Competition Prizewinners

1st International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (3-16 III 1935), Warszawa

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

2nd International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (5-16 XII 1952), Poznań

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)

3rd International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (1-15 XII 1957), Poznań

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)

4th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (4-18 XI 1962), Poznań

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)

5th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (4-19 XI 1967), Poznań

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)

6th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (12-26 XI 1972), Poznań

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)

7th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (13-27 XI 1977), Poznań

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)

8th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (10-25 X 1981), Poznań

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)

9th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (8-23 XI 1986), Poznań

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)

10th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (9-23 XI 1991), Poznań

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)

11th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (12-27 X 1996), Poznań

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)

12th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (13-29 X 2001), Poznań

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)

13th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (14-29 X 2006), Poznań

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)

14th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (8-23 X 2011), Poznań

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)