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

| winners |
| XV. Zwickau 2008 |
| Piano |
| 1st Prize | Mizuka Kano, Japan | |
| 2nd Prize | Akiko Nikami, Japan | |
| 3rd Prize | Da Sol Kim, Korea |
| Diplom | Akiko Higashiura, Japan | |
| Diplom | Ksenia Rodionova, Russia | |
| Diplom | Eri Yamamoto, Japan |
| Sonderpreis | Marcelo Amaral, Brazil (Special prize for best song pianist) |
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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 |
| Diplom | Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Germany | |
| Diplom | Martina Welschenbach, Germany |
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| Voice: Gentlemen |
| 2nd Prize | Christoph Pohl, Germany | |
| Tomasz Wija, Poland | ||
| 3rd Prize | Jesse Blumberg. USA |
| Diplom | Tobias Berndt, Germany | |
| Diplom | Falko Hönisch, Germany | |
| Diplom | Seil Kim, Korea |
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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 (ex aequo) | 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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| 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 (ex aequo) | 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 (ex aequo) | Kyu-Hee Cho, baritone, Korea | |
| Shin Taniguchi, baritone, Japan |
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| XII. Zwickau 1996 |
| Piano |
| 1st Prize | Mikhail Mordvinov, Russia | |
| 2nd Prize | Dana Ciocarlie, Rumänien/France | |
| 3rd Prize (ex aequo) | Lyubov' Gegechkori, Russia | |
| Christian Seibert, Germany | ||
| Diplom | 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 | |
| Diplom | 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 | |
| Diplom | Sebastian Bluth, baritone, Germany |
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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 (ex aequo) | 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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| 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 (ex aequo) | 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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Ulrike Siedel, GDR, was awarded the special prize for »Outstanding Accompanist« by the Committee of the Robert Schumann Society. |
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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 (ex aequo) | Kalle Randalu, USSR | |
| Balázs Szokolay, Hungary |
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| Voice: Ladies |
| 1st Prize | No prize awarded | |
| 2nd Prize | Cornelia Wosnitza, GDR | |
| 3rd Prize (ex aequo) | 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 (ex aequo) | 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 (ex aequo) | 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 (ex aequo) | Wolfgang Hellmich, GDR | |
| Roman Horák, CSFR | ||
| 3rd Prize (ex aequo) | 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 (ex aequo) | Lidia Grychtolowna, Poland | |
| Michail Voskresenski, USSR |
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| Voice: |
| 1st Prize (ex aeqou) | Kira Isotova, USSR | |
| Aleksander Vedernikov, USSR | ||
| 2nd Prize (ex aeqou) | 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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