The Viotti International Music Competition (Italian: Concorso Internazionale di Musica Viotti), named after the Italian composer and violinist Gian (Giovanni) Battista Viotti (1755–1824), is held every year in Vercelli, Piedmont. It was founded by violinist Joseph Robbone in 1950 and has been, since 1957, a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.

The competition is dedicated primarily to piano and opera singing, with rotating categories of voice (even numbered years), piano (odd numbered years),[1][2] but also features sections for violin, chamber music, oboe, guitar, dance and composition, among others.

In the fifty years since its inception, thousands of competitors have taken part, many of whom have reached international fame. They include Luigi Alva, Claudio Abbado, Cathal Breslin, Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, Nicola Martinucci, Salvatore Accardo, Joaquín Achúcarro, Daniel Barenboim, Renato Bruson, Piero Cappuccilli, Raina Kabaivanska, Sumi Jo, Yeol Eum Son, Jeanne You, Violetta Egorova.

The judges have included Franco Corelli, Carlo Maria Giulini, Klaus Hellwig, Yehudi Menuhin, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Birgit Nilsson, Carl Orff, Aureliano Pertile, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Renata Scotto, Joan Sutherland, and Richard Aaker Trythall, Raina Kabaivanska.

Piano Winners

1950s

1950

  • 1: France Jean Micault
  • 2: Italy Maria Teresa Garatti; Mexico Carlos Rivero Morales
  • 3: Italy Licia Mancini

1951

  • 1: Italy Isabella Salamon
  • 2: PolandIsrael [Hans] Peter Wallfisch
  • 3: Italy Pieralberto Biondi

1952

1953

  • 1: Spain Joaquín Achúcarro; Italy Luciano Bertolini; France Gabriel Tacchino
  • 2: United States Monte Hill Davis; France Eléonore Kraemer
  • 3: Italy Adriana Brugnolini [Vecchiato]; United States Jack Edwin Guerry

1954

  • 1: Japan Yoko Kono
  • 2: France Cécile Ousset; Italy Chiaralberta Pastorelli; West Germany Kurt Bauer; United States Richard Cass
  • 3: France Claudine Durussel; United States Marion Zarzeczna; France Bruno Fabius; Alberto Neuman (Argentina); Emanuele Perrotta (Italy)
  • Grand Prix: ArgentinaIsrael Daniel Barenboim

1955

  • 1: France Cécile Ousset
  • 2: Italy Alberto Colombo
  • 3: France Danièle Dechenne–Decroos; West Germany Günter Ludwig; Italy Natascia Calza; France Pierre Delgrange; France Alain Barnheim
  • Finalist: Italy Claudio Abbado

1956

  • 1: West Germany Robert Alexander Bohnke
  • 2: Italy Pier Narciso Masi; United States James Mathis
  • 3: —

1957

  • 1: —
  • 2: France Claude Conard-Dargier; United States George Katz
  • 3: Greece Andrée Darras

1958

  • 1: —
  • 2: United States Ivan Roy Davis Jr.; France Claude Berard
  • 3: —

1959

  • 1: —
  • 2: United States John Perry; France Irène Pamboukjian; France Annick Savornin-Daru
  • 3: Italy Gino Brandi; Italy Vittorio Del Col; France Pierre-Yves Le Roux; Italy Luisa De Robertis; Italy Raffaella D’Esposito

1960s

1960

  • 1: Canada Dale Bartlett
  • 2: United States Eugenia Hymann Monacelli; Japan Midori Miura
  • 3: Italy Bruno Pompili; Poland Jerzy Gajek

1961

  • 1: Argentina Alberto Neuman
  • 2: Italy Giorgio Sacchetti
  • 3: Spain Antonio Rodríguez Baciero; Italy Luigi Galvani

1962

  • 1: —
  • 2 (Grand Prix): Italy Lidia Rocchetti; France Christian Bernard
  • 2: BulgariaFrance Minka Royer-Routcheva; Italy Giuliano Silveri; Italy Alessandro Specchi
  • 3: —

1963

  • 1: Italy Franco Angeleri; West Germany Gernot Kahl
  • 2: France Paule-Françoise Bonnet; China Gi-In Wang – Sweden Dag Achatz; – France Ivan Darel-Kaiserman; Italy Marco Vavolo
  • 3: —

1964

  • 1: United States François-Joël Thiollier
  • 2: Spain Rafael Orozco-Flores; United States Lois-Carole Pachucki
  • 3: Canada Claude Savard

1965

  • 1: Spain Joaquín Ángel Soriano Villanueva
  • 2: Japan Yoshiya Iwamoto; United States Robert Spillman (US); Uruguay [Norma] Raquel Boldorini; Spain Leonora Milá i Romeu; ArgentinaFrance Suzanne Husson
  • 3: Italy Fausto Di Cesare; Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vladimir Krpan

1966

  • 1: Spain Jesús González Alonso; West Germany Klaus Hellwig
  • 2: Italy Ettore Peretti
  • 3: Italy Riccardo Risaliti; Japan Kaori Kimura

1967

  • 1: France Jacques Rouvier
  • 2: Italy Ettore Peretti; France Catherine Collard
  • 3: Bulgaria Jivko Paunov; FranceMorocco Marie-Cécile Milan; Thailand Supitra Riensuvarn
  • Finalist: Brazil Jean-Louis Steuerman

1968

  • 1: Poland Alexandra Ablewicz; Italy Anna Maria Cigoli
  • 2: Italy Micaela Mingardo
  • 3: France Danielle De Gasquet; Chile César Brunin Zaror; West Germany Franz-Friedrich Eichberger

1969

  • 1: Italy Sergio Marengoni
  • 2: France Maryvonne Le Gallo [De Saint-Pulgent]; Chile César Brunin Zaror
  • 3: West Germany Herbert Seidel; Japan Marika Noda

1970s

1970

  • 1: AustriaWest Germany Michael Krist
  • 2: South Korea Yong-Hi Moon; Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Marina Horak
  • 3: Uruguay Carlos Cebro; Japan Takejiro Hirai

1971

  • 1: Italy Vincenzo Balzani; Japan Hiroshi Tajika
  • 2: Italy Noemi Gobbi; Japan Yaeko Sasaki; Bulgaria Vera Drencova
  • 3: —

1972

  • 1: West Germany Dirk Joeres
  • 2: France Olivier Gardon; Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Bianca Bodalia
  • 3: Austria Claus-Christian Schuster; Egypt Ramzi Yassa – Japan Taeko Kojima

1973

  • 1: —
  • 2: France Pascal Devoyon; – Hungary Csilla Schulter; United States Marioara Trifan
  • 3: Italy Emanuela Bellio; Hong Kong Nancy Loo

1974

  • 1: —
  • 2: France Anne Perchat; France Pierre Laurent Aimard
  • 3: Austria Johannes Kropfitsch; Japan Harumi Hanafusa

1975

  • 1: West Germany Arnulf Von Arnim; Brazil Edson Lopes Elias
  • 2: United States Boris Bloch; United States Richard Fields; Cyprus Elena Mouzalas
  • 3: France Jacques Gauthier; Japan Tomoko Mizuno [Harada]; Australia Diana K. Weekes

1976

  • 1: Soviet Union Karina Oganjan
  • 2: Soviet Union Alexandre Malkus
  • 3: West Germany Wolfram Lorenz; Soviet Union Svetlana Potanina

1977

  • 1: France Erik Berchot; Poland Ewa Pobłocka
  • 2: Italy Massimo Gon; Anne Robert [-Cambresy]
  • 3: Soviet Union Elvina Zeynalova

1978

  • 1: Soviet Union Pavel Gililov; Canada Angela Hewitt
  • 2: Italy Giovanni Umberto Battel; Bulgaria Yovcho Margaritov Krushev (Bulgaria); France Jean-Yves Thibaudet
  • 3:

1979

  • 1: —
  • 2: IsraelUnited Kingdom Liora Ziv-Li; France Alain Jacquon
  • 3: —

1980s

1980

  • 1: Soviet Union Gulzhamilija Kadyrbekova
  • 2: Soviet Union Vasif Hasanov; West Germany Claudius Tanski
  • 3: France François Chouchan; Japan Atsuko Isozaki

1981

  • 1: West GermanyUnited States Babette Hierholzer
  • 2: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Rita Kinka
  • 3: Japan Mayo Yoshimura

1982

  • 1: —
  • 2: West Germany Thomas Duis
  • 3: Lebanon Anne Fawaz

1983

  • 1: Japan Mari Tsuda
  • 2: —
  • 3: France Olivier Cazal; Belgium Marie-Noëlle Damien

1984

  • 1: Soviet Union Oleg Volkov
  • 2: Soviet Union Pavel Zarukin
  • 3: —

1985

  • 1: South Korea Mi-Joo Lee
  • 2: France Véronique Pellissero; Austria Elisabeth Schlader
  • 3: Japan Nobuyuki Nagaoka

1986

  • 1: West Germany Eckart Heiligers
  • 2: CzechoslovakiaIceland Peter Máté
  • 3: West Germany Martin Zehn

1987

  • 1: —
  • 2: Sweden Mats Jansson
  • 3: South Korea Hie-Yon Choi

1988

  • 1: West Germany Ulrike Payer
  • 2: Italy Luca Rasca
  • 3: Japan Hisako Nagayoshi; France Sylviane Pintarelly [Calcagno]

1989

  • 1: Soviet UnionWest Germany Igor Kamenz
  • 2: Soviet Union Sergej Yerokhin
  • 3: Italy Giampaolo Stuani; Italy Roberto Corlianò

1990s

1990

  • 1: —
  • 2: South Korea Choi Kyoung-Ah (Korea); Soviet Union Violetta Egorova
  • 3: —

1991

  • 1: Soviet Union Andreij Sikhorskij
  • 2: Italy Luca Ballerini
  • 3: Italy Gabriele Maria Vianello; Soviet Union Sergeij Milchten

1992

  • 1: Germany Camillo Radicke (Germany)
  • 2: Poland Wojciech Kocyan (Poland)
  • 3: Italy Maria Clementi (Italy)

1993

  • 1: Russia Vadim Rudenko
  • 2: Romania Valeriu Rogacev
  • 3: Japan Mutsuko Yamamoto

1994

  • 1: —
  • 2: Romania Valeriu Rogacev
  • 3: Italy Cristiano Burato; Italy Francesco Cipolletta

1995

  • 1: —
  • 2: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Aleksandar Serdar
  • 3: Italy Cristiano Burato; Japan Etsuko Hirose

1996

  • 1: South Korea Eung-Joo Chung
  • 2: RussiaUnited States Olga Pušečnikova [Olga Kern]
  • 3: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Tamara Stefanovich; Japan Seiko Ohtomo

1997

  • 1: —
  • 2: Italy Christian Leotta
  • 3: Germany Julia Bartha; Japan Nobuhito Nakai

1998

  • 1: —
  • 2: Italy Paolo Wolfango Cremonte; Japan Noriko Ishiguro
  • 3: Japan Miwako Takeda

1999

  • 1: Japan Ayako Kimura
  • 2: Italy Alessandra Maria Ammara
  • 3: Italy Davide Franceschetti

2000s

2000

  • 1: —
  • 2: Italy Davide Cabassi; Germany Jacob Leuschner
  • 3: South Korea Dong Min Lim; South Korea Ji Yeoun You [Jeanne You]

2001

  • 1: Japan Hisako Kawamura
  • 2: Italy Stefania Cafaro
  • 3: Italy Federico Gianello

2002

  • 1: South Korea Yeol-Eum Son
  • 2: Russia Ekaterina Mechetina
  • 3: Italy Lorenzo Di Bella

2003

  • 1: South Korea Hyo-Sun Lim
  • 2: Japan Akiko Nikami
  • 3: Japan Jun Nakao

2004

  • 1: Russia Feodor Amirov
  • 2: —
  • 3: —

2005

  • 1: JapanGermany Mizuka Kano [Hartmann]
  • 2: Japan Yuko Mine [Ellinger]
  • 3: IsraelUkraineGermany Boris Feiner

2007

  • 1: Croatia Martina Filjak
  • 2: Russia Sergej Artsibashev
  • 3: Republic of IrelandUnited States Cathal Breslin

2009

  • 1: —
  • 2: Serbia Stefan Ciric
  • 3: Switzerland Christian Chamorel

2010s

2011

  • 1: Russia Alexey Lebedev
  • 2: Ukraine Illiya Zuyko
  • 3: Ukraine Artem Yasynskyy

2013

  • 1: France Jonathan Fournel
  • 2: —
  • 3: Russia Alexey Sychev; Russia Alexander Panfilov

2015

  • 1: Russia Ilya Maximov
  • 2: Russia Maxim Kinasov
  • 3: United States Alexander Bernstein

2017

  • 1: Russia Konstantin Emelyanov
  • 2: Japan Shiori Kuwahara; Hong KongUnited States Aristo Sham

2019

  • 1: China Ziyu Liu
  • 2: South Korea Hans H. Suh
  • 3: China Yilan Zhao

References

  1. Deutsches Musikinformationszentrum (17 November 2016). "Gian Battista Viotti International Music Competition". MIZ (in German). Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  2. "Viotti Competition". Music Pages. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
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