Top Prize Winners
The competition consists up to three full recital programs, new work performance, chamber music, and two concertos for each competitor.
Winners of the top prize awarded in the given year.
- 2009 – Nobuyuki Tsujii and Haochen Zhang (tie)
- 2005 – Alexander Kobrin
- 2001 – Stanislav Ioudenitch and Olga Kern (tie)
- 1997 – Jon Nakamatsu
- 1993 – Simone Pedroni
- 1989 – Alexei Sultanov
- 1985 – José Feghali
- 1981 – Andre-Michel Schub
- 1977 – Steven De Groote
- 1973 – Vladimir Viardo
- 1969 – Cristina Ortiz
- 1966 – Radu Lupu
- 1962 – Ralph Votapek
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