# Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition

The International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (Polish: Międzynarodowy Konkurs Skrzypcowy im. Henryka Wieniawskiego) is a competition for violinists up to age 30 that takes place every five years in Poznań, Poland, in honor of the virtuoso and composer Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880). The first competition took place in 1935 in Warsaw, 100 years after the birth of its patron, and consisted of two stages. The second, after a gap of 17 years in 1952, and subsequent events were held in Poznań in three stages. In 1957 the competition became one of the founding members of the World Federation of International Music Competitions in Geneva. In 2001 it was decided that the competition would henceforth be held in four stages.
Candidates shall be qualified for the competition subject to preliminary selection auditions run by Maxim Vengerov and another member of the jury.
The following three statutory prizes shall be awarded in the competition: First prize: 30,000 Euro and gold medal; Second prize: 20,000 Euro and silver medal; and Third prize: 12,000 Euro and bronze medal.
Additional prizes include three honorary distinctions of 5,000 Euro and the special extra-statutory prize funded by Maxim Vengerov: 12 individual lessons for one of the competition participants. The first edition of the competition took place in 1935 in Warsaw and drew 160 contestants from 23 countries. The inaugural winner of the competition was France's Ginette Neveu. One of the participants was also Grażyna Bacewicz who received an honorary diploma and was to become a future juror of the competition. The two first prizes were funded by renowned Polish luthier Tomasz Panufnik.

## Prizewinners
### 2022

* I. Hina Maeda [pl]
* II. Meruert Karmenova
* III. Qingzhu Weng
* Distinction. // Hana Chang & Jane Hyeonjin Cho & Dayoon You

### 2016

* I. / Veriko Tchumburidze
* II. Bomsori Kim & Seiji Okamoto
* III. Not awarded
* IV. Luke Hsu
* V. / Richard Lin
* VI. Maria Włoszczowska
* VII. Ryosuke Suho

### 2011

* I. Soyoung Yoon
* II. Miki Kobayashi
* III. Stefan Tarara
* Distinction. Erzhan Kulibaev & Aylen Pritchin & Arata Yumi

### 2006

* I. Agata Szymczewska
* II. Airi Suzuki
* III. Anna Maria Staśkiewicz
* IV. Lev Solodovnikow
* V. Maria Machowska
* V. Jarosław Nadrzycki
* VI. Wojciech Pławner
* Distinction. Simeon Klimashevskiy

### 2001

* I. Alena Baeva
* II. Soojin Han & Roman Simowic
* III. Gaik Kazazian & Bracha Malkin & Hiroko Takahashi
* IV. Mayuko Kamio
* V. Jaroslaw Nadrzycki
* VI. Alexandra Wood

### 1996

* I. Not awarded
* II. Reiko Otani
* III. Akkiko Tanaka
* IV. Łukasz Błaszczyk & Asuka Sezaki
* V. Anna Reszniak
* VI. Maria M. Nowak

### 1991

* I. Bartłomiej Nizioł & Piotr Pławner
* II. Chie Abiko
* III. Reiko Shiraishi
* IV. Monika Jarecka
* V. Tomoko Yoshimura

### 1986

* I. Ewgenij Buszkow
* III. Nobu Wakabayashi & Robert Kabara
* IV. Wiktor Kuzniecow
* V. Alexander Romanul
* VI. Hiroko Suzuki

### 1981

* I. Keiko Urushihara
* II. Elisa Kawaguti
* III. Aureli Błaszczok
* IV. Seiji Kageyama
* V. Iwao Furusawa
* VI. Megumi Shimane

### 1977

* I. Vadim Brodsky
* II. Piotr Milewski & Michał Wajman
* III. Zakhar Bron & Peter A. Zazofsky
* IV. Charles A. Linale
* V. Hiro Kurosaki & Anna A. Wódka
* VI. Kazuhiko Sawa
* Awards. Asa Konishi & Keiko Mizuno

### 1972

* I. Tatiana Grindienko
* II. Shizuka Ishikawa
* III. Barbara Górzyńska
* V. Tadeusz Gadzina & Graczija Arutunian
* VI. Stefan Czermak
* VII. Edward Z. Zienkowski

### 1967

* I. Piotr Janowski
* II. Michał Bezwierchnyj
* III. Kaja Danczowska
* IV. Eduard Tatewosjan
* V. Anatolij Mielnkow
* VI. Michał Grabarczyk & Mincho Minchev

### 1962

* I. Charles Treger
* II. Oleg Krysa
* III. Krzysztof Jakowicz
* IV. Izabella Petrosjan
* V. Mirosław Rusin & Henryk Jarzynski & Priscilla A. Ambrose
* VI. Tomasz Michalak

### 1957

* I. Roza Fajn
* II. Sidney Harth
* III. Mark Komissarow
* IV. Augustin Leon-Ara
* V. Ayla Erduran
* VI. Władimir Malinin

### 1952

* I. Igor Oistrakh
* II. Julian Sitkovetsky & Wanda Wiłkomirska
* III. Blanche Tarjus & Marina Jaszwili & Olga Parchomlenko
* IV. Emil Kamilarov & Edward Statkiewicz & Igor Iwanow & Henryk Palulis
* V. Csaba Bokay

### 1935

* I. Ginette Neveu
* II. David Oistrakh
* III. Henri Temianka
* IV. Boris Goldstein
* V. Ljerko Spiller
* VI. Mary Luisa Sardo
* VII. Ida Haendel
* VIII. Hubert Anton
* IX. Bronislav Gimpel

## Laureates by country

| Country | Number |
| Soviet Union | 5 |
| Poland | 4 |
| Japan | 2 |
| France | 1 |
| Georgia | 1 |
| Russia | 1 |
| South Korea | 1 |
| Turkey | 1 |
| United States | 1 |