World Federation of International Music Competitions

The World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC) is an organization based in Geneva

Geneva

Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

, Switzerland

Switzerland

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that maintains a network of the internationally recognized organisations that aim to discover the most promising young talents in classical music

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

through public competition

Competition

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. It was founded in 1957, and now 120 of the world's leading music competitions are members of the federation.

Member organizations by year of membership

Founding members

- ARD International Music Competition
  ARD International Music Competition
  The ARD International Music Competition is the largest international classical music competition in Germany. It is held once a year in Munich.-History:...
  
  , Munich
  Munich
  Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
- Budapest International Music Competition
- Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition
  Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition
  The Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition is a music competition for young pianists that takes place in Bolzano, Italy.-History: The first Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition was organized by Cesare Nordio in 1949 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the death of pianist and...
  
  , Bolzano
- Frédéric Chopin International Piano Competition, Warsaw
  Warsaw
  Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
- Geneva International Music Competition
  Geneva International Music Competition
  The Geneva International Music Competition is a music competitions held in Geneva, founded in 1939 in the Geneva Conservatory for a wide variety of instruments, voice, conducting, and chamber music.-See also:* List of classical music competitions* World Federation of International Music...
- Gian Battista Viotti International Music Competition
  Viotti International Music Competition
  The Viotti International Music Competition , named after the Italian composer and violinist Gian Battista Viotti , is held every year in Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy...
  
  , Vercelli
  Vercelli
  Vercelli is a city and comune of about 47,000 inhabitants in the Province of Vercelli, Piedmont, northern Italy. One of the oldest urban sites in northern Italy, it was founded, according to most historians, around the year 600 BC.The city is situated on the river Sesia in the plain of the river...
- Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition, Poznan
  Poznan
  Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...
- Marguerite Long - Jacques Thibaud International Piano and Violin Competition, Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
- Niccolò Paganini International Violin Competition
  Paganini Competition
  The Paganini Competition is an international violin competition named after the famed virtuoso and founder of contemporary violin technique Niccolò Paganini. Created in 1954 it has been carried out ever since in the months of September and October. The "Paganini Competition" is one of the most...
  
  , Genoa
  Genoa
  Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
- Prague Spring International Music Competition
- Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition, Brussels
  Brussels
  Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...

1958

- Maria Canals International Piano Competition, Barcelona
  Barcelona
  Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
- Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors
  International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors
  The International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors, is a music competition for young conductors in the city of Besançon, France.-History:...
- Ludwig van Beethoven International Piano Competition, Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
- Toulouse International Singing Competition

1959

- 's-Hertogenbosch International Singing Competition

1961

- Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers
  Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers
  The Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers was constituted in 1956 in East Berlin within the framework of the commemorations on the 100th anniversary of Robert Schumann's death. A second edition was organized on the occasion of the composer's 150th anniversary, and three...
  
  , Zwickau
  Zwickau
  Zwickau in Germany, former seat of the government of the south-western region of the Free State of Saxony, belongs to an industrial and economical core region. Nowadays it is the capital city of the district of Zwickau...

1963

- Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia International Composition Competition, Rome
  Rome
  Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

1965

- Johann Sebastian Bach International Music Competition, Leipzig
  Leipzig
  Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
- Leeds International Piano Competition

1968

- José Vianna da Motta International Piano Competition
  Vianna da Motta International Music Competition
  The Vianna da Motta International Music Competition was first constituted in 1957 in Lisbon in honor of José Vianna da Motta by his disciple Sequeira Costa, who remains its president; this inaugural edition was won by Naum Shtarkman. The competition, a member of the World Federation of...
  
  , Lisbon
  Lisbon
  Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...

1969

- Jean Sibelius International Violin Competition
  International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition
  The International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, named after Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, is a competition for violinists up to age 30. It is held every five years in Helsinki and is considered to be one of the top 3 most appreciated violin competitions in the world. The first competition...
  
  , Helsinki
  Helsinki
  Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...

1973

- Grand Prix de Chartres

1974

- Jeunesses Musicales International Music Competition, Belgrade
  Belgrade
  Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

1975

- Alessandro Casagrande International Piano Competition, Terni
  Terni
  Terni is a city in southern Umbria, central Italy, capital of the province of Terni, located in the plain of the Nera river. It is 104 km N of Rome, 36 km NW of Rieti, and 29 km S of Spoleto.-History:...
- Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition
- Grand Prix Maria Callas

1976

- Alberto Curci International Violin Competition, Naples
  Naples
  Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
- Clara Haskil International Piano Competition
  Clara Haskil International Piano Competition
  The Clara Haskil Piano Competition was founded in 1963 in order to honour and perpetuate the memory of the incomparable Swiss pianist, of Romanian origin, who was born in Bucarest in 1895....
  
  , Vevey
  Vevey
  Vevey is a town in Switzerland in the canton Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva, near Lausanne.It was the seat of the district of the same name until 2006, and is now part of the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District...
- Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition
  Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition
  The Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition is a piano competition taking place in Santander, Spain every three years, organized by the Albéniz Foundation...
  
  , Santander
  Santander, Cantabria
  The port city of Santander is the capital of the autonomous community and historical region of Cantabria situated on the north coast of Spain. Located east of Gijón and west of Bilbao, the city has a population of 183,446 .-History:...
- Sion International Violin Competition
- Tibor Varga International Violin Competition, Martigny
- Verdian Voices International Singing Competition, Busseto
  Busseto
  Busseto is a comune in the province of Parma, in Emilia-Romagna in Northern Italy. It was the capital of Stato Pallavicino. Opera composer Giuseppe Verdi was born in the nearby village of Le Roncole and he moved there in 1824...

1977

- Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
  Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
  The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas and is hosted by Van Cliburn Foundation. It was created by Fort Worth area teachers in honor of Van Cliburn, who had won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition four years prior with Tchaikovsky's...
  
  , Fort Worth
  Fort Worth, Texas
  Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...

1978

- Sydney International Piano Competition
  Sydney International Piano Competition
  The Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia is a music competition, presented by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in association with the University of Sydney and broadcast live throughout Australia. It is held every four years, over a three-week period in July-August, and is...
- Vaclav Huml International Violin Competition, Zagreb
  Zagreb
  Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

1979

- Épinal International Piano Competition

1980

- Fritz Kreisler International Violin Competition
  International Fritz Kreisler Competition
  The International Fritz Kreisler Competition is a violin competition dedicated to the memory of violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler.Founded in 1979, it is carried out every four years in Vienna, Austria. It is limited to violinists of or under 30 years of age.-Preliminaries:* J.S...
  
  , Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
- Grzegorz Fitelberg International Conducting Competition, Katowice
  Katowice
  Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...
- London String Quartet Competition
- Ludwig Spohr International Violin Competition, Freiburg
- William Kapell International Piano Competition, College Park
  College Park, Maryland
  College Park is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, USA. The population was 30,413 at the 2010 census. It is best known as the home of the University of Maryland, College Park, and since 1994 the city has also been home to the "Archives II" facility of the U.S...

1981

- Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition
- Carl Nielsen International Music Competition, Odense
  Odense
  The city of Odense is the third largest city in Denmark.Odense City has a population of 167,615 and is the main city of the island of Funen...
- Cleveland International Piano Competition
  Cleveland International Piano Competition
  The Cleveland International Piano Competition takes place biennially in Cleveland, Ohio. The initial Competition in 1975 and the nine others that followed were sponsored jointly by the Robert Casadesus Society and the Cleveland Institute of Music to honor the memory of French pianist Robert...
- Dr. Luis Sigall International Music Competition, Viña del Mar
  Viña del Mar
  Viña del Mar , is a city and commune on central Chile's Pacific coast. Its long stretches of white sandy beaches are a major attraction for national and international tourists. The city is Chile's main tourist attraction. Known as "La Ciudad Jardín" , Viña del Mar is a Chilean Municipality located...
- Michele Pittaluga International Classical Guitar Competition
  Michele Pittaluga International Classical Guitar Competition
  The "Michele Pittaluga" International Classical Guitar Competition is an annual music competition for young classical guitarists held in Alessandria, Italy. It was founded in 1968 and has earned an international reputation, entering membership of the World Federation of International Music...
  
  , Alessandria
  Alessandria
  -Monuments:* The Citadel * The church of Santa Maria di Castello * The church of Santa Maria del Carmine * Palazzo Ghilini * Università del Piemonte Orientale-Museums:* The Marengo Battle Museum...

1982

- Verviers International Singing Competition

1983

- Francisco Viñas International Singing Competition, Barcelona
  Barcelona
  Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
- Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition
  Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition
  The Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition is based in Salt Lake City, Utah and is the second largest piano competition in the United States....
  
  , Salt Lake City

1984

- Banff International String Quartet Competition
- Indianapolis International Violin Competition
- Vittorio Gui International Chamber Music Competition, Florence
  Florence
  Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

1985

- Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition, Gorizia
  Gorizia
  Gorizia is a town and comune in northeastern Italy, in the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. It is located at the foot of the Julian Alps, bordering Slovenia. It is the capital of the Province of Gorizia, and it is a local center of tourism, industry, and commerce. Since 1947, a twin...

1986

- Arturo Toscanini - Goffredo Petrassi International Conducting and Composition Competition, Parma
  Parma
  Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....
- Francisco Tárrega International Guitar Competition, Benicàssim
  Benicàssim
  Benicàssim is a municipality embracing a beach resort located in the province of Castelló, on the Costa del Azahar in Spain. The mountain range known as Desert de les Palmes rises inland protecting the town from the north wind...

1987

- Géza Anda International Piano Competition
  Concours Géza Anda
  The Concours Géza Anda is a triennial international piano competition that takes place every three years in Zürich, Switzerland. It was founded in memory of the late Hungarian pianist Géza Anda by his widow Hortense Anda-Bührle. The purpose of the competition is to discover and promote young...
  
  , Zürich
  Zürich
  Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
- Kobe International Flute Competition
- Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition, Helsinki
  Helsinki
  Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
- Pilar Bayona International Piano Competition
  Pilar Bayona Piano Competition
  The Pilar Bayona Piano Competition was a piano competition held in Zaragoza in memory of pianist Pilar Bayona . It was dissolved in 2004 and converted into a series of grants for Aragonese musicians...
  
  , Zaragoza
  Zaragoza
  Zaragoza , also called Saragossa in English, is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain...
  
  (disbanded after the 2001 edition)

1988

- Bilbao International Singing Competition
- Cologne International Music Competition

1989

- Dublin International Piano Competition

1990

- Franz Schubert and Modern Music International Music Competition, Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
- Trapani International Chamber Music Competition
- USA International Harp Competition, Bloomington
  Bloomington, Indiana
  Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 80,405 at the 2010 census....
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart International Music Competition, Salzburg
  Salzburg
  -Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...

1991

- Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition
  Premio Paolo Borciani
  The International String Quartet Competition "Premio Paolo Borciani" was created in 1987 in Reggio Emilia, Italy, and is dedicated to their famous fellow citizen, founder and first violin of the . Twenty years later, the Premio has now become one of the most prestigious competitions of the world,...
  
  , Reggio Emilia
  Reggio Emilia
  Reggio Emilia is an affluent city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 170,000 inhabitants and is the main comune of the Province of Reggio Emilia....
- UNISA International Music Competition, Pretoria
  Pretoria
  Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...

1992

- Cidade do Porto International Piano Competition
- International Franz Liszt Piano Competition
  International Franz Liszt Piano Competition
  The International Franz Liszt Piano Competition , a member of WFIMC, is an international piano competition.The Competition is held in Utrecht in the Netherlands. It first took place in 1986, one hundred years after the death of Franz Liszt...
  
  , Utrecht
  Utrecht (city)
  Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...
- Odense International Organ Competition

1993

- Antonio Pedretti International Conducting Competition, Trente
- José Iturbi International Piano Competition
  José Iturbi International Piano Competition
  The José Iturbi Competition is an international piano competition named after the famed Spanish virtuoso José Iturbi, who later became a famous Hollywood actor. Created in 1981, it has been held ever since in the month of September and is part of the World Federation of International Music...
  
  , Valencia
- Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition, Augsburg
  Augsburg
  Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...
- Markneukirchen International Instrumental Competition
- Queen Sonja International Music Competition, Oslo
  Oslo
  Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

1994

- Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis International Piano and Organ Competition, Vilnius
  Vilnius
  Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...
- Scottish International Piano Competition, Glasgow
  Glasgow
  Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

1995

- Calgary International Organ Competition
- Dos Hermanas International Clarinet Competition
- Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition, Hannover
- Julián Gayarre - Pablo Sarasate International Singing and Violin Competition, Pamplona
  Pamplona
  Pamplona is the historial capital city of Navarre, in Spain, and of the former kingdom of Navarre.The city is famous worldwide for the San Fermín festival, from July 6 to 14, in which the running of the bulls is one of the main attractions...
- Provincia di Caltanissetta International Chamber Music Competition

1996

- Città di Porcia International Musci Competition
- "Ciutat de Tarragona" International Award for Musical Composition
  "Ciutat de Tarragona" International Award for Musical Composition
  The Ciutat de Tarragona International Award for Musical Composition is a composition competition taking place yearly in Tarragona , organized by the Tarragona City Council...
- Franz Schubert International Piano Competition, Dortmund
  Dortmund
  Dortmund is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 585,045 makes it the 7th largest city in Germany and the 34th largest in the European Union....
- Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition

1997

- Jan Nepomuk Hummel International Piano Competition, Bratislava
  Bratislava
  Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...
- Marseille International Opera Competition
- Murray Dranoff Internation Two Piano Competition
  Dranoff International Two Piano Competition winners
  The following is a list the Dranoff International Two Piano Competition Winners. The competition was founded in 1987 by the Dranoff International Two Piano Foundation.20081st Prize Winners - Silivanova-Puryzhinskiy...
  
  , Miami
- Orléans International Piano Competition
- Osaka International Chamber Music Competition
- Sergei Prokofiev International Music Competition, Saint Petersburg
  Saint Petersburg
  Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

1998

- Honens International Piano Competition
  Honens International Piano Competition
  Canada's Honens International Piano Competition is a leader in discovering and launching the careers of young concert pianists. It searches for Complete Artists – 21st century musicians for 21st century audiences – and awards its Laureates the competition world's largest cash prize and most...
  
  , Calgary
  Calgary
  Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
- Hamamatsu International Piano Competition
  Hamamatsu International Piano Competition
  The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition has been held every 3 years since 1991 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.-Top prize winners:* 2009 — Cho Seong Jin, South Korea* 2006 — Alexej Gorlatch* 2003 — Rafal Blechacz and Alexander Kobrin...
- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky International Music Competition
  International Tchaikovsky Competition
  The International Tchaikovsky Competition is a classical music competition held every four years in Moscow, Russia for pianists, violinists, and cellists between 16 and 30 years of age, and singers between 19 and 32 years of age...
  
  , Moscow
  Moscow
  Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
- Trio di Trieste International Chamber Music Competition

2000

- Ville de Paris International Music Competition
- Witold Lutoslawski International Cello Competition, Warsaw
  Warsaw
  Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

2001

- Alexander Girardi International Singing Competition, Coburg
  Coburg
  Coburg is a town located on the Itz River in Bavaria, Germany. Its 2005 population was 42,015. Long one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined with Bavaria by popular vote in 1920...
- Luxembourg International Percussion Competition

2002

- George Enescu International Music Competition, Bucharest
  Bucharest
  Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
- London International Piano Competition
- Tbilisi International Piano Competition

2003

- Musashino-Tokyo International Organ Competition
- Shizuoka International Singing Competition, Hamamatsu

2004

- Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition
  Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition
  The Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition, is a music competition for young conductors organized by the Cadaqués Orchestra in Catalonia, Spain.-History: The competition takes place every two years and is organized by the Cadaqués Orchestra...
- International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz, Kiev
  Kiev
  Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
- Michael Hill International Violin Competition, Auckland
  Auckland
  The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
- Montreal International Musical Competition
  Montreal International Musical Competition
  The Montreal International Musical Competition is a high-level musical competition for violin, piano, and voice, first established in 2002....
- Premio Jaén International Piano Competition
  Premio Jaén
  The Premio Jaén is the longest-running piano competition in Spain. 2008 marked the 50th competition.-Prize winners:...

2005

- Città di Brescia International Violin Competition
  Città di Brescia International Violin Competition
  The Città di Brescia International Violin Competition is one of the most prestigious Prize for classical music players. The Competition is organized in Brescia, Italy, by the Romano Romanini Foundation, in order to honour the memory of the violinist Romano Romanini...
- Sendai International Music Competition
  Sendai International Music Competition
  The Sendai International Music Competition is a violin and piano music competition held in Sendai, Japan, presented in association with the Sendai International Music Competition Organizing Committee, City of Sendai and the Sendai Cultural Foundation...
- Weimar International Music Competition

2006

- ISANGYUN Competition
  Isang Yun Competition
  ISANGYUN Competition is the official title of an international-level music competition, which is annually held in Tongyeong, South Korea. As the title indicates, this concourse commemorates Isang Yun , a Korea-born German composer who was born in Tongyeong, the competition's venue town...
  
  , Tongyeong
  Tongyeong
  Tongyeong is a coastal city in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. In 2010, it had an area of 238.81 ㎢ and a population of 139,869 people. It is divided into 1 eup , 6 myeon and 11 dong . Chungmu city and Tongyeong county were reunited in 1995, creating Tongyeong City as we know it today...
  
  http://www.isangyuncompetition.org
- Lyon International Chamber Music Competition
- Pablo Casals International Cello Competitionm Kronberg
  Kronberg im Taunus
  Kronberg im Taunus is a town in the Hochtaunuskreis district, Hesse, Germany. Before 1866, it was in the Duchy of Nassau; in that year the whole Duchy was absorbed into Prussia. Kronberg lies at the foot of the Taunus, flanked in the north and southwest by forests...
- Saint-Maurice International Organ Competition

2007

- China International Piano Competition, Xiamen
  Xiamen
  Xiamen , also known as Amoy , is a major city on the southeast coast of the People's Republic of China. It is administered as a sub-provincial city of Fujian province with an area of and population of 3.53 million...
- EPTA - Svetislav Stančić International Piano Competition, Zagreb
  Zagreb
  Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
- TROMP International Music Competition
  TROMP international music competition & Festival
  The Tromp International Music Competition and Festival is a music festival in Eindhoven, Netherland.It is held every two years; since 2004 its subjects are string quartet and percussion on a rotating basis...
  
  , Eindhoven

2008

- Max Rostal International Viola and Violin Competition, Berlin
  Berlin
  Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
- Swedish International Duo Competition, Katrineholm
  Katrineholm
  Katrineholm is a locality and the seat of Katrineholm Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 21,386 inhabitants in 2005.-Early history:The name Katrineholm comes from a ducal residence with this name, after Catherina Gyllenhorn who lived there...

2009

- China International Singing Competition, Ningbo
  Ningbo
  Ningbo is a seaport city of northeastern Zhejiang province, Eastern China. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, the municipality has a population of 7,605,700 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 3,089,180 in the built up area made of 6 urban districts. It lies south of the Hangzhou Bay,...
- China International Violin Competition, Qingdao
  Qingdao
  ' also known in the West by its postal map spelling Tsingtao, is a major city with a population of over 8.715 million in eastern Shandong province, Eastern China. Its built up area, made of 7 urban districts plus Jimo city, is home to about 4,346,000 inhabitants in 2010.It borders Yantai to the...
- Jeju International Brass Competition
- Maj Lind International Piano Competition, Helsinki
  Helsinki
  Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
- Rina Sala Gallo International Piano Competition, Monza
  Monza
  Monza is a city and comune on the river Lambro, a tributary of the Po, in the Lombardy region of Italy some 15 km north-northeast of Milan. It is the capital of the Province of Monza and Brianza. It is best known for its Grand Prix motor racing circuit, the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.On June...
- Seoul International Music Competition
- Telekom - Ludwig van Beethoven International Piano Competition, Bonn
  Bonn
  Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
- Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition, Norrköping
  Norrköping
  Norrköping is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County. The city has a population of 87,247 inhabitants in 2010, out of a municipal total of 130,050, making it Sweden's tenth largest city and eighth largest...

2010

- Ignacy Jan Paderewski International Piano Competition, Bydgoszcz

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