| Schumann-Fest |
| The City’s Robert Schumann Prize |
| International Robert Schumann Contest for Pianists and Singers |
| International Robert Schumann Choral Competition |
| Junior Schumann Competition |

| winners |
| XVI. Zwickau 2012 |
| Piano |
| 1st prize | Aljoša Jurinić, Croatia | |
| 2nd prize | Florian Noack, Belgium | |
| 3rd prize | Luca Buratto, Italy |
| Diploma | Uikyung Jung, Republic of Korea | |
| Andrey Telkov, Russia |
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| Voice: Ladies |
| 1st prize | Anna Lucia Richter, Germany | |
| 2nd prize | Fatma Said, Egypt | |
| 3rd prize | Simone Easthope, Australia | |
| Annika Boos, Germany |
| Diploma | Silke Gäng, Germany |
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| Voice: Gentlemen |
| 1st prize | Mauro Peter, Switzerland | |
| 2nd prize | Georg Gädker, Germany | |
| Sebastian Wartig, Germany | ||
| 3rd prize | not awarded |
| Diploma | Ilker Arcayürek, Turkey | |
| Alec Avedissian, Bulgaria | ||
| Andreas Beinhauer, Germany |
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| Special Prize for Best Lied Accompanist |
| Winner | Melania Inés Kluge |
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| MDR FIGARO audience award |
| Piano | Luca Buratto, Italy | |
| Voice | Mauro Peter, Switzerland |
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| XV. Zwickau 2008 |
| Piano |
| 1st prize | Mizuka Kano, Japan | |
| 2nd prize | Akiko Nikami, Japan | |
| 3rd prize | Da Sol Kim, Korea |
| Diploma | Akiko Higashiura, Japan | |
| Ksenia Rodionova, Russia | ||
| Eri Yamamoto, Japan |
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| Voice: Ladies |
| 1st prize | Anne-Theresa Albrecht, Germany | |
| 2nd prize | Carolina Ullrich, Germany/Chile | |
| 3rd prize | Julia Hajnóczy, Hungary | |
| Sophie Harmsen, Germany |
| Diploma | Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Germany | |
| Martina Welschenbach, Germany |
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| Voice: Gentlemen |
| 2nd prize | Christoph Pohl, Germany | |
| Tomasz Wija, Poland | ||
| 3rd prize | Jesse Blumberg. USA |
| Diploma | Tobias Berndt, Germany | |
| Falko Hönisch, Germany | ||
| Seil Kim, Korea |
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| Special Prize for Best Lied Accompanist |
| Winner | Marcelo Amaral, Brazil |
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| XIV. Zwickau 2004 |
| Piano |
| 1st prize | Akiko Yamamoto, Japan | |
| 2nd prize | Nicolas Bringuier, France | |
| 3rd prize | Soojin Ahn, Korea |
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| Voice: Ladies |
| 1st prize | No prize awarded | |
| 2nd prize | Stefanie Irányi, mezzosoprano, Germany | |
| Lydia Teuscher, soprano, Germany | ||
| 3rd prize | Julia Amos, soprano, Germany |
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| Voice: Gentlemen |
| 1st prize | Colin Balzer, tenor, Canada | |
| 2nd prize | Daniel Wolfgang Johannsen, tenor, Austria | |
| 3rd prize | Peter Mc Gillivray, baritone, Canada |
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| Special Prize for Best Lied Accompanist |
| Winner | Erika Switzer, Canada |
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| XIII. Zwickau 2000 |
| Piano |
| 1st prize | Kiai Nara, Japan | |
| 2nd prize | Ulugbek Palvanov, Usbekistan | |
| 3rd prize | Andrea Rebaudengo, Italy |
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| Voice: Ladies |
| 1st prize | Annette Dasch, soprano, Germany | |
| 2nd prize | Christa Mayer, mezzosoprano/contralto, Germany | |
| 3rd prize | Measha Brüggergosman, soprano, Canada | |
| Evgenia Grekova, soprano, Russia |
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| Voice: Gentlemen |
| 1st prize | No prize awarded | |
| 2nd prize | Klemens Geyrhofer, baritone, Austria | |
| 3rd prize | Kyu-Hee Cho, baritone, Korea | |
| Shin Taniguchi, baritone, Japan |
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| Special Prize for Best Lied Accompanist |
| Winner | Maria Ehrke Urbanovič, Germany |
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| XII. Zwickau 1996 |
| Piano |
| 1st prize | Mikhail Mordvinov, Russia | |
| 2nd prize | Dana Ciocarlie, Rumänien/France | |
| 3rd prize | Lyubov' Gegechkori, Russia | |
| Christian Seibert, Germany | ||
| Diploma | Seiko Ohtomo, Japan | |
| Kei Saotome, Japan |
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| Voice: Ladies |
| 1st prize | Risako Kurosawa, soprano, Japan | |
| 2nd prize | Maria-Riccarda Schmid, mezzosoprano, Switzerland | |
| 3rd prize | Bodil Arnesen, soprano, Norway | |
| Diploma | Irina Potapenko, contralto, Russia |
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| Voice: Gentlemen |
| 1st prize | Henryk Böhm, baritone, Germany | |
| 2nd prize | Hideki Kadoya, baritone, Japan | |
| 3rd prize | Marius Budoin, tenor, Romania | |
| Diploma | Sebastian Bluth, baritone, Germany |
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| Special Prize for Best Lied Accompanist |
| Winner | Irina Puryshinskaya, Russia |
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| XI. Zwickau 1993 |
| Piano |
| 1st prize | Temirzan Erzanov, Kazakhstan | |
| 2nd prize | Eiji Shigaki, Japan | |
| 3rd prize | Corrado Rollero, Italy |
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| Voice: Ladies |
| 1st prize | No prize awarded | |
| 2nd prize | Asako Motojima, Japan | |
| 3rd prize | Barbara Hölzl, Germany | |
| Fumiko Hatayama, Japan |
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| Voice: Gentlemen |
| 1st prize | Locky Chung, Korea | |
| 2nd prize | Stefan Geyer, Germany | |
| 3rd prize | Raimond Spogis, Germany |
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| Special Prize for Best Lied Accompanist |
| Winner | Sawako Yamada, Japan |
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| X. Zwickau 1989 |
| Piano |
| 1st prize | Eric Le Sage, France | |
| 2nd prize | Sachiyo Yonekawa, Japan | |
| 3rd prize | Aleksandr Melnikov, USSR |
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| Voice: Ladies |
| 1st prize | No prize awarded | |
| 2nd prize | Angela Liebold, GDR | |
| Svetlana Sumaceva, USSR | ||
| 3rd prize | Britta Schwarz, GDR |
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| Voice: Gentlemen |
| 1st prize | Frank Schiller, GDR | |
| 2nd prize | Matthias Görne, GDR | |
| 3rd prize | Torsten Frisch, GDR |
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| Special Prize for Best Lied Accompanist |
| Winner | Ulrike Siedel, GDR |
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| IX. Zwickau 1985 |
| Piano |
| 1st prize | Tamara Siprasvili, USSR | |
| 2nd prize | Zuzana Paulechová, CSFR | |
| 3rd prize | Mzija Gogasvili, USSR |
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| Voice: Ladies |
| 1st prize | No prize awarded | |
| 2nd prize | Constanza Mestes, Romania | |
| 3rd prize | Kirsten Bertkau, GDR |
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| Voice: Gentlemen |
| 1st prize | Karsten Mewes, GDR | |
| 2nd prize | Egbert Junghanns, GDR | |
| 3rd prize | Thomas Mäthger, GDR |
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| VIII. Zwickau 1981 |
| Piano |
| 1st prize | Yves Henry, France | |
| 2nd prize | Susanne Grützmann, GDR | |
| 3rd prize | Kalle Randalu, USSR | |
| Balázs Szokolay, Hungary |
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| Voice: Ladies |
| 1st prize | No prize awarded | |
| 2nd prize | Cornelia Wosnitza, GDR | |
| 3rd prize | Györgyi Benza, Hungary | |
| Nadja Cvetkova, Bulgaria |
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| Voice: Gentlemen |
| 1st prize | Jürgen Kurth, GDR | |
| 2nd prize | Andreas Scheibner, GDR | |
| 3rd prize | Matthias Weichert, GDR |
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| VII. Zwickau 1977 |
| Piano |
| 1st prize | Emma Tachmizjan, Bulgaria | |
| 2nd prize | Dana Bors,an, Romania | |
| 3rd prize | Christoph Taubert, GDR |
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| Voice: Ladies |
| 1st prize | Edith Wiens, Canada | |
| 2nd prize | Mary Ann Hart, USA | |
| 3rd prize | Jana Mrázová, CSFR |
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| Voice: Gentlemen |
| 1st prize | Boris Mareskin, USSR | |
| 2nd prize | Alibek Dnisev, USSR | |
| 3rd prize | Christoph Rösel, GDR |
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| VI. Zwickau 1974 |
| Piano |
| 1st prize | Pavel Egorov, USSR | |
| 2nd prize | Dina Joffe, USSR | |
| 3rd prize | Petru Grossmann, Romania |
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| Voice: Ladies |
| 1st prize | Mitsuko Shirai, Japan | |
| 2nd prize | Andrea Ihle, GDR | |
| 3rd prize | Violetta Madjarova, Bulgaria |
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| Voice: Gentlemen |
| 1st prize | Lászlo Polgár, Hungary | |
| 2nd prize | Sergej Lejferkus, USSR | |
| 3rd prize | Mihai Zamfir, Romania |
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| V. Zwickau 1969 |
| Piano |
| 1st prize | Dezsö Ránki, Hungary | |
| 2nd prize | Tatjana Rjumina, USSR | |
| 3rd prize | Okitaka Uehara, Japan |
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| Voice: Ladies |
| 1st prize | Heidi Berthold-Riess, GDR | |
| 2nd prize | Rosemarie Lang, GDR | |
| 3rd prize | Georgina Orlovschi, Romania |
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| Voice: Gentlemen |
| 1st prize | Ruben Lisician, USSR | |
| 2nd prize | Peter Tschaplik, GDR | |
| 3rd prize | Siegfried Lorenz, GDR |
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| IV. Zwickau 1966 |
| Piano |
| 1st prize | Eliso Virsaladze, USSR | |
| 2nd prize | Svetlana Navarzadjan, USSR | |
| 3rd prize | Evgenia Sacharieva, Bulgaria | |
| Raina Padareva, Bulgaria |
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| Voice: |
| 1st prize | Ionel Pantea, Romania | |
| 2nd prize | Julia Albonico, Uruguay | |
| 3rd prize | Jürgen Hartfiel, GDR |
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| III. Zwickau 1963 |
| Piano |
| 1st prize | Preis Nelly Akopjan, USSR | |
| 2nd prize | Ruska Carakcieva, Bulgaria | |
| Peter Rösel, GDR | ||
| 3rd prize | Aniko Szegedi, Hungary |
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| Voice: |
| 1st prize | Karlheinz Stryczek, GDR | |
| 2nd prize | Evgeni Isakov, USSR | |
| 3rd prize | Friederike Apelt, GDR |
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| II. Berlin 1960 |
| Voice: |
| 1st prize | Vitali Gromadski, USSR | |
| 2nd prize | Wolfgang Hellmich, GDR | |
| Roman Horák, CSFR | ||
| 3rd prize | Sylvia Geszty, Hungary | |
| Violanta Sirotinina, USSR |
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| String Quartet |
| 1st prize | Jan-Evert-Andersson-Quartett, Sweden | |
| 2nd prize | Peter-Komlós-Quartett, Hungary | |
| 3rd prize | Christian-Lucaß-Quartett, GDR |
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| Berlin 1956 |
| Piano |
| 1st prize | Annerose Schmidt, GDR | |
| 2nd prize | Irina Sijalova, USSR | |
| 3rd prize | Lidia Grychtolowna, Poland | |
| Michail Voskresenski, USSR |
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| Voice: |
| 1st prize | Kira Isotova, USSR | |
| Aleksander Vedernikov, USSR | ||
| 2nd prize | Sigrid Kehl, GDR | |
| Jirí Bar, CSFR | ||
| 3rd prize | Dan Jordachescu, Romania |
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In 1977 and 1981 4th and 5th prizes were awarded in the piano category; in the voice category a 4th prize was awarded (without a medal). The winners are not listed here. |
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