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.
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- 1: René Pouget
- 2: Walter Blankenheim
- 3: Alexander Jenner; Andrzej Wasowski
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- 1: Joaquín Achúcarro; Luciano Bertolini; Gabriel Tacchino
- 2: Monte Hill Davis; Eléonore Kraemer
- 3: Adriana Brugnolini [Vecchiato]; Jack Edwin Guerry
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- 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
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- 1: Cécile Ousset
- 2: Alberto Colombo
- 3: Danièle Dechenne–Decroos; Günter Ludwig; Natascia Calza; Pierre Delgrange; Alain Barnheim
- Finalist: Claudio Abbado
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- 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
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- 1: —
- 2 (Grand Prix): Lidia Rocchetti; Christian Bernard
- 2: Minka Royer-Routcheva; Giuliano Silveri; Alessandro Specchi
- 3: —
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- 1: Franco Angeleri; Gernot Kahl
- 2: Paule-Françoise Bonnet; Gi-In Wang – Dag Achatz; – Ivan Darel-Kaiserman; Marco Vavolo
- 3: —
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- 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
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- 1: Jacques Rouvier
- 2: Ettore Peretti; Catherine Collard
- 3: Jivko Paunov; Marie-Cécile Milan; Supitra Riensuvarn
- Finalist: Jean-Louis Steuerman
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- 1: Alexandra Ablewicz; Anna Maria Cigoli
- 2: Micaela Mingardo
- 3: Danielle De Gasquet; César Brunin Zaror; Franz-Friedrich Eichberger
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- 1: Sergio Marengoni
- 2: Maryvonne Le Gallo [De Saint-Pulgent]; César Brunin Zaror
- 3: Herbert Seidel; Marika Noda
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- 1: Dirk Joeres
- 2: Olivier Gardon; Bianca Bodalia
- 3: Claus-Christian Schuster; Ramzi Yassa – Taeko Kojima
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- 1: Arnulf Von Arnim; Edson Lopes Elias
- 2: Boris Bloch; Richard Fields; Elena Mouzalas
- 3: Jacques Gauthier; Tomoko Mizuno [Harada]; Diana K. Weekes
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- 1: Pavel Gililov; Angela Hewitt
- 2: Giovanni Umberto Battel; Yovcho Margaritov Krushev (Bulgaria); Jean-Yves Thibaudet
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- 1: Alexey Lebedev
- 2: Illiya Zuyko
- 3: Artem Yasynskyy
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References edit
- ^ Deutsches Musikinformationszentrum (17 November 2016). "Gian Battista Viotti International Music Competition". MIZ (in German). Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ "Viotti Competition". Music Pages. Retrieved 2 October 2020.