# Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers

The Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers was constituted in 1956 in East Berlin within the framework of the commemorations on the 100th anniversary of Robert Schumann's death. A second edition was organized on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, and three years later a third edition was arranged in Zwickau, his birthplace. The competition, a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions, has taken place in Zwickau every 3 or 4 years since.

## Prize winners
### Piano

Piano :
| Year |
| 1956 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize (ex-a.) |
| | Annerose Schmidt | Irina Sijalova | Lidia Grychtołówna |
| | | | Mikhail Voskresensky |
| 1960 | No piano category | No piano category | No piano category |
| 1963 | 1st prize | 2nd prize (ex-a.) | 3rd prize |
| | Nelly Akopyan | Rutka Carakcieva | Aniko Szegedi |
| | | Peter Rösel | |
| 1966 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize (ex-a.) |
| | Eliso Virsaladze | Svetlana Navasardyan | Raina Padareva |
| | | | Evgenia Sachareva |
| 1969 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| | Dezső Ránki | Tatyana Ryumina | Okitaka Uehara |
| 1974 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| | Pavel Egorov | Dina Joffe | Petru Grossmann |
| 1977 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| | Emma Tahmizian | Dana Borşan | Christoph Taubert |
| 1981 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize (ex-a.) |
| | Yves Henry | Susanne Grützmann | Kalle Randalu |
| | | | Balázs Szokolay |
| 1985 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| | Tamriko Siprashvili | Zuzana Paulechová | Mzija Gogashvili |
| 1989 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| | Éric Le Sage | Sachiko Yonekawa | Alexander Melnikov |
| 1993 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| | Temirzhan Yerzhanov | Eiji Shigaki | Corrado Rollero |
| 1996 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize (ex-a.) |
| | Mikhail Mordvinov | Dana Ciocarlie | Lyubov Gegechkori |
| | | | Christian Seibert |
| 2000 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| | Kiai Nara | Ulugbek Palvanov | Andrea Rebaudengo |
| 2004 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| | Akiko Yamamoto | Nicolas Bringuier | Soojin Ahn |
| 2008 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| | Mizuka Kano | Akiko Nikami | Da Sol Kim |
| 2012 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| | Aljoša Jurinić | Florian Noack | Luca Buratto |
| 2016 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| | not awarded | Tomoyo Umemura | Tiffany Poon |
| | | Cheng Zhang | Maiko Ami |

### Voice

Voice :
| Year |
| 1956 | 1st prize (ex-a.) | 2nd prize (ex-a.) | 3rd prize |
| | Kira Isotova | Sigrid Kehl | Dan Iordăchescu |
| | Aleksander Vedernikov | Jiří Bar | |
| 1960 | 1st prize | 2nd prize (ex-a.) | 3rd prize (ex-a.) |
| | Vitali Gromadski | Wolfgang Hellmich | Sylvia Geszty |
| | | Roman Horák | Violanta Sirotinina |
| 1963 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| | Karl Heinz Stryczek | Evgeni Isakov | Friederike Apelt |
| 1966 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| | Ionel Pantea | Julia Albonico | Jürgen Hartfiel |
| 1969 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| Ladies | Heidi Berthold-Riess | Rosemarie Lang | Georgina Orlovschi |
| Gentlemen | Ruben Lisician | Peter Tschaplik | Siegfried Lorenz |
| 1974 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| Ladies | Mitsuko Shirai | Andrea Ihle | Violetta Madjarova |
| Gentlemen | Lászlo Polgár | Sergej Lejferkus | Mihai Zamfir |
| 1977 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| Ladies | Edith Wiens | Mary Ann Hart | Jana Mrázová |
| Gentlemen | Boris Mareskin | Alibek Dnisev | Christoph Rösel |
| 1981 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| Ladies | not awarded | Constanza Mestes | Györgyi Benza (Ex aequo) |
| | | | Nadja Cvetkova (Ex aequo) |
| Gentlemen | Jürgen Kurth | Andreas Scheibner | Matthias Weichert |
| 1985 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| Ladies | not awarded | Cornelia Wosnitza | Kirsten Bertkau |
| Gentlemen | Karsten Mewes | Egbert Junghanns | Thomas Mäthger |
| 1989 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| Ladies | not awarded | Angela Liebold (Ex aequo) | Britta Schwarz |
| | | Svetlana Sumaceva (Ex aequo) | |
| Gentlemen | Frank Schiller | Matthias Goerne | Torsten Frisch |
| 1993 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| Ladies | not awarded | Asako Motojima | Barbara Hölzl (Ex aequo) |
| | | | Fumiko Hatayama (Ex aequo) |
| Gentlemen | Locky Chung | Stefan Geyer | Raimond Spogis |
| 1996 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| Ladies | Risako Kurosawa | Maria-Riccarda Schmid | Bodil Arnesen |
| Gentlemen | Henryk Böhm | Hideki Kadoya | Marius Budoin |
| 2000 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| Ladies | Annette Dasch | Christa Mayer | Measha Brueggergosman |
| Gentlemen | not awarded | Klemens Geyrhofer | Kyu-Hee Cho |
| 2004 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| Ladies | not awarded | Stefanie Irányi (Ex aequo) | Julia Amos |
| | | Lydia Teuscher (Ex aequo) | |
| Gentlemen | Colin Balzer | Daniel Wolfgang Johannsen | Peter McGillivray |
| 2008 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| Ladies | Anne-Theresa Albrecht | Carolina Ullrich | Julia Hajnóczy (Ex aequo) |
| | | | Sophie Harmsen (Ex aequo) |
| Gentlemen | | Christoph Pohl (Ex aequo) | Jesse Blumberg |
| | | Tomasz Wija (Ex aequo) | |
| 2012 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| Ladies | Anna Lucia Richter | Fatma Said | Simone Easthope (Ex aequo) |
| | | | Annika Boos (Ex aequo) |
| Gentlemen | Mauro Peter | Georg Gädker (Ex aequo) | not awarded |
| | | Sebastian Wartig (Ex aequo) | |
| 2016 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| Ladies | Henriette Gödde | Hiltrud Kuhlmann | Hagar Sharvit |
| Gentlemen | André Baleiro | Jean-Christophe Fillol | Jonathan Michie |

### String quartet

String Quartet :
| Year |
| 1960 | 1st prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
| | Jan-Evert-Andersson-Quartett | Peter-Komlós-Quartett | Christian-Lucaß-Quartett |