International Fritz Kreisler Competition

The International Fritz Kreisler Competition is a violin competition dedicated to the memory of violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler.

Founded in 1979, it is carried out every four years in Vienna, Austria. It is limited to violinists of or under 30 years of age. To avoid favoritism, the members of the jury may not enter their own students in the contest.

Required repertoire

Preliminaries

• J. S. Bach: the first two movements of a solo sonata, the first four movements of a partita, or the Ciaccona (of the Second Partita)
• A caprice by Paganini, Wieniawski, or Ernst
• F. Kreisler: Recitative and Scherzo-Caprice

Semifinal

• G. Tartini: Devil's Trill Sonata with the Kreisler cadenza or
• F. Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro or
• F. Kreisler: Variations on a Theme by Corelli
• A composition for violin and piano of the "Viennese school" from the 18th to the 20th century (Viennese classic, Brahms, R. Strauss, Schönberg, Webern, Krenek, etc.)
• A modern composition of the 20th century (violin/piano or violin solo) from a composer of the participant's home country
• A virtuoso composition of free choice (violin/piano or violin solo)
• One of Fritz Kreisler's short compositions or arrangements as an encore (e.g. Caprice Viennois, Tambourin Chinois, Liebesleid, Liebesfreud, Spanish Dance, Syncopation etc.)

Final

A violin concerto of the 19th or 20th century (the earliest accepted being Beethoven) with a Kreisler cadenza if possible

Most of these pieces must be played by memory.

Finalists, laureates and winners

Violin

Year	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th
2022	Template:Flagicon Guido Sant'Anna	Template:Flagicon Michael Shaham Template:Flagicon Rino Yoshimoto		Template:Flagicon Raphael Nussbaumer	Template:Flagicon Amira Abouzahra	Template:Flagicon Elli Choi
2018	Template:Flagicon Milan Al-Ashab	Template:Flagicon Alice Lee	Template:Flagicon Paul Kropfitsch	Template:Flagicon Soo-Hyun Park	Template:Flagicon Natsumi Tsuboi	Template:Flagicon Rino Yoshimoto
2014	Template:Flagicon Jan Mracek	Template:Flagicon William Hagen	Template:Flagicon Emmanuel Tjeknavorian	Template:Flagicon Danfeng Shen	Template:Flagicon Ioana Cristina Goicea	Template:Flagicon Robyn Bollinger	Template:Flagicon Shuichi Okada
2010	Template:Flagicon Nikita Boriso-Glebsky	Template:Flagicon Ekaterina Frolova	Template:Flagicon Aylen Pritchin	Template:Flagicon Yura Lee	Template:Flagicon Shiori Terauchi	Template:Flagicon/Template:Flagicon Eugene Nakamura	Template:Flagicon Ilja Marinkovic
2005	Template:Flagicon Fanny Clamagirand	Template:Flagicon Leticia Munoz Moreno	Template:Flagicon Kyoko Yonemoto	Template:Flagicon Antal Szalai	Template:Flagicon Andreas Janke	Template:Flagicon Lucja Madziar
2000	Template:Flagicon Sergej Krylov	Template:Flagicon Sergey Khachatryan	Template:Flagicon Alexis Cardenas	Template:Flagicon Judy Kang	Template:Flagicon Akiko Ono	Template:Flagicon Yukiko Ishibashi	Template:Flagicon Ilja Marinkovic
1996	Template:Flagicon Daishin Kashimoto	Template:Flagicon Giovanni Angeleri
1992	Template:Flagicon Florin Croitoru	Template:Flagicon Rachel Barton Pine	Template:Flagicon Tomo Keller	Template:Flagicon Albrecht Brueninger	Template:Flagicon Patricia Shih	Template:Flagicon Natalia Lhikopoi
1983	Template:Flagicon Maria Bachmann	Template:Flagicon Marc Daniel van Biemen
1979	Template:Flagicon Dmitri Sitkovetsky	Template:Flagicon Hiro Kurosaki	Template:Flagicon Shizuka Ishikawa	Template:Flagicon Gabriel Croitoru	Template:Flagicon Mitcho Dimitrov

External links

• http://www.fritzkreisler.com