Winners and Grinners — 2024 International Prize Winners

As 2024 comes to a close, we take a look back at the year’s major international competition prize winners and grant recipients

 

Congratulations to this year's winners!

Anna Im, Ruslan Talas, and Matthew Hakkarainen won first, second, and third prizes respectively at the Stuttgart International Violin Competition (SIVC).

Composers Léo Albisetti and Caio de Azevedo were awarded first prize ex-aequo at the Concours de Genève Composition Edition.

Soprano Chelsea Marilyn Zurflüh won first Prize at the 78th Concours de Genève Voice Edition.

14-year-old violinist Hayden Chiu won the New Zealand National String Competition.

Jouanna Hassoun and Shai Hoffmann won the Tonhalle Düsseldorf’s Human Rights Prize.

Romanian violinist Iohan Coman won the International Mieczysław Wajnberg Violin Competition in Poland.

Bang on a Can chamber music collective received the National Service Award at the Chamber Music America Awards.

Manami Suzuki became the first Japanese pianist and the first woman to win the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition.

For the second time, the Canadian luthier Fabienne Gauchet received a double gold medal at the Violin Society of America Competition.

The Dora Piano Trio (violinist Sofia De Falco, cellist Axelle Richez, and pianist Rocco Michela) received First Prize at the Orpheus Swiss Chamber Music Competition.

American cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins received First Prize at the Buchet International Cello Competition.

German conductor Simon Edelmann won first place at the Korean National Symphony Orchestra's Conducting Competition.

Chaowen Luo won First Prize at the ISANGYUN Violin Competition.

16-year-old Chinese pianist Zhonghua Wei won first place at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition Weimar.

35-year-old Ukrainian pianist Svetlana Andreeva received First Prize at France's Orléans International Piano Competition.

German violinist Mariam Abouzahra received First Prize of €14,000 at the Viotti International Violin Competition.

22-year-old German violinist Benjamin Günst received First Prize of €7,000 at the International Max Rostal Violin Competition.

South Korean double bassist Siheon Ryu won the International Bottesini Competition.

26-year-old Moldavian accordionist Radu Ratoi and 22-year-old Austrian pianist Kiron Tellian were named as the winners of the Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions.

Violist Kyungsik Shin won first prize and €7,000 at the International Max Rostal Viola Competition.

German pianist Robert Neumann won First Prize at the NTD Piano Competition.

Violinist Julian Kainrath won the Youth Prize of the Walther von der Vogelweide Preis.

Cellists Leland Ko and Jonathan Swensen received joint First Prize at the Naumburg International Cello Competition.

The Tacet(i) and the lovemusic ensembles each won the €75,000 prize from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

Greek conductor Kornilios Michailidis received First Prize at the Tokyo International Conducting Competition.

Isabelle Durrenberger won Second Prize at the Barbash Bach String Competition, and First Prize was not awarded.

Composer Güray Kapucu was the inaugural winner of the Brusa Foundation Award.

Magdalena Lucjan and Alejandro Baliñas Vieites won First Prize at the Neue Stimmen International Singing Competition.

Violist Seoyeon Ryu from Korea received First Prize at the Oskar Nedbal International Viola Competition.

South Korean violinist Sunjae Ok won the International Karol Lipiński Violin Competition.

Alessandro Peiretti's cello won the coveted Gold Medal at the Cremona Triennale Violin-Making Competition.

Chinese bass HuanHong Li won Istanbul’s Leyla Gencer Voice Competition.

Pianist Marc-André Hamelin and Cremona’s Stauffer Academy were among the major prizewinners at the Cremona Musica Awards.

15-year-old Chinese cellist Ziyang Zhao won First Prize at the Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition.

Pianist Juhee Lim, VC Artist violist Emad Zolfaghari, the Renaissance Quartet, violinist James Birch, and singer Milena Manocchia won the Salon de Virtuosi Career Grants.

24-year-old Canadian pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko won the Leeds International Piano Competition.

Cellists Lyana Ulikhanyan and Yosuke Shimizu won First Prize at the Bratislava International Cello Competition.

Cellist Maria Zaitseva has won first place at the ARD International Music Competition.

The Velvet Quartet won the Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award's Chamber Music Competition.

The Helix Trio from Switzerland won the Filippo Nicosia International Chamber Music Award.

Mai Ikawa and Natsuho Murata won their age categories at the Kloster Schöntal International Violin Competition.

16-year-old Canadian violinist Corina Deng won the Tibor Junior International Violin Competition.

Jieun Son of South Korea won the senior solo violin category at the Kreutzer International Music Competition.

The 25-year-old Chinese pianist Zijian Wei won the $75,000 first prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition.

Trio Chagall won the Prix Yves Paternot at the Verbier Festival Academy.

Spanish cellist Victor García García won first prize in the cello category at the Johann Sebastian Bach Competition Leipzig.

Dr. Toby Young won the £1.4 million UK Future Leaders Fellowship.

Composers David Harris and John Sturt were joint winners of the UK’s Laudemus Composition Competition.

Leon Bosch became the first double bass player and first Black musician to win London’s Cobbett Medal.

The Belgian trio Ayres Extemporae won First Prize at the York Early Music International Young Artists Competition.

Austrian violinist Maria Sotriffer received First Prize at the Ysaÿe International Music Competition.

Constantin Stefan Cristian and Leonhard Baumgartner won their respective age categories at the Ilona Fehér International Violin Competition.

Hungarian composer György Kurtág won the $100,000 Wolf Prize in Music.

Pianist Edward Leung won Vienna's "Pianos&Soul" Competition.

Paulo Virgoletti won first prize at the ANLAI International Violin Making Competition.

Lang Lang, Anna Prohaska, Gautier Capuçon, Anastasia Kobekina, Klaus Mäkelä, and more won OPUS KLASSIK Awards.

Russian pianist Alexandra Dovgan won Switzerland’s Prix Serdang Piano Prize.

Violist Emad Zolfaghari won first prize at the Primrose International Viola Competition.

Six young conductors were selected for a year-long career development program at the International Conducting Competition Rotterdam.

The Fibonacci Quartet (United Kingdom/Spain) won First Prize at the International String Quartet Competition "Premio Paolo Borciani".

Japanese violinist Tomotaka Seki won the 20th Khachaturian International Competition.

Japanese violinist Yuki Serino won First Prize and €40,000 at the Città de Cremona Violin Competition.

Wakana Kimura of Japan won the senior category at the Leonid Kogan Competition for 2024.

Russian pianist Ilya Shmukler received First Prize of 40,000 CHF at Zurich's Géza Anda Competition for 2024.

Nine-year-old violinist Kai Xuan Travis Wong won the Andrea Postacchini Violin Competition.

Violist Pearl de la Motte was this year's Grand Prize Winner at the Klein International String Competition.

Violinist Dmytro Udovychenko won First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition.

Violinists Xiao Wang and Karisa Chiu won first and second prizes, respectively, at the New York Classic Violin Competition.

Ryan Collis won the category for 19-25 year-olds, and Charlotte Robertson won the 18 and under category, at the UK's National Centre for Early Music.

The Berlin-based ensemble DieOrdnungDerDinge won Germany’s TONALi Award.

Canadian pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko won First Prize at the Concours Musical International de Montréal.

18-year-old South Korean cellist Tae-Yeon Kim won first prize at Poland's Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition.

Tsukushi Sasaki of Japan won First Prize in the Violin category at the Prague Spring Competition.

Colburn’s Trio Azura won the Grand Prize Medal at the Fischoff Competition.

Violinist Nathan Amaral, cellist Leland Ko, saxophonist Valentin Kovalev, and the Poiesis Quartet were the winners of the Concert Artists Guild Louis and Susan Meisel Competition.

Jayda Lu (Australia) and Valerie Bai (USA) shared First Prize at the International Anton Rubinstein Competition for Junior Violin.

Northumbrian bass-baritone Michael Ronan won the Musicians’ Company Prince’s Prize.

Composer and installation artist Manos Tsangaris was the winner of the Mauricio Kagel Music Prize.

Matthew Hakkarainen won the Grand Prize at the Adelphi Orchestra's Young Artist Competition.

The Arete Quartet won first prize at the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition.

34-year-old South Korean conductor Samuel S. Lee won first prize at the Malko Competition.

Pianist and Mozart specialist Robert Levin was honored with the Golden Mozart Medal.

Kim Byeol Claire was named the winner of the senior category at the Hong Kong International Young Musicians' Competition.

François López-Ferrer, Resident Conductor of the Académie of the Opéra de Paris, won the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award.

Violinist Meret Lüthi received the Golden Bow Award.

Composer Sir George Benjamin won a €400,000 cash prize and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.

Japanese violinist Yuki Hirano won the €20,000 first prize at the Vienna Classic Violin Competition.

The American trio Time for Three won the Khaledi Prize.

Composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir and bass-baritone Davóne Tines were among the ten winners of the CHANEL Next Prize.

South Korean violinist Soyoung Yoon won First Place of €20,000 at the Tokyo Classic Violin Competition.

South Korean cellist Gaeun Kim won First Prize at the Schadt String Competition.

Five singers each won a cash prize of $20,000 at the Metropolitan Opera's Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition.

Conductor Bar Avni from Israel won First Prize at the La Maestra Competition.

Violinist Anna Im won the €30,000 first prize at Italy’s Ars Classica International Competition.

25-year-old Canadian-Korean cellist Andrew Byun received First Prize at the Windsor Festival International String Competition.

Luthier Bernd Dimbath of the firm Heinrich Gill GmbH won the Musical Instrument Award.

Composers Illia Razumeiko and Roman Grigoriv, Kaija Saariaho, the Irene Taylor Trust, and the BBC Singers were among the prizewinners at the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards.

French-Turkish violinist Bartu Elci-Ozsoy won the Grand Prix at Belgium’s International Music Competition Triomphe de l’Art.

Andrey Gugnin won Dubai’s Classic Piano Competition.

Christopher Lowry won First Prize at the Maurice Gardner Competition for Composers.

Six young singers received the George London Award, valued at $12,000 each.

At the Bayreuth Scholarships and Wagner Young Talent Prize, first prize and €2,000 went to baritone Frieder Flesch.

Chinese pianist Yungyung Guo won the gold medal and a cash prize of $30,000 at Texas’ Gurwitz International Piano Competition.

Artists such as Yuja Wang, Julia Bullock, and Gustavo Dudamel were among those honored at the GRAMMY Awards.

22-year-old violinist Salomé Bonnema won the Oskar Back Prize, valued at €12,000, at the Netherlands Violin Competition.

Violinist Nathan Amaral won first prize in the Senior Division, while Ana Isabella España won the Junior Division, at the Sphinx Competition.

Luthiers Piotr Pielaszek and Viateur Roy shared the top prize in the professional category at the Paris International Lutherie Competition.

26-year-old Robert Bily won the Alexis Gregory Vendome Piano Prize.

Violinist Masha Lakisova won both the jury and online vote at the World's Biggest Stage Competition.

Violinist Renaud Capuçon was named Artist of the Year at the International Classical Music Awards.

The $100,000 Avery Fisher Prize was awarded to violinist Hilary Hahn.