# International Johannes Brahms Competition

The International Johannes Brahms Competition ("Brahms Competition") is an international competition for the performers of piano, violin, viola, cello, chamber music, and singers.
The competition has taken place annually since 1993. The event is held in Pörtschach am Wörthersee, Austria, where Johannes Brahms occasionally stayed during the summer.
In each category, competitors are obliged to perform works composed by Brahms, either in the preliminary or final round.

## Prize winners

| Year | Competition | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| 2001 | Violin | Ganna Stepanenko (Ukraine) | Ge Song (China) | Georgi Jaschwili (Georgia) |
| 2001 | Viola | Yoko Kanamaru (Japan) Alexander Zemtsov (Russia) | | Mihoko Kusama (Japan) |
| 2001 | Cello | Gabriel Faur (Romania) | Christian Hick (Germany) | Katarzyna Gorska (Poland) |
| 2001 | Piano | Mariko Onishi (Japan) | Jeanne You (South Korea) | Olga Sevidova (Russia) |
| 2001 | Voice | Daniel Sans (Germany) | René Perler (Switzerland) | Nozomi Mineshima (Japan) |
| 2001 | Chamber music | Schwarzrock/Kipp/Troe (Germany) | "Dali Piano Quartet" A. Mozgiel, R. Kwiatkowski, L. Lisowski, W. Jasman (Poland) | Yoshizawa/Hedenborg (Japan/Austria) |
| 2010 | Piano | Nao Yuki (Japan) | Osman Ozgur Unaldi (Turkey) | Natalia Rehling (Poland) |
| 2010 | Chamber music | Pescatori Trio | GuRu Duo | Piano Quartett "Anno Domini" |
| 2010 | Violin | Thomas Reif (Germany) | Lukas Stepp (Germany) | Martin Funda (Germany) |
| 2010 | Viola | Hwa Yoon Lee (South Korea) Lydia Rinecker (Germany) | | Wenting Kang (China) |
| 2010 | Cello | Yuki Ito (Japan) | Elizaveta Sushchenko (Russia) | Alexey Zhilin (Russia) |
| 2010 | Voice | Erwin Belakowitsch (Austria) | Astrid Kessler (Austria) | Martin Hensel (Germany) Veronika Groiss (Belarus) |
| 2015 | Piano | Maya Ando (Japan) | Uikyung Jung (South Korea) | Katharina Treutler (Germany) |
| 2015 | Chamber music | Project N.&A.: Alisa Kupriyova (piano); Nikita Budnetsky (violin) | Duo Baltinati: Lura Johnson (piano); Ilya Finkelshteyn (cello) | Duo Sonoro: Valeriia Shulga (piano); Andrii Pavlov (violin) |
| 2015 | Violin | Cosima Soulez Lariviere (Netherlands, France) | Matouš Pěruška (Czech Republic) | Daichi Nakamura (Japan) |
| 2015 | Viola | Not awarded | Mingyue Yu (China) | Matthias Schnorbusch (Germany) |
| 2015 | Cello | Christoph Croisé (France, Germany, Switzerland) | Yoosin Park (South Korea) | Kacper Nowak (Poland) |
| 2017 | Piano | Adela Liculescu (Romania) | Mayu Kotari (Japan) | Yow-Ting Hsieh (Taiwan) |
| 2017 | Violin | Daichi Nakamura (Japan) | Belle Ting (Canada) | Eunche Kim (South Korea) |
| 2017 | Cello | Ariel Barnes (Canada) | Erica Piccotti [de; fr; nl] (Italy) | Jordan Costard (France) |
| 2017 | Viola | Eunbin Lee (South Korea) | Ziyu Shen (China) | Sào Soulez Larivière (France) |
| 2017 | Voice | Alexander Grassauer (Austria) | Diogo Mendes (Portugal) | Daniel Ochoa (Germany) |
| 2018 | Piano | Mamikon Nakhapetov | Hiroyuki Kawashiri | Maximilian Kromer |
| 2018 | Violin | Eva Zavaro | Maine Nishiyama | Julia Turnovsky |
| 2018 | Cello | Luca Giovannini Alexey Zhilin | | Sul Yoon |
| 2018 | Chamber music | Duo Maestro, Andrey Baranenko, Alexey Zhilin | Arcon Trio, Julius Asal, David Marquard, Janis Marquard | Atalante Quartett, Elisabeth Eber, Thomas Koslowsky, Julia Maria Kürner, Lisa Kürner |
| 2019 | Violin | Simon Wiener | Tikhon Lukyanenko | Hwapyung Yoo |
| 2019 | Chamber music | Trio Legend, Agnieszka Zahaczewska-Książek, Krzysztof Katana und Monika Krasicka | Piano duo Tarvide/ Bumbiss, Roksana Tarvide und Kaspars Bumbišs | Trio Aralia, Théodore Lambert, Ida Derbesse und Magali Mouterde |
| 2019 | Piano | Misako Mihara | Shiho Ojima | Fuko Ishii |
| 2019 | Voice | Fabian Langguth | Aiko Sakurai | Sinhu Kim |
| 2019 | Best voice accompanist | Haruka Izawa | | |
| 2020 | Violin | Adam Koch Christensen (Denmark) | Chiara Sannicandro (Germany) | Jiaqi Lu (China) |
| 2020 | Viola | Takehiro Konoe (Japan) | Momoko Aritomi (Japan) | Emiko Yuasa (Japan) |
| 2020 | Cello | Ettore Pagano (Italy) | Jaromir Kostka (Germany) | Jeongheon Nam (South Korea) |
| 2020 | Voice | Misaki Morino (Japan) | Sofia Pavone (Germany) | Hongyu Chen (China) |
| 2020 | Best voice accompanist | Yuto Kiguchi (Japan) | | |
| 2021 | Voice | ex aequo: Yibao Chen (China, piano accompaniment: Mariko Sakonju, Japan) and Ann-Kathrin Niemczyk (Germany) | ex aequo: Yibao Chen (China, piano accompaniment: Mariko Sakonju, Japan) and Ann-Kathrin Niemczyk (Germany) | Corina Koller (Austria, piano accompaniment: Lukas Dorfegger, Austria) |
| 2021 | Viola | Kyungsik Shin (South Korea) | Sarah Strohm (Schwitzerland) | Yunji Jang (South Korea) |
| 2021 | Cello | Jan Sekaci (Romania) | Carlos Vidal Ballester (Spain) | Grace Sohn (Canada) |
| 2021 | Chamber music | Trio Bohémo – Vojtek Jan, Pĕruška Matouš, Vocetková Kristina (all Czech Republic) | Duo Minerva – Obuchi Mayuko, Mitsui Shizuka (both Japan) | Akhtamar Quartet - Alecian Coline, Stasyk Ondine, Pio Jennifer, Simon Cyril (France/Belgium) |
| 2021 | Best voice accompanist | Joseph Alejandro Avile Guerrero (Venezuela) | | |