The Viotti International Music Competition (Italian : Concorso Internazionale di Musica Viotti ), named after the Italian composer and violinist Gian (Giovanni) Battista Viotti (1755–1824), is held every year in Vercelli , Piedmont . It was founded by violinist Joseph Robbone in 1950 and has been, since 1957, a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions .
The competition is dedicated primarily to piano and opera singing, with rotating categories of voice (even numbered years), piano (odd numbered years),[1] [2] but also features sections for violin , chamber music , oboe , guitar , dance and composition , among others.
In the fifty years since its inception, thousands of competitors have taken part, many of whom have reached international fame. They include Luigi Alva , Claudio Abbado , Cathal Breslin , Luciano Pavarotti , Mirella Freni , Nicola Martinucci , Salvatore Accardo , Joaquín Achúcarro , Daniel Barenboim , Renato Bruson , Piero Cappuccilli , Raina Kabaivanska , Sumi Jo , Yeol Eum Son , Jeanne You , Violetta Egorova .
The judges have included Franco Corelli , Carlo Maria Giulini , Klaus Hellwig , Yehudi Menuhin , Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli , Birgit Nilsson , Carl Orff , Aureliano Pertile , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Renata Scotto , Joan Sutherland , and Richard Aaker Trythall , Raina Kabaivanska.
1: Jean Micault
2: Maria Teresa Garatti; Carlos Rivero Morales
3: Licia Mancini 1: Isabella Salamon
2: [Hans] Peter Wallfisch
3: Pieralberto Biondi 1: Joaquín Achúcarro; Luciano Bertolini; Gabriel Tacchino
2: Monte Hill Davis; Eléonore Kraemer
3: Adriana Brugnolini [Vecchiato]; Jack Edwin Guerry 1: Yoko Kono
2: Cécile Ousset; Chiaralberta Pastorelli; Kurt Bauer; Richard Cass
3: Claudine Durussel; Marion Zarzeczna; Bruno Fabius; Alberto Neuman (Argentina); Emanuele Perrotta (Italy)
Grand Prix: Daniel Barenboim 1: Cécile Ousset
2: Alberto Colombo
3: Danièle Dechenne–Decroos; Günter Ludwig ; Natascia Calza; Pierre Delgrange; Alain Barnheim
Finalist: Claudio Abbado 1: Robert Alexander Bohnke
2: Pier Narciso Masi; James Mathis
3: — 1: —
2: Claude Conard-Dargier; George Katz
3: Andrée Darras 1: —
2: Ivan Roy Davis Jr.; Claude Berard
3: — 1: —
2: John Perry; Irène Pamboukjian; Annick Savornin-Daru
3: Gino Brandi; Vittorio Del Col; Pierre-Yves Le Roux; Luisa De Robertis; Raffaella D’Esposito 1: Dale Bartlett
2: Eugenia Hymann Monacelli; Midori Miura
3: Bruno Pompili; Jerzy Gajek 1: Alberto Neuman
2: Giorgio Sacchetti
3: Antonio Rodríguez Baciero; Luigi Galvani 1: —
2 (Grand Prix): Lidia Rocchetti; Christian Bernard
2: Minka Royer-Routcheva; Giuliano Silveri; Alessandro Specchi
3: — 1: Franco Angeleri; Gernot Kahl
2: Paule-Françoise Bonnet; Gi-In Wang – Dag Achatz; – Ivan Darel-Kaiserman; Marco Vavolo
3: — 1: François-Joël Thiollier
2: Rafael Orozco-Flores; Lois-Carole Pachucki
3: Claude Savard 1: Joaquín Ángel Soriano Villanueva
2: Yoshiya Iwamoto; Robert Spillman (US); [Norma] Raquel Boldorini; Leonora Milá i Romeu; Suzanne Husson
3: Fausto Di Cesare; Vladimir Krpan 1: Jesús González Alonso; Klaus Hellwig
2: Ettore Peretti
3: Riccardo Risaliti; Kaori Kimura 1: Jacques Rouvier
2: Ettore Peretti; Catherine Collard
3: Jivko Paunov; Marie-Cécile Milan; Supitra Riensuvarn
Finalist: Jean-Louis Steuerman 1: Alexandra Ablewicz; Anna Maria Cigoli
2: Micaela Mingardo
3: Danielle De Gasquet; César Brunin Zaror; Franz-Friedrich Eichberger 1: Sergio Marengoni
2: Maryvonne Le Gallo [De Saint-Pulgent]; César Brunin Zaror
3: Herbert Seidel; Marika Noda 1: Michael Krist
2: Yong-Hi Moon; Marina Horak
3: Carlos Cebro; Takejiro Hirai 1: Vincenzo Balzani; Hiroshi Tajika
2: Noemi Gobbi; Yaeko Sasaki; Vera Drencova
3: — 1: Dirk Joeres
2: Olivier Gardon; Bianca Bodalia
3: Claus-Christian Schuster; Ramzi Yassa – Taeko Kojima 1: —
2: Pascal Devoyon; – Csilla Schulter; Marioara Trifan
3: Emanuela Bellio; Nancy Loo 1: —
2: Anne Perchat; Pierre Laurent Aimard
3: Johannes Kropfitsch; Harumi Hanafusa 1: Arnulf Von Arnim; Edson Lopes Elias
2: Boris Bloch; Richard Fields; Elena Mouzalas
3: Jacques Gauthier; Tomoko Mizuno [Harada]; Diana K. Weekes 1: Karina Oganjan
2: Alexandre Malkus
3: Wolfram Lorenz; Svetlana Potanina 1: Erik Berchot; Ewa Pobłocka
2: Massimo Gon; Anne Robert [-Cambresy]
3: Elvina Zeynalova 1: Pavel Gililov ; Angela Hewitt
2: Giovanni Umberto Battel; Yovcho Margaritov Krushev (Bulgaria); Jean-Yves Thibaudet
3: 1: —
2: Liora Ziv-Li; Alain Jacquon
3: — 1: Gulzhamilija Kadyrbekova
2: Vasif Hasanov; Claudius Tanski
3: François Chouchan; Atsuko Isozaki 1: Babette Hierholzer
2: Rita Kinka
3: Mayo Yoshimura 1: —
2: Thomas Duis
3: Anne Fawaz 1: Mari Tsuda
2: —
3: Olivier Cazal; Marie-Noëlle Damien 1: Oleg Volkov
2: Pavel Zarukin
3: — 1: Mi-Joo Lee
2: Véronique Pellissero; Elisabeth Schlader
3: Nobuyuki Nagaoka 1: Eckart Heiligers
2: Peter Máté
3: Martin Zehn 1: —
2: Mats Jansson
3: Hie-Yon Choi 1: Ulrike Payer
2: Luca Rasca
3: Hisako Nagayoshi; Sylviane Pintarelly [Calcagno] 1: Igor Kamenz
2: Sergej Yerokhin
3: Giampaolo Stuani; Roberto Corlianò 1: —
2: Choi Kyoung-Ah (Korea); Violetta Egorova
3: — 1: Andreij Sikhorskij
2: Luca Ballerini
3: Gabriele Maria Vianello; Sergeij Milchten 1: Camillo Radicke (Germany)
2: Wojciech Kocyan (Poland)
3: Maria Clementi (Italy) 1: Vadim Rudenko
2: Valeriu Rogacev
3: Mutsuko Yamamoto 1: —
2: Valeriu Rogacev
3: Cristiano Burato; Francesco Cipolletta 1: —
2: Aleksandar Serdar
3: Cristiano Burato; Etsuko Hirose 1: Eung-Joo Chung
2: Olga Pušečnikova [Olga Kern]
3: Tamara Stefanovich; Seiko Ohtomo 1: —
2: Christian Leotta
3: Julia Bartha; Nobuhito Nakai 1: —
2: Paolo Wolfango Cremonte; Noriko Ishiguro
3: Miwako Takeda 1: Ayako Kimura
2: Alessandra Maria Ammara
3: Davide Franceschetti 1: —
2: Davide Cabassi; Jacob Leuschner
3: Dong Min Lim; Ji Yeoun You [Jeanne You] 1: Hisako Kawamura
2: Stefania Cafaro
3: Federico Gianello 1: Yeol-Eum Son
2: Ekaterina Mechetina
3: Lorenzo Di Bella 1: Hyo-Sun Lim
2: Akiko Nikami
3: Jun Nakao 1: Feodor Amirov
2: —
3: — 1: Mizuka Kano [Hartmann]
2: Yuko Mine [Ellinger]
3: Boris Feiner 1: Martina Filjak
2: Sergej Artsibashev
3: Cathal Breslin 1: —
2: Stefan Ciric
3: Christian Chamorel 1: Alexey Lebedev
2: Illiya Zuyko
3: Artem Yasynskyy 1: Jonathan Fournel
2: —
3: Alexey Sychev; Alexander Panfilov 1: Ilya Maximov
2: Maxim Kinasov
3: Alexander Bernstein 1: Konstantin Emelyanov
2: Shiori Kuwahara; Aristo Sham 1: Ziyu Liu
2: Hans H. Suh
3: Yilan Zhao
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