# Sydney International Piano Competition

The Sydney International Piano Competition is a music competition, presented in Sydney and broadcast live throughout Australia and internationally. It is held every four years, over a three-week period in July–August, and is internationally recognised as one of the world's great piano competitions.
The competition was established in July 1977 by Claire Dan, with co-founders Rex Hobcroft and Robert Tobias, and was admitted as a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions in 1978.
The competition due to be held in 1989 was brought forward to 1988, to coincide with the Australian Bicentenary. The competition due in 2020 was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 epidemic, and was held as a pre-recorded online competition rather than live performances. There was another edition in 2023, and the 50th Anniversary edition will be held in 2027.
The artistic director from its inception until 2015 was Warren Thomson, who also served as chairman of the jury from 1992 until 2012. In April 2015, following Thomson's death in February, Piers Lane (a former competitor and juror) was announced as the artistic director of the 2016 competition.

## Structure

A total of 32 (originally 36) pianists are selected to participate in the competition. Worldwide auditions are held to select the entrants, who must be aged between 18 and 32. Traditionally, the previous winner presents a Gala Opening recital.

### Rounds

The competition consists of three stages – preliminaries, semi finals and finals. All 32 competitors appear in the preliminaries which consists of two rounds. Round 1 of the preliminaries is a 20-minute solo recital and round 2 is a 30-minute recital. Competitors must include an Australian work in one of these rounds. The organisers have collaborated with Australian Music Centre to compile a list of suggested works by Australian pianists. Miriam Hyde's Valley of Rocks was one of the pieces set for the 1988 competition; it was chosen by 23 of the contestants, and it went on to become her best-known work.
After the preliminary rounds, the best 12 are chosen to proceed to the Semi Finals which consists of two rounds - Semi Final Round 1 is a 65-minute recital and Semi Final Round 2 is a chamber work. In the 12th competition, this will be with either violin or cello. Six competitors advance to the finals, again consisting of two rounds, in which they play two piano concertos with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In the 12th competition, Finalists will play an unconducted concerto with Camarata Queensland in Finals Round 1 and a piano concerto with Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Finals Round 2.

### Venues

Until 2016, the first stages took place at the Seymour Centre, University of Sydney. In 2016 the venue was changed to Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The final stage is held in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House except in 2020 when the finals will be held at the Sydney Town Hall due to renovations at the Sydney Opera House.

### Broadcast

All stages are broadcast live on radio throughout Australia and to the world online, by ABC Classic FM. In 2020, ABC Classic considered the Sydney International Piano Competition one of its highlights of the year. In 2016, the competition was streamed live and free on the competition's website and social media channels.
In 2021, for the first time since the competitions inception in 1977, patrons were required to pay a subscription fee to watch and listen to the competition. The ABC for the first time did not broadcast the event on free-to-air television. Instead subscriptions which ranged from $20-$30 per session or an overall online subscription of $350 were charged by SIPCA.

### Prizes

The winner of the Sydney International Piano Competition receives a prize of $50,000 and a number of engagements including a national tour of Australia, international recital opportunities and a CD recording. Smaller prizes are awarded for other placings. In the competition's forty-year history, no Australian pianist has won first prize.

### Musical patrons

The list of musicians and others who have been involved with the competition as either patrons or jurors includes Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lazar Berman, Sir Bernard Heinze, Eileen Joyce, Eugene List, Sir Charles Mackerras, Denis Matthews, Hephzibah Menuhin, John O'Conor, Harold C. Schonberg, Sir Georg Solti and Gordon Watson.

## 2016 Competition

The 11th Sydney International Piano Competition took place from 6 to 23 July 2016. The preliminary rounds and semi final sounds were held in the Verbrugghen Hall at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The finals were held at the Sydney Opera House.

### 2016 Prize Winners

| 1st Prize | Andrey Gugnin |
| 2nd Prize | Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev |
| 3rd Prize | Moye Chen |
| 4th Prize | Kenneth Broberg |
| 5th Prize | Oxana Shevchenko |
| 6th Prize | Jianing Kong |

### 2016 Jury Members

* Sa Chen
* Nikolai Demidenko
* Ewa Kupiec
* Hamish Milne
* Noriko Ogawa
* Orli Shaham
* Carl Vine AO
* Timothy Walker AM
* Mira Yevtich

### 2016 Special Prizewinners

| Prizewinner | Details |
| Andrey Gugnin | Best Overall Concerto sponsored and selected by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra |
| Jianing Kong | Best 18th Century Concerto donated by Drs Keith and Eileen Ong |
| Andrey Gugnin | Best 19th or 20th Century Concerto donated by Janice Tuynman in memory of her husband Hank Tuynman |
| Andrey Gugnin | Best Violin and Piano Sonata donated by Susie Bate and Annie Moulden in memory of their uncle, Warren Thomson OAM |
| Oxana Shevchenko | Best Piano Quintet donated by David and Jan Robinson |
| Andrey Gugnin | Best Preliminaries Round 1 Recital donated by Ron, Lynn and Marcus Ogden |
| Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev | Best Preliminaries Round 2 Recital donated by Dr Robert Mitchell in memory of Denis Condon |
| Jianing Kong | Best Semi Finals Recital donated by Dr Robert Mitchell in memory of Denis Condon |
| Daniel Lebhardt | Most Promising Pianist Sponsored by Universal Music Australia |
| Tony Lee | Best Australian Pianist donated by Youth Music Foundation |
| Gyu Tae Ha | Best Performance of an Australian Piece donated by Hugh Hallard and Judy Hunt in memory of Warren Thomson OAM |
| Sergey Belyavskiy | Chairman of the Board’s Prize for the Best Performance of a work by Liszt donated by Neville Grace |
| Ming Xie | People’s Choice sponsored by Yamaha |
| Ming Xie | Medal for the Most Promising Competitor donated by Graham Wickes in memory of Australian pianist Dennis Hennig |
| Martin Malmgren | Jury Discretionary Award donated by the 2016 Jury members |

## Criticisms

Despite its generally recognised prestige, the competition has been in the past strongly criticised by some established Australian pianists. The pianist and composer Larry Sitsky said: "The title Sydney International Piano Competition sounds grand and definitive. But behind the facade is a rather shabby private party in progress". The Liszt specialist and composer Leslie Howard said: "I was asked to be on the international advisory panel for this years ago ... and since then have never heard from any of them. ... No-one, of course, will ever hear from any of the prize-winners. They all seem to have had rather too close connections with members of the jury, which in any case is composed mostly of lacklustre teachers ... who have never been professional concert pianists in their lives and wouldn't recognise good and original artistry if it jumped up and bit them". Michael Kieran Harvey has asked: "What does the complete lack of success past SIPCA winners have had at making a career say about the cloth-eared selectors who travel around the world at great expense auditioning young hopefuls? Why, if SIPCA is such an internationally significant competition, are second-rate teachers no-one's ever heard of, to say nothing of completely unqualified non-musicians, sitting in judgment at this supposedly premier music event?" Despite his criticism, Harvey agreed to become the commentator for the ABC's radio broadcast of the 2000 competition, "in an attempt to provide some objective analysis".
Critics also pointed to the dominance of Warren Thomson, who single-handedly chose the repertoire and all the jurors, many of whom are associated with the Australian Institute of Music (AIM), of which he was artistic director, Professional Development Programs. With assistance from others, he also auditioned all the entrants and chose the 36 competitors. Alexei Yemtsov, a competitor at the 2000 competition, lived in Thomson's home and Thomson became his official guardian. That year, the minimum age was lowered from 18 to 17, although Thomson denied it had anything to do with Yemtsov's being only 17 at the time. The pianist Simon Tedeschi has said he "has no intention of ever collaborating with Thomson and SIPCA ... The school of pianism with which he associates himself is not to my taste ... The trained-seal mentality makes for poor musicianship, and, ultimately, unhappy lives". Margaret Hair, AIM's former head of keyboard studies, said: "There's a feeling among teachers that with Warren [Thomson] in charge, Australian students have little chance of making the final cut. The most tragic outcome of his effect on the piano scene in this country is a sense of hopelessness that most students now feel".
Critics also pointed to the fact that in some cases competitors are the students of members of the jury. For example, Mikhail Yanovitsky and Dmitry Grigortsevich, finalists in the 1996 competition, were students of Mikhail Voskresensky and Lev Vlassenko respectively, both of whom were jurors.
The competition came under fire in 1992 when Ukrainian pianist Vitaly Samoshko was denied 6th place due to his disqualification for playing the incorrect Mozart Concerto. There was an error in the Kochel number in the application and whilst he was allowed to perform the concerto he had prepared, as well as Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op 43 he was nonetheless disqualified and 6th prize was not awarded based on legal advice at the time. The jury, not for the first time failed to award French pianist Oliver Cazal 1st prize even though he was the People's Choice winner and was by far and away the stand out performer. His performance of Prokofiev's 3rd Concerto was and is until this day, the benchmark performance.

## Prize winners and jurors

| Number | Year | Prize winners | Jurors (incomplete) | Music patron |
| I | 1977 | Irina Plotnikova | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Sergei Dorensky Sir Bernard Heinze Ludwig Hoffmann Lucrecia Kasilag Eugene List André-François Marescotti Denis Matthews Hephzibah Menuhin Jan Weber Wiktor Weinbaum | Roger Woodward |
| I | 1977 | Svetlana Navasardyan | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Sergei Dorensky Sir Bernard Heinze Ludwig Hoffmann Lucrecia Kasilag Eugene List André-François Marescotti Denis Matthews Hephzibah Menuhin Jan Weber Wiktor Weinbaum | Roger Woodward |
| I | 1977 | André Laplante | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Sergei Dorensky Sir Bernard Heinze Ludwig Hoffmann Lucrecia Kasilag Eugene List André-François Marescotti Denis Matthews Hephzibah Menuhin Jan Weber Wiktor Weinbaum | Roger Woodward |
| I | 1977 | Marioara Trifan | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Sergei Dorensky Sir Bernard Heinze Ludwig Hoffmann Lucrecia Kasilag Eugene List André-François Marescotti Denis Matthews Hephzibah Menuhin Jan Weber Wiktor Weinbaum | Roger Woodward |
| I | 1977 | Philip Fowke | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Sergei Dorensky Sir Bernard Heinze Ludwig Hoffmann Lucrecia Kasilag Eugene List André-François Marescotti Denis Matthews Hephzibah Menuhin Jan Weber Wiktor Weinbaum | Roger Woodward |
| I | 1977 | Manana Doijashvili | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Sergei Dorensky Sir Bernard Heinze Ludwig Hoffmann Lucrecia Kasilag Eugene List André-François Marescotti Denis Matthews Hephzibah Menuhin Jan Weber Wiktor Weinbaum | Roger Woodward |
| I | 1977 | Daniel Blumenthal | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Sergei Dorensky Sir Bernard Heinze Ludwig Hoffmann Lucrecia Kasilag Eugene List André-François Marescotti Denis Matthews Hephzibah Menuhin Jan Weber Wiktor Weinbaum | Roger Woodward |
| I | 1977 | Dennis Lee | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Sergei Dorensky Sir Bernard Heinze Ludwig Hoffmann Lucrecia Kasilag Eugene List André-François Marescotti Denis Matthews Hephzibah Menuhin Jan Weber Wiktor Weinbaum | Roger Woodward |
| I | 1977 | Diana Kacso | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Sergei Dorensky Sir Bernard Heinze Ludwig Hoffmann Lucrecia Kasilag Eugene List André-François Marescotti Denis Matthews Hephzibah Menuhin Jan Weber Wiktor Weinbaum | Roger Woodward |
| I | 1977 | Gary Steigerwalt | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Sergei Dorensky Sir Bernard Heinze Ludwig Hoffmann Lucrecia Kasilag Eugene List André-François Marescotti Denis Matthews Hephzibah Menuhin Jan Weber Wiktor Weinbaum | Roger Woodward |
| I | 1977 | Jenő Jandó | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Sergei Dorensky Sir Bernard Heinze Ludwig Hoffmann Lucrecia Kasilag Eugene List André-François Marescotti Denis Matthews Hephzibah Menuhin Jan Weber Wiktor Weinbaum | Roger Woodward |
| I | 1977 | Paweł Chęciński | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Sergei Dorensky Sir Bernard Heinze Ludwig Hoffmann Lucrecia Kasilag Eugene List André-François Marescotti Denis Matthews Hephzibah Menuhin Jan Weber Wiktor Weinbaum | Roger Woodward |
| I | 1977 | Piers Lane | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Sergei Dorensky Sir Bernard Heinze Ludwig Hoffmann Lucrecia Kasilag Eugene List André-François Marescotti Denis Matthews Hephzibah Menuhin Jan Weber Wiktor Weinbaum | Roger Woodward |
| II | 1981 | Chia Chou | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Claude Frank Eileen Joyce André-François Marescotti Li Mingqiang Cécile Ousset Frederick Page Abbey Simon Gordon Watson Wiktor Weinbaum Roger Woodward | Sir Bernard Heinze |
| II | 1981 | Endre Hegedűs | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Claude Frank Eileen Joyce André-François Marescotti Li Mingqiang Cécile Ousset Frederick Page Abbey Simon Gordon Watson Wiktor Weinbaum Roger Woodward | Sir Bernard Heinze |
| II | 1981 | Catherine Vickers | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Claude Frank Eileen Joyce André-François Marescotti Li Mingqiang Cécile Ousset Frederick Page Abbey Simon Gordon Watson Wiktor Weinbaum Roger Woodward | Sir Bernard Heinze |
| II | 1981 | Daniel Blumenthal | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Claude Frank Eileen Joyce André-François Marescotti Li Mingqiang Cécile Ousset Frederick Page Abbey Simon Gordon Watson Wiktor Weinbaum Roger Woodward | Sir Bernard Heinze |
| II | 1981 | David Owen Norris | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Claude Frank Eileen Joyce André-François Marescotti Li Mingqiang Cécile Ousset Frederick Page Abbey Simon Gordon Watson Wiktor Weinbaum Roger Woodward | Sir Bernard Heinze |
| II | 1981 | Liora Ziv-Li | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Claude Frank Eileen Joyce André-François Marescotti Li Mingqiang Cécile Ousset Frederick Page Abbey Simon Gordon Watson Wiktor Weinbaum Roger Woodward | Sir Bernard Heinze |
| II | 1981 | Marc Raubenheimer | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Claude Frank Eileen Joyce André-François Marescotti Li Mingqiang Cécile Ousset Frederick Page Abbey Simon Gordon Watson Wiktor Weinbaum Roger Woodward | Sir Bernard Heinze |
| II | 1981 | Patrick O'Byrne | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Claude Frank Eileen Joyce André-François Marescotti Li Mingqiang Cécile Ousset Frederick Page Abbey Simon Gordon Watson Wiktor Weinbaum Roger Woodward | Sir Bernard Heinze |
| II | 1981 | Martin Roscoe | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Claude Frank Eileen Joyce André-François Marescotti Li Mingqiang Cécile Ousset Frederick Page Abbey Simon Gordon Watson Wiktor Weinbaum Roger Woodward | Sir Bernard Heinze |
| II | 1981 | Alec Chien | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Claude Frank Eileen Joyce André-François Marescotti Li Mingqiang Cécile Ousset Frederick Page Abbey Simon Gordon Watson Wiktor Weinbaum Roger Woodward | Sir Bernard Heinze |
| II | 1981 | Edward Newman | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Claude Frank Eileen Joyce André-François Marescotti Li Mingqiang Cécile Ousset Frederick Page Abbey Simon Gordon Watson Wiktor Weinbaum Roger Woodward | Sir Bernard Heinze |
| II | 1981 | Yves Rault | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Claude Frank Eileen Joyce André-François Marescotti Li Mingqiang Cécile Ousset Frederick Page Abbey Simon Gordon Watson Wiktor Weinbaum Roger Woodward | Sir Bernard Heinze |
| III | 1985 | Du Ning-Wu | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Eileen Joyce (deputy chairman) Marcello Abbado Nicole Henriot André Laplante Li Min-duo Jurgen Meyer-Josten Elizabeth Powell Harold C. Schönberg Peter Solymos Gordon Watson Kasulo Yasukawa | Eileen Joyce |
| III | 1985 | Bernd Glemser | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Eileen Joyce (deputy chairman) Marcello Abbado Nicole Henriot André Laplante Li Min-duo Jurgen Meyer-Josten Elizabeth Powell Harold C. Schönberg Peter Solymos Gordon Watson Kasulo Yasukawa | Eileen Joyce |
| III | 1985 | Thomas Duis | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Eileen Joyce (deputy chairman) Marcello Abbado Nicole Henriot André Laplante Li Min-duo Jurgen Meyer-Josten Elizabeth Powell Harold C. Schönberg Peter Solymos Gordon Watson Kasulo Yasukawa | Eileen Joyce |
| III | 1985 | Eduardus Halim | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Eileen Joyce (deputy chairman) Marcello Abbado Nicole Henriot André Laplante Li Min-duo Jurgen Meyer-Josten Elizabeth Powell Harold C. Schönberg Peter Solymos Gordon Watson Kasulo Yasukawa | Eileen Joyce |
| III | 1985 | Arnan Weisel | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Eileen Joyce (deputy chairman) Marcello Abbado Nicole Henriot André Laplante Li Min-duo Jurgen Meyer-Josten Elizabeth Powell Harold C. Schönberg Peter Solymos Gordon Watson Kasulo Yasukawa | Eileen Joyce |
| III | 1985 | Ueli Wiget | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Eileen Joyce (deputy chairman) Marcello Abbado Nicole Henriot André Laplante Li Min-duo Jurgen Meyer-Josten Elizabeth Powell Harold C. Schönberg Peter Solymos Gordon Watson Kasulo Yasukawa | Eileen Joyce |
| III | 1985 | István Gulyás | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Eileen Joyce (deputy chairman) Marcello Abbado Nicole Henriot André Laplante Li Min-duo Jurgen Meyer-Josten Elizabeth Powell Harold C. Schönberg Peter Solymos Gordon Watson Kasulo Yasukawa | Eileen Joyce |
| III | 1985 | Rita Kinka | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Eileen Joyce (deputy chairman) Marcello Abbado Nicole Henriot André Laplante Li Min-duo Jurgen Meyer-Josten Elizabeth Powell Harold C. Schönberg Peter Solymos Gordon Watson Kasulo Yasukawa | Eileen Joyce |
| III | 1985 | David Selig | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Eileen Joyce (deputy chairman) Marcello Abbado Nicole Henriot André Laplante Li Min-duo Jurgen Meyer-Josten Elizabeth Powell Harold C. Schönberg Peter Solymos Gordon Watson Kasulo Yasukawa | Eileen Joyce |
| III | 1985 | Michael Gurt | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Eileen Joyce (deputy chairman) Marcello Abbado Nicole Henriot André Laplante Li Min-duo Jurgen Meyer-Josten Elizabeth Powell Harold C. Schönberg Peter Solymos Gordon Watson Kasulo Yasukawa | Eileen Joyce |
| III | 1985 | Luigi Ceci | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Eileen Joyce (deputy chairman) Marcello Abbado Nicole Henriot André Laplante Li Min-duo Jurgen Meyer-Josten Elizabeth Powell Harold C. Schönberg Peter Solymos Gordon Watson Kasulo Yasukawa | Eileen Joyce |
| III | 1985 | Phillip Shovk | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Eileen Joyce (deputy chairman) Marcello Abbado Nicole Henriot André Laplante Li Min-duo Jurgen Meyer-Josten Elizabeth Powell Harold C. Schönberg Peter Solymos Gordon Watson Kasulo Yasukawa | Eileen Joyce |
| IV | 1988 | Alexander Korsantia | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Joan Chissell Nicole Henriot Li Mingqiang Albrecht Roeseler Harold C. Schönberg Warren Thomson Kazuyuki Tohyama Ana Maria Trenchi de Botazzi Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Eileen Joyce |
| IV | 1988 | Riccardo Zadra | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Joan Chissell Nicole Henriot Li Mingqiang Albrecht Roeseler Harold C. Schönberg Warren Thomson Kazuyuki Tohyama Ana Maria Trenchi de Botazzi Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Eileen Joyce |
| IV | 1988 | Eduardus Halim | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Joan Chissell Nicole Henriot Li Mingqiang Albrecht Roeseler Harold C. Schönberg Warren Thomson Kazuyuki Tohyama Ana Maria Trenchi de Botazzi Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Eileen Joyce |
| IV | 1988 | Sara Davis Buechner | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Joan Chissell Nicole Henriot Li Mingqiang Albrecht Roeseler Harold C. Schönberg Warren Thomson Kazuyuki Tohyama Ana Maria Trenchi de Botazzi Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Eileen Joyce |
| IV | 1988 | Sergei Erohin | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Joan Chissell Nicole Henriot Li Mingqiang Albrecht Roeseler Harold C. Schönberg Warren Thomson Kazuyuki Tohyama Ana Maria Trenchi de Botazzi Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Eileen Joyce |
| IV | 1988 | Phillip Shovk | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Joan Chissell Nicole Henriot Li Mingqiang Albrecht Roeseler Harold C. Schönberg Warren Thomson Kazuyuki Tohyama Ana Maria Trenchi de Botazzi Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Eileen Joyce |
| IV | 1988 | Gilead Mishory | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Joan Chissell Nicole Henriot Li Mingqiang Albrecht Roeseler Harold C. Schönberg Warren Thomson Kazuyuki Tohyama Ana Maria Trenchi de Botazzi Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Eileen Joyce |
| IV | 1988 | Anton Batagov | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Joan Chissell Nicole Henriot Li Mingqiang Albrecht Roeseler Harold C. Schönberg Warren Thomson Kazuyuki Tohyama Ana Maria Trenchi de Botazzi Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Eileen Joyce |
| IV | 1988 | Matthias Fletzberger | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Joan Chissell Nicole Henriot Li Mingqiang Albrecht Roeseler Harold C. Schönberg Warren Thomson Kazuyuki Tohyama Ana Maria Trenchi de Botazzi Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Eileen Joyce |
| IV | 1988 | Victor Sangiorgio | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Joan Chissell Nicole Henriot Li Mingqiang Albrecht Roeseler Harold C. Schönberg Warren Thomson Kazuyuki Tohyama Ana Maria Trenchi de Botazzi Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Eileen Joyce |
| IV | 1988 | Asaf Zohar | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Joan Chissell Nicole Henriot Li Mingqiang Albrecht Roeseler Harold C. Schönberg Warren Thomson Kazuyuki Tohyama Ana Maria Trenchi de Botazzi Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Eileen Joyce |
| IV | 1988 | Adrienne Krausz | Rex Hobcroft (chairman) Joan Chissell Nicole Henriot Li Mingqiang Albrecht Roeseler Harold C. Schönberg Warren Thomson Kazuyuki Tohyama Ana Maria Trenchi de Botazzi Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Eileen Joyce |
| V | 1992 | Xiang-Dong Kong | Warren Thomson (chairman) Joan Chissell Anthony Fogg Edward Gordon Li Mingqiang William Littler Hiroko Nakamura John O'Conor Elizabeth Powell Albrecht Roeseler Joaquín Soriano Maurice Till Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| V | 1992 | Olivier Cazal | Warren Thomson (chairman) Joan Chissell Anthony Fogg Edward Gordon Li Mingqiang William Littler Hiroko Nakamura John O'Conor Elizabeth Powell Albrecht Roeseler Joaquín Soriano Maurice Till Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| V | 1992 | Duncan Gifford | Warren Thomson (chairman) Joan Chissell Anthony Fogg Edward Gordon Li Mingqiang William Littler Hiroko Nakamura John O'Conor Elizabeth Powell Albrecht Roeseler Joaquín Soriano Maurice Till Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| V | 1992 | Hiroshi Arimori | Warren Thomson (chairman) Joan Chissell Anthony Fogg Edward Gordon Li Mingqiang William Littler Hiroko Nakamura John O'Conor Elizabeth Powell Albrecht Roeseler Joaquín Soriano Maurice Till Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| V | 1992 | Anna Malikova | Warren Thomson (chairman) Joan Chissell Anthony Fogg Edward Gordon Li Mingqiang William Littler Hiroko Nakamura John O'Conor Elizabeth Powell Albrecht Roeseler Joaquín Soriano Maurice Till Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| V | 1992 | Vitaly Samoshko | Warren Thomson (chairman) Joan Chissell Anthony Fogg Edward Gordon Li Mingqiang William Littler Hiroko Nakamura John O'Conor Elizabeth Powell Albrecht Roeseler Joaquín Soriano Maurice Till Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| V | 1992 | Daniel Gortler | Warren Thomson (chairman) Joan Chissell Anthony Fogg Edward Gordon Li Mingqiang William Littler Hiroko Nakamura John O'Conor Elizabeth Powell Albrecht Roeseler Joaquín Soriano Maurice Till Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| V | 1992 | Matthias Kirschnereit | Warren Thomson (chairman) Joan Chissell Anthony Fogg Edward Gordon Li Mingqiang William Littler Hiroko Nakamura John O'Conor Elizabeth Powell Albrecht Roeseler Joaquín Soriano Maurice Till Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| V | 1992 | Michele Bolla | Warren Thomson (chairman) Joan Chissell Anthony Fogg Edward Gordon Li Mingqiang William Littler Hiroko Nakamura John O'Conor Elizabeth Powell Albrecht Roeseler Joaquín Soriano Maurice Till Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| V | 1992 | Ivo Janssen | Warren Thomson (chairman) Joan Chissell Anthony Fogg Edward Gordon Li Mingqiang William Littler Hiroko Nakamura John O'Conor Elizabeth Powell Albrecht Roeseler Joaquín Soriano Maurice Till Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| V | 1992 | Young-Ah Kim | Warren Thomson (chairman) Joan Chissell Anthony Fogg Edward Gordon Li Mingqiang William Littler Hiroko Nakamura John O'Conor Elizabeth Powell Albrecht Roeseler Joaquín Soriano Maurice Till Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| V | 1992 | Helen Sim | Warren Thomson (chairman) Joan Chissell Anthony Fogg Edward Gordon Li Mingqiang William Littler Hiroko Nakamura John O'Conor Elizabeth Powell Albrecht Roeseler Joaquín Soriano Maurice Till Arie Vardi Lev Vlassenko | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| VI | 1996 | Sergey Tarasov | Warren Thomson (chairman) Aquiles Delle Vigne Dean Elder Ernest Fleischmann Alexander Jenner György Nador Hiroko Nakamura John Painter John Roos Pnina Salzman Edvard Tchivzhel Mikhail Voskresensky | Sir Georg Solti |
| VI | 1996 | Yuki Takao | Warren Thomson (chairman) Aquiles Delle Vigne Dean Elder Ernest Fleischmann Alexander Jenner György Nador Hiroko Nakamura John Painter John Roos Pnina Salzman Edvard Tchivzhel Mikhail Voskresensky | Sir Georg Solti |
| VI | 1996 | Roberto Cominati | Warren Thomson (chairman) Aquiles Delle Vigne Dean Elder Ernest Fleischmann Alexander Jenner György Nador Hiroko Nakamura John Painter John Roos Pnina Salzman Edvard Tchivzhel Mikhail Voskresensky | Sir Georg Solti |
| VI | 1996 | Christiano Burato | Warren Thomson (chairman) Aquiles Delle Vigne Dean Elder Ernest Fleischmann Alexander Jenner György Nador Hiroko Nakamura John Painter John Roos Pnina Salzman Edvard Tchivzhel Mikhail Voskresensky | Sir Georg Solti |
| VI | 1996 | Mikhail Yanovitsky | Warren Thomson (chairman) Aquiles Delle Vigne Dean Elder Ernest Fleischmann Alexander Jenner György Nador Hiroko Nakamura John Painter John Roos Pnina Salzman Edvard Tchivzhel Mikhail Voskresensky | Sir Georg Solti |
| VI | 1996 | Dimitry Grigortsevich | Warren Thomson (chairman) Aquiles Delle Vigne Dean Elder Ernest Fleischmann Alexander Jenner György Nador Hiroko Nakamura John Painter John Roos Pnina Salzman Edvard Tchivzhel Mikhail Voskresensky | Sir Georg Solti |
| VI | 1996 | Konstantin Masliouk | Warren Thomson (chairman) Aquiles Delle Vigne Dean Elder Ernest Fleischmann Alexander Jenner György Nador Hiroko Nakamura John Painter John Roos Pnina Salzman Edvard Tchivzhel Mikhail Voskresensky | Sir Georg Solti |
| VI | 1996 | Ingo Dannhorn | Warren Thomson (chairman) Aquiles Delle Vigne Dean Elder Ernest Fleischmann Alexander Jenner György Nador Hiroko Nakamura John Painter John Roos Pnina Salzman Edvard Tchivzhel Mikhail Voskresensky | Sir Georg Solti |
| VI | 1996 | David Louie | Warren Thomson (chairman) Aquiles Delle Vigne Dean Elder Ernest Fleischmann Alexander Jenner György Nador Hiroko Nakamura John Painter John Roos Pnina Salzman Edvard Tchivzhel Mikhail Voskresensky | Sir Georg Solti |
| VI | 1996 | Edward Park | Warren Thomson (chairman) Aquiles Delle Vigne Dean Elder Ernest Fleischmann Alexander Jenner György Nador Hiroko Nakamura John Painter John Roos Pnina Salzman Edvard Tchivzhel Mikhail Voskresensky | Sir Georg Solti |
| VI | 1996 | Gábor Rózsa | Warren Thomson (chairman) Aquiles Delle Vigne Dean Elder Ernest Fleischmann Alexander Jenner György Nador Hiroko Nakamura John Painter John Roos Pnina Salzman Edvard Tchivzhel Mikhail Voskresensky | Sir Georg Solti |
| VI | 1996 | Anne Louise-Turgeon | Warren Thomson (chairman) Aquiles Delle Vigne Dean Elder Ernest Fleischmann Alexander Jenner György Nador Hiroko Nakamura John Painter John Roos Pnina Salzman Edvard Tchivzhel Mikhail Voskresensky | Sir Georg Solti |
| VII | 2000 | Marina Kolomiitseva | Warren Thomson (chairman) Lazar Berman Timothy Calnin Aquiles Delle Vigne Franz Muller-Heuser Irina Plotnikova Pnina Salzman Phillip Shovk Edvard Tchivzhel Frank Wibaut | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| VII | 2000 | Ayako Uehara | Warren Thomson (chairman) Lazar Berman Timothy Calnin Aquiles Delle Vigne Franz Muller-Heuser Irina Plotnikova Pnina Salzman Phillip Shovk Edvard Tchivzhel Frank Wibaut | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| VII | 2000 | Evgeny Ukhanov | Warren Thomson (chairman) Lazar Berman Timothy Calnin Aquiles Delle Vigne Franz Muller-Heuser Irina Plotnikova Pnina Salzman Phillip Shovk Edvard Tchivzhel Frank Wibaut | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| VII | 2000 | Aleksei Volodin | Warren Thomson (chairman) Lazar Berman Timothy Calnin Aquiles Delle Vigne Franz Muller-Heuser Irina Plotnikova Pnina Salzman Phillip Shovk Edvard Tchivzhel Frank Wibaut | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| VII | 2000 | Vera Kamaneva | Warren Thomson (chairman) Lazar Berman Timothy Calnin Aquiles Delle Vigne Franz Muller-Heuser Irina Plotnikova Pnina Salzman Phillip Shovk Edvard Tchivzhel Frank Wibaut | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| VII | 2000 | Henry Wong Doe | Warren Thomson (chairman) Lazar Berman Timothy Calnin Aquiles Delle Vigne Franz Muller-Heuser Irina Plotnikova Pnina Salzman Phillip Shovk Edvard Tchivzhel Frank Wibaut | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| VIII | 2004 | John Chen | Warren Thomson (chairman) Nancy Bricard Aquiles Delle Vigne Alexander Jenner Xiang-Dong Kong Piers Lane William Lyne John O'Conor Arie Vardi | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| VIII | 2004 | Rem Urasin | Warren Thomson (chairman) Nancy Bricard Aquiles Delle Vigne Alexander Jenner Xiang-Dong Kong Piers Lane William Lyne John O'Conor Arie Vardi | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| VIII | 2004 | Daniel de Borah | Warren Thomson (chairman) Nancy Bricard Aquiles Delle Vigne Alexander Jenner Xiang-Dong Kong Piers Lane William Lyne John O'Conor Arie Vardi | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| VIII | 2004 | Ayano Shimada | Warren Thomson (chairman) Nancy Bricard Aquiles Delle Vigne Alexander Jenner Xiang-Dong Kong Piers Lane William Lyne John O'Conor Arie Vardi | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| VIII | 2004 | Alexander Lubyantsev | Warren Thomson (chairman) Nancy Bricard Aquiles Delle Vigne Alexander Jenner Xiang-Dong Kong Piers Lane William Lyne John O'Conor Arie Vardi | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| VIII | 2004 | Chu-Fang Huang | Warren Thomson (chairman) Nancy Bricard Aquiles Delle Vigne Alexander Jenner Xiang-Dong Kong Piers Lane William Lyne John O'Conor Arie Vardi | Sir Charles Mackerras |
| IX | 2008 | Konstantin Shamray | Warren Thomson (chairman) Michael Brimer Aquiles Delle Vigne Manana Doijashvili Norma Fisher Choong-Mo Kang Heinz Medjimorec Ian Munro Phillip Shovk Arie Vardi | Vladimir Ashkenazy |
| IX | 2008 | Tatiana Kolesova | Warren Thomson (chairman) Michael Brimer Aquiles Delle Vigne Manana Doijashvili Norma Fisher Choong-Mo Kang Heinz Medjimorec Ian Munro Phillip Shovk Arie Vardi | Vladimir Ashkenazy |
| IX | 2008 | Ran Dank | Warren Thomson (chairman) Michael Brimer Aquiles Delle Vigne Manana Doijashvili Norma Fisher Choong-Mo Kang Heinz Medjimorec Ian Munro Phillip Shovk Arie Vardi | Vladimir Ashkenazy |
| IX | 2008 | Takashi Sato | Warren Thomson (chairman) Michael Brimer Aquiles Delle Vigne Manana Doijashvili Norma Fisher Choong-Mo Kang Heinz Medjimorec Ian Munro Phillip Shovk Arie Vardi | Vladimir Ashkenazy |
| IX | 2008 | Tomoki Kitamura | Warren Thomson (chairman) Michael Brimer Aquiles Delle Vigne Manana Doijashvili Norma Fisher Choong-Mo Kang Heinz Medjimorec Ian Munro Phillip Shovk Arie Vardi | Vladimir Ashkenazy |
| IX | 2008 | Eric Zuber | Warren Thomson (chairman) Michael Brimer Aquiles Delle Vigne Manana Doijashvili Norma Fisher Choong-Mo Kang Heinz Medjimorec Ian Munro Phillip Shovk Arie Vardi | Vladimir Ashkenazy |
| X | 2012 | Avan Yu | Warren Thomson (Chairman)Michael BrimerAquiles Delle VigneManana DoijashviliNorma FisherHeinz MedjimorecIan MunroPhillip ShovkArie VardiDan-Wei Wei | Vladimir Ashkenazy |
| X | 2012 | Nikolay Khozyainov | Warren Thomson (Chairman)Michael BrimerAquiles Delle VigneManana DoijashviliNorma FisherHeinz MedjimorecIan MunroPhillip ShovkArie VardiDan-Wei Wei | Vladimir Ashkenazy |
| X | 2012 | Dmitry Onishchenko | Warren Thomson (Chairman)Michael BrimerAquiles Delle VigneManana DoijashviliNorma FisherHeinz MedjimorecIan MunroPhillip ShovkArie VardiDan-Wei Wei | Vladimir Ashkenazy |
| X | 2012 | Mikhail Berestnev | Warren Thomson (Chairman)Michael BrimerAquiles Delle VigneManana DoijashviliNorma FisherHeinz MedjimorecIan MunroPhillip ShovkArie VardiDan-Wei Wei | Vladimir Ashkenazy |
| X | 2012 | Hao Zhu | Warren Thomson (Chairman)Michael BrimerAquiles Delle VigneManana DoijashviliNorma FisherHeinz MedjimorecIan MunroPhillip ShovkArie VardiDan-Wei Wei | Vladimir Ashkenazy |
| X | 2012 | Tanya Gabrielian | Warren Thomson (Chairman)Michael BrimerAquiles Delle VigneManana DoijashviliNorma FisherHeinz MedjimorecIan MunroPhillip ShovkArie VardiDan-Wei Wei | Vladimir Ashkenazy |
| XI | 2016 | Andrey Gugnin | Piers Lane (Chairman)Sa ChenNikolai DemidenkoEwa KupiecHamish MilneNoriko OgawaOrli ShahamCarl VineTimothy WalkerMira Yevtich | Valery Gergiev |
| XI | 2016 | Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev | Piers Lane (Chairman)Sa ChenNikolai DemidenkoEwa KupiecHamish MilneNoriko OgawaOrli ShahamCarl VineTimothy WalkerMira Yevtich | Valery Gergiev |
| XI | 2016 | Moye Chen | Piers Lane (Chairman)Sa ChenNikolai DemidenkoEwa KupiecHamish MilneNoriko OgawaOrli ShahamCarl VineTimothy WalkerMira Yevtich | Valery Gergiev |
| XI | 2016 | Kenneth Broberg | Piers Lane (Chairman)Sa ChenNikolai DemidenkoEwa KupiecHamish MilneNoriko OgawaOrli ShahamCarl VineTimothy WalkerMira Yevtich | Valery Gergiev |
| XI | 2016 | Oxana Shevchenko | Piers Lane (Chairman)Sa ChenNikolai DemidenkoEwa KupiecHamish MilneNoriko OgawaOrli ShahamCarl VineTimothy WalkerMira Yevtich | Valery Gergiev |
| XI | 2016 | Jianing Kong | Piers Lane (Chairman)Sa ChenNikolai DemidenkoEwa KupiecHamish MilneNoriko OgawaOrli ShahamCarl VineTimothy WalkerMira Yevtich | Valery Gergiev |
| XII | 2021 | Alexander Gadjiev | Piers Lane (Chairman)Olivier CazalMark CoughlanĐặng Thái SơnOlga KernVladimir TroppSeta TanyelMira Yevtich | Valery Gergiev |
| XII | 2021 | Artem Yasynskyy | Piers Lane (Chairman)Olivier CazalMark CoughlanĐặng Thái SơnOlga KernVladimir TroppSeta TanyelMira Yevtich | Valery Gergiev |
| XII | 2021 | Calvin Abdiel | Piers Lane (Chairman)Olivier CazalMark CoughlanĐặng Thái SơnOlga KernVladimir TroppSeta TanyelMira Yevtich | Valery Gergiev |
| XII | 2021 | Alice Burla | Piers Lane (Chairman)Olivier CazalMark CoughlanĐặng Thái SơnOlga KernVladimir TroppSeta TanyelMira Yevtich | Valery Gergiev |
| XII | 2021 | Ádám Balogh | Piers Lane (Chairman)Olivier CazalMark CoughlanĐặng Thái SơnOlga KernVladimir TroppSeta TanyelMira Yevtich | Valery Gergiev |
| XII | 2021 | Shion Ota | Piers Lane (Chairman)Olivier CazalMark CoughlanĐặng Thái SơnOlga KernVladimir TroppSeta TanyelMira Yevtich | Valery Gergiev |
| XIII | 2023 | Jeonghwan Kim | Piers Lane (Chairman)Tanya BannisterAlexander GavrylyukKonstantin ShamrayKathryn StottAlasdair TaitXiaohan WangUta Weyand | Zubin Mehta |
| XIII | 2023 | Uladzislau Khandohi | Piers Lane (Chairman)Tanya BannisterAlexander GavrylyukKonstantin ShamrayKathryn StottAlasdair TaitXiaohan WangUta Weyand | Zubin Mehta |
| XIII | 2023 | Yungyung Guo | Piers Lane (Chairman)Tanya BannisterAlexander GavrylyukKonstantin ShamrayKathryn StottAlasdair TaitXiaohan WangUta Weyand | Zubin Mehta |
| XIII | 2023 | Yuanfan Yang | Piers Lane (Chairman)Tanya BannisterAlexander GavrylyukKonstantin ShamrayKathryn StottAlasdair TaitXiaohan WangUta Weyand | Zubin Mehta |
| XIII | 2023 | Wynona Yinuo Wang | Piers Lane (Chairman)Tanya BannisterAlexander GavrylyukKonstantin ShamrayKathryn StottAlasdair TaitXiaohan WangUta Weyand | Zubin Mehta |
| XIII | 2023 | Vitaly Starikov | Piers Lane (Chairman)Tanya BannisterAlexander GavrylyukKonstantin ShamrayKathryn StottAlasdair TaitXiaohan WangUta Weyand | Zubin Mehta |