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