# Clara Haskil International Piano Competition

The Clara Haskil Piano Competition (French: Concours international de piano Clara Haskil) was founded in 1963 in order to honour and perpetuate the memory the Romanian-Swiss pianist Clara Haskil.
The competition is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions since 1976. It takes place every two years in Vevey where Clara Haskil resided from 1942 until her death in Brussels in 1960. A street in Vevey bears her name.
The competition welcomes young pianists from all over the world.
The competition benefits from the collaboration with Radio Television Suisse Espace 2, and from the generous sponsorship of the Fondation Nestle pour l'Art, Leenards Foundation, Loterie Romande, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie Bank, the towns and communities of Vevey, Montreux, La Tour-de-Peilz, Blonay, Chardonne, Corseaux, Corsier, Jongny, and several commercial companies. The members of a circle of private donors, founded in 1999, also support the activities of the Clara Haskil Competition.
The final, broadcast by Radio Suisse Romande Espace 2 and by Radio Télévision Suisse, is part of the Montreux-Vevey International Festival of Opera and Music.

## Winners 1963–2023

| Year | Winner | Finalists |
| 1963 | no winner | Jon Bingham – England; Gino Brandi – Italy; Jakob Maxin – USA/Russia; Mayne Miller – USA |
| 1965 | Christoph Eschenbach, Germany | Françoise Parrot – France; Carme Vilà – Spain; Annerose Walther – Germany |
| 1967 | Dinorah Varsi – Uruguay | John Owings – USA; Zsuzsanna Sirokay – Hungary; Michael Studer – Switzerland |
| 1969 | no winner | Peter Lang – Austria; Hanae Nakajima – Japan; Zsuzsanna Sirokay – Hungary |
| 1973 | Richard Goode – United States | Penelope Blackie – Great Britain; Brigitte Meyer – Switzerland; Mitsuko Uchida – Japan |
| 1975 | Michel Dalberto – France | Marie-Catherine Girod – France; Brigitte Meyer – Switzerland; Kyung Sook Lee – Korea; Margrit Pirner – Germany |
| 1977 | Evgeni Koroliov – USSR | Dennis Lee – Malaysia; Jeffrey Kahane – USA; Mamiko Suda – Japan |
| 1979 | Cynthia Raim – United States | Edouard Garcin – France; Kei Itoh – Japan; Marie-Paule Siruguet – France; Pietro Rigacci – Italy; Mamiko Suda – Japan |
| 1981 | Konstanze Eickhorst – Germany | Eric N'Kaoua – France; Friedemann Rieger – Germany; Nina Tichman – USA; Marioara Trifan – USA |
| 1983 | no winner | Nathalie Béra-Tagrine – France; Luc Devos – Belgium; Sandro de Palma – Italy; Yukino Fujiwara – Japan |
| 1985 | Nataša Veljkovic – Yugoslavia | Philippe Cassard – France; Alexandra Papastefanou – Greece; Philippe Zahnd – Switzerland; Tomoko Ogasawara – Japan; Huseyn Sermet – Turkey |
| 1987 | Hiroko Sakagami – Japan | Sachiyo Yonekawa – Japan; David Satyabrata – Indonesia; Sylviane Deferne – Switzerland; Laurent Cabasso – France; Jean-Marie Cottet – France |
| 1989 | Gustavo Romero – United States | Ishibashi Eri – Japan; Marie-Josèphe Jude – France; Marietta Petkova – Bulgaria; Patricia Pagny – France; Doris Adam – Austria |
| 1991 | Steven Osborne – Scotland | Yoshiko Iwai – Japan; Lorenz Ehrsam – Switzerland; Emmanuel Strosser – France; Alena Tchernouchenko – USSR |
| 1993 | Till Fellner – Austria | Adrian Oetiker – Switzerland; Seiko Ohtomo – Japan |
| 1995 | Mihaela Ursuleasa – Romania | Sheila Arnold – Germany/India; Klaus Sticken – Germany; |
| 1997 | Delphine Bardin – France | Polina Leschenko – Russia, Israel; Hie-Yon Choi – South Korea; Daniil Kopylov – Russia; Nicholas Ong – Malaysia; Miku Nishimoto-Neubert – Japan |
| 1999 | Finghin Collins – Ireland | Julia Bartha – Germany; Julien Le Pape – France; Denys Proshayev – Ukraine |
| 2001 | Martin Helmchen – Germany | Inon Barnatan – Israel; Deborah Lee – United States |
| 2003 | no winner | Herbert Schuch – Germany; Stefan Stroissnig – Austria; Jacob Katsnelson – Russia |
| 2005 | Sunwook Kim – South Korea | Francesco Piemontesi – Switzerland; Gottlieb Wallisch – Austria |
| 2007 | Hisako Kawamura [ja] – Japan | Alina Elena Bercu – Romania; Yana Vasilyeva – Russia |
| 2009 | Adam Laloum – France | Nima Sarkechik – France / Iran; François Dumont – France |
| 2011 | Cheng Zhang – China | Zhi Chao Julian Jia – China; Joo Hyeon Park – South Korea |
| 2013 | Cristian Budu – Brazil | Dmitry Mayboroda – Russia; François-Xavier Poizat – Switzerland; Ainobu Ota – USA/Japan |
| 2015 | no winner | Guillaume Bellom – France; Benedek Horváth – Hungary; Yukyeong Ji – South Korea |
| 2017 | Mao Fujita – Japan | Aristo Sham – Hong Kong; Alberto Ferro – Italy |
| 2019 | no winner | Zhu Wang – China; Jorge González Buajasan – Cuba; Hyelim Kim – South Korea |
| 2021 | Yumeka Nakagawa – Japan/Germany | Wataru Mashimo – Japan; Juhee Lim – South Korea |
| 2023 | Magdalene Ho – Malaysia | Arthur Hinnewinkel – France; Elizaveta Ukrainskaia – Russia |