Concours Géza Anda is a triennial international piano competition in Zürich, Switzerland. It was founded in memory of Hungarian pianist Géza Anda by his widow Hortense Anda-Bührle. The purpose of the competition is to discover and promote young pianists who will pass on the musical spirit of Géza Anda. The Géza Anda Foundation provides winners with free concert management for three years after the competition (up to 200 engagements).

Winners

Ed.	Year	First prize	Second prize	Third prize
1st	1979	Template:Flagicon Georges Pludermacher
2nd	1982	Template:Flagicon Heidrun Holtmann	Template:Flagicon Hung-Kuan Chen	Template:Flagicon Laurent Cabasso
3rd	1985	(not awarded)	tie: Template:Flagicon Yukino Fujiwara and Template:Flagicon Hüseyin Sermet	Template:Flagicon Michael Endres
4th	1988	Template:Flagicon Konstanze Eickhorst	Template:Flagicon Yukino Fujiwara	Template:Flagicon Ricardo Castro
5th	1991	Template:Flagicon Dénes Várjon	Template:Flagicon Konstantin Scherbakov	Template:Flagicon Matthias Kirschnereit
6th	1994	Template:Flagicon Pietro De Maria	Template:Flagicon Yoshiko Iwai	Template:Flagicon Luca Ballerini
7th	1997	Template:Flagicon Corrado Rollero	Template:Flagicon Roustem Saitkoulov	Template:Flagicon Yuka Imamine
8th	2000	Template:Flagicon Filippo Gamba	Template:Flagicon Henri Sigfridsson	Template:Flagicon Andrey Shibko
9th	2003	Template:Flagicon Alexei Volodin	Template:Flagicon Sergey Kuznetsov	Template:Flagicon Hisako Kawamura
		Mozart–Schumann Prize: Template:Flagicon Christoph Berner
10th	2006	Template:Flagicon Sergey Koudriakov	Template:Flagicon Nikolai Tokarev	Template:Flagicon Tomomi Okumura
11th	2009	Template:Flagicon Jinsang Lee	Template:Flagicon Alexei Zuev	Template:Flagicon Tatiana Kolesova
		Jinsang Lee also won Audience Prize, Mozart Prize, and Schumann Prize.
12th	2012	Template:Flagicon Varvara Nepomnyashchaya	Template:Flagicon Dasol Kim	Template:Flagicon Elmar Gasanov
		Elmar Gasanov also won Schumann Prize.
13th	2015	Template:Flagicon Andrew Tyson	Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Shaikin	Template:Flagicon Rolando Rolim
14th	2018	Template:Flagicon Claire Huangci	Template:Flagicon Jong Hai Park	Template:Flagicon Sergey Tanin
15th	2021	Template:Flagicon Anton Gerzenberg	Template:Flagicon Julian Trevelyan	Template:Flagicon Marek Kozák
		Julian Trevelyan also won Audience Prize and Mozart Prize
16th	2024	Template:Flagicon Ilya Shmukler	tie: Template:Flagicon Dumants Liepins and Template:Flagicon Dmitry Yudin	(not awarded)
		Ilya Shmukler also won Audience Prize, Mozart Prize, Special Price of the Hungarian Radio Arts Group, and Junior Jury Prize

References

• List of prize-winners and chairmen of the jury at Concours Géza Anda [until 2021, the date of publication], p. 135, in: Wolfgang Rathert: Géza Anda. Pianist. Ein Panorama zum 100. Geburtstag / A Panorama on his 100th Birthday, herausgegeben von der / published by Géza Anda Foundation [German-Englisch]. Hofheim, Wolke 2021 (ISBN 978-3-95593-104-9).

External links

• Official website
• Directory of International Piano Competitions
• Piano Competitions & Music Competitions at Bakitone International