Concours Géza Anda Explained

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 Georges Pludermacher
2nd 1982 Laurent Cabasso
3rd 1985 (not awarded) tie: Yukino Fujiwara and Hüseyin Sermet Michael Endres
4th 1988 Ricardo Castro
5th 1991 Matthias Kirschnereit
6th 1994 Luca Ballerini
7th 1997 Yuka Imamine
8th 2000 Andrey Shibko
9th 2003 Hisako Kawamura
Mozart–Schumann Prize: Christoph Berner
10th 2006 Tomomi Okumura
11th 2009 Tatiana Kolesova
Jinsang Lee also won Audience Prize, Mozart Prize, and Schumann Prize.
12th 2012 Elmar Gasanov
Elmar Gasanov also won Schumann Prize.
13th 2015 Rolando Rolim
14th 2018 Sergey Tanin
15th 2021 Marek Kozák
Julian Trevelyan also won Audience Prize and Mozart Prize
16th 2024 tie: Dumants Liepins and Dmitry Yudin (not awarded)
Ilya Shmukler also won Audience Prize, Mozart Prize, Special Price of the Hungarian Radio Arts Group, and Junior Jury Prize

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