Prizewinners
of International Henryk Wieniawski
Violin Competitions
1935
1st International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Ginette NEVEU – France
2nd Prize: David OISTRAKH – USSR
3rd Prize: Henry TEMIANKA – Great Britain
4th Prize: Boris GOLDSTEIN – USSR
5th Prize: Ljerko SPILLER – Jugoslavia
6th Prize: Mary Luisa SARDO – Italy
7th Prize: Ida HAENDEL – Poland
8th Prize: Hubert ANTON – Estonia
9th Prize: Bronisław GIMPEL – Poland
1952
2nd International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Igor OISTRAKH – USSR
2nd Prize: Julian SITKOVETSKY – USSR, Wanda WIŁKOMIRSKA – Poland
3rd Prize: Blanche TARJUS – France, Marina YASHVILI – USSR, Olga PARKHOMENKO – USSR
4th Prize: Emil KAMILAROV – Bulgaria, Edward STATKIEWICZ – Poland, Igor IWANOW – Poland,
Henryk PALULIS – Poland
5th Prize: Csaba BOKAY – Hungary
Awards: Marta Hidy (Hungary); Ladislav Jásek (Czechoslovakia); Homi Kanga (India); Kalman Banyák (Hungary)
1957
3rd International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Rosa FAIN – USSR
2nd Prize: Sidney HARTH – USA
3rd Prize: Mark KOMISSAROV – USSR
4th Prize: Augustin LEON-ARA – Spain
5th Prize: Ayla ERDURAN – Turkey
6th Prize: Vladimir MALININ – USSR
Awards: Jiri Sumpik (Czechoslovakia); Zenon Płoszaj (Poland); Jean Leber (France); Dora Iwanowa (Bulgaria);
Daphne Godson (Great Britain)
1962
4th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Charles TREGER – USA
2nd Prize: Oleh KRYSA – USSR
3rd Prize: Krzysztof JAKOWICZ – Poland
4th Prize: Isabella PETROSIAN – USSR
5th Prize: Miroslav RUSIN – USSR, Priscilla A. AMBROSE – USA
6th Prize: Tomasz MICHALAK – Poland
Awards: Andrzej Siwy (Poland); Aleksander Arenkow (USSR); Antoine Goulard (France); Evelio A. Tieles (Cuba);
Jadwiga Kaliszewska (Poland)
1967
5th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Piotr JANOWSKI – Poland
2nd Prize: Mikhail BEZVERKHNY – USSR
3rd Prize: Kaja DANCZOWSKA – Poland
4th Prize: Eduard TATEVOSIAN – USSR
5th Prize: Anatoli MELNIKOV – USSR
6th Prize: Michał GRABARCZYK – Poland, Mincho MINCHEV – Bulgaria
Awards: Maria Brylanka (Poland); Ginka Giczkowa (Bulgaria); Małgorzata Błażejewska (Poland)
1972
6th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Tatiana GRINDENKO – USSR
2nd Prize: Shizuka ISHIKAWA – Japan
3rd Prize: Barbara GÓRZYŃSKA – Poland
5th Prize: Tadeusz GADZINA – Poland, Grachia ARUTIUNIAN – USSR
6th Prize: Stefan CZERMAK – Poland
7th Prize: Edward Zbigniew ZIENKOWSKI – Poland
Awards: Stefan Stałanowski (Poland); Magda Sarbu (Romania); Machie Oguri (Japan)
1977
7th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Vadim BRODSKY – USSR
2nd Prize: Piotr MILEWSKI – Poland, Mikhail VAIMAN – USSR
3rd Prize: Zakhar BRON – USSR, Peter ZAZOFSKY – USA
4th Prize: Charles A. LINALE – France
5th Prize: Hiro KUROSAKI – Austria, Anna A. WÓDKA – Poland
6th Prize: Kazuhiko SAWA – Japan
Awards: Asa Konishi (Japan); Keiko Mizuno (Japan)
1981
8th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Keiko URUSHIHARA – Japan
2nd Prize: Elisa KAWAGUTI – Japan
3rd Prize: Aureli BŁASZCZOK – Poland
4th Prize: Seiji KAGEYAMA – Japan
5th Prize: Iwao FURUSAWA – Japan
6th Prize: Megumi SHIMANE – Japan
Awards: Lenuta Atanasiu-Ciulei (Romania); Bartosz Bryła (Poland); Lothar Strauss (NRD);
Magdalena Suchecka (Poland)
1986
9th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Evgeny BUSHKOV – USSR
3rd Prize: Nobu WAKABAYASHI – Japan, Robert KABARA – Poland
4th Prize: Viktor KUZNETSOW – USSR
5th Prize: Alexander ROMANUL – USA
6th Prize: Hiroko SUZUKI – Japan
Awards: Dorota Siuda (Polska); Lothar Strauss (NRD); Oleg Pochanowskij (USSR); Patricia Shih (Canada)
1991
10th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Bartłomiej NIZIOŁ – Poland, Piotr PŁAWNER – Poland
2nd Prize: Chie ABIKO – Japan
3rd Prize: Reiko SHIRAISHI – Japan
4th Prize: Monika JARECKA – Poland
5th Prize: Tomoko YOSHIMURA – Japan
Awards: Jarosław Żołnierczyk (Poland); Sebastian Gugała (Poland); Roland Orlik (Poland); Eijin Nimura (Japan);
Ewa Pyrek (Poland); Erika Dobosiewicz (Poland)
1996
11th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: not awarded
2nd Prize: Reiko OTANI – Japan
3rd Prize: Akiko TANAKA – Japan
4th Prize: Asuka SEZAKI – Japan, Łukasz BŁASZCZYK – Poland
5th Prize: Anna RESZNIAK – Poland
6th Prize: Maria Małgorzata NOWAK – Poland
Awards: Chiyoko Noguchi (Japan); Elina Vähälä (Finland); Andrzej Hop (Poland); Erika Dobosiewicz (Poland);
Karina Buschinger (Germany)
2001
12th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Alena BAEVA – Russia
2nd Prize: Soojin HAN – South Korea, Roman SIMOVIĆ – Yugoslavia
3rd Prize: Gaik KAZAZIAN– Armenia, Bracha MALKIN – USA, Hiroko TAKAHASHI – Japan
4th Prize: Mayuko KAMIO – Japan
5th Prize: Jarosław NADRZYCKI – Poland
6th Prize: Alexandra WOOD – Great Britain
Awards: Nicolas Dautricourt (France), Jakub Haufa (Poland), Mariusz Morys (Poland)
2006
13th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Agata SZYMCZEWSKA – Poland
2nd Prize: Airi SUZUKI – Japan
3rd Prize: Anna Maria STAŚKIEWICZ – Poland
4th Prize: Lev SOLODOVNIKOV – Russia
5th Prize: Maria MACHOWSKA – Poland, Jarosław NADRZYCKI – Poland
6th Prize: Wojciech PŁAWNER – Poland
Award: Simeon Klimashevskiy – Russia
2011
14th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Soyoung YOON – South Korea
2nd Prize: Miki KOBAYASHI – Japan
3rd Prize: Stefan TARARA – Germany
Honorary distinctions: Erzhan Kulibaev (Kazakhstan); Aylen Pritchin (Russia); Arata Yumi (Japan)
2016
15th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Veriko TCHUMBURIDZE - Georgia/Turkey
2nd Prize ex aequo: Bomsori KIM - South Korea
2nd Prize ex aequo: Seiji OKAMOTO, Japan
4th Prize: Luke HSU - USA
5th Prize: Richard LIN - Taiwan/USA
6th Prize: Maria WŁOSZCZOWSKA - Poland
7th Prize: Ryosuke SUHO - Japan
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