# List of prize-winners of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition

This is a list of musicians who have been awarded in the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig since its foundation in 1950.

## Competition by year
### 1950

Piano
* 1　Tatiana Nikolayeva
* 2　Galina Feodorowa, Margarita Fyodorova
* 3　Jörg Demus, Waldemar Maciszewski
Organ
* 1　Amadeus Webersinke, Karl Richter
* 2　Ludwig Dörr, Gerhard Tipp
* 3　Walter Schönheit, Diethard Hellmann
Harpsichord
* 2　Ingrid Heiler
Voice
* 2　Eva Fleischer
* 3　Alina Bolechowska, Christa Maria Ziese
Violin
* 1　Igor Besrodny
* 2　Michail Waimann, Alexei Gorokhov
* 3　Werner Häutling, Agnes Vadas

### 1964

Piano
* 1　Ilse Graubin
* 2　Wolfgang Wappler, Melita Dukowa-Kolin
* 3　Igor Lazko, Gerhard Erber, Brunhild Partsch
Organ
* 1　Petr Sovadina
* 2　Karl-Rainer Böhme, Andreas Buschnakowski
* 3　Jan Hora
Voice
* 1　Bruce Abel
* 2　Wolfgang Hellmich, Rolf Wollrad
* 3　Wladimir Swistow

### 1968

Piano
* 1　Valery Afanassiev
* 2　Ivan Klánský
* 3　Evgeni Koroliov
Organ
* 1　Henning Wagner
* 2　Daniel Chorzempa
* 3　Christian Collum
Voice
* 1　Heidi Berthold-Riess
* 2　Eberhard Büchner
* 3　Siegfried Lorenz
Violin
* 1　Oleg Kagan
* 2　Christian Funke
* 3　Andras Kiss

### 1972

Piano
* 1　Winfried Apel
* 2　Jean-Louis Steuermann
* 3　Michail Petuchow
* 4　Gabriele Kupfernagel
* 5　Wadim Sacharow
Organ
* 1　Heribert Metzger
* 2　Istvan Ella
* 3　Hans Fagius
* 4　Friedrich Kircheis
* 5　Gottfried Preller
Harpsichord
* 1　Lionel Party
* 2　Armin Thalheim
* 3　Gyöngyver Szilvassy
* 4　Alexander Sung
* 5　Magdalena Myczka
Voice – female
* 1　Rosemarie Lang
* 2　Regina Werner
* 3　Julianne Paszthy
* 4　Nadeshda Wainer
Voice – male
* 1　Dieter Weimann
* 2　Gheorghe-Emil Crasnaru
* 3　Peter Tschaplik
* 4　Frank-Peter Späthe
Violin
* 1　Wladimir Iwanow
* 2　Konrad Other
* 3　Lidija Schutko

### 1976

Piano
* 1　Mikhail Volchok
* 2　Larissa Dedowa
* 3　Dietmar Nawroth
* 4　Konstantin Preda
* 5　Emma Tachmisjan
Organ
* 1　Elisabeth Ullmann
* 2　Joachim Dalitz
* 3　Hartmut Rohmeyer
* 4　Matthias Eisenberg
* 5　Thomas Sauer
Voice – female
* 1　Carola Nossek
* 2　Katalin Pitti
* 3　Nannita Peschke
* 4　Ursula Ankele-Fischer
Voice – male
* 1　Waldemar Wild
* 2　Gábor Németh
* 3　Frieder Lang
* 4　Miloslav Podalsky
Violin
* 1　Nilla Pierrou
* 2　Thorsten Rosenbusch
* 3　Daniel Phillips
* 4　Ralf-Carsten Brömsel
* 5　René Henriot
Cello
* 1　Alexander Rudin
* 2　Yvan Chiffoleau
* 3　Josef Feigelson
* 4　Tamas Koó
* 5　Akiko Kanamaru

### 1980

Piano
* 1　Anaid Nersesjan
* 2　Kei Itoh
* 3　Irina Berkowitsch
* 4　Bair Schagdaron
* 5　Gerald Fauth
Organ
* 1　Zsuzsana Elekes
* 2　Jaroslav Tůma
* 3　Kristiane Köbler
* 4　Bernhard Buttmann
* 5　Matthias Süß
Voice – female
* 1　Jadwiga Rappé
* 2　Liliana Bizineche
* 3　Monika Straube
* 4　Gabriele Pietschnigg
Voice – male
* 1　Yukio Imanaka
* 2　Andreas Sommerfeld
* 3　Christoph Rösel
* 4　Andreas Scheibner
Violin
* 1　Michael Erxleben
* 2　Thorsten Janicke
* 3　Waltraut Wächter
* 4　Carlos Egry-Bulnes
* 5　Dora Bratschkowa
Cello
* 1　Kerstin Feltz
* 2　Marin Cazacu
* 3　Michael Nellessen
* 4　Thomas Ahrndt
* 5　Matthias Bräutigam

### 1984

Piano
* 1　Alexander Paley
* 2　Susanne Grutzmann
* 3　Noriko Kodama
* 4　Walery Pjasetzkij
* 5　Ueli Wiget
* 6　Eliso Bolkwadse
* 7　Lora Dimitrova
* 8= Dirk Fischbeck
* 8= Chihiro Kawahara
* 8= Katrin Arzberger
Organ
* 1　John Gavin Scott
* 2　Christoph Mehner
* 3　Michael Schönheit
* 4　Arvid Gast
* 5　Rainer Maria Rückschloß
* 6　Kayo Ohara
* 7　Martin Sander
* 8　John Butt
Voice – female
* 1　Angela Liebold
* 2　Bettina Denner-Deckelmann
* 3　Constanta Adriana Mestes
* 4　Ute Selbig
* 5　Maria Ardo
* 6　Ingrid Kertesi
Voice – male
* 1　Egbert Junghanns
* 2　Kenzo Ishii
* 3　Ralph Eschrig
* 4　Mario Hoff
* 5　hans-Peter Bartels
* 6　Reinhart Groschel
Violin
* 1　Johannes Ludwig Von Schwartz
* 2　Birgit Jahn
* 3　Anna Rabinova
* 4　Lothar Strauß
* 5　Kai Vogler
* 6　Sylvia-Elisabeth Viertel
* 7　Thomas Bottcher
* 8　Juri Merschewskij
Flute
* 1　Wolfgang Ritter
* 2　Monika Hegedüs
* 3　Matthias Rust
* 4　Alison Mitchell
* 5　Karin Beck
* 6　Urszula Janik
* 7　Janos Balint
* 8　Keigo Mori

### 1988

Piano
* 1　Gerald Fauth
* 2　Nikolai Lugansky
* 3　Alexej Botowinow
* 4　Albrecht Hartmann
* 5　Megumi Hashiba
* 6　Dana Sasinowa
Organ
* 1　Martin Sander
* 2　Stefan Kircheis
* 3　Wolfgang Kläsener
* 4　Valter Savant-Levet
* 5　Andreas Strobelt
* 6　Markus Lang
Voice – female
* 2　Kerstin Klesse
* 3　Katherina Müller
* 4　Naomi Tsuji
* 5　Reinhild Wäntig
* 6　Bożena Harasimowicz
Voice – male
* 2　Matthias Bleidorn
* 3　Frank Schiller
* 4　Daniel Kaleta
* 5　Torsten Frisch
* 6　Fred Hoffmann
Violin
* 1　Antje Weithaas
* 2　Katrin Scholz
* 3　Kazimierz Olechowski
* 4　Hiroko Suzuki
* 5　Marat Bisengaliew
* 6　Denitza Kazakova
Cello
* 1　Marc Coppey
* 2　Michael Sanderling
* 3　Raphaël Pidoux
* 4　Anton Istomin
* 5　Sybille Hesselbarth
* 6　Friedemann Ludwig

### 1992

Piano
* 2　Ragna Schirmer
* 3　Juri Bogdanov
* 4　Yukiyo Endo
* 5　Anna Schibaeva Belo
Organ
* 2　Luca Antoniotti, Michael Bloss
* 3　Valter Savant-Levet
Harpsichord
* 2　Daniela Numico
* 3　Anikó Soltész, Mechthild Stark
* 4　Akiko Kuwagata
* 6　Agnes Várallyay
Violin
* 1　Rachel Barton
* 2　Thomas Timm, Axel Strauß
* 4　Albrecht Winter
Voice – female
* 1　Bogna Bartosz
* 2　Yvonne Albes
* 3　Alla Simonichvili
* 4　Antje Perscholka
* 5　Bettine Eismann
* 6　Irina Potapenko
Voice – male
* 2　Jochen Kupfer
* 4　Dietrich Greve

### 1996

Piano
* 2　Cornelia Herrmann
* 3　Christopher Hinterhuber
Organ
* No prize awarded
Harpsichord
* 3　Giampietro Rosato
Violin
* 2　Natsumi Tamai
* 3　Amanda Favier, Aki Sunahara
Voice – female
* 2　Klaudia Zeiner, Simone Kermes, Anne Buter
Voice – male
* 1　Christoph Genz
* 2　Ekkehard Abele
* 3　Ralf Ernst, Marcus Volpert

### 1998

Piano
* 2　Ragna Schirmer
* 3　Miku Nishimoto-Neubert, Mari Kokuho
Cello
* 1　Emil Rovner
* 2　Renaud Déjardin
* 3　Ophélie Gaillard
Voice – female
* 1　Asako Motojima
* 2　Letizia Scherrer
* 3　Konstanze Maxsein
Voice – male
* 1　Jan Kobow
* 2　Andreas Post, Matthias Vieweg
* 3　Marcus Niedermeyr

### 2000

Harpsichord
* 2　Wiebke Weidanz, Pieter-Jan Belder
* 3　Philippe Leroy
Organ
* 1　Johannes Unger
* 2　Gunther Rost
* 3　Yuichiro Shiina

### 2002

Piano
* 1　Martin Stadtfeld
* 2　Andrew Brownell, Eric Fung
Violin and Baroque violin
* 2　Laura Vikman
* 3　Sonja Starke
Voice – female
* 1　Franziska Gottwald
* 2　Sigrid Horvath
* 3　Barbara Tišler
Voice – male
* 1　Dominik Wörner
* 2　Daniel Johannsen
* 3　Seung-Hee Park

### 2004

Cello and Baroque cello
* 1　Olivier Marron
* 2　Adam Mital
* 3　Richard Harwood
Voice
* 1　Julius Pfeifer
* 2　Trine Wilsberg Lund
* 3　Markus Flaig
Organ
* 1　Jörg Halubek
* 2　Elke Eckerstorfer
* 3　Frédéric Champion

### 2006

Harpsichord
* 1　Francesco Corti
* 2　Ilpo Laspas
* 3　François Guerrier
Piano
* 1　Irina Zahharenkova
* 2　Varvara Nepomnyashchaya
* 3　Elena Vorotko
Violin and Baroque violin
* 1　Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir
* 2　Mayumi Hirasaki
* 3　Dmitry Sinkovsky

### 2008

Organ
* 1 Bálint Karosi
* 2 Ilpo Laspas
* 3 Lukas Stolhof
Voice
* 1 Marie Friederike Schoder
* 2 Margot Oitzinger
* 3 Jens Hamann
Cello and Baroque cello
* 1 Philip Higham
* 2 Toru Yamamoto
* 3 Davit Melkonyan

### 2010

Piano
* 1 Ilya Poletaev
* 2 Stepan Simonian
* 3 Ekaterina Richter
Harpsichord
* 1 Maria Uspenskaya
* 2 Magdalena Malec
* 3 Nadja Lesaulnier
Violin and Baroque violin
* 1 Evgeny Sviridov
* 2 Shunsuke Sato
* 3 Friederike Starkloff

### 2012

Organ
* 1. Johannes Lang
* 2. Sebastian Küchler-Blessing
* 3. Matthias Neumann
Voice
* 1. Dávid Szigetvári
* 2. Benno Schachtner
* 3. Matthias Winckhler
Cello and Baroque cello
* 1. Beiliang Zhu
* 2. Ditta Rohmann
* 3. Clara Pouvreau

### 2014

Piano
* 1. Hilda Huang, United States
* 2. Schaghajegh Nosrati, Germany
* 3. Georg Kjurdian, Latvia
Harpsichord
* 1. Jean-Christophe Dijoux, France
* 2. Olga Pashchenko, Russia
* 3. Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya, Russia
Violin and Baroque violin
* 1. Seiji Okamoto, Japan
* 2. Marie Radauer-Plank, Austria
* 3. Niek Baar, Netherlands

### 2016

Organ
* 1. Kazuki Tomita, Japan
* 2. Pavel Svoboda, Czech Republic
* 3. Alina Nikitina, Russia
Voice
* 1. Patrick Grahl, Tenor, Germany
* 2. Raphael Höhn, Tenor, Switzerland
* 3. Geneviève Tschumi, Contralto, Switzerland
Cello and Baroque cello
* 1. Paolo Bonomini, Cello, Italy
* 2. Ursina Braun, Cello, Switzerland
* 3. Vladimir Waltham, Baroque cello, France/United Kingdom

### 2018

Piano
* 1. Rachel Naomi Kudo (US)
* 2. Arash Rokni (Iran)
* 3. Jonathan Ferrucci (Australia/Italy)
Harpsichord
* 1. Avinoam Shalev (Israel)
* 2. Andrew Rosenblum (US)
* 3. Anastasia Antonova (Russia)
Violin
* 1. Maria Włoszczowska (Poland)
* 2. Maia Cabeza (US/Canada)
* 3. Hed Yaron Meyerson (Germany/Israel) Baroque violin

### 2020

The 2020 Competition in Leipzig has been canceled due to the Corona crisis.
2022
Piano
* 1. Olga Davnis (Russia)
* 2. Mattia Fusi (Italy)
* 3. Eden Agranat Meged (Israel)
Harpsichord
* 1. Alexander von Heißen (Germany)
* 2. Irene González Roldán (Spain)
* 3. Dmytro Kokoshynskyy (Ukraine)
Violin/Baroque Violin
* 1. Charlotte Spruit (Netherlands)
* 2. Qingzhu Weng (China)
* 3. Sophia Prodanova (Bulgaria)