The Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers was constituted in 1956 in East Berlin within the framework of the commemorations on the 100th anniversary of Robert Schumann's death. A second edition was organized on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, and three years later a third edition was arranged in Zwickau, his birthplace.^[1] The competition, a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions,^[2] has taken place in Zwickau every 3 or 4 years since.^[3]

Prize winners

Piano

Piano^[3]

Year
1956	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize (ex-a.)
	Annerose Schmidt	Irina Sijalova	Lidia Grychtołówna
			Mikhail Voskresensky
1960	No piano category	No piano category	No piano category
1963	1st prize	2nd prize (ex-a.)	3rd prize
	Nelly Akopyan	Rutka Carakcieva	Aniko Szegedi
		Peter Rösel
1966	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize (ex-a.)
	Eliso Virsaladze	Svetlana Navasardyan	Raina Padareva
			Evgenia Sachareva
1969	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
	Dezső Ránki	Tatyana Ryumina	Okitaka Uehara
1974	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
	Pavel Egorov	Dina Joffe	Petru Grossmann
1977	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
	Emma Tahmizian	Dana Borşan	Christoph Taubert
1981	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize (ex-a.)
	Yves Henry	Susanne Grützmann	Kalle Randalu
			Balázs Szokolay
1985	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
	Tamriko Siprashvili	Zuzana Paulechová	Mzija Gogashvili
1989	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
	Éric Le Sage	Sachiko Yonekawa	Alexander Melnikov
1993	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
	Temirzhan Yerzhanov	Eiji Shigaki	Corrado Rollero
1996	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize (ex-a.)
	Mikhail Mordvinov	Dana Ciocarlie	Lyubov Gegechkori
			Christian Seibert
2000	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
	Kiai Nara	Ulugbek Palvanov	Andrea Rebaudengo
2004	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
	Akiko Yamamoto	Nicolas Bringuier	Soojin Ahn
2008	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
	Mizuka Kano	Akiko Nikami	Da Sol Kim
2012	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
	Aljoša Jurinić	Florian Noack	Luca Buratto
2016	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
		Tomoyo Umemura	Tiffany Poon
		Cheng Zhang	Maiko Ami

Voice

Voice^[3]

Year
1956	1st prize (ex-a.)	2nd prize (ex-a.)	3rd prize
	Kira Isotova	Sigrid Kehl	Dan Iordăchescu
	Aleksander Vedernikov	Jiří Bar
1960	1st prize	2nd prize (ex-a.)	3rd prize (ex-a.)
	Vitali Gromadski	Wolfgang Hellmich	Sylvia Geszty
		Roman Horák	Violanta Sirotinina
1963	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
	Karl Heinz Stryczek	Evgeni Isakov	Friederike Apelt
1966	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
	Ionel Pantea	Julia Albonico	Jürgen Hartfiel
1969	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
Ladies	Heidi Berthold-Riess	Rosemarie Lang	Georgina Orlovschi
Gentlemen	Ruben Lisician	Peter Tschaplik	Siegfried Lorenz
1974	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
Ladies	Mitsuko Shirai	Andrea Ihle	Violetta Madjarova
Gentlemen	Lászlo Polgár	Sergej Lejferkus	Mihai Zamfir
1977	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
Ladies	Edith Wiens	Mary Ann Hart	Jana Mrázová
Gentlemen	Boris Mareskin	Alibek Dnisev	Christoph Rösel
1981	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
Ladies	not awarded	Constanza Mestes	Györgyi Benza (Ex aequo)
			Nadja Cvetkova (Ex aequo)
Gentlemen	Jürgen Kurth	Andreas Scheibner	Matthias Weichert
1985	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
Ladies	not awarded	Cornelia Wosnitza	Kirsten Bertkau
Gentlemen	Karsten Mewes	Egbert Junghanns	Thomas Mäthger
1989	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
Ladies	not awarded	Angela Liebold (Ex aequo)	Britta Schwarz
		Svetlana Sumaceva (Ex aequo)
Gentlemen	Frank Schiller	Matthias Goerne	Torsten Frisch
1993	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
Ladies	not awarded	Asako Motojima	Barbara Hölzl (Ex aequo)
			Fumiko Hatayama (Ex aequo)
Gentlemen	Locky Chung	Stefan Geyer	Raimond Spogis
1996	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
Ladies	Risako Kurosawa	Maria-Riccarda Schmid	Bodil Arnesen
Gentlemen	Henryk Böhm	Hideki Kadoya	Marius Budoin
2000	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
Ladies	Annette Dasch	Christa Mayer	Measha Brueggergosman
Gentlemen	not awarded	Klemens Geyrhofer	Kyu-Hee Cho
2004	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
Ladies	not awarded	Stefanie Irányi (Ex aequo)	Julia Amos
		Lydia Teuscher (Ex aequo)
Gentlemen	Colin Balzer	Daniel Wolfgang Johannsen	Peter McGillivray
2008	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
Ladies	Anne-Theresa Albrecht	Carolina Ullrich	Julia Hajnóczy (Ex aequo)
			Sophie Harmsen (Ex aequo)
Gentlemen		Christoph Pohl (Ex aequo)	Jesse Blumberg
		Tomasz Wija (Ex aequo)
2012	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
Ladies	Anna Lucia Richter	Fatma Said	Simone Easthope (Ex aequo)
			Annika Boos (Ex aequo)
Gentlemen	Mauro Peter	Georg Gädker (Ex aequo)	not awarded
		Sebastian Wartig (Ex aequo)
2016	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
Ladies	Henriette Gödde	Hiltrud Kuhlmann	Hagar Sharvit
Gentlemen	André Baleiro	Jean-Christophe Fillol	Jonathan Michie

String quartet

String Quartet^[3]

Year
1960	1st prize	2nd prize	3rd prize
	Jan-Evert-Andersson-Quartett	Peter-Komlós-Quartett	Christian-Lucaß-Quartett

References