Music competition in Leipzig, Germany
TheInternational Johann Sebastian Bach Competition (German:Internationaler Bach Wettbewerb Leipzig Leipzig , Germany, held by theBach-Archiv Leipzig .[ 1] [ 2] [ 1] World Federation of International Music Competitions in Geneva.[ 3]
Prizes for participants:[ 3]
Prize Amount 1st prize €10,000 2nd prize €7,500 3rd prize €5,000
The Prize winners have the right to use the title "Bach Prize Winners".
Prize winners have included:
Harpsichordists:Pieter-Jan Belder (2000),Francesco Corti (2006),Andrew Rosenblum (2018) Pianists:Tatiana Nikolayeva ,Margarita Fyodorova ,Jörg Demus ,Waldemar Maciszewski (1950),Igor Lazko (1964),Valery Afanassiev ,Svetlana Navasardyan ,Ivan Klansky (1968),Kei Itoh (1980),Ueli Wiget (1984),Nikolai Luganski (1988),Ragna Schirmer (1992 & 1998),Cornelia Herrmann ,Christopher Hinterhuber (1996),Miku Nishimoto-Neubert (1998),Martin Stadtfeld (2002),Irina Zahharenkova (2006),Ilya Poletaev (2010),Hilda Huang (2014),Paul Posnak Organists:Amadeus Webersinke ,Karl Richter ,Diethard Hellmann (1950),Daniel Chorzempa (1968),Hans Fagius (1972),Matthias Eisenberg (1976),Jaroslav Tůma (1980),John Scott (1984),Balint Karosi (2008) Violinists:Alexei Gorokhov (1950),Oleg Kagan (1968),Hiroko Suzuki ,Johannes Ludwig Von Schwartz (1984),Marat Bisengaliev (1988),Rachel Barton (1992),Shunsuke Sato (2010) Cellists:Alexander Rudin (1976),Michael Sanderling (1988),Richard Harwood (2004) Flutists: Matthias Rust, Alison Mitchell (1984) Singers:Bruce Abel (1964),Gábor Németh (1976),Jadwiga Rappé (1980),Bogna Bartosz (1992),Simone Kermes ,Christoph Genz ,Ekkehard Abele (1996),Jan Kobow (1998),Franziska Gottwald (2002),Dominik Wörner (2002),Markus Flaig (2004), Hongyi Cai (2022) President:Robert D. Levin [ 3]
Members of jury have included:[ 2]
Pianists:Dmitri Shostakovich (1950),[ 4] Jan Ekier (1964),Paul Badura-Skoda (2006),Bruno Canino (2006),Malcolm Bilson (chairmaster of pianists – 2010),João Carlos Martins (2010),Bernard Ringeissen (2010),Tamás Vásáry (2010),Fanny Waterman (2010) Harpsichordists:Magdalena Myczka (2000, 2010),Bob van Asperen (2006),Lars Ulrik Mortensen (2006),Masaaki Suzuki (2006),Richard Egarr (2010),Robert Hill (chairmaster of harpsichordists – 2010),Andrea Marcon (2010),Andreas Staier (2018) Organists:Bronisław Rutkowski (1964, died during the competition),Hans Fagius (2012),Ton Koopman (chairmaster – 2012) Christopher Hogwood has served as a juror in the vocal category in 2012Violinists:Reinhard Goebel (2018)
