# Viotti International Music Competition

The Viotti International Music Competition (Italian: Concorso Internazionale di Musica Viotti), named after the Italian composer and violinist Gian (Giovanni) Battista Viotti (1755–1824), is held every year in Vercelli, Piedmont. It was founded by violinist Joseph Robbone in 1950 and has been, since 1957, a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.
The competition is dedicated primarily to piano and opera singing, with rotating categories of voice (even numbered years), piano (odd numbered years), but also features sections for violin, chamber music, oboe, guitar, dance and composition, among others.
In the fifty years since its inception, thousands of competitors have taken part, many of whom have reached international fame. They include Luigi Alva, Claudio Abbado, Cathal Breslin, Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, Nicola Martinucci, Salvatore Accardo, Joaquín Achúcarro, Daniel Barenboim, Renato Bruson, Piero Cappuccilli, Raina Kabaivanska, Sumi Jo, Yeol Eum Son, Jeanne You, Violetta Egorova.
The judges have included Franco Corelli, Carlo Maria Giulini, Klaus Hellwig, Yehudi Menuhin, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Birgit Nilsson, Carl Orff, Aureliano Pertile, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Renata Scotto, Joan Sutherland, and Richard Aaker Trythall, Raina Kabaivanska.

## Piano Winners
### 1950s
#### 1950

* 1: Jean Micault
* 2: Maria Teresa Garatti; Carlos Rivero Morales
* 3: Licia Mancini

#### 1951

* 1: Isabella Salamon
* 2: [Hans] Peter Wallfisch
* 3: Pieralberto Biondi

#### 1952

* 1: René Pouget
* 2: Walter Blankenheim
* 3: Alexander Jenner; Andrzej Wasowski

#### 1953

* 1: Joaquín Achúcarro; Luciano Bertolini; Gabriel Tacchino
* 2: Monte Hill Davis; Eléonore Kraemer
* 3: Adriana Brugnolini [Vecchiato]; Jack Edwin Guerry

#### 1954

* 1: Yoko Kono
* 2: Cécile Ousset; Chiaralberta Pastorelli; Kurt Bauer; Richard Cass
* 3: Claudine Durussel; Marion Zarzeczna; Bruno Fabius; Alberto Neuman (Argentina); Emanuele Perrotta (Italy)
* Grand Prix: Daniel Barenboim

#### 1955

* 1: Cécile Ousset
* 2: Alberto Colombo
* 3: Danièle Dechenne–Decroos; Günter Ludwig; Natascia Calza; Pierre Delgrange; Alain Barnheim
* Finalist: Claudio Abbado

#### 1956

* 1: Robert Alexander Bohnke
* 2: Pier Narciso Masi; James Mathis
* 3: —

#### 1957

* 1: —
* 2: Claude Conard-Dargier; George Katz
* 3: Andrée Darras

#### 1958

* 1: —
* 2: Ivan Roy Davis Jr.; Claude Berard
* 3: —

#### 1959

* 1: —
* 2: John Perry; Irène Pamboukjian; Annick Savornin-Daru
* 3: Gino Brandi; Vittorio Del Col; Pierre-Yves Le Roux; Luisa De Robertis; Raffaella D’Esposito

### 1960s
#### 1960

* 1: Dale Bartlett
* 2: Eugenia Hymann Monacelli; Midori Miura
* 3: Bruno Pompili; Jerzy Gajek

#### 1961

* 1: Alberto Neuman
* 2: Giorgio Sacchetti
* 3: Antonio Rodríguez Baciero; Luigi Galvani

#### 1962

* 1: —
* 2 (Grand Prix): Lidia Rocchetti; Christian Bernard
* 2: Minka Royer-Routcheva; Giuliano Silveri; Alessandro Specchi
* 3: —

#### 1963

* 1: Franco Angeleri; Gernot Kahl
* 2: Paule-Françoise Bonnet; Gi-In Wang – Dag Achatz; – Ivan Darel-Kaiserman; Marco Vavolo
* 3: —

#### 1964

* 1: François-Joël Thiollier
* 2: Rafael Orozco-Flores; Lois-Carole Pachucki
* 3: Claude Savard

#### 1965

* 1: Joaquín Ángel Soriano Villanueva
* 2: Yoshiya Iwamoto; Robert Spillman (US); [Norma] Raquel Boldorini; Leonora Milá i Romeu; Suzanne Husson
* 3: Fausto Di Cesare; Vladimir Krpan

#### 1966

* 1: Jesús González Alonso; Klaus Hellwig
* 2: Ettore Peretti
* 3: Riccardo Risaliti; Kaori Kimura

#### 1967

* 1: Jacques Rouvier
* 2: Ettore Peretti; Catherine Collard
* 3: Jivko Paunov; Marie-Cécile Milan; Supitra Riensuvarn
* Finalist: Jean-Louis Steuerman

#### 1968

* 1: Alexandra Ablewicz; Anna Maria Cigoli
* 2: Micaela Mingardo
* 3: Danielle De Gasquet; César Brunin Zaror; Franz-Friedrich Eichberger

#### 1969

* 1: Sergio Marengoni
* 2: Maryvonne Le Gallo [De Saint-Pulgent]; César Brunin Zaror
* 3: Herbert Seidel; Marika Noda

### 1970s
#### 1970

* 1: Michael Krist
* 2: Yong-Hi Moon; Marina Horak
* 3: Carlos Cebro; Takejiro Hirai

#### 1971

* 1: Vincenzo Balzani; Hiroshi Tajika
* 2: Noemi Gobbi; Yaeko Sasaki; Vera Drencova
* 3: —

#### 1972

* 1: Dirk Joeres
* 2: Olivier Gardon; Bianca Bodalia
* 3: Claus-Christian Schuster; Ramzi Yassa – Taeko Kojima

#### 1973

* 1: —
* 2: Pascal Devoyon; – Csilla Schulter; Marioara Trifan
* 3: Emanuela Bellio; Nancy Loo

#### 1974

* 1: —
* 2: Anne Perchat; Pierre Laurent Aimard
* 3: Johannes Kropfitsch; Harumi Hanafusa

#### 1975

* 1: Arnulf Von Arnim; Edson Lopes Elias
* 2: Boris Bloch; Richard Fields; Elena Mouzalas
* 3: Jacques Gauthier; Tomoko Mizuno [Harada]; Diana K. Weekes

#### 1976

* 1: Karina Oganjan
* 2: Alexandre Malkus
* 3: Wolfram Lorenz; Svetlana Potanina

#### 1977

* 1: Erik Berchot; Ewa Pobłocka
* 2: Massimo Gon; Anne Robert [-Cambresy]
* 3: Elvina Zeynalova

#### 1978

* 1: Pavel Gililov; Angela Hewitt
* 2: Giovanni Umberto Battel; Yovcho Margaritov Krushev (Bulgaria); Jean-Yves Thibaudet
* 3:

#### 1979

* 1: —
* 2: Liora Ziv-Li; Alain Jacquon
* 3: —

### 1980s
#### 1980

* 1: Gulzhamilija Kadyrbekova
* 2: Vasif Hasanov; Claudius Tanski
* 3: François Chouchan; Atsuko Isozaki

#### 1981

* 1: Babette Hierholzer
* 2: Rita Kinka
* 3: Mayo Yoshimura

#### 1982

* 1: —
* 2: Thomas Duis
* 3: Anne Fawaz

#### 1983

* 1: Mari Tsuda
* 2: —
* 3: Olivier Cazal; Marie-Noëlle Damien

#### 1984

* 1: Oleg Volkov
* 2: Pavel Zarukin
* 3: —

#### 1985

* 1: Mi-Joo Lee
* 2: Véronique Pellissero; Elisabeth Väth-Schlader
* 3: Nobuyuki Nagaoka

#### 1986

* 1: Eckart Heiligers
* 2: Peter Máté
* 3: Martin Zehn

#### 1987

* 1: —
* 2: Mats Jansson
* 3: Hie-Yon Choi

#### 1988

* 1: Ulrike Payer
* 2: Luca Rasca
* 3: Hisako Nagayoshi; Sylviane Pintarelly [Calcagno]

#### 1989

* 1: Igor Kamenz
* 2: Sergej Yerokhin
* 3: Giampaolo Stuani; Roberto Corlianò

### 1990s
#### 1990

* 1: —
* 2: Choi Kyoung-Ah (Korea); Violetta Egorova
* 3: —

#### 1991

* 1: Andreij Sikhorskij
* 2: Luca Ballerini
* 3: Gabriele Maria Vianello; Sergeij Milchten

#### 1992

* 1: Camillo Radicke (Germany)
* 2: Wojciech Kocyan (Poland)
* 3: Maria Clementi (Italy)

#### 1993

* 1: Vadim Rudenko
* 2: Valeriu Rogacev
* 3: Mutsuko Yamamoto

#### 1994

* 1: —
* 2: Valeriu Rogacev
* 3: Cristiano Burato; Francesco Cipolletta

#### 1995

* 1: —
* 2: Aleksandar Serdar
* 3: Cristiano Burato; Etsuko Hirose

#### 1996

* 1: Eung-Joo Chung
* 2: Olga Pušečnikova [Olga Kern]
* 3: Tamara Stefanovich; Seiko Ohtomo

#### 1997

* 1: —
* 2: Christian Leotta
* 3: Julia Bartha; Nobuhito Nakai

#### 1998

* 1: —
* 2: Paolo Wolfango Cremonte; Noriko Ishiguro
* 3: Miwako Takeda

#### 1999

* 1: Ayako Kimura
* 2: Alessandra Maria Ammara
* 3: Davide Franceschetti

### 2000s
#### 2000

* 1: —
* 2: Davide Cabassi; Jacob Leuschner
* 3: Dong Min Lim; Ji Yeoun You [Jeanne You]

#### 2001

* 1: Hisako Kawamura
* 2: Stefania Cafaro
* 3: Federico Gianello

#### 2002

* 1: Yeol-Eum Son
* 2: Ekaterina Mechetina
* 3: Lorenzo Di Bella

#### 2003

* 1: Hyo-Sun Lim
* 2: Akiko Nikami
* 3: Jun Nakao

#### 2004

* 1: Feodor Amirov
* 2: —
* 3: —

#### 2005

* 1: Mizuka Kano [Hartmann]
* 2: Yuko Mine [Ellinger]
* 3: Boris Feiner

#### 2007

* 1: Martina Filjak
* 2: Sergej Artsibashev
* 3: Cathal Breslin

#### 2009

* 1: —
* 2: Stefan Ciric
* 3: Christian Chamorel

### 2010s
#### 2011

* 1: Alexey Lebedev
* 2: Illiya Zuyko
* 3: Artem Yasynskyy

#### 2013

* 1: Jonathan Fournel
* 2: —
* 3: Alexey Sychev; Alexander Panfilov

#### 2015

* 1: Ilya Maximov
* 2: Maxim Kinasov
* 3: Alexander Bernstein

#### 2017

* 1: Konstantin Emelyanov
* 2: Shiori Kuwahara; Aristo Sham

#### 2019

* 1: Ziyu Liu
* 2: Hans H. Suh
* 3: Yilan Zhao