Concours Géza Anda

The Concours Géza Anda is a triennial international piano competition in Zürich, Switzerland. It was founded in memory of Hungarian pianist Géza Anda by his widow Hortense Anda-Bührle. The purpose of the competition is to discover and promote young pianists who will pass on the musical spirit of Géza Anda. The Géza Anda Foundation provides winners with free concert management for three years after the competition (up to 200 engagements).

Winners

Ed.	Year	First prize	Second prize	Third prize
1st	1979	Georges Pludermacher
2nd	1982	Heidrun Holtmann	Hung-Kuan Chen	Laurent Cabasso
3rd	1985	(not awarded)	tie: Yukino Fujiwara and Hüseyin Sermet	Michael Endres
4th	1988	Konstanze Eickhorst	Yukino Fujiwara	Ricardo Castro
5th	1991	Dénes Várjon	Konstantin Scherbakov	Matthias Kirschnereit
6th	1994	Pietro De Maria	Yoshiko Iwai	Luca Ballerini
7th	1997	Corrado Rollero	Roustem Saitkoulov	Yuka Imamine
8th	2000	Filippo Gamba	Henri Sigfridsson	Andrey Shibko
9th	2003	Alexei Volodin	Sergey Kuznetsov	Hisako Kawamura
		Mozart–Schumann Prize: Christoph Berner
10th	2006	Sergey Koudriakov	Nikolai Tokarev	Tomomi Okumura
11th	2009	Jinsang Lee	Alexei Zuev	Tatiana Kolesova
		Jinsang Lee also won Audience Prize, Mozart Prize, and Schumann Prize.
12th	2012	Varvara Nepomnyashchaya	Dasol Kim	Elmar Gasanov
		Elmar Gasanov also won Schumann Prize.
13th	2015	Andrew Tyson	Aleksandr Shaikin	Rolando Rolim
14th	2018	Claire Huangci	Jong Hai Park	Sergey Tanin
15th	2021	Anton Gerzenberg	Julian Trevelyan	Marek Kozák
		Julian Trevelyan also won Audience Prize and Mozart Prize
16th	2024	Ilya Shmukler	tie: Dumants Liepins and Dmitry Yudin	(not awarded)
		Ilya Shmukler also won Audience Prize, Mozart Prize, Special Price of the Hungarian Radio Arts Group, and Junior Jury Prize

References

• List of prize-winners and chairmen of the jury at Concours Géza Anda [until 2021, the date of publication], p. 135, in: Wolfgang Rathert: Géza Anda. Pianist. Ein Panorama zum 100. Geburtstag / A Panorama on his 100th Birthday, herausgegeben von der / published by Géza Anda Foundation [German-Englisch]. Hofheim, Wolke 2021 (ISBN 978-3-95593-104-9).

External links

• Official website
• Directory of International Piano Competitions
• Piano Competitions & Music Competitions at Bakitone International