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The Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, a founding member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions

World Federation of International Music Competitions

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(1957) has been, since its foundation, considered the world over to be one of the most prestigious and most difficult. It is devoted to violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

(since 1951), piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

(since 1952), to composition

Musical composition

Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...

(since 1953) and to singing

Singing

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(since 1988). Held in Brussels

Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...

, the Competition is named after Queen Elisabeth of Belgium.

History

Eugène Ysaÿe

Eugène Ysaÿe was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor born in Liège. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tzar"...

, Belgian

Belgium

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concert-violin

Violin

ist, had wanted to set up an international music competition for young virtuosi showcasing their all-round skill, but died before he could do so. Queen Elisabeth, patroness of the arts and good friend of Ysaÿe, set up the competition in his memory in 1937. The prestige of Ysaÿe and Belgium's Royal Court (King Albert

Albert I of Belgium

Albert I reigned as King of the Belgians from 1909 until 1934.-Early life:Born Albert Léopold Clément Marie Meinrad in Brussels, he was the fifth child and second son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, and his wife, Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen...

and Queen Elisabeth were admired heroes of the First World War) assured that the first competition would draw great entrants.

The Soviet school was the resounding winner in 1937 as David Oistrakh

David Oistrakh

David Fyodorovich Oistrakh , , David Fiodorović Ojstrakh, ; – October 24, 1974, was a Soviet violinist....

took first prize. In 1938, the competition was dedicated to piano; Emil Gilels

Emil Gilels

Emil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Soviet pianist, widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.His last name is sometimes transliterated Hilels.-Biography:...

won, and again, the Soviet school was victorious.

The competition did not resume until 1951; World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

and several royal scandals prevented the competition from taking place. In 1951, the competition was renamed for its patroness, Queen Elisabeth, and has taken place under that name since then.

Entrants are expected to learn a compulsory work written especially for the competition. (The work is picked during the composition competition.) Usually there is also a section where contestants are expected to perform a work by a Belgian composer.

From 1963 to 1980, Marcel Poot

Marcel Poot

Marcel Poot was a Belgian composer, professor, and musician. His father, Jan Poot, was Director of the Vlaamse Schouwburg in Brussels....

of the Brussels Conservatory chaired the jury of the competition and wrote several commissioned works to mark the occasion, that were used as competition-required pieces.

Patronage

The Queen Elisabeth Competition generates income from its own activities, from private patronage and from sponsoring. Resources are varied: part of the funding for the prizes laureates receive is provided by public authorities and patrons, corporate sponsors, donors contributions, ticket and programme sales, advertising in the programmes and the sale of recordings. The Competition also benefits from the volunteer assistance of families who open their homes to candidates for the duration of the competition.

Piano

Table showing: top 5 prize winners
Year	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
1938 II Queen Elisabeth Music Competition The second edition of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, then known as Eugène Ysaÿe Competition, took place in Brussels from May 15 - 31 1938, and was the inaugural edition of its piano competition...	Soviet Union Emil Gilels Emil Gilels Emil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Soviet pianist, widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.His last name is sometimes transliterated Hilels.-Biography:...	United Kingdom Mary Johnstone (Moura Lympany Moura Lympany Dame Moura Lympany DBE was an English concert pianist.She was born as Mary Gertrude Johnstone at Saltash, Cornwall. Her father was an army officer who had served in World War I and her mother originally taught her the piano... )	Soviet Union Jakov Flier	United Kingdom Lance Dossor Lance Dossor Lance Dossor was a British-born concert pianist and teacher who emigrated to Australia.He was born Harry Lancelot Dossor in Weston-super-Mare, United Kingdom, the third child of a jeweller who was also a distinguished amateur tenor.He was educated at Seaford College and marticulated at the...	Uruguay Nivea Marino-Bellini
1952 IV Queen Elisabeth Music Competition The IV Queen Elisabeth Music Competition took place in Brussels in 1952. It was the second post-war edition of the competition, which had been resumed the previous year, and the second one devoted to piano, 14 years after the first one took place....	United States Leon Fleisher Leon Fleisher Leon Fleisher is an American pianist and conductor.-Early life and studies:Fleisher was born in San Francisco, where he started studying the piano at age four...	Switzerland Karl Engel Karl Engel Karl Engel was a Swiss pianist.In 1952 Engel was awarded the second prize at the Queen Elisabeth competition. Throughout his concert career he cultivated the art song repertory and worked extensively on works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Robert Schumann...	Italy Maria Tipo Maria Tipo -Biography:Tipo was born in Naples. She was taught originally by her mother, Ersilia Cavallo, who was a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni, she went on to study under Alfredo Casella and Guido Agosti.At only seventeen, she won the Geneva international piano competition...	Belgium Frans Brouw Frans Brouw Florent Robert Frans Brouw is a Belgian pianist. He is a Canadian citizen since 1975.He finished his studies in Brussels' Royal Conservatory in 1952, taking part immediately after in the resumed Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, where he was awarded the 4th prize. An intense concert career ensued...	Australia Lawrence Davis
1956	Soviet Union Vladimir Ashkenazy Vladimir Ashkenazy Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy is a Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist. Since 1972 he has been a citizen of Iceland, his wife Þórunn's country of birth. Since 1978, because of his many obligations in Europe, he and his family have resided in Meggen, near Lucerne in Switzerland...	United States John Browning John Browning (pianist) John Browning was an American pianist known for his reserved, elegant style and sophisticated interpretations of Bach and Scarlatti, and for his collaboration with the American composer Samuel Barber.-Biography:...	Poland Andrzej Czajkowski Andrzej Czajkowski André Tchaikowsky was a Polish composer and pianist.-Life and career:...	Early Modern France Cécile Ousset Cécile Ousset Cécile Ousset is a French pianist.Cécile Ousset was born in Tarbes, France, and gave her first recital at the age of five, subsequently studying at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 10 with Marcel Ciampi where, aged only fourteen, she was awarded first prize in the piano graduation class of...	Soviet Union Lazar Berman Lazar Berman Lazar Naumovich Berman was a Soviet Russian classical pianist. As a technician, Berman was extraordinary in terms of sheer evenness, control, and rhythmic panache, yet he always channeled his considerable craft toward musical ends....
1960	United States Malcolm Frager Malcolm Frager -Life and career:Frager was born in St. Louis, Missouri and studied with Carl Friedberg in New York City from 1949 until Friedberg's death in 1955. In 1957 he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University with a major in Russian...	Canada Ronald Turini Ronald Turini Ronald Turini is a Canadian pianist. He made his professional debut at age ten, with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. At sixteen, and holding a scholarship from the Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec, Turini met Vladimir Horowitz...	United States Lee Luvisi	Soviet Union Alice Mitchenko	Hungary Gábor Gabos Gábor Gabos Gábor Gabos is a Hungarian pianist.In 1960 he was awarded a 5th prize at the Queen Elisabeth competition, and one year later he won the Liszt-Bartók competition; an intercontinental concert career ensued. In 1976 he was decorated a Merited Artist of the Hungarian People's Republic.-References:...
1964	Soviet Union Evgeny Mogilevsky Evgeny Mogilevsky Evgeny Mogilevsky is a Russian pianist. Son and pupil of Seraphima Mogilevsky at the Stolyarsky Music school in his hometown. Later studied with Heinrich Neuhaus and Yakov Zak at the Moscow Conservatory...	Soviet Union Nikolai Petrov Nikolai Petrov Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov was a Russian pianist.Petrov was born in Moscow, the son of the cellist Arnold Ferkelman and the grandson of the operatic bass Vasily Rodionovich Petrov, and began learning the piano at the age of three...	Belgium Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden	Canada Anton Kuerti Anton Kuerti Anton Kuerti, OC is an Austrian-born Canadian pianist, music teacher, composer, and conductor. Since his performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Boston Pops Orchestra at age 11, he has developed international recognition as a solo pianist, particularly focusing on the works of Beethoven...	United States Richard Syracuse
1968	Soviet Union Ekaterina Novitskaya	Soviet Union Valère Kamychov	United States Jeffrey Siegel	Soviet Union Semion Kroutchine	Belgium André De Groote
1972	Soviet Union 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...	United States Jeffrey Swann Jeffrey Swann Jeffrey Swann is a renowned classical pianist.Swann was born in Arizona but moved to Dallas, Texas, as a young child. He began piano studies at the age of four. While attending St. Mark's School of Texas, he studied for seven years with Alexander Uninsky at Southern Methodist University in...	United States Joseph Alfidi Joseph Alfidi Joseph Alfidi is an American pianist, composer, and conductor and a former child prodigy who was born in Yonkers, New York. The son of American-born parents of Italian descent, his father, Frank Alfidi, was a trumpet player who ran a music school in Yonkers...	United States David Lively	Soviet Union Svetlana Navasardyan Svetlana Navasardyan Svetlana Navasardyan is an Armenian pianist.A disciple of Yakov Zak, she first stood out at the East German musical scene, being awarded prizes at Zwickau's Robert Schumann and Leipzig's Johann Sebastian Bach Competition...
1975	Soviet Union Mikhaïl Faerman Mikhaïl Faerman Mikhail Faerman is a Russian-Belgian classical pianist.He was born in 1955, in Beltsi, Moldavia, USSR. He started to study piano at the age of three....	Soviet Union Stanislav Igolinsky Stanislav Igolinsky Stanislav Igolinsky is a Russian pianist.Stanislav Igolinsky Igolisky was born in 1953 in Saratov. In 1971 he finished Magnet musical school at the Leningrad Conservatory in class of Volf M.V. and in class of Volfenzon S.J....	Soviet Union Youri Egorov Youri Egorov Youri Aleksandrovich Egorov was a Soviet classical pianist.-Early years:Born in Kazan, USSR, Youri Egorov studied music at the Kazan Conservatory from the age of 6 until age 17. One of his early teachers was Irina Dubinina, a former pupil of Yakov Zak ....	United States Larry Michael Graham	Soviet Union Sergueï Iuchkevitch
1978	Lebanon Abdel Rahman El Bacha Abdel Rahman El Bacha Abdel Rahman El Bacha is a Lebanese pianist and composer.His repertory includes over fifty concertos and is largely based on the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Rachmaninov, Ravel and Prokofiev .-Biography:...	United States Gregory Allen	Early Modern France Brigitte Engerer	United States Alan Weiss	Canada Douglas Finch
1983	Early Modern France Pierre-Alain Volondat	Germany Wolfgang Manz Wolfgang Manz Wolfgang Manz is a German pianist.He won Berlin's 1980 Mendelssohn competition and was awarded 2nd prizes at Leeds' and Brussels' competitions. An international concert career ensued. A professor at Nürnberg's Musikhochschule, he remains active in his homeland.-References:...	Bulgaria Boyan Vodenitcharov Boyan Vodenitcharov Boyan Vodenitcharov is a Bulgarian pianist and composer.While a student in Sofia's State Conservatory he won the 1982 National Composition Competition, and was awarded 3rd prizes in the XXXIII Concorso Busoni and the X Queen Elisabeth competition...	United States Daniel Blumenthal Daniel Blumenthal (pianist) Daniel Blumenthal is a German-born American pianist.Daniel Blumenthal was born in Landstuhl, Germany in September, 1952. His first music studies at age 5 in Paris. Later on he enrolled at American University in Washington, D.C., then continued studies at the University of Michigan, where he...	Brazil Eliane Rodrigues
1987	Soviet Union Andrei Nikolsky	Japan Akira Wakabayashi	Germany Rolf Plagge	Belgium Johan Schmidt Johan Schmidt Johan Schmidt is a Belgian pianist.He won the Maria Callas Competition in Athens, and was prized at the Queen Elisabeth , Tchaikovsky and Van Cliburn competitions...	Japan Ikuyo Nakamichi
1991	Early Modern France Frank Braley	United States Stephen Prutsman	United States Brian Ganz	South Korea Hae-sun Paik	Soviet Union Alexander Melnikov Alexander Melnikov Alexander Melnikov is a Russian pianist.Born in Moscow, Melnikov began studying music at age six at Moscow’s Central Music School. He continued at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Lev Naumov, graduating in 1997. Later he completed his post-graduate studies in Munich with Eliso Virsaladze...
1995	Germany Markus Groh	Finland Laura Mikkola Laura Mikkola Laura Imola Mikkola is a Finnish pianist.Laura Mikkola, having previously won Pretoria's UNISA TRANSNET and Helsinki's Maj Lind competitions, and been awarded the XII Paloma O'Shea Competition's contemporary music prize and a grant-prize, was second to Markus Groh at the XIII Queen Elisabeth Music...	Italy Giovanni Bellucci	United States Yuliya Gorenman	South Korea Jong Hwa Park Jong Hwa Park Jong Hwa Park is a South Korean pianist. He was prized at the 1995 Queen Elisabeth Competition and the 1996 Concorso Busoni before being awarded the 1998 Paloma O'Shea Competition's 2nd prize....
1999	Ukraine Vitaly Samoshko Vitaly Samoshko Vitaly Samoshko is a Ukrainian pianist. He settled in Belgium in 2001.His first significant achievement was a 6th prize at the 1992 Sydney International Piano Competition. He was subsequently awarded 2nd prizes at the 1993 Concorso Busoni, the 1996 Concours de Montreal and the 1998 Arthur...	Russia Alexander Ghindin Alexander Ghindin Alexander Ghindin is a Russian pianist. He won the fourth prize in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1994 and was the youngest laureate ever...	United States Ning An Ning An -Biography:Born in Beijing in 1976, Ning An studied at the United States at the New England Conservatory with Russell Sherman and Olga Radosavljevich...	Israel Shai Wosner Shai Wosner Shai Wosner is a pianist. He was born in Israel in 1976 and is now living in the United States. He studied piano with Emanuel Krasovsky in Tel-Aviv...	Italy Roberto Cominati
2003	Germany Severin von Eckardstein Severin von Eckardstein Severin Von Eckardstein is a German classical pianist. He was born in 1978 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and took his first piano lessons when he was six years old....	Mainland China Wen-Yu Shen	Dong-Hyek Lim Dong-Hyek Lim Dong-Hyek Lim is a South Korean classical pianist. Lim has previously studied with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Hannover and received the Samsung Culture Scholarship and the Ezoe Scholarship... , (he refused the 3rd prize and no 3rd prize was awarded)	Italy Roberto Giordano	Japan Kazumasa Matsumoto
2007	Russia Anna Vinnitskaya Anna Vinnitskaya Anna Vinnitskaya is a Russian pianist who won the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.-Biography:Anna Vinnitskaya was born in Novorossiysk. She displayed musical talent from an early age, following her first piano lessons at age 6...	Kingdom of Bulgaria Plamena Mangova Plamena Mangova Plamena Mangova is a Bulgarian pianist.At 18 she was awarded the XIV Paloma O'Shea Competition's 3rd prize. Nine years later she took part at the XVI Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition, where she was second to Anna Vinnitskaya.She has been active as a concert pianist at an...	Switzerland Francesco Piemontesi	Russia Ilya Rashkovsky Ilya Rashkovsky Ilya Rashkovsky is a Russian pianist.He is a pupil of Vladimir Krainev at the Musikhochschule Hannover. At 17 Rashkovsky was second to Dong-Hyek Lim at the XXII Long-Thibaud Competition, and subsequently won the XLVIII Premio de Jaén and the inaugural edition of the Hong Kong Competition...	South Korea Lim Hyo-Sun
2010	Russia Denis Kozhukhin Denis Kozhukhin Denis Kozhukhin is a Russian pianist who was awarded the 2006 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition's 3rd prize. He was awarded too the 2010 Belgian Queen Elisabeth Music Competition's 1st prize ....	Kingdom of Bulgaria Evgeni Bozhanov Evgeni Bozhanov Evgeni Bozhanov is a Bulgarian pianist who trained with Evgeny Zhelyazkov at the National School of Arts "Prof. Vesselin Stoyanov" in Rousse...	Netherlands Hannes Minnaar	Russia Yury Favorin Yury Favorin Yury Favorin — Russian pianist.-Biography:Yury Favorin studied in Moscow at the Gnesins High School of Music under the supervision of Lidiya Grigorieva , Ivan Mozgovenko , and Vladimir Dovgan and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Mikhail Voskresensky...	South Korea Kim Tae-Hyung

Violin

Table showing: top 5 prize winners
Year	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
1937	Soviet Union David Oistrakh David Oistrakh David Fyodorovich Oistrakh , , David Fiodorović Ojstrakh, ; – October 24, 1974, was a Soviet violinist....	Austria Ricardo Odnoposoff	Soviet Union Elizabeth Gilels Elizabeth Gilels Elizabeth Gilels - was a Soviet violinist from a musical family.-Biography:Born in Odessa, to a Jewish musical family ....	Soviet Union Boris Goldstein Boris Goldstein Boris Goldstein was one of the brightest stars of violin....	Soviet Union Marina Kozolupova
1951	Soviet Union Leonid Kogan	Soviet Union Mikhail Vayman	Elise Cserfalvi	Netherlands Theo Olof	Soviet Union Alexei Gorokov
1955 VI Queen Elisabeth Music Competition The sixth edition of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition took place in 1956 and was the third one devoted to violin. The Soviet violin school couldn't attain a third victory after the successes of David Oistrakh in 1937 and Leonid Kogan in 1951 as Berl Senofsky managed to beat Julian Sitkovetsky...	United States Berl Senofsky Berl Senofsky Berl Senofsky was a violinist of the twentieth century.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Russian immigrant violinists. He received his first music lessons from his father at the age of three. By the time he was six he had won a scholarship to study with Louis Persinger, a...	Soviet Union Julian Sitkovetsky Julian Sitkovetsky Julian Sitkovetsky was a Russian-Ukrainian violinist.-Biography:Sitkovetsky was born in Kiev. He started violin lesson at age 4, first with his father, then with David Bertie at the Central School in Kiev. As a child prodigy, he was chosen to play for Jacques Thibaud at age 8...	Early Modern France Pierre Doukan	Early Modern France Francine Dorfeuille-Boussinot	Soviet Union Victor Picaizen
1959	Bolivia Jaime Laredo Jaime Laredo Jaime Laredo is a violinist and conductor. Currently the conductor and Music Director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, he began his musical career when he was five years old. In 1948 he came to North America and took lessons from Antonio DeGrass...	Soviet Union Albert Markov	United States Joseph Silverstein Joseph Silverstein Joseph Silverstein is an American violinist and conductor.As a youth, Silverstein studied with his father, Bernard Silverstein, who was a public school music teacher...	Soviet Union Vladimir Malinine	Soviet Union Boris Kouniev
1963	Soviet Union Alexei Mikhlin	Soviet Union Semyon Snitkovsky Semyon Snitkovsky -Biography:Semyon Snitkovsky was born in Odessa, USSR on August 9, 1933. His formal music education began in 1940 at the famous music school named after P.S. Stolyarsky, class of violin. An ensuing hiatus, brought on by the World War II, is ended when Semen is accepted into the class of V. Z...	United States Arnold Steinhardt Arnold Steinhardt Arnold Steinhardt , is an American violinist, best known as the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet....	Soviet Union Zarius Shikhmurzayeva	United States Charles Castleman Charles Castleman, violinist Castleman, Charles American violinist and teacher b. Quincy, Mass., May 22, 1941. He began violin lessons at the age of four with Ondricek. When he was only six he appeared as a soloist with Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orch. At nine, he made his solo recital debuts at Jordan Hall in Boston and...
1967	Soviet Union Philippe Hirschhorn Philippe Hirschhorn Philippe Hirschhorn was a violinist who won the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in 1967 . Born in Latvia, he first studied at the conservatory of Riga with Prof. Waldemar Sturestep, later he studied with prof Michael Waiman at the Conservatoire of St...	Bulgaria Stoïka Milanova	Soviet Union Gidon Kremer Gidon Kremer Gidon Kremer is a Latvian violinist and conductor. In 1980 he left the USSR and settled in Germany.-Biography:Kremer was born in Riga to parents of German-Jewish and Latvian-Swedish origins. He began playing the violin at the age of four, receiving instruction from his father and his grandfather,...	Soviet Union Roman Nodel	Japan Hidetaro Suzuki
1971	Israel Miriam Fried	Soviet Union Andreï Korsakov	Japan Hamao Fujiwara	Argentina Ana Chumachenco de Lysy	Belgium Edith Volckaert
1976	Soviet Union Mikhaïl Bezverkhny Mikhail Bezverkhny Mikhail Lvovich Bezverkhny is a Russian violinist, violist and composer.-Life and career:Born in Saint Petersburg in 1947, Bezverkhny commenced his violin studies at the age of 5 at the Central Music School of the Conservatory of Saint Petersburg. He was a student of Liubov Segal and Jacob...	Soviet Union Irina Medvedeva	South Korea Dong-Suk Kang Dong-Suk Kang Dong-Suk Kang is a South Korean violinist.-Biography:Kang played his first concert at the age of eight. He went to New York in 1967 to study at the Juilliard School and completed his education with Ivan Galamian at the Curtis Institute of Music...	Soviet Union Grigory Jisline	Japan Shizuka Ishikawa
1980	Japan Yuzuko Horigome	United States Peter Zazofsky	Japan Takashi Shimizu	Japan Ruriko Tsukahara	Romania Mihaela Martin
1985	Republic of China Hu Nai-yuan Hu Nai-yuan Hu Nai-yuan is a Taiwanese violinist. He was the first prize winner of the 1985 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.Nai-Yuan has recorded the Goldmark Violin Concerto and Bruch Violin Concerto #2. He plays the Ex-Hubay Stradivarius....	South Korea Ik-Hwan Bae Ik-Hwan Bae Ik-Hwan Bae, concert violinist, was born in Seoul, Korea and made his professional debut with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 12. He attended New York City's prestigious Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts, graduating in 1976. While there, Bae also studied with Ivan...	Guatemala Henry Raudales Henry Raudales Henry Raudales was born in Guatemala and took his first violin lessons from his father Enrique Raudales at the age of four. Only three years later he made his début as soloist in a Mendelssohn concert in North Carolina, which attracted the attention of Yehudi Menuhin, who hired a television crew...	Mainland China Hu Kun Hu Kun Hu Kun is a Chinese violinist and conductor.-Biography:Hu Kun was born in China just before the Cultural Revolution and started playing violin and piano at age of six with his parents, and moved in the 70s to Beijing to be the soloist of the China Central Radio Symphony Orchestra, in 1980 he won...	South Korea Mi Kyung Lee
1989	Soviet Union Vadim Repin Vadim Repin Vadim Repin is a Belgian Russian violinist who currently lives in Austria....	Japan Akiko Suwanai Akiko Suwanai is a Japanese classical violinist.She was the youngest winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990. In addition, she won second place in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in 1989 and is a laureate of the International Japan Competition.She has studied with Toshiya Eto at the...	Soviet Union Evgeny Bushkov	Israel Erez Ofer	GermanyUlrike-Anima Mathé
1993	Japan Yayoi Toda	Kingdom of Romania Liviu Prunaru Liviu Prunaru Liviu Prunaru is a Romanian violinist. He serves as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's concertmaster together with Vesko Eschkenazy. -Competition record:* 1991 Rodolfo Lipizer IVC, Gorizia - 1st prize. * 1992 C...	Republic of China Keng-Yuen Tseng	Canada Martin Beaver Martin Beaver Martin Beaver is a Canadian violinist. As a part of the Tokyo String Quartet he plays the Paganini-Comte Cozio di Salabue violin circa 1727...	Russia Natalia Prischepenko
1997	Denmark Nikolaj Znaider Nikolaj Znaider Nikolaj Znaider is a Danish classical violinist and conductor.-Career:Born in Denmark to Polish-Israeli parents, Znaider studied with the eminent Russian pedagogue Boris Kushnir and drawing on this eclectic background his playing has been heralded in the Strad Magazine as "extraordinarily...	Germany Albrecht Breuninger	Hungary Kristóf Baráti Kristof Barati Kristóf Baráti is a Hungarian violinist, and is widely regarded as one of the most talented violinists to emerge in recent years.-Early life:...	United Kingdom Andrew Haveron	Japan Natsumi Tamai
2001	Latvia Baiba Skride Baiba Skride Baiba Skride is a Latvian classical violinist. She was the winner of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Contest in 2001, and has performed around the world...	Singapore Kam Ning Kam Ning Kam Ning is a renowned violinist and daughter of violinist-composer Kam Kee Yong. Born in Singaporer in 1975, She was given violin lessons at the age of six by the elder Kam, and had her early education at the Methodist Girls' School....	Hungary Barnabás Kelemen Barnabás Kelemen Barnabás Kelemen is a Hungarian violinist. He began his violin studies at the age of six, with Valéria Baranyai, and at age eleven he was admitted to the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music into the studio of Eszter Perényi. He received his diploma in 2001...	Russia Alina Pogostkin	Mainland China Feng Ning
2005	Armenia Sergey Khachatryan Sergey Khachatryan Sergey Khachatryan is an Armenian violinist. He was born in Yerevan in 1985.He made his New York City debut on August 4, 2006, playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto in Avery Fisher Hall under the baton of Osmo Vänskä.-Prizes:...	Belgium Yossif Ivanov	Germany Sophia Jaffé	Japan Saeka Matsuyama	United States Mikhail Ovrutsky
2009	Australia Ray Chen Ray Chen Ray Chen is a Taiwanese-Australian violinist. He was the first prize winner in the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.-Biography:...	Belgium Lorenzo Gatto Lorenzo Gatto Lorenzo Gatto is a Belgian violinist and recording artist.In May 2009, he came in second in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, winning 17,500 euros.-External links:* *...	Moldova Ilian Garnet Ilian Garnet Ilian Gârnet is a Moldovan violinist.He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia of Moldovan nationality. His mother is a pianist, and his father is a choreographer and a vocalist. First studying at the Chisinau Academy with B. Dubosarsky, he later relocated to Finland to study at the Sibelius Academy...	South Korea Suyoen Kim	Russia Nikita Borisoglebsky

Singing

Table showing: top 5 prize winners
Year	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
1988	Poland Aga Winska	United States Jeanette Thompson	Netherlands Huub Claessens	United States Jacob Will	Netherlands Yvonne Schiffelers
1992	Early Modern France Thierry Félix	Brazil Reginaldo Pinheiro	United States Wendy Hoffman	Republic of Ireland Regina Nathan	Chile Cristina Gallardo-Domâs Cristina Gallardo-Domâs Cristina Gallardo-Domâs is a soprano, born in Santiago, Chile, who frequently performs in operas by Puccini.Gallardo-Domâs made her debut as Madama Butterfly in 1990 at the Municipal Theatre in Santiago and, three years later, began performing in opera houses in Europe, making her La Scala debut in...
1996	United States Stephen Salters	Kingdom of Romania Ana Camelia Stefanescu	United States Eleni Matos	Kingdom of Bulgaria Mariana Zvetkova	United States Ray Wade
2000	Canada Marie-Nicole Lemieux Marie-Nicole Lemieux Marie-Nicole Lemieux is a Canadian contralto. She first came to the world's attention in 2000 when she became the first Canadian to win first prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Belgium...	Kingdom of Romania Marius Brenciu	Ukraine Olga Pasichnyk	Early Modern France Pierre-Yves Pruvot	Syria Lubana Al Quntar
2004	Poland Iwona Sobotka	Canada Hélène Guilmette	Belgium Shadi Torbey	Kingdom of Romania Teodora Gheorghiu	Moldova Diana Axentii
2008	Hungary Szabolcs Brickner	Early Modern France Isabelle Druet	Poland Bernadetta Grabias	Armenia Anna Kasyan Anna Kasyan Anna Kasyan is a Georgia-born Armenian opera singer living in France.Kasyan is one of the young artists who is viewed with high expectations in her field.-Early life and education:...	Belarus Yury Haradzetski
2011	South Korea Haeran Hong	Belgium Thomas Blondelle	Russia Elena Galitskaya	Early Modern France Anaïk Morel	Russia Konstantin Shushakov

Composition

Table showing: Winner
Year	1st	Work
1953 V Queen Elisabeth Music Competition The 5th edition of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition took place in 1953. It was the inaugural edition of its composition competition.-Palmares:-Jury: Jean Absil Nadia Boulanger Marcel Cuvelier Sem Dresden...	Poland Michał Spisak	Serenade voor orkest
1957 VIII Queen Elisabeth Music Competition The eighth edition of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition took place in 1957 and was the second one devoted to composition. A specific format in two categories was implanted, and Polish composer Michał Spisak, who had won the inaugural edition, successfully defended the title in the chamber...	Italy Orazio Fiume	Concerto for orchestra
1960	Belgium Marcel Poot Marcel Poot Marcel Poot was a Belgian composer, professor, and musician. His father, Jan Poot, was Director of the Vlaamse Schouwburg in Brussels....	Sinfonia burlesca
1963	Belgium Léon Jongen
1982	United Kingdom John Weeks	Five Litanies for Orchestra
1989	Belgium André Laporte	Fantasia con tema reale
1991	Early Modern France Tristan-Patrice Challulauhttp://www.challulau.net/	Ne la città dolente
1993	Belgium Piet Swerts	Zodiac
1995	United Kingdom John Weeks	Requiescat
1997	South Africa Hendrik Hofmeyr Hendrik Hofmeyr Hendrik Pienaar Hofmeyr is among the younger generation of South African composers. Born in Cape Town, he furthered his studies in Italy during 10 years of self-imposed exile as a conscientious objector. While there, he won the South African Opera Competition with The Fall of the House of Usher...	Raptus
1999	Finland Uljas Voitto Pulkkis	Tears of Ludovico
2001	Denmark / Germany Søren Nils Eichberg Søren Nils Eichberg Søren Nils Eichberg is a German/Danish composer. In 2010 he was announced as the first composer-in-residence of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in the orchestra's history.He studied piano and orchestra conducting in Copenhagen and Cologne....	Qilaatersorneq
2003	Australia Ian Munro Ian Munro (pianist) Ian Munro is an Australian pianist, composer, writer and music educator. His career has taken him to over 30 countries in Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia.-Biography:...	Piano Concerto Dreams
2005	Mexico Javier Torres Maldonado Javier Torres Maldonado Javier Torres Maldonado is a Mexican-Italian composer internationally recognized for mostly of his orchestral, chamber, vocal and electro-acoustic works.-Biography:...	Obscuro Etiamtum Lumine
2006	Spain Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher is a Spanish composer, trained in Vienna.Gálvez-Taroncher is a teacher at Granada's Conservatory, and the Jove Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana's composer in residence...	La luna y la muerte
2009	South Korea Cho Eun-Hwa	Agens
2010	South Korea Jeon Minje	Target

Prizes

First prize:
International Queen Elisabeth Grand Prize - HM Queen Fabiola Prize

20,000 euro, numerous concerts, recording on CD, loan of the 'Huggins' Stradivarius violin from the Nippon Music Foundation for a period of three years

Second Prize:
Belgian Federal Government Prize

17,500 euro, concerts, recording on CD

Third Prize:
Count de Launoit Prize

15,000 euro, concerts

Fourth Prize:
Prize awarded alternately by each of the communities of Belgium

10,000 euro, concerts

Fifth Prize:
Brussels Capital Region Prize

8,000 euro, concerts

Sixth Prize:
City of Brussels Prize

7,000 euro, concerts

History

Patronage

Piano

Violin

Singing

Composition

Prizes

See also