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

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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

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  • 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).
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