This is a list of musicians who has been awarded in the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition

International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition

The International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition is a music competition in Leipzig, Germany, held by the Bach-Archiv Leipzig. It was founded in 1950 and was held every four years from 1964 to 1996 with five subjects and is now held every two years with three changing subjects...

 in Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

 since its foundation in 1950.

1950

Piano

• 1　Tatiana Nikolayeva
  Tatiana Nikolayeva
  Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva was a Russian Soviet pianist, composer and teacher.-Early life:Nikolayeva was born in Bezhitsa in the Bryansk district on May 4, 1924...
  
  
• 2　Galina Feodorowa, Margarita Feodorowa
• 3　Jörg Demus
  Jörg Demus
  Jörg Demus is an Austrian pianist.At the age of six, Demus received his first piano lessons. Five years later, at the age of 11, he entered the Vienna Academy of Music, studying piano and conducting. He graduated in 1945, then 17 years old...
  
  , Waldemar Maciszewski
  Waldemar Maciszewski
  Waldemar Maciszewski was a Polish pianist and composer.Macizewski was born in Warsaw in 1927. He trained under Zbigniew Drzewiecki at the underground Warsaw Conservatory throughout World War II and at the Cracow State Music Academy from 1945-48...
  
  

Organ

• 1　Amadeus Webersinke
  Amadeus Webersinke
  Amadeus Webersinke was a German pianist and organist.He studied from 1938 to 1940 at the Institut für Kirchenmusik in Leipzig with Karl Straube, Johann Nepomuk David, and Otto Weinreich. He was a lecturer from 1946 and a professor from 1953 for piano at the Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and...
  
  , Karl Richter
• 2　Ludwig Dörr, Gerhard Tipp
• 3　Walter Schönheit, Diethard Hellmann
  Diethard Hellmann
  Diethard Hellmann was a German Kantor and an academic in Leipzig, Mainz and Munich.-Professional career:...
  
  

Harpsichord

• 2　Ingrid Heiler

Voice

• 2　Eva Fleischer
• 3　Alina Bolechowska, Christa Maria Ziese

Violin

• 1　Igor Besrodny
• 2　Michail Waimann, Alexei Gorokhov
  Alexei Gorokhov
  Aleksey Nikolaevich Gorokhov was a Russian violinist who lived most of his life in Ukraine.Many Ukrainian violinists are either his pupils or pupils of his pupils.-Biography:...
  
  
• 3　Werner Häutling, Agnes Vadas

1964

Piano

• 1　Ilse Graubin
• 2　Wolfgang Wappler, Melita Dukowa-Kolin
• 3　Igor Lazko
  Igor Lazko
  Igor Lazko , , is a Russian classical pianist who has made a distinguished international career as performer, recording artist and teacher of other pianists.- Early career in Russia :...
  
  , Gerhard Erber, Brunhild Partsch

Organ

• 1　Petr Sovadina
• 2　Karl-Rainer Böhme, Andreas Buschnakowski
• 3　Jan Hora

Voice

• 1　Bruce Abel
  Bruce Abel
  -Biography:Abel studied singing at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City under Hans Heinz, where he excelled in studies of French art songs and German lieder. He won a Fulbright Fellowship in 1962 which enabled him to pursue further studies in the lieder and oratorio repertoire in...
  
  
• 2　Wolfgang Hellmich, Rolf Wollrad
• 3　Wladimir Swistow

1968

Piano

• 1　Valery Afanassiev
  Valery Afanassiev
  - Life :Valery Afanassiev was born in Moscow. He studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Emil Gilels and Yakov Zak. In 1969 he was the winner of the Bach Competition in Leipzig, and three years later at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels...
  
  
• 2　Ivan Klansky
  Ivan Klánský
  Ivan Klánský is a Czech pianist.He was awarded 2nd prizes at the 1967 Concorso Busoni , the 1968 J.S. Bach Competition in Leipzig and the 1976 Paloma O'Shea Competition. He has performed internationally since. In addition, he has recorded for Naxos Records, Supraphon and Praga .Klánský holds a...
  
  
• 3　Evgeni Koroliov

Organ

• 1　Henning Wagner
• 2　Daniel Chorzempa
  Daniel Chorzempa
  Daniel Walter Chorzempa is an American organist.He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and subsently studied music at the University of Minnesota and Cologne...
  
  
• 3　Christian Collum

Voice

• 1　Heidi Berthold-Riess
• 2　Eberhard Büchner
• 3　Siegfried Lorenz

Violin

• 1　Oleg Kagan
  Oleg Kagan
  Oleg Moiseyevich Kagan was a Soviet violinist, known for his chamber partnerships with the likes of pianist Sviatoslav Richter and cellist Natalia Gutman. He was also a significant proponent of modern music, in particular Berg's Violin Concerto...
  
  
• 2　Christian Funke
• 3　Andras Kiss

1972

Piano

• 1　Winfried Apel
• 2　Jean-Louis Steuermann
• 3　Michail Petuchow
• 4　Gabriele Kupfernagel
• 5　Wadim Sacharow

Organ

• 1　Heribert Metzger
• 2　Istvan Ella
• 3　Hans Fagius
  Hans Fagius
  -Biography:Fagius studied organ with Bengt Berg before entering the Royal College of Music, Stockholm where he studied with Alf Linder. After graduating in 1974 he studied organ privately with Maurice Duruflé in Paris. He taught organ in Gothenburg and Stockholm before being appointed professor of...
  
  
• 4　Friedrich Kircheis
• 5　Gottfried Preller

Harpsichord

• 1　Lionel Party
• 2　Armin Thalheim
• 3　Gyöngyver Szilvassy
• 4　Alexander Sung
• 5　Magdalena Myczka

Voice – female

• 1　Rosemarie Lang
• 2　Regina Werner
• 3　Julianne Paszthy
• 4　Nadeshda Wainer

Voice – male

• 1　Dieter Weimann
• 2　Gheorghe-Emil Crasnaru
• 3　Peter Tschaplik
• 4　Frank-Peter Späthe

Violin

• 1　Wladimir Iwanow
• 2　Konrad Other
• 3　Lidija Schutko

1976

Piano

• 1　Michail Woltschok
• 2　Larissa Dedowa
• 3　Dietmar Nawroth
• 4　Konstantin Preda
• 5　Emma Tachmisjan

Organ

• 1　Elisabeth Ullmann
• 2　Joachim Dalitz
• 3　Hartmut Rohmeyer
• 4　Matthias Eisenberg
• 5　Thomas Sauer

Voice – famale

• 1　Carola Nossek
• 2　Katalin Pitti
• 3　Nannita Peschke
• 4　Ursula Ankele-Fischer

Voice – male

• 1　Waldemar Wild
• 2　Gábor Németh
  Gábor Németh
  Gábor Németh is a Hungarian football player who currently plays for Vasas SC.-Szombathelyi Haladás:Ha made his debut of the 4th September 1996 against BVSC Budapest in a match that ended 2–1.-Vasas SC:...
  
  
• 3　Frieder Lang
• 4　Miloslav Podalsky

Violin

• 1　Nilla Pierrou
• 2　Thorsten Rosenbusch
• 3　Daniel Phillips
• 4　Ralf-Carsten Brömsel
• 5　René Henriot

Cello

• 1　Alexander Rudin
  Alexander Rudin
  Alexander Rudin is an Russian classical cellist and conductor.- Biography and career :Rudin was born in 1960, in Moscow, and he studied piano and cello at the Gnessin Institute before later studying conducting at the Moscow Conservatory with Dmitri Kitalenko...
  
  
• 2　Yvan Chiffoleau
• 3　Josef Feigelson
• 4　Tamas Koó
• 5　Akiko Kanamaru

1980

Piano

• 1　Anaid Nersesjan
• 2　Kei Itoh
  Kei Itoh
  Kei Itoh is a Japanese pianist.Itoh graduated at the Tōhō Gakuen Daigaku in 1977, finishing her studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Musikhochschule Hannover. She won the 1979 Epinal and 1983 Munich Competitions....
  
  
• 3　Irina Berkowitsch
• 4　Bair Schagdaron
• 5　Gerald Fauth

Organ

• 1　Zsuzsana Elekes
• 2　Jaroslav Tůma
  Jaroslav Tuma
  Jaroslav Tůma is a Czech Organist.This organist, clavichord, harpsichordist and pianoforte player graduated from the Prague Conservatory and from the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague...
  
  
• 3　Kristiane Köbler
• 4　Bernhard Buttmann
• 5　Matthias Süß

Voice – female

• 1　Jadwiga Rappé
  Jadwiga Rappé
  Jadwiga Rappé is a Polish operatic contralto. In 1980 she was awarded first prize at the International Bach Competition in Leipzig. She made her professional opera debut at the Great Theatre, Warsaw in 1983, and has remained a regular artist at that theatre ever since...
  
  
• 2　Liliana Bizineche
• 3　Monika Straube
• 4　Gabriele Pietschnigg

Voice – male

• 1　Yukio Imanaka
• 2　Andreas Sommerfeld
• 3　Christoph Rösel
• 4　Andreas Scheibner

Violin

• 1　Michael Erxleben
• 2　Thorsten Janicke
• 3　Waltraut Wächter
• 4　Carlos Egry-Bulnes
• 5　Dora Bratschkowa

Cello

• 1　Kerstin Feltz
• 2　Marin Cazacu
• 3　Michael Nellessen
• 4　Thomas Ahrndt
• 5　Matthias Bräutigam

1984

Piano

• 1　Alexander Paley
• 2　Susanne Grutzmann
• 3　Noriko Kodama
• 4　Walery Pjasetzkij
• 5　Ueli Wiget
  Ueli Wiget
  Ueli Wiget is a Swiss pianist, harpsichordist and harpist.He was prized at the 1985 Sydney Competition. Since 1986 Wiget is a member of the Ensemble Modern, a chair he combines with an international concert career.-References:...
  
  

Organ

• 1　John Gavin Scott
• 2　Christoph Mehner
• 3　Michael Schönheit
• 4　Arvid Gast
• 5　Rainer Maria Rückschloß

Voice – female

• 1　Angela Liebold
• 2　Bettina Denner-Deckelmann
• 3　Constanta Adriana Mestes
• 4　Uta Selbig

Voice – male

• 1　Egbert Junghanns
• 2　Kenzo Ishii
• 3　Ralph Eschrig
• 4　Mario Hoff

Violin

• 1　Aleksej Koschwanetz
• 2　Birgit Jahn
• 3　Anna Rabinowa
• 4　Lothar Strauß
• 5　Kai Vogler

Flute

• 1　Wolfgang Ritter
• 2　Monika Hegedüs
• 3　Matthias Rust
• 4　Alison Mitchell
  Alison Mitchell
  Alison Mitchell is an English sports broadcaster. She is a reporter for Test Match Special, and a reporter and commentator for BBC Radio 5 Live and Five Live Sports Extra.-Early life:...
  
  
• 5　Karin Beck

1988

Piano

• 1　Gerald Fauth
• 2　Nikolai Luganski
• 3　Alexej Botowinow
• 4　Albrecht Hartmann
• 5　Megumi Hashiba
• 6　Dana Sasinowa

Organ

• 1　Martin Sander
• 2　Stefan Kircheis
• 3　Wolfgang Kläsener
• 4　Valter Savant-Levet
• 5　Andreas Strobelt
• 6　Markus Lang

Voice – female

• 2　Kerstin Klesse
• 3　Katherina Müller
• 4　Naomi Tsuji
• 5　Reinhild Wäntig
• 6　Bozena Harasimovicz

Voice – male

• 2　Matthias Bleidorn
• 3　Frank Schiller
• 4　Daniel Kaleta
• 5　Torsten Frisch
• 6　Fred Hoffmann

Violin

• 1　Antje Weithaas
• 2　Katrin Scholz
• 3　Kazimierz Olechowski
• 4　Hiroko Suzuki
  Hiroko Suzuki
  Hiroko Niizuma Suzuki is a Japanese professional wrestler, valet and promoter best known in the United States for her work for World Wrestling Entertainment on its SmackDown! brand under the ring name Hiroko...
  
  
• 5　Marat Bisengaliew
  Marat Bisengaliev
  Marat Bisengaliev is a Kazakh violinist and director of both the West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra and TuranAlem Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra...
  
  
• 6　Denitza Kazakova

Cello

• 1　Marc Coppey
• 2　Michael Sanderling
  Michael Sanderling
  Michael Sanderling is a German violoncellist and conductor.- Biography :Michael Sanderling, son of the contrabassist Barbara Sanderling and the conductor Kurt Sanderling, got his first cello lessons at the age of five in Berlin. At the age of eleven, he became student of Matthias Pfaender at the...
  
  
• 3　Raphael Pidoux
• 4　Anton Istomin
• 5　Sybille Hesselbarth
• 6　Friedemann Ludwig

1992

Piano

• 2　Ragna Schirmer
• 3　Juri Bogdanov
• 4　Yukiyo Endo
• 5　Anna Schibaeva Belo

Organ

• 2　Luca Antoniotti, Michael Bloss
• 3　Walter Savant-Levet

Harpsichord

• 2　Daniela Numico
• 3　Anikó Soltész, Mechthild Stark
• 4　Akiko Kuwagata
• 6　Agnes Várallyay

Violin

• 1　Rachel Barton
• 2　Thomas Timm , Axel Strauß
• 4　Albrecht Winter

Voice – female

• 1　Bogna Bartosz
  Bogna Bartosz
  Bogna Bartosz is a Polish classical mezzo-soprano and alto.- Biography :Bogna Bartosz studied voice at the Academy of Music in Gdansk and graduated with distinction...
  
  
• 2　Yvonne Albes
• 3　Alla Simonichvili
• 4　Antje Perscholka
• 5　Bettine Eismann
• 6　Irina Potapenko

Voice – male

• 2　Jochen Kupfer
• 4　Dietrich Greve

1996

Piano

• 2　Cornelia Herrmann
• 3　Christopher Hinterhuber
  Christopher Hinterhuber
  Christopher Hinterhuber is an Austrian classical pianist.- Biography and career :Hinterhuber was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, and studied with Rudolf Kehrer and Heinz Medjimorec at the university for Music in Vienna, and with Lazar berman at the Accademia Pianistica in Imola, Italy. He also...
  
  

Organ　

• No prize awarded

Harpsichord

• 3　Giampietro Rosato

Violin

• 2　Natsumi Tamai
• 3　Amanda Favier, Aki Sunahara

Voice – female

• 2　Klaudia Zeiner, Simone Kermes
  Simone Kermes
  Simone Kermes is a German coloratura soprano, especially known for her virtuoso voice, suited to the opera seria genre, of the Baroque and early Classical repertoires.-Biography:...
  
  , Anne Buter

Voice – male

• 1　Christoph Genz
  Christoph Genz
  - Biography :Christoph Genz was a member of the Thomanerchor. He studied at the King’s College, Cambridge where he was a member of the King’s College Choir. He studied voice with Hans-Joachim Beyer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ Leipzig and with Elisabeth...
  
  
• 2　Ekkehard Abele
  Ekkehard Abele
  Ekkehard Abele is a German operatic bass-baritone. He first gained recognition when he won the International Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1996. Since then he has recorded a number of works by Bach under such conductors as Tobias Ziemlichklein Hiller, Werner Hümmeke, Ton Koopman, and Hermann Max...
  
  
• 3　Ralf Ernst, Marcus Volpert

1998

Piano

• 2　Ragna Schirmer
• 3　Miku Nishimoto-Neubert, Mari Kokuho

Cello

• 1　Emil Rovner
• 2　Renaud Déjardin
• 3　Ophélie Gaillard

Voice – female

• 1　Asako Motojima
• 2　Letizia Scherrer
• 3　Konstanze Maxsein

Voice – male

• 1　Jan Kobow
  Jan Kobow
  Jan Kobow is a German classical tenor in concert, Lied and Baroque opera.-Professional career:Jan Kobow was born and raised in Berlin. He was a singer and soloist of the Staats- und Domchor, Berlin with Christian Grube. He studied the organ at the Schola Cantorum in Paris and graduated in church...
  
  
• 2　Andreas Post, Matthias Vieweg
• 3　Marcus Niedermeyr

2000

Harpsichord

• 2　Wiebke Weidanz, Pieter Jan Belder
• 3　Philippe Leroy

Organ

• 1　Johannes Unger
• 2　Gunther Rost
• 3　Yuichiro Shiina

2002

Piano

• 1　Martin Stadtfeld
  Martin Stadtfeld
  Martin Stadtfeld is a German pianist.Stadtfeld gave his first concert at age 9, and at age 14 enrolled at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt under the tutelage of Russian-American professor Lev Natochenny...
  
  
• 2　Andrew Brownell, Eric Fung

Violin and Baroque violin

• 2　Laura Vikman
• 3　Sonja Starke

Voice – female

• 1　Franziska Gottwald
  Franziska Gottwald
  Franziska Gottwald is a German mezzo-soprano singer in opera and concert.- Biography :Franziska Gottwald received her first voice training at the age of 16 with Prof. Eugen Rabine and studied voice at the Academies of Music in Saarbrücken, Hannover and Weimar...
  
  
• 2　Sigrid Horvath
• 3　Barbara Tišler

Voice – male

• 1　Dominik Wörner
• 2　Daniel Johannsen
• 3　Seung-Hee Park

2004

Cello and Baroque cello

• 1　Olivier Marron
• 2　Adam Mital
• 3　Richard Harwood
  Richard Harwood
  Richard Craig Harwood is a British cellist.- Biography :Richard Harwood was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire and began learning to play the piano, aged four and the cello, aged five. He attended Ditcham Park School...
  
  

Voice

• 1　Julius Pfeifer
• 2　Trine Wilsberg Lund
• 3　Markus Flaig
  Markus Flaig
  -Professional career:Markus Flaig was born in Horb am Neckar. He studied sacred music and school music, then voice with Beata Heuer-Christen in Freiburg and with Berthold Possemeyer at the Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt. Since 2006 he has worked with Carol Meyer-Bruetting...
  
  

Organ

• 1　Jörg Halubek
• 2　Elke Eckerstorfer
• 3　Frédéric Champion

2006

Harpsichord

• 1　Francesco Corti
• 2　Ilpo Laspas
• 3　François Guerrier

Piano

• 1　Irina Zahharenkova
  Irina Zahharenkova
  Irina Zahharenkova is an Estonian pianist and harpsichordist trained at the Estonian Academy of Music and the Sibelius Academy.-References:* Tallinn Chamber Music Festival* Borletti-Buitoni Trust...
  
  
• 2　Varvara Nepomnyashchaya
• 3　Elena Vorotko

Violin and Baroque violin

• 1　Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir
• 2　Mayumi Hirasaki
• 3　Dmitry Sinkovsky

2008

Organ

• 1 Balint Karosi
  Balint Karosi
  Bálint Karosi is a Hungarian organist and composer.-Biography:He started to study the piano and clarinet at the age of six and years later at the age of seventeen he began to study the pipe organ...
  
  
• 2 Ilpo Laspas
• 3 Lukas Stolhof

Voice

• 1 Marie Friederike Schoder
• 2 Margot Oitzinger
• 3 Jens Hamann

Cello and Baroque cello

• 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/Baroque violin

• 1 Evgeny Sviridov
• 2 Shunsuke Sato
  Shunsuke Sato
  is a Japanese born, classical and baroque violinist and violist.-Musical activities:Sato started his concert career in the United States at 12, by winning the Young Concert Artists first prize in 1997, performing throughout North America, Europe, and Japan as a soloist with orchestras such as...
  
  
• 3 Friederike Starkloff

External links

• List of prize-winners on the official website