The 2012 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition is the competition's 50th edition, comprising its 17th Eugène Ysaÿe Violin Competition and its 19th Composition Competition.
The violin competition took place between 30 April and 26 May 2012 in Brussels' Centre for Fine Arts. Andrey Baranov won it to become the first Russian violinist to do so since the collapse of the Soviet Union, while Tatsuki Narita and Su-shin Hyun were awarded the silver and bronze medals.[1]
Arie van Lysebeth (chairman)
Pierre Amoyal Augustin Dumay Patrice Fontanarosa
Lewis Kaplan Philippe Koch Shirly Laub
Natalia Prischepenko Tatiana Samouil
Akiko Suwanai
Vera Tsu Weiling| Contestant | R1 | SF | F | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrey Baranov | ||||
| Tatsuki Narita | ||||
| 4th | ||||
| 5th | ||||
 Artem Shishkov | 6th | |||
 Ermir Abeshi | Lrt. | |||
| Marc Bouchkov | Lrt. | |||
 Nikki Chooi | Lrt. | |||
| Dami Kim | Lrt. | |||
 Josef Špaček | Lrt. | |||
| Lrt. | ||||
| Ga-hyun Cho | ||||
| Jin-joo Cho | ||||
| Kristi Gjezi | ||||
| Marisol Lee | ||||
| Maria Milstein | ||||
| Lev Solodovnikov | ||||
| Valentina Svyatlovskaya | ||||
| Stefan Tarara | ||||
| Radu Bitica | ||||
| Birthe Blom | ||||
| Elina Buksha | ||||
| Louise Chisson | ||||
| Stefani Collins | ||||
| Claire Dassesse | ||||
| Cristian Fatu | ||||
| Elena Graf | ||||
| Soo-jin Han | ||||
 Xavier Inchausti | ||||
| Yoojin Jang | ||||
| Aiko Kamishikiryo | ||||
 Haik Kazazyan | ||||
| Fabiola Kim | ||||
| Jae-young Kim | ||||
| Jee-won Kim | ||||
| Soh-yon Kim | ||||
| Yu Kurokawa | ||||
 Harriet Langley | ||||
| Hyun-woong Lee | ||||
| Myung-eun Lee | ||||
| Jolente de Maeyer | ||||
| Matouš Michal | ||||
| Simon Michal | ||||
| Boson Mo | ||||
| Daichi Nakamura | ||||
| Ami Oike | ||||
| Liya Petrova | ||||
| Igor Pikayzen | ||||
 Mari Poll | ||||
| Aylen Pritchin | ||||
| Stanislav Pronin | ||||
| Michelle Ross | ||||
| Eugenia Ryabinina | ||||
| Arsenis Selalmazidis | ||||
 Oleksii Semenenko | ||||
| Emma Steele | ||||
| Mai Suzuki | ||||
| Julien Szulman | ||||
| Stephen Tavani | ||||
| Gabriel Tchalik | ||||
| Suliman Tekalli | ||||
 Christopher Tun Andersen | ||||
 Yuuki Wong | ||||
| Jung-yoon Yang | ||||
| Sulki Yu | ||||
| Laura Zariņa | ||||
| Yuqing Zhang |